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Becca Hannah Announces Soulful Debut Album ‘Tonight In My Dreams,’ Shares Playful First Single “Caramel”

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Becca Hannah Announces Soulful Debut Album ‘Tonight In My Dreams,’ Shares Playful First Single “Caramel”

LA via Boston soulful/R&B singer-songwriter Becca Hannah announces her warm, velvety debut album Tonight In My Dreams due out January 23 and available for pre-save now. With the announcement is the sweet first taste, “Caramel,” out now, which playfully encapsulates the feelings of a new love.

Born from real life experiences, the forthcoming ten track project touches on lust, love, growth, fear, loss, and longing with soulful vocals and layers of jazz and R&B as Hannah pulls from female powerhouses like Amy Winehouse, Corrine Bailey Rae and Erykah Badu. Hannah hopes the music connects to listeners in whichever ways they find meaningful. Creating her own sense of community through music, Hannah adds, “We all love, we all suffer, and how beautiful is it that we can relate to each other through songs that highlight all of the above? It brings a sense of community and acknowledgement of our humanness. It makes the ebbs of life more manageable, and the flows all the more blissful.”

The album was tracked live with a 9-piece ensemble, and recorded and mixed by seven time GRAMMY-winner Jim Scott at his own Plyrz Studio in Valencia, CA. 

Scott’s work with Tedeschi Trucks Band, Tom Petty, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, and countless others drew Becca and Tristan to working with him. A visit to his secret studio, filled with magical vintage gear and creative energy sealed the deal–this album could only be made at Plyrz with Scott.

“Caramel” emerged from a lingering scent from Hannah’s 27th birthday cake. “We approached the writing process in a silly, playful, somewhat ridiculous manner. This was kind of a nice break from my emotionally intense / confessional songs I’ve written in the past. Light-hearted and laid-back, the track relishes in the buzz of a new connection. “What started off as a joke of a line about cake turned into a whole story about longing, fantasy, and lusting over a crush.”

Debuted on Atwood Magazine, calls “Caramel” the “perfect jazzy single paradise for pinning over a crush,” adding “From the very first lyric and vocal note, the track draws us in with its allure, and the instrumentation is truly just as tantalizing.” Atwood goes on to say, “Blending the smoky soul of Macy Gray with the elegance of Norah Jones, Becca Hannah’s seductive single “Caramel” pours into the ears like the smooth drizzle of its namesake.” On the accompanying video, Atwood says, “As we watch Hannah sing into the mic, we can fully feel her energetic confidence and fervor shine through. It is also clear to see how much fun she is having with every warm grin. That positivity ripples through the room, making every other musician beam with smiles of their own.”

The track is complete with an energetic trumpet solo from Austin Drake, a playful horn arrangement from George Pereli, a sprinkling of tasty piano from Pàppa D, and smooth guitar licks by guitarist and collaborator, Tristan Jantz.

With her signature sultry, gritty rasp, Becca Hannah has captivated audiences from Boston to Los Angeles throughout the last several years. The artist has played Made In America Festival in Philadelphia and was a 2025 Tiny Desk contest finalist. After connecting with Tristan Jantz in the local Boston scene, the pair hit it off and later both happened to move to Los Angeles a year apart. Now, they’ve come together to collaborate fully as co-writers and producers on the forthcoming project, Tonight In My Dreams out this January.

Becca Hanna’s radiant sophomore album, Tonight In My Dreams, is due out January 23 available for pre-save now. “Caramel,” the jazzy, bubbly first taste is out now. 

Full House Brew Crew Announce New Album ‘Glasgow Grin,’ Share Crushing First Single “No Gods, No Chains”

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Full House Brew Crew Announce New Album ‘Glasgow Grin,’ Share Crushing First Single “No Gods, No Chains”

Greek heavy groove juggernaut Full House Brew Crew have announced the release of their brand-new studio album “Glasgow Grin”, set to arrive on February 6th, 2026, via ROAR! The US release will follow on March 6th, 2026.

To mark the occasion, the band unleashes the crushing first single “No Gods, No Chains”, accompanied by an official video that sets the tone for what’s to come.

Filmed at Atlas Audio & Visual Studios and produced by Domenik Papaemmanouil – Lensorama, the video for “No Gods, No Chains” can be seen below.

