This week in new music

Fri 1st Jul, 2011 in Local News

Big hitters in this week’s musical wrap up with new tunes from Bjork, Nick Cave, Damon Alburn, Wilco plus a free live album from Pulled Apart By Horses.

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Nick Cave and Neko Case have teamed up to cover the Zombies’ classic She’s Not There for the fourth season the vampire drama you can admit to watching with out too much shame – True Blood. Cave and Case recorded the cover with Louisiana-based musician, producer and member of Lil’ Band O’ Gold CC Adcock while Cave was in between trips with his kids to Disneyland.

A few weeks ago we featured a new Damon Albarn track Apple Carts taken from his forthcoming ‘opera’ Dr Dee in the new music wrap. Now we have a second taste of the work which Albarn will be premiering at the Manchester International Festival from July 1st-9th. This new track is Reigning Queen.

Björk is also unveiling her Biophilia album/multi media extravaganza at the Manchester International Festival. The shows feature Björk performing with “a range of specially conceived and crafted instruments, among them a bespoke pipe organ that accepts digital information and a pendulum that harnesses the earth’s gravitational pull to create musical patterns” which sounds incredibly bonkers, even for Bjork.

Here’s Crystalline, the fist single from Biophilia. Listen for the sudden launch into drum and bass madness at the four minute mark!

We are a little scared to listen to the new Limp Bizkit record, but this track Combat Jazz with Raekwon and produced by Mathematics, which shows up on the Japanese deluxe version, of the album could lure us in. It’s also a timely reminder that when Durst teams up with members of the Wu Tang Clan he can produce stuff as good as this.

Wilco’s eighth album The Whole Love will be out in late September. It’s their first album to be released on their new label dBpm and according to SPIN magazine the album is bookended by a pair of epics – the seven-minute opener Art of Almost and the 12-minute closer One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley’s Boyfriend). The first single is I Might – have a listen:

One of our favourite albums of 2010 was the self titled debut album from Pulled Apart By Horses. To celebrate the first anniversary of the album’s release the band of misfits from Leeds are giving away a free live album recorded in their hometown infront of a truly mental crowd that was previously only available on vinyl. Download the madness (for the price of an email address) here