Majical Cloudz

Plus: Worriers, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, Cold Beat, Fake Fruit, The Orielles Kevin Hairs, a Uniform/Zombi remixes single, a screamo sampler, and more.

You can also watch the mesmerizing video for Island‘s first single, “A Bloody Morning.”

Local Natives’ quarantine playlist includes tracks by LCD Soundsystem, FKA twigs, Frank Ocean, Moses Sumney, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo, Dirty Projectors, Lykke Li, Elliott Smith, Fiona Apple, and more.

We’ve been asking artists to make playlists of the music they’ve been listening to in isolation, so of course we had to ask American Football, whose ”Stay Home” has sort of become an anthem for the mass quarantine…

Moses Sumney’s top thirteen albums of the decade include picks from St. Vincent, Kanye West, Chairlift, Hundred Waters, Majical Cloudz, Ropert Glasper Experiment, Thundercat, and more, and he also listed other 2010 favorites from Beach House, Beyonce, Erykah Badu, Feist, The Roots, and others.

Grimes has expanded on her comment that ”live music is going to be obsolete soon” in a Twitter thread, and also addressed Zola Jesus calling her ”the voice of silicon fascist privilege.”

Once beloved-by-Pitchfork albums like James Blake’s self-titled debut, Sun Kil Moon’s ‘Benji,’ My Bloody Valentine’s ‘m b v,’ Ariel Pink’s ‘Before Today,’ and other unexpected exclusions from Pitchfork’s decade list…

This week’s Notable Releases include Blood Orange’s personal new album, Majical Cloudz frontman Devon Welsh’s solo debut, Ogikubo Station’s catchy indie-punk debut, and more.

The former Majical Cloudz singer shared a new solo song that should immediately appeal to fans of his old band, and is playing a couple of upcoming shows.