With their upcoming new album “Glasgow Grin”, Full House Brew Crew are back with a vengeance. Led by frontman and guitarist Vagelis Karzis — current member of Wolfheart and former guitarist of Rotting Christ — the band is ready to unleash their signature brand of American-inspired Heavy Groove Metal on familiar and new audiences.

“Glasgow Grin” reflects the band’s current violent state of mind: pure aggression and power throughout. “We let ourselves loose and did what felt natural to us, not trying to push the songwriting in any direction other than what fits best for the song”, says Karzis. For the first time, the band worked with Finnish sound engineer Saku Moilanen at Deep Noise Studios, who mixed and mastered “Glasgow Grin”.

Lyrically, Vagelis digs deep into internal struggles, day-to-day battles, and personal injustices — always channeling tension and anger. “Like always, the band is moving towards a direction that feels best for us. That is the main reason we always evolve, we make changes, we take risks and that excites us. We created many albums and each represents a different musical state. Glasgow Grin is our proudest piece of work so far. We worked more like a team and didn’t hold back for any mainstream reasons”.

Pre-orders for the record are available here.

Tracklist:
1. Glasgow Grin
2. No Gods, No Chains
3. The Tear
4. The Other Side
5. Free Fall
6. Rain
7. From the Gutter
8. Distant Star
9. Crawling
10. Reign of Terror

Tomorrow, on September 25th, Full House Brew Crew will be joining Wolfheart in support of their upcoming European tour, find all dates listed below.

European Tour Dates 2025:
25.09.2025 NL Utrecht – De Helling
26.09.2025 DE Herford – KulturWerk
27.09.2025 DE Siegburg – Kubana
29.09.2025 FR Paris – Backstage By The Mill
30.09.2025 BE Kortrijk – DVG Club
01.10.2025 DE Hamburg – Logo
02.10.2025 DE Leipzig – Hellraiser
03.10.2025 DE Essen – Turock
04.10.2025 DE Weinheim – Café Central
05.10.2025 HU Budapest – Analog Music Hall
06.10.2025 PL Kraków – Klub Zaścianek
07.10.2025 SK Košice – Collosseum
08.10.2025 CZ Prague – Rock Café
09.10.2025 SI Ljubljana – Orto Bar
10.10.2025 IT Paderno Dugnano (MI) – Slaughter Club
11.10.2025 CH Zug – Chollerhalle
12.10.2025 DE Lindau – Club Vaudeville
13.10.2025 DE Munich – Backstage

Marillion Announce Limited Edition Picture Discs for ‘Script for a Jester’s Tear’ and ‘Seasons End’

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Marillion Announce Limited Edition Picture Discs for ‘Script for a Jester’s Tear’ and ‘Seasons End’

Marillion announce the release of two limited edition picture discs celebrating two significant albums in the band’s catalogue: Script for a Jester’s Tear and Seasons End. Both will be released on 14 November and are available to pre-order now here.

Script for a Jester’s Tear (1983) was Marillion’s debut album, reaching #7 in the UK charts and remaining there for 31 weeks — the band’s second-longest chart run. It includes the singles He Knows You Know and Garden Party and introduced Marillion as leading figures in a new era of progressive rock.

Seasons End (1989) represented the beginning of a new chapter for the band, introducing Steve Hogarth as vocalist. Combining progressive foundations with a more melodic approach, the album produced the singles Hooks in You, The Uninvited Guest, and Easter. Its release underlined Marillion’s ability to evolve while continuing to connect with their audience.

These picture disc editions are strictly limited and designed for collectors and fans who wish to revisit two defining moments in Marillion’s history.

Tracklisting:

Script for a Jester’s Tear (2020 Stereo Remix)

Side A

  1. Script for a Jester’s Tear (2020 Stereo Remix)
  2. He Knows You Know (2020 Stereo Remix)
  3. The Web (2020 Stereo Remix)

Side B

  1. Garden Party (2020 Stereo Remix)
  2. Chelsea Monday (2020 Stereo Remix)
  3. Forgotten Sons (2020 Stereo Remix)

Seasons End (2023 Remix)

