During a Thursday night show at London’s Alexandra Palace, Fred again.. teased an unreleased Harry Styles song. Listen to a snippet of the track below.
The song, which fans have speculated is titled “Coming Up Roses,” features a clipped string arrangement and a ballad’s pace. “We sleep half the night with your head on my chest me and you,” Styles sings. “There’s only me and you.”
Styles’ first new album in four years, Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally., is due out on March 6—he released a lead single, “Aperture,” last month. He’ll support the album with a tour later this year, which includes a formidable 30 dates at Madison Square Garden. He’s also pulling double duty on Saturday Night Live for the second time next weekend, where he’ll serve as host and musical guest.
Fred again.. is currently in the midst of a world tour supporting his album USB002, which he released one song at a time last fall. The record featured Floating Points, Danny Brown, Caribou, Skepta, and more.
CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse have revived their Gnarls Barkley alias for one more album. Atlanta is due out on March 6 on Atlantic-affiliated imprint 10k Projects; a lead single shared today (February 25), “Pictures,” marks the pair’s first new studio release in 18 years. Give it a listen below.
“Pictures” takes its inspiration from the many hours Green spent riding Atlanta’s MARTA public transit system as a kid, he shared in a press statement. “I had a middle school principal who, every Friday, would tell me to go when I would get to school,” he said in a press statement. “I was in eighth grade and I would leave school and ride the train alone from 8 A.M. until 2:30 P.M.”
Although Green and Danger Mouse haven’t dropped a Gnarls Barkley record since 2008’s The Odd Couple, both have released music solo. Green shared his sixth studio album, CeeLo Green is Thomas Calloway, in 2020; it followed 2015’s Heart Blanche and 2012’s CeeLo’s Magic Moment. He also spent multiple years as a judge on The Voice, and appeared on tracks from Eminem, Tyrese, T.I., and Asher Roth.
Danger Mouse, meanwhile, has spent the past near-decade rolling out collaborative albums with artists including Sparklehorse, Daniele Luppi, and Karen O. Most recently, he shared the record Cheat Codes with Black Thought in 2022; he and MorMor also linked up for a song, “Wonder,” in 2025.
Atlanta:
01 Tomorrow Died Today 02 I Amnesia 03 Pictures 04 Line Dance 05 Turn Your Heart Back On 06 Let Me Be 07 Cyberbully (Yayo) 08 Perfect Time 09 Sweet Evil 10 Boy Genius 11 The Be Be King 12 Sorry 13 Accept It
In August, 2021, thirty-two Afghans who had fled their country just before the Taliban took over arrived at the border, hoping to claim asylum. Poland refused to process them. So the Afghans, stranded, sat in a muddy no man’s land, flanked by armed border guards on both sides. Technically, they were already in Poland, in a tiny village called Usnarz Górny. There was no fence there, so locals and journalists could interact with the refugees. Images of an Afghan woman camped out with a gray cat went viral. The European Court of Human Rights soon ordered Poland to give the migrants assistance and temporary shelter.
Within weeks, Poland announced a state of emergency and closed areas near the border to medics, humanitarian workers, and reporters, among others. The Polish journalist Aga Suszko, who helped with the reporting for this piece, recalled, “I’m in a democratic country, covering something happening before my eyes that’s very significant, and suddenly: ‘You cannot see it, so you cannot report on it, because you cannot see it.’ ”
Illustration by Anuj Shrestha
The weather in the forest cooled, and rain set in. The Afghans were sleeping on the ground. That September, Poland’s interior minister held a press conference, aired on national TV, in which he displayed a photo, purportedly of a man having sex with a cow, and claimed that it had been discovered on a device confiscated from a migrant.
