Liars

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new albums from Ty Segall, Liars, Sonny & The Sunsets, The Umbrellas, The Tubs, Jim Noir, and more.

Liars‘ new album The Apple Drop is out August 6 via Mute.

This week’s playlist includes new music by Vince Staples, Tyler, the Creator, Yves Tumor, Wet Leg, Gang of Youths, Kings of Convenience ft. Feist, Aldous Harding, and more

“I thought that spelunking with bats for the ‘Sekwar’ video tested the upper limits of my fear threshold,“ says frontman Angus Andrew, ”but it turns out having a revved up drill pointed close to my forehead for a day is truly the stuff of nightmares.“

Gone to Color’s debut album also features Tricky collaborator Martina Topley-Bird, members of Merchandise, Wilco, Tortoise, The Luyas, and more.

This week’s playlist includes new music by HEALTH & Nine Inch Nails, We Are The Union, MF DOOM & Czarface, Descendents, Iceage, Little Simz, and more.

Liars’ Angus Andrew says with ‘The Apple Drop‘ he wants to “give the listener this sense of transformation and to feel like you were being transported through the wormhole.”

Xiu Xiu’s albums of duets is out now, and they’ve shared a new video for the song with Sharon Van Etten, directed by the band’s Angela Seo.

Listen to new songs by St. Vincent, Xiu Xiu/Liars, Mndsgn, AJ Tracey, Lil Baby, John Andrew & The Yawns, SOM (Holy Fawn remix), Deeper (Working Men’s Club remix), and more…

Chelsea Wolfe, Alice Bag, Haley Fohr, Owen Pallet, Greg Saunier of Deerhoof, and more also feature on ’OH NO,’ Xiu Xiu’s twelfth album.