Side A

  1. The King of Sunset Town (2023 Remix)
  2. Easter (2023 Remix)

Side B

  1. The Uninvited Guest (2023 Remix)
  2. Seasons End (2023 Remix)

Side C

  1. Holloway Girl (2023 Remix)
  2. Berlin (2023 Remix)

Side D

  1. After Me (2023 Remix)
  2. Hooks in You (2023 Remix)
  3. The Space (2023 Remix)

Pet Shop Boys Announce Remix-Filled ‘Disco 5,’ Out November 21 Featuring Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Primal Scream, Paul Weller, And Tina Turner

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Pet Shop Boys Announce Remix-Filled ‘Disco 5,’ Out November 21 Featuring Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Primal Scream, Paul Weller, And Tina Turner

Pet Shop Boys have announced ‘Disco 5’, the latest instalment of their continuing ‘Disco’ album series which started in 1986. The new album will be released on 21 November via Parlophone Records and is available to pre-order now.

The 12-track collection features ten Pet Shop Boys’ recent remixes of songs by artists including Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Primal Scream, Paul Weller, Tina Turner, Claptone, Wolfgang Tillmans and more, as well as a remix of their own track ‘Dreamland’ featuring Olly Alexander. The PSB-produced ‘I’m in Love With a German Film Star’ by Sam Taylor-Johnson was originally released on Kompakt in 2008 while Carroll Thompson’s ‘Let the Music Play’ was arranged and produced by PSB in the early ‘90s when it was included in the soundtrack for the hit film, ‘The Crying Game’. The album also includes the duo’s remix of Sleaford Mods’ cover of Pet Shop Boys’ iconic ‘West End girls’ and the PSB/Soft Cell collaboration ‘Purple Zone’.

‘Disco 5’ will be available on black or orange vinyl and CD, as well as digitally. The first three ‘Disco’ albums primarily featured remixes of Pet Shop Boys’ tracks by other producers and DJs, with ‘Disco’ released in 1986, followed by ‘Disco 2’ in 1994 and ‘Disco 3’ in 2003. Then in 2007 ‘Disco 4’ featured Pet Shop Boys’ remixes of other artists including Madonna and The Killers.

The full track-listing of ‘Disco 5’ is – 

1. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Think of a Number (PSB Magic Eye 12-inch remix)  

2. Tina Turner – Hot For You Baby (PSB Hot mix)

3. Claptone – Queen of Ice (PSB extended mix)

4. Carroll Thompson – Let the Music Play

5. Soft Cell and Pet Shop Boys – Purple Zone (PSB Extended mix)

6. The Hidden Cameras – How Do You Love? (PSB remix)

7. Sam Taylor-Johnson – I’m In Love With a German Film Star (PSB Symphonic mix)

8. Wolfgang Tillmans – Insanely Alive (PSB maxi-mix)

9. Primal Scream – Innocent Money (PSB remix radio edit)

10. Pet Shop Boys feat. Olly Alexander – Dreamland (PSB remix)

11. Paul Weller – Cosmic Fringes (PSB Triad mix) 

12. Sleaford Mods – West End girls (Pet Shop Boys remix)

Pet Shop Boys have sold more than 50 million records, released 60 singles spanning five decades and are the most successful UK duo of all time. Prestigious awards have been numerous across their career including the BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 2009 and the Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music in 2000. In April 2024 they released their 15th album, ‘Nonetheless’, which reached Number 2 in the UK album chart in its first week of release – their highest-charting studio album since 1993. A special expanded edition of the album was released in November 2024. Pet Shop Boys’ acclaimed tour, ‘Dreamworld: The Greatest Hits Live’, continued this summer with dates across the UK and Europe. The tour will continue with dates in Japan in 2026.

Prince and The Revolution Announce ‘Around The World In A Day: The Singles’ Box Set for RSD Black Friday

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Prince and The Revolution Announce ‘Around The World In A Day: The Singles’ Box Set for RSD Black Friday

NPG Records and Paisley Park Enterprises, in partnership with Warner Records and Legacy Recordings, are pleased to announce the release of Prince And The Revolution’s Around The World In A Day: The Singles, a very special strictly limited edition 7” singles box set exclusively for RSD Black Friday.

Around The World In A Day: The Singles features all four singles from the album (“Raspberry Beret”, “Paisley Park”, “Pop Life”, and “America”) plus a brand new exclusive 7” single featuring two versions of the 1985 track “4 The Tears In Your Eyes”, which Prince originally contributed to the We Are The World album. 