In October, migrants attempted more than ten thousand crossings (the Polish border guard counts crossings, not people), and Poland passed a law effectively legalizing “pushbacks.” In a pushback, authorities force migrants back across the border immediately after they arrive, often violently, without considering asylum claims or other needs. (The guards often send them through access gates.) The law appeared to violate E.U. and international law’s principle of non-refoulement, which forbids returning people to places where they face threats to their life or freedom. The Afghans would clearly be in danger if sent home. Even if they were returned only to Belarus, they would be at risk: border guards there regularly beat migrants who failed to complete the journey to Poland. Yet Poland pushed back the thirty-two Afghans, including a fifteen-year-old girl, arguing that they had remained outside Polish jurisdiction the whole time, so non-refoulement didn’t apply.
The next month, hundreds of desperate and marooned migrants, freezing in makeshift encampments on the Belarusian side of the border, tried to break through the barbed-wire fence to Poland. Polish border guards responded with tear gas and water cannons. “I had my life before 2021 and my life after,” Suszko, the journalist, told me. She’d grown up hearing the story of how, in the nineteen-eighties, the Solidarity movement had heroically overthrown the oppressive Communist regime, transforming the country into a democracy that generally respected human rights and the rule of law. “It was the death of Poland as I knew it,” she said.
Since 2021, Poland has built the permanent border wall that Ahmed crossed; razor-wire fences stand on both sides of it. Thousands of security officers are now stationed there, along with cameras, thermal and motion sensors, night-vision devices, and other surveillance tools.
Wolf Parade singer and keyboardist Spencer Krug has recorded a new solo version of “I’ll Believe in Anything” on piano. The Apologies to the Queen Mary track recently went viral after being used in a pivotal scene of the HBO romance series Heated Rivalry. Krug broke out his stripped-down rendition of the song during a Vancouver concert last month, and this version was recorded in a studio in response to how well it was received. Listen to it below.
“I’ve made a few different solo versions of this song over the years. This is easily the best one, second only to Wolf Parade’s rendition,” Krug wrote on Instagram. “I feel like I finally have a solo version of the song that I can bring to my solo sets, that I can sincerely stand behind, because it pays proper tribute to the Wolf Parade version—heartfelt, grandiose, cathartic, and a joy to play. I’m reminded of feelings I had two decades ago when first discovering what the song wanted to be.”
In an interview with Vulture, Krug and bandmate Dan Boeckner explained how their Wolf Parade song was licensed for Heated Rivalry, noting that the series creator and director Jacob Tierney outlined exactly how “I’ll Believe in Anything” would be used in the scene. “It felt really intentional,” said Krug. “You could tell he cared about the song, too. He wanted that song, which made it an easy yes. It wasn’t like, ‘Well, if this doesn’t work and they say no, we’ll ask a different band.’ I think if we said no, he would have had to change the script.”
Apologies to the Queen Mary was released in 2005 and given a deluxe reissue in 2016 when Wolf Parade returned after a long hiatus. In 2022, the band performed a series of shows during which they played the album in full. As for Krug, he released his debut solo album under his own name, Fading Graffiti, in 2021 and followed it up with 2022’s Twenty Twenty Twenty Twenty One.
Grace Ives is back with a new album and tour. The Brooklyn singer-songwriter and producer will release Girlfriend on March 20 via True Panther/Capitol. Written and produced alongside Ariel Rechtshaid and John DeBold, with mixing by Dave Fridmann, Girlfriend follows 2022’s Janky Star and the trio of singles Ives released last November. Listen to new song “Stupid Bitches” below and scroll down for the tour dates.
Ives says of the album in a press release, “I shifted from escaping to exploring. Having some personal freedom made me realize that I’m allowed to take up space—to be social, to talk about how I feel, to try new things. This album is about giving myself room to fail, to experiment, and to become more honest in the music.”
