Dan Boeckner is stepping away from the Wolf Parade pack with his debut solo album, Boeckner!, out March 15th via Sub Pop. He’s previewing it today with the lead single “Lose.”
“I think in a lot of ways in my mind I’m still playing in a punk band in Vancouver,” Boeckner explains of the album in a press release. “Starting back when I was a teenager, my life in music has been trying to develop my own musical language, and this record is the beginning of presenting that.”
Boeckner! was produced, engineered, and mixed by Randall Dunn, whose work with loud as hell bands like Sunn O))) inspired Boeckner while writing the record, which he describes as “like an autobiography.” Pre-orders are ongoing.
Fans of Boeckner’s music with Wolf Parade as well as Handsome Furs, Divine Fits, Operators, Atlas Strategic, and more will recognize him on “Lose,...
“I think in a lot of ways in my mind I’m still playing in a punk band in Vancouver,” Boeckner explains of the album in a press release. “Starting back when I was a teenager, my life in music has been trying to develop my own musical language, and this record is the beginning of presenting that.”
Boeckner! was produced, engineered, and mixed by Randall Dunn, whose work with loud as hell bands like Sunn O))) inspired Boeckner while writing the record, which he describes as “like an autobiography.” Pre-orders are ongoing.
Fans of Boeckner’s music with Wolf Parade as well as Handsome Furs, Divine Fits, Operators, Atlas Strategic, and more will recognize him on “Lose,...
- 1/17/2024
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
Myrkur, the folk/metal project of danish artist Amalie Brunn, has announced a new album, Spine, arriving October 20th. The lead single “Like Humans” can be heard now.
As has been the case with each Myrkur release, Spine sees Brunn making another artistic pivot. After previously exploring black metal and traditional Scandinavian folk music, Brunn has opened her sonic palette for a far less categorical style, as heard on “Like Humans.”
The sweeping dream-pop of Cocteau Twins and the atmospherics of Slowdive are tangible comparisons; however, a chugging underbelly of metallic guitar reminds us that this is still Myrkur, albeit more post-metal than black metal.
“When I wrote ‘Like Humans,’ I felt very disconnected and isolated from the human race,” Brunn revealed in the album’s press release. “The lack of touch and being in the first few years of motherhood forced me to become human in a way I never thought I would.
As has been the case with each Myrkur release, Spine sees Brunn making another artistic pivot. After previously exploring black metal and traditional Scandinavian folk music, Brunn has opened her sonic palette for a far less categorical style, as heard on “Like Humans.”
The sweeping dream-pop of Cocteau Twins and the atmospherics of Slowdive are tangible comparisons; however, a chugging underbelly of metallic guitar reminds us that this is still Myrkur, albeit more post-metal than black metal.
“When I wrote ‘Like Humans,’ I felt very disconnected and isolated from the human race,” Brunn revealed in the album’s press release. “The lack of touch and being in the first few years of motherhood forced me to become human in a way I never thought I would.
- 8/22/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
Sqürl is the musical outfit featuring legendary indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch alongside Carter Logan, a co-producer on Jarmusch’s recent movies. After releasing a series of soundtracks and EPs, the duo have just unveiled their first proper full-length studio album, Silver Haze.
Music has been an integral part of Jarmusch’s movies throughout his career, starting with his groundbreaking ’80s films Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law, and continuing in the ’90s with Dead Man and Ghost Dog. For his recent films, he and Logan have teamed up to compose the scores.
Now, the pair have unveiled Silver Haze, a guest-filled album that was just released via Sacred Bones Records. Among the notable contributors are Marc Ribot, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Anika.
Consequence caught up with Jarmusch and Logan to discuss the new album, along with its various guest musicians. During the conversation, the pair also talked about their process of scoring movies,...
Music has been an integral part of Jarmusch’s movies throughout his career, starting with his groundbreaking ’80s films Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law, and continuing in the ’90s with Dead Man and Ghost Dog. For his recent films, he and Logan have teamed up to compose the scores.
Now, the pair have unveiled Silver Haze, a guest-filled album that was just released via Sacred Bones Records. Among the notable contributors are Marc Ribot, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Anika.
Consequence caught up with Jarmusch and Logan to discuss the new album, along with its various guest musicians. During the conversation, the pair also talked about their process of scoring movies,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Film News
Sqürl is the musical outfit featuring legendary indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch alongside Carter Logan, a co-producer on Jarmusch’s recent movies. After releasing a series of soundtracks and EPs, the duo have just unveiled their first proper full-length studio album, Silver Haze.
