Singles That Mingle

 By Captain Stavros

Our last singles roundup of 2022.  It was a great year for music, shame about everything else.  See you in 2023!

Bass Drum Of Death

‘Head Change’

Say I Won’t out January 27 via Fat Possum

This new tunes really shrugs off expectations and settles into languid Rock stance

Núria Graham

‘The Catalyst’

Cyclamen – Out January 20 via Primavera Labels / New Deal / Verve Forecast & Universal Music Spain

Makes the STM list again with this clever and catchy, short but sweet, jingle.

Weird Nightmare

'Our Love Will Still Be There'

Out now via Sub Pop

A Troggs cover you never knew you always wanted, Weird Nightmare nails it.

Addie Brik

‘Retromingent’

‘That Dog Don’t Hunt’ - Out now via Itza Records

Vocals melt seamlessly into this track.

Hibou

‘Night Fell’

New EP: ‘ARC’ out January 13

Enjoy something uplifting and positive without it being IN YOUR FACE

Blondshell

‘Veronica Mars’

New Single out now via Partisan Records

Wasn’t sure about this one but then the hook kicked in, totally tubular.

Son Lux

‘Undertow’

Out now via City Slang Records

Extensive European and UK live dates coming up on February/March

Hauntingly beautiful music masterfully composed.

Son Lux, the LA and NY-based band of Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang, have shared ‘The Fool You Need’, a redux of the single from their latest album, Brighter Wounds, released in February 2018 via City Slang.

Revisiting and reincarnating their own songs has been part of the Son Lux project since its inception, and ‘The Fool You Need’ is the latest in that tradition. The new track unwinds in unexpected turns, with lurching drums and serpentine synths giving way to haunting choir and slithering guitars. It comes accompanied by the original music video.

The follow-up to 2015's exultant and explosive LP, Bones, Brighter Wounds finds Son Lux transformed all over again. This fifth album marks another fundamental shift as Lott leaves universal themes behind to write from a personal perspective: while making these songs, he became a father and lost a family member to cancer. Days of "firsts" were also days of "lasts," and the normal fears of first-time parenthood were compounded by a frightening new reality — Lott's son was born shortly after Election Day 2016. These songs draw on all of that: warm reflections of a fading past, the pain of still-present loss, and a mix of anxiety and hope for a future promised to none.