04-17 Philadelphia, PA – Underground Arts 04-18 Montreal, Quebec – Bar Le Ritz PDB 04-20 Toronto, Ontario – Longboat Hall 04-21 Detroit, MI – El Club 04-22 Chicago, IL – Lincoln Hall 04-23 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry 04-25 Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck 04-27 Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater 04-28 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge 04-30 Portland, OR – Polaris Hall 05-01 Seattle, WA – Neumos 05-02 Vancouver, British Columbia – Fox Cabaret 05-05 San Francisco, CA – The Independent 05-07 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom 05-08 Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room 05-09 Phoenix, AZ – The Rebel Lounge 05-11 Austin, TX – Brushy Street Commons 05-12 Houston, TX – White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs) 05-13 Dallas, TX – Club Dada 05-15 Nashville, TN – Blue Room at Third Man Records 05-16 Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade 05-17 Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle Back Room 05-19 Washington, DC – The Atlantis 05-20 Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair 05-21 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg 06-06 Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound 06-08 Paris, France – Hasard Ludique 06-10 Brussels, Belgium – Rotonde/Botanique 06-12 Berlin, Germany – Kantine am Berghain 06-14 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso (Small Hall) 06-16 London, England – Village Underground
SZA has shared a new song, “Save The Day.” It appears on the soundtrack to the forthcoming Disney-Pixar film Hoppers, which premieres next month. Give it a listen below.
Due out March 6, Hoppers takes place in a world where “scientists have discovered how to ‘hop’ human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals” per a synopsis. The film was co-directed by Daniel Chong and Nicole Grindle; the voice cast features Meryl Streep, Dave Franco, Kathy Najimy, Jon Hamm, Sam Richardson, and more.
In an interview with Laughing Place, Chong said he and Grindle decided to reach out to SZA for their soundtrack after using “Good Days” and “Saturn” as placeholder music in Hoppers’ credits. “I think there was an intuitiveness in talking with SZA that when she saw the movie, I think she immediately knew what the movie needed,” Chong explained.
Although SZA technically shared her most recent album, SOS, in 2022, she hasn’t been stingy with new music. A 2024 expanded edition of SOS, SOS Deluxe: Lana, featured fifteen new tracks. In 2025 alone, SZA toured with Kendrick Lamar and joined him at the Super Bowl; sang with Elmo on Sesame Street; and starred with Keke Palmer in the buddy comedy One Of Them Days. She also reunited with Lamar for the GNX track “Luther,” which won the pair a Grammy for Record of the Year earlier this month.
Cousins, hillbillies, and range brothersBaby Keem and Kendrick Lamar have teamed up for another song. “Good Flirts” appears on Keem’s new album, Ca$ino, which is out now. Check out the track, and the rest of the record, below.
“Good Flirts” plays out like a playful and flirtatious message to a supposed ex Keem just can’t quit, set over a downtempo beat. Lamar’s verse finds him hanging on the couch watching Sinners, worshipping his girl’s booty, and wondering if God might be a woman. “Good Flirts” features vocals from the singer Momo Boyd, of the New York-based soft rock outfit Infinity Song.
The song is just the latest of Keem and Lamar’s joint releases, which include “The Hillbillies,” “Vent,” “Range Brothers,” and the Grammy-winning “Family Ties.” Lamar also co-produced a series of documentary shorts Keem released during Ca$ino’s rollout and appeared on-camera for interviews, where he spoke about watching Keem grow into his talent.
“When he started first sending me beats and shit, I was like, ‘OK, I can see you do this,’ and he was really good,” Lamar shared. “What I was surprised at was when he started rapping…I was like, ‘Damn, you actually good at this, too.’ That threw me for a loop, because he understood melodies and patterns more than any young cat that I’ve heard.”
Ca$ino is Keem’s second studio album, and follows 2021’s The Melodic Blue. The largest tracklist features Too $hort and Che Ecru. Keem will support the album later this year on an extensive tour, which will bring him across the US, Canada, Europe, and the UK between April and September.
