Following the release of their new duo album Swallowtail, Jim White and Marisa Anderson share the wistful music film for album opener "Aerie", directed by acclaimed filmmaker Jem Cohen.

Watch the video for "Aerie" now

Building on his collaborations with artists including Fugazi, Patti Smith, R.E.M. and more, Cohen's meditative short film perfectly reflects the patient, immersive nature of the music. Following a young boy playing in the mountains, the music and visuals offer no prescriptive narrative or statement, instead simply letting the viewer observe and impart their own meaning.

Jem Cohen elaborates:
"Jim White and Marisa Anderson’s music asks questions so we don’t have to. Collaboration? Improvisation? Song structure? None of it has to be tied down. They are out on the road somewhere, luckily heading for my town. Playing hard, driving hard, a lot of experience. Meanwhile, a boy, Alexander, is up on a mountain and has to do something with sticks. It is important, requires effort. How can they be combined, will they balance, and what about the wind? He is improvising, concentrating. He is less experienced, will soon be 8. The boy and the sticks, it turns out, are on an aerie in early spring, high above an old trestle, houses and cars tiny below. Aerie is a beautiful word. And a beautiful track. I put it to a film, or a film to it. I'm honored."

Jim White and Marisa Anderson's Swallowtail is available to order now, and the duo have just announced UK and Europe tour dates for the fall, full list here:

Sep. 5 - Dublin, IE - Wheland's
Sep. 6 - Castletownbere, IE - Sarah Walker Gallery
Sep. 7 - Shrewsbury, UK - St Mary The Virgin
Sep. 8 - Barrow-in-Furness, UK - Full of Noises Festival
Sep. 9 - London, UK - Cafe Oto
Sep. 10 - Gothenburg, SE - Folkteatern
Sep. 11 - Copenhagen, DK - Alice
Sep. 13 - Lisbon, PT - ZDBs
Sep. 14 - Barcelos, PT - Jazz ao Largo
Sep. 16 - Prague, CZ - Meet Factory
Sep. 18 - Düsseldorf, DE - TBC
Sep. 20 - Clonakilty, IE - Clonakilty International Guitar Festival
Sep. 21 - Dundalk, IE - Culture Club

claire rousay has announced a new companion piece to her acclaimed Thrill Jockey debut sentiment, sentiment remixes. The special release features expansive reworks that redefine the very notion of “remixes."

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The album is initially set for release as a limited-edition LP on September 20th, and a small number will feature a unique applied photo taken by claire on the sentiment tour, all hand-numbered, hand-stamped and only available from Thrill Jockey and rousay.

Listen to Maral's astral rework of "ily2" and grip the limited-edition LP now. 

For music rich with intimate personal details, it’s rousay’s openness and sense of broader musical community that lends the sentiment remixes an even greater depth of feeling to them. rousay gathered a list of collaborators that she feels a personal or musical kinship, allowing each artist to select their own tracks for reinterpretation free of constraints. “If these were the only versions of these songs that lived in peoples’ minds, I would be totally okay with that,” says rousay. “They feel more like collaboration or extensions of the album itself.”

 

We’re ecstatic to announce that The Body have a new album coming this November, The Crying Out of Things. Check out the new single “End of Line”, an earth-shattering, expansive track that gives you a hint of what to expect from the new record.

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The new record might just be the duo’s most powerful, diverse album to date, a culmination of all that The Body have done before. The Crying Out of Things harnesses elements from across their groundbreaking catalog: the expansive, ecstatic distortion and live energy of I’ve Seen All I Need To See, the ambitious layering and arrangements on I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer, and the corroded pop edge of No One Deserves Happiness, into one compact work. Guest performances from regular collaborators vocalist Ben Eberle (Sandworm), horn player Dan Blacksburg, and recent collaborator Felicia Chen aka Dis Fig add essential textural range.

We've got a few extra-special limited-edition items up to preorder now:

Pre-order the limited-edition opaque green LP now with limited (200!) hand-screened cover wrap printed by Lee Buford of the Body. LP cover and inner sleeve designed by The Body.

Pre-order the limited edition limited clear pink LPs with standard LP cover and sleeve designed by The Body.

Pre-order the new hoodie also printed by Lee of The Body – available only online

 

With Brian Gibson and Mike Mandel’s mind-melting new videogame Thrasher dropping last week to critical acclaim, we’re extremely excited to share another cosmic slice from the game’s soundtrack with new single “Mist”.

Listen to "Mist" now

It’s not often we get to recommend music by members of Lightning Bolt to fans of Colleen or Oval (!), but “Mist” truly shows off the sheer breadth of Gibson’s artistry, standing out as one of the most surprising moments in his catalog to date. Eschewing the “rhythmic-violence” of his earlier work, here Gibson explores a more celestial, minimalist headspace, with arcing arpeggios, shimmering brain-dance percussion and zero-gravity atmospherics. A huge recommendation to fans of everything from deep dance music and cosmic jungle to Laurie Spiegel or Caterina Barbieri.

The Thrasher limited-edition coke bottle LP is shipping now to mail order customers, in stores on Aug 23rd.

Ahead of the release of their new album Fall of Spring on August 23rd, ENDON share visceral new single "Hit Me".

Listen to "Hit Me" now

Erupting from the speakers with the full force of a freight train, the aptly titled “Hit Me” is a proper chest-rattling, bass-bin-bothering rhythm workout from the Japanese noise unit, drawing you into its mesmeric whorl with the inescapable gravitational pull of a black hole. It’s as strangely meditative as it is supremely heavy, with vocalist Taichi Nagura's caustic howl thrashing against the current, finally achieving a kind of transcendence as the blistering noise slowly gives way to astral synthesizers.

ENDON's Fall of Spring is available to preorder now on limited-edition white vinyl - we've only got 10 copies left on our store at the time of writing, don't sleep on it!

Terry Gross, the trio of drummer Phil Becker, bassist Donny Newenhouse, and guitarist Phil Manley (Trans Am) have announced their exhilarating sophomore album with the typically self-deprecating title of Huge Improvement.

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Coming September 20th, the album was written and recorded at El Studio, the band’s studio where artists such as Moon Duo, Big Business and Wooden Shjips have worked. Huge Improvement captures the trio's psychedelic excursions with granular precision.

Alongside the announcement, we're stoked to share bracing new single "Sheepskin City" - a gallivanting ode to impermanence that runs at full-tilt, classic riffing pushed to sonic extremes and invoking prog-rock drum and guitar heroics. 

Listen to "Sheepskin City" now

Huge Improvement is out September 20th, and is available to preorder now on limited-edition translucent red LP. A huge recommend for fans of Golden Void, Dommengang and Wooden Shjips, don't sleep on it!