Each 7” is pressed on unique coloured vinyl and presented in its original sleeve, packaged in a clamshell box. All feature elements of the Around The World In A Day LP sleeve, initially designed by Doug Henders and Laura Lipuma. The audio for all the tracks has been remastered by Bernie Grundman with additional mastering by Chris James.

“4 The Tears In Your Eyes”, which was initially released on the USA For Africa We Are The World album, also makes its streaming debut. The song, which Prince donated in lieu of appearing on We Are The World, is alluded to in the lyrics for Hello, the B-side of “Pop Life”, “I tried to tell them that I didn’t want to sing / but I’d gladly write a song instead”. The song was recorded on February 1 and 2, 1985, in New Orleans during the Purple Rain tour, and the re-recorded version from June 85, as used in the song’s video clip, features on the flip side of the 7” in the limited edition box.

The week before the single box set, Prince And The Revolution’s groundbreaking Billboard #1 album Around The World In A Day will be released in newly remastered stereo by Bernie Grundman, with additional mastering by Chris James, and will be released on Streaming, Download, CD, 140g LP, on Picture Disc LP exclusively for the Official Prince Store. 

The album has also been meticulously remixed in Dolby Atmos by Prince protégé and Grammy-nominated engineer Chris James, drawn from the original multi-track masters, and will be available via all participating streaming services.

Around The World In A Day (Deluxe Edition), available on 2CD and 140g 3LP formats, features the extended versions of the A & B sides with the remix of “Paisley Park” making its digital debut, along with the extended version of “Girl” and “Hello (Fresh Dance Mix)” and the nearly 22-minute 12” version of “America” is making its debut on CD after having recently been released to streaming services.

ABOUT PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION’S AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY

Released on April 22, 1985, Around The World In A Day landed just 15 days after the curtain fell on Prince’s era-defining Purple Rain Tour. Today, surprise album drops are routine. Back then, it was unthinkable. Only Prince could — and did — pull it off.

Purple Rain had torn up the rulebook of pop stardom. Warner Bros. wanted to cash in, with a European leg of the tour already booked and millions guaranteed. Prince walked away. Instead, he handed in Around The World In A Day: a psychedelic, inward-facing detour that blindsided the label. His demand? It was to be experienced as one uninterrupted story. No lead single. No staged rollout. No hype machine.

“Raspberry Beret” was finally serviced to radio in the US a month after the album’s release, which was an eternity in the mid-’80s hit factory. Yet Prince was vindicated. Without a tour, without videos, without even fresh promo shots (the only ones came from the later “Raspberry Beret” and “America” video shoots), the album flew off shelves, selling over two million copies and spinning off multiple Billboard Top Ten singles. Prince didn’t just defy the rules — he proved he didn’t need them.

The record ultimately yielded four commercial singles, “Raspberry Beret” with its spectacular kaleidoscopic video featuring Prince in a suit inspired by the clouds and sky on the sleeve, “Paisley Park” (released only overseas), “Pop Life”, and “America”. Several songs had been teased on the Purple Rain tour, though the bulk of the album had been finished by the end of 1984. “Raspberry Beret” dated back to 1982 but was later re-recorded in September ’84, while “Pop Life” was the first new track cut for the project, and “Temptation” was the last to be added.

Even its packaging was a statement: a swirl of psychedelic colours and faces painted by Doug Henders, who was working on the Purple Rain Tour and travelling with the painting, working on it between shows. The final result was far removed from the stark, iconic imagery of Purple Rain.

And in true Prince fashion, by the time the world first heard it, he was already somewhere else entirely. On April 21, 1985 — the day before the album’s release — Prince returned to Sunset Sound to record “Sometimes It Snows In April”, the haunting closer to his next album, Parade, which would also serve as the soundtrack to Under The Cherry Moon.

Bold, iconic, and unmistakably Prince. In conjunction with the music release, the Prince team also offers new merchandise featuring artwork inspired by Around The World In A Day. Order yours exclusively at the Official Prince Store.

AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY: THE SINGLES

RSD BLACK FRIDAY EXCLUSIVE

RELEASED NOVEMBER 28th

Raspberry Beret (7” Raspberry Vinyl)

A: Raspberry Beret (3:31)

B: She’s Always In My Hair (3:27)

Paisley Park (7” Peach Vinyl)

A: Paisley Park (4:41)

B: She’s Always In My Hair (3:27)

Pop Life (7” Yellow Vinyl)

A: Pop Life (3:42)

B: Hello (3:24)

America (7” White Vinyl)

A: America (3:40)

B: Girl (3:57)

4 The Tears In Your Eyes (7” Clear Vinyl)

A: 4 The Tears In Your Eyes (2:49) (We Are The World Album Version)

B: 4 The Tears In Your Eyes (3:23) (The Hits/The B-Sides Version)

AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY (2025 REMASTER)

CD

1- Around The World In A Day (3:25)

2- Paisley Park (4:41)

3- Condition Of The Heart (6:46)

4- Raspberry Beret (3:31)

5- Tamborine (2:46)

6- America (3:40)

7- Pop Life (3:42)

8- The Ladder (5:26)

9- Temptation (8:21)

LP

Side A:

1- Around The World In A Day (3:25)

2- Paisley Park (4:41)

3- Condition Of The Heart (6:46)

4- Raspberry Beret (3:31)

5- Tamborine (2:46)

Side B

1- America (3:40)

2- Pop Life (3:42)

3- The Ladder (5:26)

4- Temptation (8:21)

AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY: DELUXE EDITION (2CD)

CD 1: AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY (2025 REMASTER)

1- Around The World In A Day (3:25)

2- Paisley Park (4:41)

3- Condition Of The Heart (6:46)

4- Raspberry Beret (3:31)

5- Tamborine (2:46)

6- America (3:40)

7- Pop Life (3:42)

8- The Ladder (5:26)

9- Temptation (8:21)

Bonus Track

10- America (21:46)

CD 2: B-SIDES & BONUS TRACKS (2025 REMASTER)

1- Raspberry Beret (6:36) (New Mix) (a.k.a. Extended Remix)

2- She’s Always In My Hair (3:25) (7” Version)

3- She’s Always In My Hair (New Mix) (6:32)

4- Paisley Park (Remix) (6:53)

5- Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix) (6:16)

6- Pop Life (Extended Version) (9:07)

7- Hello (7” Version) (3:24)

8- Hello (Fresh Dance Mix) (6:12)

9- Girl (7” Version) (3:57)

10- Girl (12” Version) (7:36)

11- 4 The Tears In Your Eyes (2:45) (We Are The World Album Version)

12- 4 The Tears In Your Eyes (3:23) (The Hits/The B-Sides Version)

AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY: DELUXE EDITION (3LP)

LP1: AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAY (2025 REMASTER)

Side A:

1- Around The World In A Day (3:25)

2- Paisley Park (4:41)

3- Condition Of The Heart (6:46)

4- Raspberry Beret (3:31)

5- Tamborine (2:46)

Side B

1- America (3:40)

2- Pop Life (3:42)

3- The Ladder (5:26)

4- Temptation (8:21)

LP2 & 3: B-SIDES & BONUS TRACKS (2025 REMASTER)

Side C

1-Raspberry Beret (New Mix) (a.k.a. Extended Remix) (6:36)

2- She’s Always In My Hair (New Mix) (6:32)

3- Paisley Park (Remix) (6:53)

Side D

1- Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix) (6:16)

2- Pop Life (Extended Version) (9:07)

Side E

1- Hello (Fresh Dance Mix) (6:12)

2- Girl (12″ Version) (7:36)

3- 4 The Tears In Your Eyes (2:45) (We Are The World Album Version)

4- 4 The Tears In Your Eyes (3:23) (The Hits/The B-Sides Version)

Side F

1- America 12” Version (21:46)

Blitz Vega Share Futuristic New Video for “Superbrain,” Honoring Late Co-Founder Andy Rourke

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Blitz Vega Share Futuristic New Video for “Superbrain,” Honoring Late Co-Founder Andy Rourke

Blitz Vega – the band founded by Kav Sandhu (formerly of Happy Mondays) and the late Andy Rourke (The Smiths) – return with a striking new visual for their recent single “Superbrain.”

First released earlier this summer, the single “Superbrain” was originally written in 2020 but only completed in recent months, emerging as a keystone of Blitz Vega’s duality: swaggering rock ‘n’ roll grooves colliding with futuristic electronica and punkish attitude.

