Thursday Music News

10/08/2015

Janice Headley

The music of Duluth, MN-based trio Low has always evoked great emotion, so it's no surprise their videos do, too (except for that one with John Stamos; we don't talk about that). For the track "Lies," off their latest Sub Pop full-length Ones And Sixes, the band turned to Spanish film director Manuel Aragon. He sets up the clip: "Diego is a jornalero – a day laborer, struggling to maintain his livelihood. Daily, he navigates between two very different realities: one, the worker, very much on the outskirts of society, unseen, unnoticed; the other, a Mexican-American 20-something, one half of a mixed-race couple trying to sustain their relationship and manage their cultural differences." Watch the beautiful video below. Low play Saturday, November 21st at The Crocodile in Seattle. [Stereogum]

I'm hesitant to share news about Baltimore dream-pop duo Beach House after getting punk'd hard last month (see here), but this comes straight from the horse's Twitter feed. Less than two months after releasing their fifth album Depression Cherry, their sixth album, titled Thank Your Lucky Stars, is slated for a Friday, October 16th release via Sub Pop. "We are very excited, it's an album being released the way we want. It's not a companion to Depression Cherry or a surprise or B-sides," they tweeted. Stay tuned for more information as soon as we get it. [Under the Radar]

Former Fiery Furnaces frontman Eleanor Friedberger returns with a new track today, her first since her outstanding 2013 solo release Personal Record. Stream the single "False Alphabet City" below, inspired by visual artist Sara Magenheimer’s film False Alphabets. A press release explains, "Eleanor adapted Sara’s script into songs and performed them with her band at Recess, the SOHO gallery that hosted Sara’s residency. ‘False Alphabet City’ became the anthemic theme song for this video-based artwork about language, music and the radio voice as a life-line in our contemporary atmosphere of cultural alienation." Watch the video below, featuring clips from Sara's film: [Consequence of Sound]

Last night, Australian psych-bros Tame Impala stopped by the Late Show With Stephen Colbert to perform the single "The Less I Know the Better" from their most recent full-length Currents. Watch below, and keep track of all these late-night musical highlights with KEXP's TV Eye column. [Pitchfork]

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