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man – Soundtrack from the Netflix Film:
01 Antony Genn, Carlos O’Connell, & Martin Slattery: “Opening Scene / The Currency” 02 Antony Genn, Carlos O’Connell, & Martin Slattery: “The Immortal Man” 03 Antony Genn, Martin Slattery, & Grian Chatten: “Ruby’s Scarf” 04 Amy Taylor, Tom Coll, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Nobody’s Son” 05 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “No Heaven No Hell for Duke Shelby” 06 Andrew Falkous, Jack Eggleston, & Damien Sayell: “People Person” 07 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Duke and Beckett Strike a Deal” 08 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “An Intruder In The House” 09 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Ada and Duke” 10 Antony Genn, Martin Slattery, & Grian Chatten: “Opium Dreams” 11 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Tommy, Kaulo and Zelda” 12 Grian Chatten, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Black Dahlia” 13 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Beckett Tests Duke” 14 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Close the Door” 15 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Dukes Descent” 16 Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan III, & Tom Coll: “A Hero’s Death” 17 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Pig Pen” 18 Grian Chatten, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Puppet” 19 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “A Gun Is No Good” 20 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Tommy vs Duke” 21 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “St Elizabeth’s Mortuary” 22 Carlos O’Connell, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Confession” 23 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Stable Shootout” 24 Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, & Thomas Wydler: “Red Right Hand (Immortal)” 25 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “The Bullet” 26 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “The Coin” 27 Girl In the Year Above: “Teardrop” 28 Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Tom Coll, Conor Curley, & Conor Deegan III: “Romance” 29 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “The Map” 30 Grian Chatten, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Angel” 31 Antony Genn, Martin Slattery, & Grian Chatten: “The Tunnel” 32 Grian Chatten, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Medusa” 33 Carlos O’Connell, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Tommy vs Beckett” 34 Antony Genn & Martin Slattery: “Father and Son” 35 Lankum with Grian Chatten: “Hunting The Wren (The Immortal Man Version)” 36 Grian Chatten, Antony Genn, & Martin Slattery: “Ellipsis”
Foo Fighters will release a new album, Your Favorite Toy, on April 24 via Roswell/RCA. The title track of the follow-up to 2023’s But Here We Are is out now; check that out below, along with the album tracklist. Foo Fighters co-produced the home-recorded LP with Oliver Roman.
Grohl said of the single in a press release, “‘Your Favorite Toy’ really was the key that unlocked the tone and energetic direction of the new album. We stumbled upon it after experimenting with different sounds and dynamics for over a year, and the day it took shape I knew that we had to follow its lead. It was the fuse to the powder keg of songs we wound up recording for this record. It feels new.”
Last October, Foo Fighters shared the album closer, “Asking for a Friend,” along with a batch of stadium tour dates. Your Favorite Toy is the band’s first album with new drummer Ilan Rubin, who replacedTaylor Hawkins’ replacement Josh Freese. Mark “Spike” Stent resumed mixing duties.
Foo Fighters: Your Favorite Toy
Your Favorite Toy:
01 Caught in the Echo 02 Of All People 03 Window 04 Your Favorite Toy 05 If You Only Knew 06 Spit Shine 07 Unconditional 08 Child Actor 09 Amen, Caveman 10 Asking for a Friend
Visible Cloaks are back with their first full-length album in nine years. The Portland-based ambient duo of Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile will release Paradessence on May 22 via RVNG Intl. They’ve also shared a lead single, “Disque,” which features Motion Graphics playing synthetic woodwinds. Check out a music video for that below.
We last heard from Visible Cloaks in 2019, when they shared serenitatem, a collaborative album with ambient artists Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano. Doran and Carlile released their last solo LP, Reassemblage, in 2017, and followed it up with a mini-LP, Lex, the same year. In 2019, Doran also curated the Grammy-nominated compilation Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990.
Paradessence draws its title from a portmanteau of “paradoxical” and “essence,” coined by author Alex Shakar. Per Visible Cloaks, the word embodies the oppositional-but-coexisting concepts they’re trying to explore with the new album. “Instead of creating pieces that function horizontally as environments, we wanted to conceptualize them as living material changing in space, continually in flux,” Doran shared in a press statement.
