The Church (“Under the Milky Way”) release their 28th studio album, Dead Man’s Bones (duo featuring Ryan Gosling) release first new music since 2009, a new single from Everything But the Girl, and Queens of the Stone Age‘s understated Perfecth.
THE CHURCH – LACUNA
A “lacuna” is a missing piece, a gap, an absence. It’s a fitting title for a band that has spent decades exploring mystery, memory, and the spaces between certainty and doubt. On Lacuna, The Church continue to prove that few artists do atmosphere better.
The guitars shimmer and jangle, the drums fade into the background (“Sky and Hill”) or pound in an echo (“Martian Skyline”), and Steve Kilbey‘s voice could rival any indie rocker out there today. It’s timeless music that would fit on any modern indie rock station with it’s dreamlike sound that’s equally haunting and immediately beautiful.
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DEAD MAN’S BONES – “LOST IN THE NIGHT”
Few cult projects have inspired quite as much fascination as Dead Man’s Bones, the collaboration between Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields. Their original work blended ghost stories, children’s choirs, gothic Americana, and vintage rock-and-roll into something genuinely unique.
“Lost in the Night” feels like a natural continuation of that world. Their first new music in 17 years embraces the same haunted, cinematic quality that made the project such a favorite among indie-rock devotees (and movie fans).
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EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL – “YOUNG AND DUMB”
“Where’d the wildness go?”
A Spanish influenced guitar driven meditation is the first taste of Everything But the Girl‘s next album, Blue Reservoir, out February 19th. The song “Young and Dumb” leans on the vocals of Ben Watt, which is possibly an unexpected turn for those who know the duo’s big breakout hit from the ’90s, “Missing,” which puts Tracey Thorn‘s beautiful voice front and center.
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QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE – PERFECTH
The new Queens of the Stone Age album is full of songs that feel like putting on your favorite worn-in pair of jeans, perfect….I mean, Perfecth.
The grooves feel like they’ve been there all along and the band is just falling into it naturally. They balance control and chaos, tension and release, with humor and guitar solos.
