Listen to Rose City Band's Sol Y Sombra single "Radio Song":

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When it comes to radio, Rose City Band are steeped in the subtle static hum of the medium. The group's ebullient country-psych draws from a deep love of obscure 70s private press records, the kind you might catch while scanning the dial on a desert drive back in the day - or more recently on Ripley Johnson's own monthly show on NTS Radio. Ahead of the release of Rose City Band's new album Sol Y Sombra on January 24th, the group pay homage to their love of radio with the aptly titled new single "Radio Song".

"You are unlikely to hear a more arresting and unique album this winter than Ghost / Spirit." - The Quietus

Just ahead of the release of their new album Ghost/Spirit, due out February 21st, singular guitarist Jules Reidy has shared the entrancing new single “Ghost”. Written in a haze of half-dream, half-wakefulness, the track showcases how Reidy interweaves otherworldly sounds with intoxicating melody. Cascading arpeggios ripple atop tight chordal drones with glitching swells and sinewy guitar interjections. Reidy says of the piece:

"I made this very late at night, following a night terror. I kept having these hallucinations in the form of a black silhouette that would run at me and I'd wake up screaming and sweating. So the lyrics intentionally sound like they were written by someone who was half asleep." Of the track's title in relation to the album and its overall focus on loss and love, Reidy notes: "The title Ghost/Spirit describes this haunting omnipresence that we experience through loving a being who is not there."

Reidy’s breathtaking recordings and magnetic performances offer a truly futuristic, singular vision of guitar music. Reidy will be performing throughout the US, UK, and EU this spring, including record release shows in Berlin at Silent Green and London at Cafe Oto, as well as a set at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville.

 

Following the announcement of their extensive European and UK tour this Spring, including their debut collaborative performance at Roadburn Festival, Gnod & White Hills have shared two new singles from their Drop Out series, "Nothing NEU! Under the Sun" and "Spaced Man". The deluxe, definitive version of their acclaimed Drop Out series, Drop Out III, is out Mar. 21st.

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"Nothing NEU! Under the Sky" brims with the potency of the collaboration's live energy, transmuting motorik rhythm and plasmic instrumental layers into a blissful trance. "Spaced Man" showcases the ensemble's more sinewy grooves, with a cascade of voices rising and falling in huge dynamic swells.

Drop Out became an influential and sprawling series of extended pieces that remain touchstones of contemporary psychedelia. Having been called “absolutely essential,” “best I have heard – ever,” “A masterpiece,” the Drop Out series finally gets its definitive edition. Drop Out III stands as a wholly new iteration of Gnod & White Hills’ initial collaboration. Reaching well beyond a mere reissue, Drop Out III is replete with sounds recorded in what the bands term the “Drop Out era” that have never been heard before. Drop Out III’s new elements make clear the unified ethos of both bands. The expanded versions of these timeless pieces epitomize the sense of possibility brimming throughout the album. That an album over 15 years out from its inception could continue to grow well past its roots is a testament to Gnod & White Hills’ ability as artists and collaborators.

Following the announcement of their new collaborative album no floor, due out March 21st, more eaze and claire rousay have shared new single “kinda tropical”. Named for the queer bar and live music venue that formed an essential part of both artists’ youth in San Antonio, Texas, “kinda tropical” evokes the warmth and affection of the duo's friendship and musical fearlessness, exemplifying their shared skills in unearthing new and exciting sound arrangements.

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The duo also announce a run of limited collab shows: dates and tickets here

SUMAC and Moor Mother have announced their debut collaborative album, The Film, to be released on April 25th. Along with the album's announcement, the group have shared the album's first single and opening track "Scene 1". The track serves as a mere fragment of a work meant to be taken as a whole, but is nonetheless overwhelming in it's musical prowess. Moor Mother's singular delivery and dynamics are on full display, gliding and puncturing through SUMAC's waves of textural distortion.