The lyrics for “Superbrain” – grappling with the uneasy relationship between human creativity and rapidly evolving technology – feel more urgent now than when first penned. Now, the music video brings those themes vividly to life. “It represents the song visually by showing the struggle humans have with technology – how much of our real selves still exist, how much we lose, and what’s left in the end,” Kav explains. “I think we’re currently on that journey. I guess we’ll see how it all pans out.”

Conceived and directed by Blitz Vega’s longtime art director Paul Mulvey, the video takes the song’s consequential subject matter and filters it through a stylized, slightly playful lens. “Paul’s like a non-musical member of the band,” says Kav. “He came up with the concept, and I loved how it captured everything about the song in a simple way. It’s kinda funny, too. That’s always been the Blitz Vega way – we never want to make things too heavy, even when the songs are dealing with pretty serious ideas.” The video also reflects how “Superbrain” itself has evolved since its initial demo: “The strange thing is the song has become more relevant with time,” Kav notes. “It evolved sonically more than anything, with the style of playing becoming more intense.”

“Superbrain” now sets the stage for Blitz Vega’s forthcoming EP (more details to come), arriving two years after the release of their debut album Northern Gentleman – the posthumous project hailed as “a striking, emotional collection of songs, embedded in energy and life” (Clash) and “a life-affirming, rollicking, thrilling, kinetic, sometimes unbearably poignant tribute” (Louder Than War).

Skullcrusher Announces New Album ‘And Your Song is Like a Circle,’ Shares Final Single “Living”

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Skullcrusher Announces New Album ‘And Your Song is Like a Circle,’ Shares Final Single “Living”

Skullcrusher recently announced her highly anticipated new album, And Your Song is Like a Circle, due out October 17th via her new label home Dirty Hit. Today, Helen Ballentine has shared the album’s final preview, the lush and harmony-laden “Living.” She shares, “One day I was wandering around Brooklyn and I felt like I was watching everything through a window or on a screen. I felt like everyone was moving so fluidly and certainly like moving through a piece of choreography. Living is about being a voyeur, catching a glimpse of brief moments of people’s lives. Like watching a play through a small peep hole, or through the slit of a curtain. I wonder if I am the same. If my life feels a part of this production or if it exists in a small detail somewhere off stage.” 

Next week, Skullcrusher will host an intimate New York headline performance at Night Club 101 on Oct 6th. Tickets available HERE. 

Recorded over a period of years following the release of her celebrated 2022 debut, Quiet the Room, And Your Song is Like a Circle does not capture experience – it gestures toward the imprint of an experience that is uncapturable. Swaying between elegant folk and crystalline electronics, landing somewhere in the snowfields shared by Grouper and Julia Holter, Circle probes the ways that grief turns itself inside out. Loss itself becomes as real and substantial as what’s been lost.

Ballentine began writing Circle after leaving Los Angeles, a city she’d called home for nearly a decade. She ended up returning upstate to New York’s Hudson Valley, where she was born and raised, leaving her chosen family to return to her blood family. 

Several years of intense isolation followed, and Ballentine immersed herself in films, books, and art that reflected the rupture of relocating cross-country and its dissociative aftershocks. If Skullcrusher’s first album rendered the detailed intimacies of domestic space, Circle finds itself vaporized across the landscape: swirling, drifting, searching. It skirts an event horizon in long, slow strokes.

WATCH “LIVING” LIVE PERFORMANCE

Lead single “Exhale” is built around gorgeous vocal filigrees that fan out into a haze of synthesizers and strings. Watch the video for “Exhale” below, which was conceptualised by Ballentine in collaboration with director Adam Alonzo and shot in Upstate New York in and around her mother’s house. Opening track “March,” is a stark piano reverie laced with flickering electronics and ambient layers. Watch an intimate, stripped back performance of the heartwrenching song HERE. Third single “Dragon” is a gorgeous, murky pop song that lets piano echo over tight, gritted percussion.

Read more about the record in Ballentine’s profile with The FADER, who said her “skill as a songwriter is adding gravitas to the most conceptual of ideas or, as she does on the album’s meta first single “Exhale,” pull into focus the act of writing a song in the first place.”

