Beabadoobee, Blur: News Round-Up

Beabadoobee's This Is How Tomorrow Moves album artwork (cropped)

A new album from Beabadoobee and documentary from Blur were among last week’s biggest headlines.

Beabadoobee has announced her new album This Is How Tomorrow Moves.

Due out on August 16th, it was laid down during sessions with the legendary Rick Rubin at Shangri-La studios; “I love this album,” she’s said.

“I feel like it’s helped me so much more than anything else has in navigating this new era, this new understanding of where I’m at. I guess it’s about becoming a woman.”

Tributes have been paid to Steve Albini, a leading figure of the US alternative scene, after his sudden death was announced last week.

According to reports, Albini was at his recording studio, Electrical Audio, when he suffered a heart attack.

A member of Illinois post-hardcore institutions Big Black and Shellac, Albini perhaps became best known for his work behind the production desk, helping Nirvana to realise their anti-commercial direction on the follow-up to Nevermind, and forging the prototype for that grunge scene on Pixies’ 1988 debut album Surfer Rosa.

CMAT is a ‘sad country song of a woman’ on her new single ‘Aw Shoot!’.

It follows last year’s lauded second studio record ‘Crazymad, For Me’, a Live4ever album of the year in 2023.

“So there I was, in Paris, France, in a rented flat,” Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson aka has said. “I was trying to write songs but it wasn’t going very well at all.”

Blur performing at the 2023Corona Capital Festival (Lisa Mark)

Blur have announced their new feature-length documentary blur: To The End.

In UK and Ireland cinemas from July 19th, the film is set to shed light on the band’s comeback which has brought many big live shows and the studio album The Ballad Of Darren.

“We’ve barely communicated for the last 10 years,” Alex James said. “I mean even when we really split up, it didn’t take this long to make a record, but what’s wonderful is as soon as the four of us get in a room together, it’s just exactly the same as it was when we were all 19.”

Fontaines DC performed Starburster last week as they returned to The Tonight Show.

It came when the band were due to play Warsaw in Brooklyn ahead of a recently announced North American tour during September and October, one which will take them back to New York for a gig at the Paramount.

It’s all part of the extensive live work planned for the new album ROMANCE, which is due for release on August 23rd.

After ending a four-year break with the Coffee single back in February, Hinds have confirmed the details of their new studio record VIVA HINDS.

The band have returned in their original guise of duo Carlotta Cosials and Ana Perrote, and will release their new album on September 6th after recording sessions in France with producer Pete Robertson.

Guests include Grian Chatten of Fontaines DC and Beck on Boom Boom, the new single which is out now.