Monday Music News

Mark Lanegan, of Screaming Trees and Queens Of The Stone Age, is teaming up with Duke Garwood again to release a second collaborative album, following 2013's Black Pudding. Titled With Animals, the sophomore record will be released via Heavenly Recordings on August 24. Today, they’ve shared the dark lead single, “Save Me.” Garwood said this about the new album: “Over the years, we’ve recorded together and apart. This time, I started this record alone, with many animals as company. It flowed, I set to work and out it came. Our music is instinct, there is not much talking about it, just creating. I think that if you are at peace with your work, and feeling it right, it flows, and can feel ‘easy.’ Music isn’t meant to be hard.” [ Stereogum ]

Chromatics mastermind Johnny Jewel has surprise-released a new album called Themes for Television. Originally over 20 hours long, the music was inspired by the return of Twin Peaks and created as an imaginary soundtrack for the new season. Chromatics ended up performing on the premiere episode. Jewel describes: "I was about a year deep into recording what would become Windswept when I heard that David was making Season 3 [of Twin Peaks]. It's been a year since Chromatics performed at the Roadhouse. With disintegrated memory through the haze of television snow, I wanted to share a glimpse behind the red curtain...." Jewel has also shared a black & white Radka Leitmeritz-directed video for "Red Door." Chromatics returned last week with a new song, “Black Walls,” and a tentative announcement that the long-awaited Dear Tommy would (hopefully) finally be released this fall. [ Under the Radar ]

British electronic duo Goldfrapp have shared a new version of “Ocean” today that features vocals from Depeche Mode frontman Dave Gahan. “Ocean” is off last year’s Silver Eye, the duo’s seventh studio album and first in four years. Goldfrapp will be releasing a deluxe edition of the album that includes the Gahan-featuring song on July 6 via Mute. [ Consequence of Sound ]

Last year, the Alynda Segarra-led band Hurray for the Riff Raff released The Navigator. Today, a short film has been released based around The Navigator’s “Pa’lante.” The film is set in post-Hurricane Maria Puerto Rico and stars Mela Murder of the Oscar-nominated The Florida Project. Directed by Kristian Mercado Figueroa, the clip is dedicated to the director’s grandfather Felipe Figueroa Rosa, “who died in the aftermath of hurricane [sic] but will not be forgotten.” Segarra makes an appearance herself, alongside images of her father and clips of activist group the Young Lords. The video is in support of the PRIMA Relief Fund, which is dedicated to sustaining independent artists following Hurricane Maria. [ SPIN ]