Lyrics came into shape while doing dishes. She painted her kitchen cabinets. The months grew long. One summer, a moth infestation across Hudson kept her from leaving her building. Moths swarmed outside, and crept into her apartment. She shooed them out of her bedroom for the night. When she woke up, they were all dead. She watched a lot of movies to fill the days. “I had a really visceral experience watching David Lynch’s Inland Empire for the first time,” she says. “At the climax, I literally fell out of my chair crying. I zoomed out and saw myself from above.”

At first, she wasn’t sure the music she was composing would cohere into an LP. While making the album, Ballentine focused deeply on the evaporative nature of creative work: the way ideas can appear and dissipate, leaving only faint traces behind, the way a voice courses through a fragile point in time, the way meaning can flicker and falter between people trying their best to understand each other. She recorded at home and in friends’ studios, working alongside apob (Dora Jar, Deb Never) in Los Angeles and co-producer Isaac Eiger (The Dare, Frost Children, Cassandra Jenkins, Malice K) in New York.

While recording, Ballentine experimented with new ways of capturing her voice, such as singing with contact microphones attached to her throat, “creating these really scary sounds.” Throughout the record, the line between human and machine blurs. “The voice is my favorite instrument because everybody has it,” she adds. “It’s related to so many different kinds of sounds: crying, screaming, laughing. And it’s ephemeral. It’s going to eventually die.”

Tracklist:

01 March

02 Dragon

03 Living

04 Maelstrom

05 Changes

06 Periphery

07 Red Car

8 Exhale

09 Vessel

10 The Emptying

Some experiences never spit back what they devour. They are too dense; they wield too much gravity. The closer you get to the nucleus, the more you deform. “That kind of journey can be metaphorically applied to so many different things. It could be trying to find yourself, figure out who you really are, figure out what you believe in,” says Ballentine. “As you are journeying within the labyrinth, you have to take on a different form in order to bear witness to the energy inside. You have to become this other being in order to experience something new, and then return to yourself, or get stuck.”

“I like thinking about my work as a collection, and every time I add more to it, I’m adding a rock,” Ballentine says. “Eventually it might form a circle. Each time I make something, I’m putting another line around the body of work. It feels like I’ll be trying to trace it for my whole life.”

Imagine a hand steering a pencil around an empty space. The lines left in the graphite’s wake are not quite round, but they scratch at the idea of a perfect circle. This sketch wobbles, nearing the axis and then drifting from it. A circle’s ghost lifts from the scrawl all the same: The shape emerges from the failure to capture it. And Your Song is Like a Circle curves across that evocative failure, vibrating with the fervency of the attempt. 

‘Jane’: Brett Morgen’s Documentary Captures the Life and Legacy of Jane Goodall

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‘Jane’: Brett Morgen’s Documentary Captures the Life and Legacy of Jane Goodall

Drawing from over 100 hours of previously unseen archival footage, director Brett Morgen tells the story of JANE, a woman whose chimpanzee research revolutionized our understanding of the natural world. Set to a rich orchestral score from legendary composer Philip Glass, the film offers an intimate portrait of Jane Goodall— a trailblazer who became one of the world’s most admired conservationists.

In 1960, Dr. Jane Goodall’s early fieldwork observing chimpanzees at Gombe Stream Game Reserve, in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), unveiled groundbreaking research of shared behaviors between humans and apes.

The Jane Goodall Institute announced on October 1, 2025, that Jane Goodall died at 91. A primatologist, conservationist, animal advocate, educator, and National Geographic Explorer, her work revolutionized our understanding of the natural world.

Beethoven’s ‘Symphony No. 9’ 1st Movement Animated with Philharmonia Baroque

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Beethoven’s ‘Symphony No. 9’ 1st Movement Animated with Philharmonia Baroque

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 opens with a storm of energy, and in a recent performance by Philharmonia Baroque, that drama finds new form. The ensemble’s playing is paired with an animated bar-graph score by smalin, turning sound into motion. The result is both a performance and a visual meditation on one of music’s most enduring works.



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Eric Alper is a 6-time nominee for Publicist of the Year during Canadian Music Week and has overseen the publicity campaigns for over 183 JUNO Award-nominated albums (and 16 in 2025), 45 Grammy-nominated albums, including 47 JUNO Award, 58 Canadian Folk Music Award, 126 Maple Blues Award-winning albums and is also truly honoured to work with some of the biggest and most important artists of our time.

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