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03/04/2016
Britta Plyler
photo by Kristina Moravec

  • On April 15, Sturgill Simpson will release a new album called A Sailor's Guide to Earth, his follow up to 2014's Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. Today he's shared the album's first single, "Brace For Impact (Live a Little)." In a press release, Simpson described his motivation for the album:
    "I really questioned whether I wanted to spend however many more years on this bus, not being there and seeing all that was happening. That’s where this record came from, just processing all that guilt and homesickness. I had to figure out a way to put that into music, so I decided to write the whole record from the perspective of a sailor going to sea and not knowing if he's ever coming home.
    [Pitchfork]

  • Portishead's Geoff Barrow, under his music project Beak> has conributed new music to the score of an upcoming British thriller. The film, called Couple in a Hole, is about a couple that decides to leave society and live in a cave, obviously. The movie is out on April 8, but until then enjoy the creepy track "Timeshare" below. [CoS]

  • Singer-songwriter M. Ward stopped by the Late Late Show with James Corden last night. He delivered a silky smooth performance of "Little Baby," a track off of his new solo album More Rain, which dropped today. [Stereogum]

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