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News: Kamasi Washington announces score to ‘Becoming’ film.
Kamasi Washington has announced that he has scored Becoming, director Nadia Hallgren and Higher Ground Productions’ documentary profiling First Lady Michelle Obama, which debuted on Netflix today, May 6. The score features new original music Washington—whom Hallgren asked to join the project very early in its development—composed for the film as well as selections from his catalog. Watch a trailer for the film In …
Track: Jamie XX – Idontknow
It seems an age since we last had music from Jamie XX as a solo entity. In fact its 5 years or thereabout since his Brit and Grammy nominated album ‘In colour’, but now he’s back with a new release ‘Idontknow’. In fact he’s been busy of late, hosting parties, and a recent collaboration with Headie …
Track: TTY – Buttercream
TTY are our sort of band. Ahead of the release of their EP this coming Friday on the ever brilliant Young Turks label, they’ve shared a track, Buttercream. But it goes way beyond that. As the label say: They definitely slept in the Young Turks studio for about 18 months. They would emerge from the …
Track: Kamasi Washington releases two tracks from his forthcoming second album, plus release/tour news
Jazz superstar Kamasi Washington has heralded the announcement of his second album Heaven and Earth, set for release on June 22nd via Young Turks, by releasing two tracks – Fists of Fury and The Space Travelers. The long-awaited follow up to Washington’s debut The Epic, Heaven and Earth is comprised of two halves, which find …
Track: The XX – Say something loving
South London indie wonders The xx have released the second song from their forthcoming album “I See You”, due to be released on 13th January via Young Turks. The highly anticipated album follows the massively successful “XX” and “Coexist”, which garnered the band massive praise from the music press and saw many of their songs …
Album Review: Jamie xx – In Colour
In Colour is a great title for the debut record by producer Jamie xx. It’s crisp, tight, brimming with hues, shapes, and various shades of light. It doesn’t feel like a producer showing his programming chops off. It’s not a Mark Ronson-like spectacle where Jamie xx is bringing in all of the famous pals he knows …
Track: Jamie XX – All Under One Roof Raving
Yeah, it’s been out a while since it came out, well – a couple of weeks or so, but we’re writing about it now. Why? Because, like Jamie XX, I’m away from home, and it was thoughts of home inspired his new track ‘All under one roof raving’. homefor me isnt London but home nevertheless, …
New Music: Young Braves – Black Country (free download)
Cruising out of the titular ‘Black Country’, Shropshire’s teenage indie rockers are back with a new single. This is a song of youthful desire to escape limitations and oppressions, to run to the border, the ocean. The radio edit is propelled, at least to begin with, by a pretty standard Kings of Leon-esque foundation …
Track: Jamie XX – Sleep Sound / Girl, plus UK dates
Never one to let things lie, and coming towards the end of a run of 25 intimate shows, playing to just 40 people per night at New York’s world-famous Park Avenue Armory with his band the The XX, Jamie XX has somehow found time to record a new single for 12″ vinyl release on May …
Track: Sampha releases new single, Happens
A piano drops, while a single sultry falsetto line glides seamlessly through the sky, before burning up into the heavy, melancholic atmosphere of ‘Happens’. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? A new James Blake Croon-Pop ballad maybe? No. This is the sound of Sampha finally completing his journey out of SBTRKT’s shadow. The …