Micachu and the Shapes – Sea Air
What a glorious mess this is. Stumbling into the sunlight is Sea Air, a track that soaks up the sun like Can on a camper-van holiday to Margate. It’s the third track from the Mica Levi-fronted band’s forthcoming album Good Sad Happy Bad and comes with an aptly disorientating video.
Julia Holter – Feel You
The first single from Holter’s fourth album is divine: caught in a half-awake dream-state, the verses describe transition, an escape to Mexico, running away from someone or avoiding a feeling. More personal and intimate compared to previous releases, there’s a looming unrest rippling below the light surface of the music, perhaps waiting for her when she awakes. The rest of Have You in My Wilderness will be released on 25 September.
The Libertines - Anthem For Doomed Youth
If you thought Gunga Din sounded like the rabid ramblings of a dog, then the latest Libertines single should provide something a bit more melifluous. A wistful, Kinks-like melody led by languid guitars and Carl Barât wearily dictating “the rules of death and glory”, the title track of their immanent third album is said to be about the band’s early origins. Only, unfortunately, with no mention of NME tours or Queens of Noize.
Adem – Snow in April
This month brings the first new material in nine years from Adem Ilhan. In his almost-decade away, he’s been busying himself as a member of Fridge alongside Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden, as well as Silver Columns with the Pictish Trail’s Johnny Lynch, as well as his compositional work, scoring Armando Iannucci’s In the Loop. The first track to be taken from his new album is the still and contemplative Snow in April, which sounds a little like a subdued Cinematic Orchestra.
Sexwitch – Helelyos
Sexwitch is a collaboration between Bat for Lashes, producer Dan Carey and Toy, and the first taste of their new venture arrives in Heleyos – a spooky voodoo tune, like Portishead summoning Charlie Bubblegum from the Boosh. Released on 25 September via Echo/BMG, the project is based on 1970s psych and folk records discovered in dusty crates in Morocco, Thailand, Iran and the US.
