Wednesday Music News

Flying Lotus has come out of the woodwork to share seven brand new tracks. Six of them come from the score to Blade Runner Black Out 2022, a 2017 short anime film from Shinichiro Watanabe. The seventh is "Perfect," an unused track from FlyLo's score for the new sci-fi film of the same name from director Eddie Alcazar. Perfect is debuting at SXSW this week. Flying Lotus' last album was 2014's You're Dead! [ Stereogum ]

Country legend Willie Nelson is releasing a new album called Last Man Standing next month, two days before his 85th birthday. He's already shared the album-opening title track and today he's shared the second single, "Me and You." It comes accompanied by a very sweet black & white video of Nelson in the studio.Last Man Standing is out April 27 via Sony Legacy. [ SPIN ]

Mark Oliver Everett is releasing a new Eels album next month called The Deconstruction. It will be his first album in four years and we've already heard the singles "Today Is the Day" and the title track. Today, he's shared the hushed semi-acoustic song "Premonition." Everett previously said this about the new album:  "Here are 15 new Eels tracks that may or may not inspire, rock, or not rock you. The world is going nuts. But if you look for it, there is still great beauty to be found. Sometimes you don't even have to look for it. Other times you have to try to make it yourself. And then there are times you have to tear something apart to find something beautiful inside." The Deconstruction is out April 6. Eels will play the Showbox on Saturday, June 2. [ Under the Radar ]

David Byrne has shared the official music video for the previously released single "Everybody's Coming To My House." The song is off of his recently released album American Utopia and the clip is unique in that rather than featuring the studio recording of the song, a group of students from the Detroit School of Arts sing an acapella cover of the song. Byrne does not appear in the video, which was filmed by students from the school's TV and radio programs. It was released in conjunction with a mini-documentary entitled American Utopia: Detroit which delves into the background of the students. Streaming royalties from the video will go to the Detroit School of Arts. American Utopia is out now on Nonesuch. [ Rolling Stone ]