Monday Music News

02/01/2016

Janice Headley

A mere week after we aired his KEXP in-studio session, and Boise-based artist Trevor Powers, a.k.a. Youth Lagoon, has announced he's calling it quits. In a statement on Twitter, the bright young artist writes, "there is nothing left to say through Youth Lagoon. It will exist no more." Read the complete statement below. If you missed his Midday Show in-studio set, check it out in our two-week streaming archive here. [Pitchfork]

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— Youth Lagoon (@youthlagoon) February 1, 2016

If you've been listening to The Afternoon Show, you've surely heard DJ Kevin Cole spinning the latest from PJ Harvey, "The Wheel", from her forthcoming full-length The Hope Six Demolition Project, out April 15th via Vagrant. Today we've got a powerful video for that track, filmed in Kosovo, a city that, along with Afghanistan and Washington, D.C., inspired the new album. Filmmaker and photojournalist Seamus Muprhy directed the clip, explaining via a press release, "The song “The Wheel” has the journey to Kosovo at its center. Who is to say what else has influenced and informed its creation? The sight of a revolving fairground wheel in Fushe Kosove/Kosovo Polje near the capital Pristina is the concrete reference point for the title. I can tell you its date — 4th August 2011 — from the piece of footage I made as we walked up the street to our parked car near the train station. It was a passing observation of a commonplace image, one of many that day. While Polly took notes I might have been more interested in something else happening across the street and not bothered to shoot or even have seen it. That day we were gathering material in a blind, optimistic endeavor; characteristic of the way we tend to work together. We had no idea if any of it would ever be seen, heard or would make sense." Watch below: [Spin]

The David Lynch TV show revival may have been pushed to 2017, but the Chicago-based band of the same name Twin Peaks return this Spring with their third full-length Down in Heaven, out May 13th on Grand Jury. Recorded at Fawn Lake Studios in Bedford, Massachusetts, the track "Walk to the One You Love" captures the poppier side of their garage rock side. Listen below: [Consequence of Sound]

Duluth, MN's finest trio Low share a video today for the track "Into You," one of the delicately beautiful tracks from last year's Sub Pop full-length Ones And Sixes. Directors Jim Burns and Beth Chalmers captured the band during a performance in Glasgow, Scotland, explaining via press release, "Inspired by the hypnotic reflections of the River Clyde on the archways beneath Glasgow's city bridges, this film draws parallels between the power of a single beam of sunlight and the deeply affecting personal experience one feels during Low's live performance. Despite being part of a crowd, Low's music invokes within you a profound and unique individual perspective." Just lovely. Watch below: [Stereogum]

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