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[video] Hilary Woods – Endgames

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Hilary Woods has announced her new album, Night CRIÚ, due out October 31 via Sacred Bones Records.

Woods live in Bologna’23

The record’s first single, “Endgames”, arrives alongside a self-made video that showcases Woods’ unique analogue film practice. Working with 16mm and Super 8 film, she hand-processed her own footage in the darkroom, layering it with archive clips, home videos, profile photographs by Joshua Wright, and her own drawings directly onto celluloid. The result is a deeply personal visual language that mirrors the song’s emotional weight.

The single is a haunting, beautifully restrained piece that lingers long after it ends. In both sound and vision, it reflects on the unspoken bonds that tie us to one another, opening a door into the shadowy, luminous world of Night CRIÚ.

Speaking about the LP, Woods shared: “Each record is a life buoy, a raft, a snapshot, a marker in the sand, a date that requires me to meet it. Making records is a way of being”.

Watch below and pre-order the album on Bandcamp.

[video] Chalk – Pain

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Chalk don’t ease you in — with “Pain,” they throw you headfirst into their heaviest, most claustrophobic sound yet. The Belfast band (now a duo) has unleashed the latest single, marking their first release since signing to ALTER Music.

Chalk live in Vienna ’23

A rough, punchy blast of industrial rock, the song is both heavy and irresistibly catchy – taking the intensity of their acclaimed Conditions trilogy EP and pushing it even further. It’s a fierce statement of intent that hints at what’s to come in this next chapter of the band.

The track arrives with a gripping video, directed by Benedict Goddard & Colin Peppard. Speaking on the visuals, Goddard revealed:

“We shot the video on the same camera they used for 28 Days Later. We wanted the footage to have an authentic gritty yet nostalgic texture that emphasised the ideas of the song, and the album as a whole. This is the beginning of the new era of Chalk”.

The duo are stepping into darker, louder, and more unrelenting territory. And in the process, they’re proving themselves to be one of the very best new acts to emerge in the aftermath of the chaos of the 2020s.

Watch below.

[video] Molly Nilsson – How Much Is The World

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Molly Nilsson performing live in Milan ’22

Last month, Molly Nilsson released “How Much Is The World”, the first single from her upcoming album Amateur, out October 10 via Dark Skies Association and Night School Records.

The song is a bold and haunting number that asks what value we place on the world around us. With its pulsing synths and Molly’s unmistakable voice, it sets the tone for an album that celebrates imperfection, passion and the joy of living and creating without fear of mistakes. It is out along with a music video she created herself.

Nilsson also explains that the album is called Amateur because she embraces the original meaning of the word, as a lover or admirer, rather than its modern sense of inexperience. She sees “amateurism” as a joyful, rebellious refusal to chase mastery or societal expectations, celebrating the freedom to love, experiment, fail, and have fun. The album reflects this spirit: a dedication to passion and imperfection, doing things fully and unapologetically, just for the love of it.

Watch below and pre-order the record on Bandcamp.

[video] Marissa Nadler – Light Years

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Marissa Nadler’s much-anticipated new album New Radiations arrives tomorrow via Sacred Bones and Bella Union. After captivating listeners with the title track and “Hatchet Man”, the acclaimed American singer-songwriter now unveils the third glimpse into the record: “Light Years”.

A haunting meditation on love’s slow fade, the single drifts through memories of connection once vivid, now dimmed with time. Wrapped in Nadler’s signature poetic intimacy, the track blooms with dreamy instrumentation, layered harmonies, and an atmosphere you can almost step inside.

Accompanied by a music video shot and directed by Nadler herself, “Light Years” is as much a visual reverie as it is a sonic one.

Watch below and pre-order the LP here.

[video] John Maus – I Hate Antichrist

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It’s been a while since we’ve heard new music from John Maus, and “I Hate Antichrist” marks a truly satisfying and bold return from the American musician. The track successfully mixes his signature anthemic lo-fi synth-pop with experimental elements, and its infectious energy gives it the feel of an instant earworm.

Maus live in Turin’24

It seems he’s also gearing up to release a new record this year, although no official announcement has been made yet. Speaking about the song, Maus states: “The Antichrist’s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time a claim is made to realise, within history, that messianic hope which can only be fulfilled beyond history through the eschatological judgment”.

Be sure to catch John Maus live in Italy this year, as he is set to perform at the XXIII edition of the Club to Club Festival in Turin (find more details here). The single is accompanied by an unsettling, surreal animated visual directed by Andrew Norman Wilson.

Watch below.