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The Film is a singular work between SUMAC – a band that uses the volume, distortion, and guitar-centric approach of metal to make music that has the malleability of jazz and textural exploration of noise – and the visionary award-winning avant-jazz poet, scholar, activist, and punk rocker Moor Mother. Guitarist/song-writer Aaron Turner, Nick Yacyshyn writing on synth and drums, and primordial bassist Brian Cook as SUMAC, had visions of working with Moor Mother– across the liminal, gossamer thin barrier of space time, Moor Mother had the same idea. At Studio Litho where the record was recorded with engineer/mixer Scott Evans, she laid down the vocals, her words written to the sparse, yet dense and entropic sonic miasma SUMAC conjured for her.

Around the record's release, SUMAC and Moor Mother will be premiering their collaborative performances in Berlin and at Roadburn Festival. Additionally, SUMAC will be heading out on a European tour this Spring with special guests, Japan's ENDON.

SUMAC and Moor Mother tour dates

Apr. 17 - Berlin, DE - Festsaal Kreuzberg *
Apr. 19 - Tilburg, NL - Roadburn Festival *

 
SUMAC tour dates

Apr. 15 - Warsaw, PL - Hydrozagadka
Apr. 16 - Poznań, PL - 2Progi
Apr. 20 - Tilburg, NL - Roadburn Festival performing 'The Healer'
Apr. 21 - Brussels, BE - Botanique #
Apr. 22 - Koln, DE - Bumann & Sohn #
Apr. 23 - Karlsruhe, DE - Jubez #
Apr. 24 - Fribourg, CH - Fri-Son #
Apr. 25 - Innsbruck, AT - PMK #
Apr. 26 - Munich, DE - Strom
Apr. 28 - Athens, GR - Kyttaro Live Club 

* Moor Mother collab set
# w/ ENDON

Following the announcement of new solo album Ghost/Spirit, due out February 21st, luminary guitarist and composer Jules Reidy shares shimmering new single “Breaks”.

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Conceived during a period of significant change for Reidy - a transformational shift in their own identity and the dissolution of a major relationship, “Breaks” explores weighty emotions with raw honesty and striking vulnerability in one of Reidy's most direct and affecting pieces to date.

The innovative “Breaks” employs traditional guitar skills such as Reidy's spiralling fingerpicking within a minimalist song architecture, evoking the emotional turmoil and isolation at the end of a relationship. "This is one of my favourite songs I've written," notes Reidy, "it's very stripped down musically and lyrically, a very direct translation of what I was feeling when I wrote it". These emotions are further delivered with Reidy’s haunting vocals.

Acclaimed Berlin composers Brueder Selke and Midori Hirano have shared two sublime new singles, demonstrating the breadth and depth of the trio's artistry, the tracks translate their respective foundational scales into two very different, yet equally affecting explorations of mood and atmosphere.

Boundary-pushing duo more eaze & claire rousay have announced their immersive, spellbinding new collaborative album no floor, out March 21st.

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Eschewing the auto-tune inflected pop-psychedelia and found sounds of their previous collaborations, no floor is collage music as pastoral melancholia, a lush tour into their own version of Americana.

Alongside the announcement, the duo have shared new single "limelight, illegally". Like the other four tracks that make up no floor, "limelight, illegally" was named for a seminal bar in the pair’s shared history, or as the duo humorously refer to it, a “pillar of our debauchery.” mari maurice aka more eaze elaborates: "Limelight was a very big bar in the mid-00s San Antonio for shows, I opened for Bill Callaghan there as a 17 year-old. We were both going there underage because we were both teenagers playing in bands there, though we didn't know each other at the time. We’ve since had a lot of conversations where we realized we were at the same shows at the same time."

no floor is available to preorder now on limited-edition green LP.

Following the announcement of their debut collaborative album Split Scale, due out January 24th, acclaimed Berlin composers Brueder Selke & Midori Hirano share aching, minimalist new single "Scale A".

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Opening the new album, “Scale A” begins the conversation between the artists, the first step on a "long, colorful staircase" as Hirano describes it. Hirano feels out the space with a minimal, aching piano arpeggio resonating out into the void, with Brueder Selke adding subtle texture and color with washes of smudged cello and synthesizer.

