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Caribou has announced details of his new album, ‘Our Love’. Released on 6th October via City Slang (7th October via Merge in the US), the record follows on from the celebrated 2010 LP ‘Swim’. Alongside the album news, Dan Snaith has also shared the lead track, ‘Can’t Do Without You’ which you can hear at diymag.com now.
Jersey Boys
And not a single one .remembered their keys.
It’s two years since their last album hit
GO! GO! GO! Grimes is back with a new track, ‘Go’. A collaboration with long term parter in crime Blood Diamonds, it was originally written for Rihanna and debuted at her Governor’s Ball show in New York earlier this month. You can check it out on diymag.com now.
JUST A LITTLE CRUSH Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O has announced details of her debut solo album: ‘Crush Songs’ will be released on 9th September via Julian Casablancas’ label, Cult Records. Featuring material including home recordings made back in 2006 and 2007, it’s not just unheard tracks we’ll be treated to: the record is also set to include Karen’s “own personal drawings, handwritten lyric and more.
GETTING JAZZY Experimental Leeds band Adult Jazz are barely a single to the good, but the four-piece have just announced details of their debut album ‘Gist Is’. Following on from the ‘Springful’/’Am Gone’ single, Spare Thought are putting out the record on 4th August. It was produced and mixed by Tom Howe at The Black Byre, Scotland. 14 diymag.com
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The Gaslight Anthem
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back, planning on striking a new chord or two. Words: Sarah Jamieson.
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aving shifted from New Jersey’s working class punk heroes to chart-dominating rock and rollers with their previous four efforts, in 2012 The Gaslight Anthem’s ‘Handwritten’ truly made a dent on the mainstream subconscious. Over the next eighteen months, countless worldwide tour dates and huge festival slots filled their schedule, before the band felt ready to return to Nashville to bring their fifth effort to life. It must, then, be exciting to be at the beginning of another record? “Yeah! It is,” offers the band’s frontman Brian Fallon. “I just wish that we could’ve had some more material to release, to give more of an impression! I guess it’s just that way of marketing, people wanna do it that way.” He laughs, thinking back to the beginning of the band. “We used to kinda just say, ‘Hey, we’re gonna put out a new record’, and you’d go around and say it every night on tour and then, all of a sudden, you’d put the record out. That was kinda it, but now there’s this whole Internet thing...”
If anything’s evident about their forthcoming effort ‘Get Hurt’, it’s that it’s going to be a different beast. Having holed themselves up in Blackbird Studios for a second time, this time they recruited Mike Crossey to aid the cause from a production standpoint. “Blackbird is great because it’s got so much stuff; you can really experiment and try new things,” Fallon explains. “We really concentrated on creating a sort of ‘soundscape’, rather than me just strumming away on guitar. “We wanted to try and find something that was different sonically, and with different feels and tempos, but also that maintained some of the character of the band. We didn’t wanna abandon who we were as a band. I think we wanted to have something different, but different enough to have people say, ‘Okay, this is clearly audibly different’ yet not provoke a reaction where we throw away everything that made us a band.” The Gaslight Anthem’s new album ‘Get Hurt’ will be released on 18th August via Virgin EMI. DIY