Haruomi Hosono, who performed in Yellow Magic Orchestra and Happy End and is a staple in Japanese music, is getting his music reissued via Light in the Attic. Five of his albums are getting for the first time outside of Japan. The series, which contains Paraiso (1978), Philharmony (1982), and omni Sight Seeing (1989) are set to be out August 10th while Hosono House (1973) and Cochin Moon (1978) are set to be reissued on September 28th. The records include translated interviews with Hosono. Watch the trailer below and find information on the label’s website.
The series’ press release also contains quotes about Hosono’s influence from the likes of Mac DeMarco, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Miho Hatori. “Hosono has been the main reason I’ve continued making music since I was like 19,” said DeMarco.
Björk was a the musical guest on last night’s episode of “Later… With Jools Holland.” It was her first TV performance in eight years and she performed with an ensemble of flutists for Utopia’s “Courtship” and “The Anchor Song” from her album Debut. Watch it below.
Jordan Lee, aka Mutual Benefit, has announced a new album called Thunder Follows the Light, set to be out on September 21st via Transgressive. In anticipation of the album release, the project shared two new songs, “New History” and “Storm Cellar Heart.” Listen below.
“I think people in power benefit greatly from a general lack of historic memory in the United States,” Lee explained “New History” in a statement. “I’ve been wondering if the first step in imagining a more just world is to study our history better, not just the linear revisionist one that is oft-repeated but all the unsung champions of equal rights as well as the acts of unthinkable cruelty that humans are also capable of.”
David Lynch’s Festival of Disruption hailed to New York at Brooklyn Steel this last weekend with acts such as Animal Collective, Angel Olsen, Au Revoir Simone, Flying Lotus, Jim James, Jon Hopkins, and Rebekah Del Rio. During the second night, Angel Olsen and Jim James performed together. During of which, they covered the Sonny & Cher song “Baby Don’t Go.” Watch it happen below thanks to Stereogum.
Aesop Rock has released a new song called “Klutz,” accompanied by a video directed by Rob Shaw. Shaw also directed Rock’s animated video “Shrunk” from Rock’s last album, The Impossible Kid. Watch it below.Aesop shared in a press release, “Klutz is such a moment. I had started a couple things to this beat before sacrificing it to the gods of not-shutting-up, but this seemed a fitting fate.”
Alex Zhang Hungtai has announced a new album called Divine Weight via NON Worldwide and is set to be out June 29th.
The new album stemmed from the last three years’ worth of “failed” saxophone compositions according to the press release. “From there it became the actual stem tracks that were heavily digitally disfigured until it no longer resembled the sound of saxophones. Like dreams, visions often come to us without us having the capability to measure or understand fully what they mean.”
Check out the full Divine Weight track list and watch the video for “Pierrot” below. Pre-order are up on NON’s Bandcamp page.
Divine Weight tracklisting:
01. Pierrot
02. Matrimony
03. This Is Not My Country
04. Yaumatei
05. Divine Weight
Snail Mail has released a new song from her upcoming album Lush, which is set to be out June 8th via Matador. Listen to “Let’s Find an Out” below. Lindsey Jordan, the person behind Snail Mail, has also announced new tour dates which can also be found below.
Snail Mail:
05-17 Brighton, England – Great Escape
05-19 Leeds, England – Brudnell Social Club
05-20 Manchester, England – Vullivers
05-21 Bristol, England – Louisiana
05-23 Brussels, Belgium – Witloof Bar
05-24 Groningen, Netherlands – Vera
05-26 Amsterdam, Netherlands – London Calling
05-27 Paris, France – Villette Sonique
06-05 Portland, ME – State Theater &
06-06 New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall &
06-07 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg
06-09 Asbury Park, NJ – Asbury Park Brewing
06-12 Washington, DC – The Black Cat @
06-13 Pittsburgh, PA – Cattivo @
06-14 Toronto, Ontario – Velvet Underground @
06-15 Detroit, MI – Deluxx Flux @
06-16 Chicago, IL – Subterranean @
06-17 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry @
06-18 Des Moines, IA – Vaudeville Mews @
06-20 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge @
06-22 Boise, ID – Funky Taco @
06-23 Seattle, WA – Crocodile @
06-24 Vancouver, British Columbia – Biltmore Cabaret @
06-25 Portland, OR – Holocene @
06-27 Oakland, CA – Starline Social Club @
06-28 San Francisco, CA – Swedish American Hall @
06-29 Visalia, CA – The Cellar Door @
06-30 Los Angeles, CA – Bootleg Theater @
07-03 Scottsdale, AZ – Pub Rock Live @
07-05 Austin, TX – Barracuda @
07-06 Dallas, TX – Three Links @
07-07 Fayetteville, AR – George’s @
07-08 Nashville, TN – The High Watt @
07-09 Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn @
07-10 Durham, NC – Pinhook @
07-11 Richmond, VA – Strange Matter @
07-12 Baltimore, MD – The Parkway Theater @
07-14 Philadelphia, PA – Union Transfer @
07-15 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair @
07-16 Montreal, Quebec – L’Escogriffe Bar Spectacle @
07-17 Burlington, VT – ArtsRiot @
07-24 Columbus, OH – Ace of Cups %
07-25 Louisville, KY – Zanzabar %
07-26 Bloomington, IN – The Bishop %
07-27 Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme %
07-29 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Tavern %
08-17 Cardiff, England – Green Man Festival
08-20 Antwerp, Belgium – Antwerp OLT
08-22 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg – Conges Annules
08-23 Düdingen, Switzerland – Bad Bonn
08-28 Bergen, Norway – Perfect Sounds Forever
08-31 Asten-Heusden, Netherlands – Misty Fields
09-02 Dorset, England – End of the Road Festival
10-25 London, England – The Dome
11-07-10 Reykjavik, Iceland – Iceland Airwaves
& with Belle and Sebastian
@ with Bonny Doon
% with Long Beard
Oakland, CA’s Constellation Tatsu has notoriously combed through scores of music and yesterday, May 14th, dropped four collections of releases for their Spring 2018 batch.
Alex Crispin’s follow-up to the emotional Idle Worship on Sounds of the Dawn, Open Submission, has its ethereal title track streaming below.
The next soothing track, “Blue Reminder,” from the collection is from Japanese composer Chihei Hatakeyama.
The contribution from Endurance comes as Shade Terrarium, with a sort of vibe to it that could be listened to at the dead of night. The track, “Sonata Primar,” has the soft keys and quiet field recordings of many of ambient classics.
The final track is from the Spanish ambient artist, Lunaria. The excerpt from “A Higher Energy Realm” is taken from the artist’s Ascension Now release.
Mitski has announced a new album, Be The Cowboyout August 17th via Dead Oceans. “For this new record, I experimented in narrative and fiction,” Mitski said in a statement. While recording with her long-time producer Patrick Hyland, she said they continuously returned to “the image of someone alone on a stage, singing solo with a single spotlight trained on them in an otherwise dark room.” She continued, “For most of the tracks, we didn’t layer the vocals with doubles or harmonies, to achieve that campy ‘person singing alone on stage’ atmosphere.”
Mitski has also shared the album’s first single and video. Watch the video for “Geyser,” directed by Zia Anger below as well as the LP’s tracklist.
Be The Cowboy:
01 Geyser
02 Why Didn’t You Stop Me
03 Old Friend
04 A Pearl
05 Lonesome Love
06 Remember My Name
07 Me and My Husband
08 Come Into the Water
09 Nobody
10 Pink in the Night
11 A Horse Named Cold Air
12 Washing Machine Heart
13 Blue Light
14 Two Slow Dancers
The Melodic Tree 