Alan Sparhawk of Low has announced a tour and dropped two new songs. The first, “JCMF,” is a rebellious song about Jesus punishing those who are cruel and helping the children upon his return, while the second single, “No More Darkness,” calls for a return to the light and a pursuit of goodness. Listen to them both below.
In a press release, Sparhawk explained that “JCMF” is an older track that he’s played on the road for the past year. “I feel like the song has become a rebuke against the fascist/authoritarian streak that several world leaders have taken on and to the people who have been blinded into supporting them,” he said.
Meanwhile, “No More Darkness” draws inspiration from a David Lynch quote: “Don’t fight the darkness. Don’t even worry about the darkness. Turn on the light and the darkness goes. Turn up the light of pure consciousness. Negativity goes.” Sparhawk credits the song for reminding him to choose optimism during tough times whenever possible. “We were ending our set with this tune all year, and it is my wish for everyone, especially those who feel alone,” he added.
This spring, Sparhawk will go on tour in support of his 2025 collaborative album, Alan Sparhawk With Trampled by Turtles, with his own band. However, his set at the Knoxville music festival Big Ears will be performed live with Trampled by Turtles. Check out his complete list of tour dates below.
Alan Sparhawk:
02-21 Red Wing, MN – Big Turn Music Festival 03-29 Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Music Festival # 05-03 Krems an der Donau, Austria – Donaufestival 05-04 Prague, Czechia – Cultural House Krakov 05-06 Kortrijk, Belgium – Wilde Western
As part of a Valentine’s Day gift to his wife, Jeff Tweedy covered Cameron Winter’s “Love Takes Miles” over the weekend. The Wilco frontman said he chose to put his spin on the Heavy Metal song because it seems “very true to me about how love kind of actually works.” He elaborated further in his newsletter, writing, “I think you can feel the immediate feeling of love over and over and over again. But the real love takes a lot of miles, a lot of time. That’s the kind of love that makes ground harder under your feet and colors stronger.” Listen to the cover at Tweedy’s Substack.
The short essay that accompanies the “Love Takes Miles” cover continues, with Tweedy writing, “It’s a poignant song for such a young person to put out into the world. I hope you check out the rest of Cameron’s songs, and Geese. A lot of people have opinions about them. I’ll just say what Susie said when she saw Geese on Saturday Night Live, that she would have loved to have booked them at Lounge Ax. They totally would have fit in at Lounge Ax. Happy Valentine’s Day. I know it’s a made-up holiday, but love ain’t so bad, especially right now. It could be worse, and it often is. Carry on.”
Tweedy is currently in the early stages of a months-long headlining tour. Once he finishes this European leg, he will head back to North America to play shows in all three countries, with support from Liam Kazar and Finom’s Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart, before concluding with a special set at the annual Solid Sound Festival in North Adams, Massachusetts.
Composed of Ayewa, bassist Luke Stewart, trumpeter Aquiles Navarro, saxophonist Keir Neuringer, and drummer Tcheser Holmes, Irreversible Entanglements shared their last record, Protect Your Light, in 2023. Future Present Past was engineered by Jonathan Schenke and mixed by Andrew Lappin.
Jane Remover has released a new song as Venturing. It’s called “In The Dark,” and it arrives just ahead of the first anniversary of her debut album under the alias, Ghostholding. Check out the song, and its cover art, below.
The artist shared her most recent Jane Remover LP, Revengeseekerz, in April 2025, following it up with a surprise EP, ♡, in December. In the spring of 2025, she also toured Revengeseekerz around North America with support from Dazegxd, D0llywood1, and Lucy Bedroque.
For the first time since 2019’s “Cross You Out,” Charli XCX and Sky Ferreira have collaborated on a song together. It’s called “Eyes of the World,” and it appears on Charli’s new soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s film Wuthering Heights. Listen to it below.
Ahead of the soundtrack’s release, Charli also shared the songs “Wall Of Sound,” “Chains Of Love,” and the John Cale-featuring “House.” Fennell’s adaptation stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as the fated lovers Cathy and Heathcliff, with Hong Chau, Alison Oliver, Shazad Latif, and Owen Cooper also in the cast.
