New Music Wednesday: King Krule, PJ Harvey, Sharon Van Etten, and More

This Wednesday’s musical selection begins with a new single by King KruleA video of PJ Harvey run by Chileans Leon and Kitchenand a beautiful track by Sharon Van Etten. Furthermore, Australians from King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard they come with an epic 10-minute theme with songs in Latin, we will listen to the latest from Christine and The Queensas well as a very jazzy theme by Adam Palomo of Neon Indian. Let’s get started!

1. King Krule, Flimsier

King Krule dropped a new single, Flimsier, which opens his next album Space Heavy. Archy Marshall premiered the song during his performance at Primavera Sound before it circulated through exclusive flexi-discs sold on tour SHHH of King Krule at the beginning of this year. Check out the studio version with a visualizer created by Archy’s brother, Jack Marshall. Space Heavy, the continuation of Man Alive! of 2020, it will arrive on June 9.

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2. PJ Harvey, I Inside the Old I Dying

PJ Harvey released a new single this week I Inside the Old I Dying, the title track for his upcoming album. After A Child’s Question, August, the song is accompanied by a video animated by Chileans Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cocina. “This delicate and beautiful song eluded us until our last day in the studio,” Harvey said in a press release. “Over the past five weeks we had tried many times to capture it and failed, but then John reinvented the feel of the guitar pattern. While he was demonstrating in the control room, Flood he gave me a microphone and hit the record button while I sat next to John and tried to figure out how to sing it. The result somehow captures the ethereal, melancholic yearning I was looking for.” I Inside The Old I Dying It will go on sale on July 7 via Partisan.

3. Sharon Van Etten, Quiet Eyes

Sharon Van Etten is brought Quiet Eyes, a theme that appears in the end credits of the new A24 movie, Past Lives. Zachary Dawes of Mini Mansions produced and co-wrote the track. “The song is an attempt to embody the feeling that Celine Song so gracefully portrayed in his film, Past LivesVan Etten said in a statement. “I long. Loss. Identity… It has been an honor to be part of this incredible production. The most beautiful story I’ve seen in a long time.” The members of Grizzly Bear, Daniel Rossen y Christopher Bear composed the score for the film, directed by Celine Song and starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro. The soundtrack arrives this Friday, June 9 through A24 Music.

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4. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Dragon

The fans of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Those who cross their fingers for a nearly 10-minute thrash metal song about a killer giant lizard and Latin chants are in luck, as the prolific Australian band shared this week Dragonthe last song before the release of the group’s next album, PetroDragonic Apocalypse. The track arrives with a video directed by the unofficial seventh member of the group, Jason Galea. In the clip, the band members are seen rocking out up close while wearing T-shirts. Motörhead y Black Sabbathgiving a clear hint at some of the hard rock inspirations of the new album.

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5. Christine and The Queens, A day in the water

Before the release of his new album Paranoïa, Angels, True Love on Friday June 9, Christine and the Queens has published one more single of the same. A day in the water follow Tears can be so soft, True love (con 070 Shake) y To be honest. “The song is about that feeling of being in the deepest part of the water when you feel like the world can’t touch you anymore,” Chris said of the track in a statement. “It is behind the glass of your own melancholy, but in that deep dive of vulnerability hopefully light comes. The light of honesty”.

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6. Adam Palomo, Stay-At-Home DJ

Alan Palomo of Neon Indian announced this week his first album under his own name, which will be titled World of Hassle. As a preview, a new song from it is brought, the jazzy Stay-At-Home DJ, through a lyric video. Palomo had this to say about the track in a press release: “This is the song that started the whole conversation. My brother and I wrote it back in 2019 and we performed it on the last tour of Neon Indian. It meant a change of direction that she had been looking for but he still didn’t really know what to do with. When things slowed down during the pandemic I dusted her off and from the uncontrollable outbreak of her came World of Hassle“. World of Hassle It will go on sale on September 15 through Mom+Pop.

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