Tricky’s recently announced new album, Different When It’s Silent, his 15th studio album and first full-length release under his own name in six years, is out July 17th via False Idols.
The first single, “Out Of Place”, featuring longtime collaborator Marta Zlakowska, pairs Marta’s restrained vocal with Tricky’s urgent, almost punk-like delivery. The contrast between the two creates a dynamic finale that captures the album’s stripped-back intensity, and is a powerful closing moment for the record. Originally written for Marta’s own album, Tricky ultimately reclaimed “Out Of Place” for Different When It’s Silent.
Across fourteen tracks, Tricky blends skeletal blues, brooding electronics, distorted guitars and stark hip-hop rhythms into a sound that feels both stripped-back and expansive. The album moves fluidly across styles while maintaining the restless experimentation that has defined his work for more than three decades.
Greg Freeman releases “Cahokia,” the ferocious and thought-provoking new single from his recently announced forthcoming album, All Set The Bone. “Cahokia,” the album’s opening track and thesis statement, invokes the American civilization that rose, thrived, and then vanished in the Middle Ages. It’s a metaphor for contemporary society, where consumerism, environmental anxiety, and authoritarian threats compound and we all become participants as well as victims in this vicious cycle.
Freeman calls All Set The Bone a “reflection of a lot of change, and a lot of tension.” It’s a box of political and personal yarns spread across four sides, “inhuman events” and grief pulled into a “perfect tsunami.” While writing and recording it, F The following album is populated by a grain of similarly unsettled people: a voter buried in credit card debt, a pair of Christian hearts clanking like trapped lobsters, a town of bent necks, a lover with limbs bent like crabapple trees.
The songs of Hovvdy’s Big World find the duo trading in overt emotional directness for subject matter that leans enigmatic, contemplating their place in the world through a mosaic of songs that sees the band at their most secure and self-aware.
Since 2024’s Hovvdy, the band’s most expansive album to date, which earned them the coveted Best New Album distinction from Pitchfork, both Martin and Taylor have become published songwriters in their new home of Nashville – a career development that heavily informed their approach to making Big World.
“With this one,” says Martin, “we wanted to take on the challenge of making something more concise and to the point, and give the fans something that feels like a shorter but more exciting ride.”
Disciples of planet Earth’s rock deities, space-time voyagers Klek and Khn de Poitrine gaze in wonder at hot dogs, pyramids and rock music in all its glorious excess. Asymmetrical and dissonant, Angine de Poitrine’s music makes hearts race and bodies move with ecstatic abandon.
Through tight, pulsing drum grooves and intricate tangels of double-neck microtonal guitar, the band summons swirling vortices of hypnotic sound and vision. Since the release of Vol. 1 in 2024, the duo is in the eye of an ever-growing storm of enthusiasm from audiences, critics and the music industry’s main actor. Andine de Poitrine are simply thrilled to play rock ‘n’ roll.
About their latest release: Vol. 2: Repetition. Isn’t that the very essence of loop-based music? Hell no! A brisk, high-voltage album, Vol. 2 stretches the boundaries of the genre with even bolder, more dynamic structures. Its humor lies in the details, waiting to be decoded! Once again, three essential forces fuel the inspiration of the duo: acid techno, disco, and rock.