In a November 2025 Substack post, Charli described Wuthering Heights as a “dive into persona, into a world that felt undeniably raw, wild, sexual, gothic, British, tortured and full of actual real sentences, punctuation and grammar.” It’s her first album of all-new music since 2024’s Brat; that album’s rollout recently became the subject of Aidan Zamiri’s mockumentary The Moment.
Ferreira’s most recent new song also appeared on the big screen: her 2024 track “Leash” featured in Halina Reijn’s film Babygirl, which starred Nicole Kidman as a high-powered executive who enters into a sadomasochistic relationship with her charismatic subordinate (Harris Dickinson). Before that, Ferreira released the single “Don’t Forget” in 2022. Her last full-length LP was 2013’s Night Time, My Time.
Lykke Li’s final album is coming this spring. The Afterparty lands via Neon Gold Records/Futures on May 8, and a Max Richter-sampling lead single, “Lucky Again,” is out now. You can listen to that, and peruse a full tracklist, below.
The Swedish singer’s new record marks her first LP since 2022’s EYEYE. She recorded The Afterparty in Stockholm with a 17-piece orchestra and what she describes, in a press statement, as “apocalyptic bongos.”
“I find that we’re in an era where everyone is talking about, ‘My higher self.’ Fuck that,” Li added. “This is an album dealing with your lower self: your need for revenge, your shame, despair, all of it.”
During a recent listening party in Los Angeles, Li noted that the new project “is my sixth album, and maybe my final.” The star’s representatives have since confirmed to Pitchfork that Afterparty will indeed be her last.
To support the record, Li has lined up a series of live performances, including a London show with Wolf Alice and a Mexico City show with Robyn. She’ll also perform at both weekends of Coachella this April. Check out her full itinerary below.
01 Not Gon Cry 02 Happy Now 03 Lucky Again 04 Famous Last Words 05 Future Fear 06 So Happy I Could Die 07 Sick Of Love 08 Knife In The Heart 09 Euphoria
Lykke Li:
04-10 Coachella Music Festival – Indio, CA 04-17 Coachella Music Festival – Indio, CA 05-22 Vivo Rio – Rio de Janeiro 05-24 Parque Ibirapuera – São Paulo 06-19 Metronome Festival – Prague 07-05 Finsbury Park – London^ 07-10 Pohoda Festival – Slovakia (Headline) 09-19 Palacio de los Deportes – Mexico City, MX*
Chat Pile have released two new songs on Seattle label Sub Pop: “Masks” and a cover of Nirvana’s “Sifting.” Both tracks will appear on the limited-edition 7″ the Oklahoma City band announced back in December. Give them a listen below.
“It’s a true dream to put out a single on Sub Pop, and our new song ’Masks’ hopefully honors the spirit of the mythical, sometimes mystical, city of Seattle,” Chat Pile said in a press statement. “We wanted to cover a song from the early Sub Pop era, and something off Bleach seemed the obvious choice.” To mark the release, the band donated $3,000 to the community-based immigrant justice organization DREAM Action OK. Their statement also noted: “Most importantly, FUCK ICE!”
Chat Pile shared their most recent solo LP, Cool World, in 2024. Last year, they also dropped a collaborative album with Texas fingerstyle guitarist Hayden Pedigo, In The Earth Again. Their debut, God’s Country, came out in 2022.
Oakland-based songwriter and field recordist Kathryn Mohr has announced a new album, Carve. Her second full-length LP will arrive on April 17 on the Flenser. Mohr has also shared its lead single, “Property,” which you can listen to below.
“Property” took shape from an “amalgamation of dream images and visions” that Mohr had throughout last year. “It’s also inspired by an underground man made waterway I found that went on for miles under the city I live in,” she adds. “Walking through, climbing 50 feet up a ladder to look out the man hole, see where I am.”
