24 New Songs Out Today

"Locust, aka electronic artist Mark Van Hoen, is back with a new single that features Slowdive's Neil Halstead on guitar and vocals from Irish musician Natasha Morrow. He says: "The music was recorded back in 2020 originally as a collab between Neil Halstead and I. It sat around for a few years, and I had the idea to send it to Natasha to see if it inspired anything vocally.""

""She came up with the idea of long-distance phone calls between lovers. It struck a chord with me as I had experienced a couple of relationships like that. The idea of repeating these expressions of desire and longing over and over, because you are aching to be together.""

""I had actually never met Natasha, and generally, I find that remote collabs don't work because there's a connection missing somehow. But in Natasha's case, I had several long phone calls with her, and I think we connected that way. Not in any romantic sense, but as musical collaborators, which has its own particular need for a personal connection and understanding.""

""mj of Purity Ring has released their debut solo single as mmj via Captured Tracks, the folky 'nobody knows.'" "'nobody knows' is close to the sun for me," they say. "It resonates a little differently every time I play it. The opening line is: 'nobody knows a fallen""

Locust returns with “Long Distance Lover,” an electronic single featuring Slowdive’s Neil Halstead and Irish vocalist Natasha Morrow. The track was recorded in 2020 as a collaboration between Halstead and Mark Van Hoen, then later inspired Morrow’s vocal concept centered on long-distance phone calls between lovers. Van Hoen describes the remote collaboration as unusually successful due to multiple long calls that created a personal musical connection. mmj of Purity Ring releases a debut solo single, “Nobody Knows,” via Captured Tracks, presenting a folky sound. The song is described as resonating differently each time it is played, with a recurring opening line about a fallen figure.

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