Music has been an integral part of Jarmusch’s movies throughout his career, starting with his groundbreaking ’80s films Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law, and continuing in the ’90s with Dead Man and Ghost Dog. For his recent films, he and Logan have teamed up to compose the scores.
Now, the pair have unveiled Silver Haze, a guest-filled album that was just released via Sacred Bones Records. Among the notable contributors are Marc Ribot, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Anika.
Consequence caught up with Jarmusch and Logan to discuss the new album, along with its various guest musicians. During the conversation, the pair also talked about their process of scoring movies,...
Music has been an integral part of Jarmusch’s movies throughout his career, starting with his groundbreaking ’80s films Stranger Than Paradise and Down By Law, and continuing in the ’90s with Dead Man and Ghost Dog. For his recent films, he and Logan have teamed up to compose the scores.
Now, the pair have unveiled Silver Haze, a guest-filled album that was just released via Sacred Bones Records. Among the notable contributors are Marc Ribot, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Anika.
Consequence caught up with Jarmusch and Logan to discuss the new album, along with its various guest musicians. During the conversation, the pair also talked about their process of scoring movies,...
- 5/5/2023
- by Spencer Kaufman
- Consequence - Music
Considering it’s never been more than a few years between feature films for Jim Jarmusch, here’s hoping we get news about his next project soon. In the meantime, after many singles, EPs, and score contributions to his own films, Jarmusch and Carter Logan’s band SQÜRL is now set to release their first fully-fledged album. Titled “Silver Haze,” it’ll drop on May 5 via Sacred Bones and the first single “Berlin ’87” has arrived.
With a hat tip to Brooklyn Vegan, they report the Randall Dunn-produced album also features Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anika, and Marc Ribot. Jem Cohen has also directed the music video for the first single. “He’s one of our favorite filmmakers, and with his magical hands and eyes, he somehow captures the most evocative details that most people don’t even notice,” the band said. “The images he has chosen and shaped so perfectly evoke the feeling of our music,...
With a hat tip to Brooklyn Vegan, they report the Randall Dunn-produced album also features Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anika, and Marc Ribot. Jem Cohen has also directed the music video for the first single. “He’s one of our favorite filmmakers, and with his magical hands and eyes, he somehow captures the most evocative details that most people don’t even notice,” the band said. “The images he has chosen and shaped so perfectly evoke the feeling of our music,...
- 3/8/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
SQÜRL, the duo of filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan, have announced their debut album, Silver Haze, out May 5th via Sacred Bones. As a preview, they’ve shared the opening track, “Berlin ’87,” and its accompanying video.
Silver Haze is described in a press release as “a poetic journey of spoken words, dynamic instrumentals, drone riffs, and distorted effects, one that features tubular bells and a cello in addition to their signature stacks of delay, encircling the listener in a warm oscillation both delicate and devastating.”
Produced by Randall Dunn, it features Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anika, and Marc Ribot. Pre-orders are ongoing. See the artwork and tracklist below.
“Berlin ’87” features heavy, droning guitar riffs first laid down by Jarmusch in his home studio while inspired by memories of living in — you guessed it — Berlin in 1987. The skeleton track was then “SQÜRLized by Carter and Randall at Circular Ruin,” according to a press release.
Silver Haze is described in a press release as “a poetic journey of spoken words, dynamic instrumentals, drone riffs, and distorted effects, one that features tubular bells and a cello in addition to their signature stacks of delay, encircling the listener in a warm oscillation both delicate and devastating.”
Produced by Randall Dunn, it features Charlotte Gainsbourg, Anika, and Marc Ribot. Pre-orders are ongoing. See the artwork and tracklist below.
“Berlin ’87” features heavy, droning guitar riffs first laid down by Jarmusch in his home studio while inspired by memories of living in — you guessed it — Berlin in 1987. The skeleton track was then “SQÜRLized by Carter and Randall at Circular Ruin,” according to a press release.
- 3/8/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Definitely not to be mistaken for the Pharrell Williams song of the same name, the macabre “Happy” is Danny Elfman’s first solo/non-score single in 36 years, and at least a small-scale answer to the prayers Oingo Boingo fans have been offering up since the film composer’s rock ‘n’ roll band went the way of all flesh in the previous millennium.
The music video for “Happy” definitely has flesh going as it will, as a digitally manipulated version of Elfman’s face decays and has eyeballs popping in and out at will. Even images of puppies turn into skeletons in the timed-for-Halloween video. If you want creepy doll heads for the holidays, too, the video is not going to deny you doll heads. Occasionally topical lyrics — especially as the song kicks into a more thrashy mode midway through — a feeling that the song might be timed to the general...