Carve serves as the follow-up to last year’s Waiting Room, a standout album of 2025 and Mohr’s full-length debut after releasing two other records prior. Mohr wrote the 12 songs on Carve over the course of five years, and eventually retreated to the rural Mojave Desert to properly record them. The album was then mixed by Agriculture guitarist Richard Chowenhill. In a press release, Mohr describes Carve as an album about how memory exists outside the body, in the form of landscapes and locations, and how love can be experienced as a form of grief and intimacy.
London band Sorry dropped two new songs today, “Billy Elliot” and “Alone In Cologne.” The former premiered on BBC 6Music this morning, and the latter was released shortly after. Listen to both, out now on Domino, below.
The two tracks mark the quintet’s first new release since 2025’s Cosplay. That album followed 2022’s Anywhere But Here and their 2020 debut, 925. Next week, Sorry embark on a UK and Ireland tour in support of Cosplay, which kicks off at Bristol venue The Fleece on February 11 and concludes at London’s Outernet on February 26. They’ll then head to Europe for a short run of shows in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Berlin.
It wasn’t exactly a house or, I guess, it was less than a house. Specifically, it was half of a house, three stories, divided top to bottom, clapboarded, on a corner lot in Somerville. There was a house on the left, where whoever lived there fought all the time—you could hear them through the wall, horsehair plaster and lath—and then there was the house on the right, where we, the loopy semi-vegetarians, lived in, I admit it, squalor, two thousand square feet of it, much of the time smelling of sex, salty and oil-and-vinegary. One night, everyone stood together in the second-floor hallway, listening to the shrieking on the other side of the wall—louder and wilder than the noises you hear at night in the woods, fox and vixen, courting, mating—trying to decide whether to call the cops. Tracy Chapman, who’d huddled in the hallway that night, wrote “Behind the Wall”: Last night I heard the screaming. I didn’t live there then, but later I heard that screaming, too.
I think Tracy found the house her junior year at Tufts. I was a year behind her. Don’t get your hopes up. We never met. I can’t tell you anything about Tracy Chapman, because I don’t know anything about Tracy Chapman, and probably, if I knew anything, I wouldn’t tell you. I moved in only after she’d moved out, but people would still call on the phone, asking for her. Fans, reporters, fans. Did we know where she was? Did we know how to reach her? Could we get a message to her? No. Wasn’t she amazing, the best thing ever in the whole wide, wonderful, cocked-up world? Yes.
This isn’t a story about Tracy Chapman. It’s a story about the house. There were six bedrooms, but sometimes there were eight or nine or ten or even a dozen people living there, because it was cheaper if you shared and the place was such a mess—what was one more sweaty body compared with two more hands to do chores and another person to split the rent? There was also a dog named Takisha and a cat named Buddha and another cat named Misha that S., who became a soil scientist, had inherited from his grandmother, who’d named him after Mikhail Baryshnikov, because of how high the cat could leap. When S. moved out—I think he went to Japan?—he gave Misha to a very nice old lady named Donna, who lived in a vinyl-sided yellow house next door. That cat strode down the street like a lion, king of the pride. Once, he won a battle with a pit bull. Man, that cat could fight.
None of the rest of us had anything like Misha’s self-possession, or not when I lived there. No one was who they meant to be, not yet, anyway. We were embryos, stem cells, brain stems of our future selves, wet behind the ears, wet all over. We lived in muddled, uncertain, thrilling, and dizzying chaos, slamming doors, crying into pillows, pondering the possibilities of turnips and menstrual cups and macrobiotics and Audre Lorde. One chapter of our lives had ended, but the next chapter hadn’t begun, and none of us were sure what we wanted, only that we wanted it, longed for it, were desperate for it. I’ve been told that it’s the work of young adulthood to learn that you are in charge of your own life. Easier said than done, but for sure wackier and more fun in a house with a bunch of other misfits, especially if at least one person knows how to make a decent frittata, though it can be a little tricky figuring out how to take charge of your life if you’re trying to do it in the shadow of Tracy Chapman.
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