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One Liners: Mantra Of The Cosmos, Christine And The Queens, Pixies, more
By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Wednesday 7 June 2023
APPOINTMENTS
VV Brown, Laura Mvula and John Truelove have all been reappointed to the Members Council of UK collecting society PRS. Meanwhile, Dru Masters is standing down after six years on the committee. And Tom Toumazis has been reappointed as an independent non-executive council member. All of this was confirmed at the society’s AGM yesterday.
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RELEASES
Shaun Ryder, Zak Starkey, Andy Bell and Bez have formed new supergroup Mantra Of The Cosmos. Their debut single ‘Gorilla Guerilla’ is out now. “It’s a fucking blast, mate”, says Ryder. “It’s great when we’re not all irate”.
Christine And The Queens has released new single ‘A Day In The Water’, taken from his new album ‘Paranoia, Angels And True Love’, which is out on Friday. “The song is about that feeling of being deep in the water when you feel the world cannot touch you anymore”, he says. “It’s behind the glass of your own melancholia but in that deep dive of vulnerability hopefully the light arrives. The light of honesty”.
King Krule has released new single ‘Flimsier’, taken from his new album ‘Space Heavy’, which is out this Friday.
Cumgirl8 have released new single ‘Gothgirl1’, taken from their new EP ‘Phantasea Pharm’, which is out on 18 Aug.
Will Haven have released new single ‘Diablito’ ahead of the release of their seventh album ‘VII’ on 7 Jul. “This was one of the earlier tracks I wrote for the record, but it evolved all the way up to when we were recording it”, says guitarist Jeff Irwin. “[Vocalist] Grady [Avenell] came up with the name of the song and he wanted to base the lyrics off our [1997 debut] record ‘El Diablo’. That is a very important record to us, and we were coming up on our 25th anniversary of it while writing ‘VII’, so we wanted to give a tip of the cap to that record”.
Thala has released new single ‘Easy Out’. “I wrote ‘Easy Out’ about someone who got really sick and didn’t bother to tell me, I eventually heard it from someone else and it made me super angry”, she says. “So I got a bottle of wine, sat on my windowsill in my small apartment one night and started writing a sobby sad ballad of a song. The next day at the studio that sadness turned into anger and it became a powerful upbeat type of song, I think it was supposed to be that way”. Her new EP ‘In Theory Depression’ is out on 7 Jul.
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GIGS & TOURS
Pixies have announced shows next year at which they will perform their early 90s albums ‘Bossanova’ and ‘Trompe Le Monde’ in full. They will play Dublin’s Olympia Theatre on 8-10 Mar, Manchester’s Albert Hall on 12-14 Mar, and the Kentish Town Forum in London on 16-18 Mar. Tickets go on general sale on Friday.
The Charlatans have announced UK tour dates at the end of the year, including a show at London’s Troxy on 7 Dec. Tickets go on general sale on Friday.
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