This week’s quick hits features new singles and videos from Destroyer, String Machine; Destroyer; Partner Look; Spoon; Young Prisms. Coming up: the latest Singles Club; January’s best album drops and fest updates.
Destroyer gets gritty on “Tintoretto, It’s For You”
It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from regarded alt rock songwriter and musician Destroyer, aka Daniel Bejar.
His sizzling new single, “Tintoretto, It’s for You,” is an intoxicating mix of orchestration and synthesizers and crazy drumming.
Destroyer’s new album, Labrinthitis, drops in March.
String Machine reveals anthemic new single
Know Hope Records’ artist String Machine drop the video single, “Touring In January”, ahead of the release of the album Hallelujah Hell Yeah on February 25.
The track is full-blown, anthemic indie baroque pop that is reminiscient of bands like Arcade Fire.
Partner Look drops new jangly single
Melbourne rock band Partner Look will release their new album By the Book on February 4 via Trouble in Mind Records.
You wouldn’t be far-off if you think “Right Here” sounds like a Go-Betweens cover, but this track is an original recording. However, there is clearly a Go-Betweens influence.
Spoon goes western on new video
Spoon is best sticking to the studio – definitely not making westerns of any sort.
But “Wild” is satisfactory as a track – still, a staple Spoon song; nothing really noteworthy. The band’s latest release, Lucifer on the Sofa drops in February.
SF’s Young Prisms drop first new single in a decade
You couldn’t have blamed anyone over the past number of years for thinking that San Francisco shoegazers Young Prisms had disbanded.
But a soaring and sizzling new melodic single, “Honeydew” is providing for an exciting return by the band. It’s the debut single from the band’s first album in a decade.