Split Scale is available to preorder now on limited-edition clear LP.

Two titans of modern psychedelic music and space-rock reunite for another mind-melting collaboration, with a new installment in Gnod & White Hills legendary, ongoing Drop Out series. 

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Drop Out III is a wholly new iteration of Gnod & White Hills’ collaboration, the “director’s cut,” if you will. Drop Out III is replete with sounds recorded in the “Drop Out era” that have never been heard before.

The double LP features a cornucopia of expanded versions of essential songs complete with new arrangements, mixes, and instrumentation. Classics like “Run-A-Round” (up to listen on our site now) and the eponymous “Drop Out” maintain their motorik drive and fizzing melodies with a new shine. The set also features a full LP of pieces never before included on vinyl, including the beautifully serene “Air Streams” in its original droning arc. The album comes with a download of a full album’s worth of bonus material, all crafted around the Drop Out era.

The crystal clear LP version is VERY limited, also available in the UK via our special partnership with Norman Records!

Opaque orange LPs are available to EU/UK customers through our partners at anost.net and will be made available to US customers after clear sells out!

Gnod & White Hills will be performing a collaborative set including material from Drop Out for the first time ever at Roadburn Festival 2025.

Wrekmeister Harmonies have announced vital, expansive new album Flowers in the Spring, out February 21st.

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Following expansive collaborations with similarly adventurous artists including Ryley Walker, Thor Harris (Swans), The Body, Mary Lattimore, Olivia Block and many more, Flowers in the Spring strips the group’s music back to its most pure and potent form. The album's vital, hypnagogic sonics are underpinned by the ever-present thrum of the drone - the mystic life-force feeding each piece from towering amplifier worship to gelid ambience.

Alongside the announcement, Wrekmeister Harmonies share the album's colossal title track. “Flowers In The Spring” emerges from fizzing distortion, the band's JR Robinson hewing monolithic slabs of drone from the rock face. Twirling electronics and rippling overtones push up through the fissures like the first signs of life emerging after winter's deep freeze.

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Wrekmeister Harmonies will be touring in 2025 around the release, sign up to our newsletter to get the news on tour dates and new singles first.

We're ecstatic to welcome Jules Reidy to the Thrill Jockey roster, with their sublime new solo album Ghost/Spirit due out Feb. 21st, 2025. 

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Jules Reidy is an entire musical cosmos unto themselves. One of the most visionary artists working in Berlin – and indeed anywhere right now, Reidy’s breathtaking recordings and magnetic performances offer a truly futuristic, singular vision of guitar music. Their forthcoming new album Ghost/Spirit presents another major leap forward, compiling some of their most absorbing and affecting music to date. The songs convey an astral sense of yearning and wonder, expressed in fractal guitar figures, ethereal vocal vapors and rippling microtones.

Alongside the announcement, Reidy has also shared new single "Every Day There's a Sunset". Embodying the album's narrative, "Every Day There's a Sunset" invokes dense flurries of overwhelming emotion, with Reidy's spiralling guitars and aching vocals ascending skyward, bolstered by juddering electronics and rumbling bass samples from Andreas Dzialocha, Reidy’s collaborator in new duo Sun Kit.

Jules Reidy's Ghost/Spirit is available to preorder now on limited-edition white LP.

Jules Reidy will be on tour throughout the remainder of 2024 and into 2025, with release shows in Berlin and London for Ghost/Spirit:

Nov. 30 - Helsinki, FI - We Jazz Festival [tickets]
Dec. 12 - Leipzig, DE - ZiMMT w/ X Lee [tickets]
Dec. 15 - Prague, CZ - Punctum
Mar. 5 - Berlin, DE - Silent Green - Ghost/Spirit album release show
Mar. 8 - London, UK - Cafe Oto - Ghost/Spirit album release show [tickets]
Mar. 28 - Knoxville, TN - Big Ears Festival