“I made this one for a set at Rainbow Disco Club in Japan and have been playing it everywhere ever since,” Dan Snaith said of the new cut

Daphni has shared a new track, titled ‘Clap Your Hands’.

Following on from the release last month of standalone cut ‘Sad Piano House’, the latest track is described by Daphni, real name Dan Snaith, as “a vibe shift from the restraint” of its predecessor.

Snaith added: “I made this one for a set at Rainbow Disco Club in Japan and have been playing it everywhere ever since. I’ve got a whole bunch of unreleased Daphni stuff ready to go and I’m pretty much letting what fans are asking me about the most decide what comes…

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They’ve also shared new single ‘As Alive As You Need Me To Be’

Nine Inch Nails have shared details of their first original soundtrack project, for upcoming film Tron: Ares.

The soundtrack features 24 pieces of music made especially for the film, and comes off the back of Nine Inch Nails members Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ past extensive soundtrack work as a duo for films such as The Social Network, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Challengers.

To mark the full announcement of the soundtrack, Nine Inch Nails have shared lead single ‘As Alive As You Need Me To Be’, which you can listen to below. The song features in the new trailer for Tron: Ares, the third film in the…

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Captured during the Icelandic artist’s latest tour, it will be released across vinyl, CD and DVD formats

Björk’s concert film Cornucopia is getting its first physical release.

Following a limited release in cinemas around the world earlier this year, the film will now be made available in 3xLP, 2xCD + DVD, 2xCD, DVD, and Blu-ray editions. It can be pre-ordered here.

in a statement, Björk said: “I am so thrilled to share the film for my concert Cornucopia with you. This has been a long journey with hundreds of people helping. I am so beyond enormously grateful to every single one of them. I feel the modern concert film is a matriarchally friendly construct, welcomed in the current climate – where female musicians can…

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The New Jersey-born, Philadelphia-based ‘multidisciplinary propagandist’ weaves non-Western sounds into a potent critique of the West’s exoticising gaze, finds Aydin Khalili

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Sampling in electronic music opened the door for artists to add virtually anything to their sonic palette – and oriental touches were no exception. With the rise of the internet, these mashups became more accessible and widespread. Musicians, both Western and Eastern, suddenly had access to sonic territories that hadn’t yet been fully explored. But these explorations often come with ethical tension. Many of the sounds introduced into the scene were made palatable for dance floors, framed as something “unheard” or novel — often just to add an exotic flair. It wasn’t always an organic integration of…

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Gina Birch

Trouble

On her second solo album, the defiant polymath plays her bass even louder

Trouble by Gina Birch

An artist, filmmaker, and founding member of the game-changing late 1970s collective The Raincoats, Birch is an artist who is not afraid of tackling difficult subjects. She goes straight to the point with the first track, ‘I Thought I’d Live Forever’. While the lyrics address solemn matters such as ageing and mortality, the comically squeaky backing vocals and a deliberate pastiche of Portishead’s ‘Sour Times’ deliver the message instantly: Birch doesn’t give a damn. Spectral dub with sci-fi effects a-la King Tubby on ‘Doom Monger’ is a sedative antidote to the narrative about “crazy monsters screwing us more each day”, hinting at the madness…

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Fergal Kinney reports from a roasting Cagliari, where he witnesses sets from Stereolab, The Horrors, Messthetics and more at the returning Siren Festival

Ron Gallo, photo by Stefano Laddomada

In 1921, D.H. Lawrence went to Sardinia. An intended homage to the Italian novelist Grazia Deledda, Lawrence’s trip to Italy – with wife Frieda Lawrence – began with a journey to the island from Sicily and took in Mandas, Sorgono and Nuoro, forming the backbone of that year’s Sea And Sardinia. The highlight for Lawrence, though, was Cagliari. Then and now one of the largest industrial hubs in the Mediterranean – something today visible in its busy harbour populated by oil tankers and cruise liners – was “a naked town rising steep,…

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Qur’an Shaheed

Pulse

The Pasadena artists pulls and stretches r’n’b into strange and psychedelic new shapes

Pulse by Qur'an Shaheed

For those who heard it, Qur’an Shaheed’s 2020 soul jazz EP Process provided some succour in that bleakest of bleak years. With Pulse, her first album proper, the Pasadena-based pianist and singer has deconstructed what she does with the help of producer Spencer Hartling, who took her demos, brought in some tape loops and applied FX dubbing to help present something far more multi-textured and, ultimately, zeitgeist-y. Pulse is discombobulating at times – but so, too, is the world in which it is being released.

On Shaheed’s Bandcamp, she describes herself as a “woman and her piano on a journey to embrace femininity and love…

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Following the release of his excellent new album, the acclaimed poet, musician, novelist and playwright shares the music that shaped his life – from Nina Simone to Gravediggaz

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“Thank God for the multitudes in us, the younger selves that will not give up,” Kae Tempest raps on ‘I Stand On The Line’ – the opener to his stirring, triumphant new album Self Titled. While the record lovingly addresses the trans community, Tempest’s home city of London and his imagined child – over a brooding palette of strings, bass synths, piano and brass – the most recurrent subject is the younger, pre-transition Tempest. On ‘Know Yourself’, the 39-year-old even duets with an old recording of himself performing as a…

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Jessica Winter

My First Album

Debut from former Pregoblin presents a magpie’s nest of musical references

My First Album by Jessica Winter

What was the first album you bought? Jessica Winter answers that slightly tired question by way of the songs on her debut album, which appears to flip through the CD collection (or wheel through the iPod) of a teenager in the 2000s. Across forty-five minutes we encounter sun-coming-up piano beats, Fever-era Kylie Minogue, inklings of Gwen Stefani and Lily Allen, crunchy alt-90s guitars, a bit of Beck, and even – shudder – The Feeling.

My First Album is a title that also raises an eyebrow to the fact Winter’s releasing her solo debut after well over a decade in the industry. She graduated…

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From improvisations that capture the archaeology of the internet to werewolf inspired black metal played with Cajun instruments, roaming synths, sidewinding freakouts and clipped nails, Daryl Worthington dives into the latest cassette releases

Monika Pich, photo by Jarema Drozdowicz

Recorded music is an unreliable time capsule – whether thanks to the present leaking in or signs of the past being cleaned out – but fidelity and medium are particularly pronounced in a new four tape collection from shanavlab (shan audio visual art lab – shan being the Mandarin word for mountain), a Beijing-based initiative organised by cellist and visual artist Sheng Jie (aka Gogoj). Between 2010 and 2012, Sheng rented a 60 square metre apartment in downtown Beijing that she turned into a…

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