The music video for “Happy” definitely has flesh going as it will, as a digitally manipulated version of Elfman’s face decays and has eyeballs popping in and out at will. Even images of puppies turn into skeletons in the timed-for-Halloween video. If you want creepy doll heads for the holidays, too, the video is not going to deny you doll heads. Occasionally topical lyrics — especially as the song kicks into a more thrashy mode midway through — a feeling that the song might be timed to the general...
- 10/29/2020
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Decades of Halloweens have come and gone since Danny Elfman — film composer extraordinaire and one-time Oingo Boingo frontman — last released a solo pop song. But now he is returning with a sardonic new single, “Happy,” in anticipation of the spooky day.
“I’m so happy — everything is crumbling,” he sings over a slow-building creepy synth line. The accompanying video is fittingly macabre as a CGI Elfman morphs into a disturbing doll and a melty skeleton as he sings the mordant words.
“I always enjoyed Halloween because it was a night to let loose,...
“I’m so happy — everything is crumbling,” he sings over a slow-building creepy synth line. The accompanying video is fittingly macabre as a CGI Elfman morphs into a disturbing doll and a melty skeleton as he sings the mordant words.
“I always enjoyed Halloween because it was a night to let loose,...
- 10/29/2020
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Neurosis singer and guitarist Steve Von Till has announced a new solo album, No Wilderness Deep Enough, as well as his first published work of original poetry, Harvestman: 23 Untitled Poems and Collected Lyrics. Both will arrive August 7th via Neurot Recordings.
Von Till previewed No Wilderness Deep Enough with the opening track, “Dreams of Trees,” a brooding piece kept in motion by long drags of strings, around which simmer eerie synth drones, industrial percussion, gothic piano and Von Till’s booming voice. “Still now you voices, let us rest,” he sings,...
Von Till previewed No Wilderness Deep Enough with the opening track, “Dreams of Trees,” a brooding piece kept in motion by long drags of strings, around which simmer eerie synth drones, industrial percussion, gothic piano and Von Till’s booming voice. “Still now you voices, let us rest,” he sings,...
- 5/6/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
“Mandy,” which opens Sept. 14, features the final film score by Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson, who died Feb. 9 in Berlin at the age of 48. Described in a Variety review as a “hallucinogenic mashup of Satanic-cult horror and revenge thriller [with] Nicolas Cage in full gonzo mode,” Panos Cosmatos’ film plays Johannsson’s music loud and upfront throughout.
“I wanted the film to have a rock-opera feel,” Cosmatos tells Variety. “I wanted it to be an audio-visual experience, like Ken Russell’s ‘Tommy,’ something like that.”
Cosmatos originally thought that the two-time Oscar-nominated composer was “out of our reach,” but after a phone conversation with the composer discovered, “beyond his very beautiful, ethereal, mood-based soundscapes, he’d grown up a metal-head.” That, coupled with Johannsson’s professed admiration of Cosmatos’ earlier film “Beyond the Black Rainbow,” sealed the deal.
“He really understood the tone I wanted to achieve, the kinds of textures I wanted,...
“I wanted the film to have a rock-opera feel,” Cosmatos tells Variety. “I wanted it to be an audio-visual experience, like Ken Russell’s ‘Tommy,’ something like that.”
Cosmatos originally thought that the two-time Oscar-nominated composer was “out of our reach,” but after a phone conversation with the composer discovered, “beyond his very beautiful, ethereal, mood-based soundscapes, he’d grown up a metal-head.” That, coupled with Johannsson’s professed admiration of Cosmatos’ earlier film “Beyond the Black Rainbow,” sealed the deal.
“He really understood the tone I wanted to achieve, the kinds of textures I wanted,...
- 9/13/2018
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
Lakeshore Records and Invada have released the first track from Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson's forthcoming Mandy soundtrack. The powerful piece titled "Children of the New Dawn" marks a tough reminder of the talent cinema (and the world) lost when Jóhannsson died on February 9 at the age of 48. Mandy, which will be released September 14 (the album will be released the same day), is directed and written by Panos Cosmatos (Beyond the Black Rainbow). It stars Nic Cage as a man grieving for the loss of his wife who travels to the underworld to find revenge. Based on the trailer, it looks like a one-of-a-kind experience. Jóhannsson co-produced the album with Randall Dunn. The album was assembled with the help of co-producers Pepijn Caudron...
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- 7/12/2018
- Screen Anarchy
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