The quietest voices don’t just endure—sometimes they deepen.For a band once defined by understatement, American Football has become something increasingly rare: one whose stature has grown less by nostalgia than through patience, self-interrogation and the long view.
Since reuniting in 2014 after a decade-plus dormancy, American Football hasn’t simply returned to its past. It has moved forward in parallel with its audience,writing music that reflects the disorientation, compromise, grief and hard-won perspective of middle age.Its fourth self-titled album(LP4)is the clearest and most satisfying expression of that evolution yet. It’s simultaneously the band’s darkest and most playful, its most complex and—paradoxically—its most generous.
Throughout, LP4 stares matter-of-factly at despair while refusing the comforts of melodrama or easy resolution and stands as a document of endurance, friendship and creative trust.
A 2x Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and subversive performance artist, Poppy released her seventh studio album, Empty Hands, earlier this year, crystalizing her identity as a visionary unconcerned with genre. The album draws from eleclectic influences, with industrial elements, pop sensabilities and moments that call back to Poppy’s surrealist roots with her signature uncanny, machine-like voice.
A little over 10 years ago, Poppy first made waves on YouTube with “uncanny valley” style videos that immediately sparked confusion, excitement and curiosity. In the years following, Poppy amassed a smorgasboard of multi-hyphenate titles that seem almost impossibly compatible; see her “variety host show” video below, a sci-fi graphic novel author and globetrotting recording artist whose songbook encompasses everything from bubblegum pop to death metal to experimental industrial soundscapes.
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.
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.
