Monday Music News

11/16/2015

Janice Headley

Former Fiery Furnaces frontwoman Eleanor Friedberger returns next year with her third solo full-length, New View, out January 22nd on Frenchkiss Records. The album was recorded "live to tape" with her backing band, Icewater, and producer Clemens Knieper in a converted barn studio in Germantown, New York. Check out the opening single "He Didn’t Mention His Mother" below. Friedberger has also announced some North American tour dates, including a Saturday, March 5th stop at Barboza. [Pitchfork]

After 20 years together, guitarist John Cummings has announced he's leaving the Scottish post-rock group Mogwai to pursue his own projects. In a statement on their website, the band say, "We are sad to announce that John Cummings has decided to leave Mogwai to pursue his own musical projects. We will continue as a four piece of Dominic Aitchison, Stuart Braithwaite, Martin Bulloch and Barry Burns and shall be joined on our upcoming live shows by Scott Paterson and Luke Sutherland. We wish John all the best with the future." [Consequence of Sound]

Ra Ra Riot team up Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend on the track "Water," which was co-written and produced by Batmanglij himself. Listen below. (You may remember he and Ra Ra Riot frontman Wesley Miles teamed up for the project Discovery back in 2009.) In a press release, Batmanglij explains the collaboration, saying "I think we found that same freedom in making these songs that we had found years ago making the Discovery record, not knowing where it would take us." The single will appear on Ra Ra Riot's fourth full-length Need Your Light, out February 19th via local label Barsuk. [Stereogum]

As we announced late last month, Brooklyn-based duo School of Seven Bells will be releasing a posthumous full-length, titled SVIIB, featuring songs written before the passing of Benjamin Curtis in 2013 to T-cell Lymphoblastic Lymphoma. Today, they share the album's first single, "Open Your Eyes," which you can stream below. His bandmate Alejandra Deheza describes the release as, "This is a love letter from start to finish. It's the story of us starting from that first day we met in 2004, and that's the story of School of Seven Bells." SVIIB hits stores February 12th via Vagrant. [Under the Radar]

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