Wednesday Music News

Mark Oliver Everett is gearing up to release a new Eels album next month called The Deconstruction. Today, the indie veteran has shared an insanely cute video for the previously released single "Today Is The Day." Directed by Gus Black, the video stars Mike Mitchell of the Netflix series Love, which Everett has been playing a small supporting role in. The Deconstruction is out April 6. Catch Eels at the Showbox on Saturday, June 2. [ SPIN ]

Dark electropop goddess Zola Jesus is the latest contributor to Adult Swim's Singles Series, which has been churning out great single after great single on a weekly basis this year. Her contribution is the song "Bound" which will also be released on the forthcoming collection of B-sides from last year's record, Okovi. The album will be called Okovi: Additions and will include four previously unreleased songs from the Okovi sessions, as well as remixes of album tracks by Johnny Jewel, Katie Gately, Wolves In The Throne Room, and Joanne Pollock. Okovi: Additions is out April 6 via Sacred Bones. [ Stereogum ]

Massachusetts four-piece Speedy Ortiz have announced a new forthcoming album, their first since 2015's Foil Deer. Titled Twerp Verse, the album is due out April 27 via Carpark. Today, the band has shared the lead single "Lucky 88" along with a clever video from Emily Yoshida which comments on our addiction to technology. “For the video, we wanted something evil, glossy, cynical, and camp,” says frontwoman Sadie Dupuis. “Our director Emily Yoshida came up with a concept that addresses our reliance on technology and apps that’s so absorbing, it’s hard to engage with the outside world, even when it is literally being consumed by slime (and, hello, global warming, melting ice, coral bleaching, impending heat death, make no mistake, it IS being consumed by slime).” Speedy Ortiz have also announced a North American tour that includes a stop in Seattle on June 13 at the Vera Project. [ Under the Radar ]

Today, English electronic duo Simian Mobile Disco have shared "Caught in a Wave," the lead single from their upcoming fifth album, Murmurations. For the album, James Ford and Jas Shaw collaborated with London-based collective Deep Throat Choir. "Listening to them moving their voices around a tone, altering the timbre, making chords, was like working with an incredible new synthesizer," says Shaw of the all-female choir. The song comes with a video by James Pearson-Howe and Kiani Del Valle that focuses on a mosh pit in a dark club and is the first in a series of three videos.Murmurations is out May 11 on Wichita. [ The Line of Best Fit ]

Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack are releasing a new Wye Oak album in April titled The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs. We've already heard the title track and today we've received the second single, "It Was Not Natural." Wasner explains the soaring song's lyrical content as: “...a story about finding an object of uncertain origin whilst walking through the woods. Or, if you’d rather: it’s about exploring the space between the things that we are socialized to believe about ourselves, and the actual truth of our nature—learning how to push the limits of the systems we’ve put in place to help ourselves make sense of chaos.” The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs is out April 6 via Merge. The duo are embarking on a worldwide tour this year that includes a stop in Seattle on July 15 at Neumos. [ Paste ]