Our Two Skins album released June 19
New song ‘Aeroplane Bathroom’ out today with video shot in Bangkok
Album taps into feelings of isolation and identity. Recorded with Bon Iver’s production team at Sophie’s family farm in Canowindra
Touring the US with Of Monsters And Men late 2020

“Gordi is her own formidable talent” – NPR Music

Late last month, Sydney-via-Canowindra musician Gordi – also known as Sophie Payten – unveiled her poignant new single, ‘Sandwiches’. Today, Liberation Records is proud to share the news of an album release for Gordi, along with another taste of the record in ‘Aeroplane Bathroom’. The song (also the album opener) is accompanied by Gordi’s most stunning video released to date, which conveys the isolation and crippling anxiety that the album explores.

Our Two Skins will be released on June 19 via Liberation Records (Jagjaguwar internationally). The writing of the album began after a nervous breakdown while pacing around an Etihad flight from Australia to Europe in late 2017.  Having finally completed her medical exams after years of painstaking study, and against the backdrop of Australia’s marriage equality vote, Sophie was grappling with a new truth in her identity. That internal struggle, which was compounded by her Catholic upbringing, led to an isolated internal state.  It was a turbulent, unsettled and isolating period. Our Two Skins chronicles this intense chapter of Gordi’s life, as she renegotiated who she was and how she fit into the world. This stark sense of isolation and upheaval permeates the album and comes to the fore on ‘Aeroplane Bathroom’, which was penned in 20 anxious minutes whilst pacing around the stern of an Etihad flight from Australia to Europe. “I wrote ‘Aeroplane Bathroom’ sitting in a window seat on a long haul flight. The people next to me were asleep and I was alone with my thoughts. I had that sensation of being trapped so I climbed over the other passengers and tried to escape to the bathroom.” “The song is about feeling isolated. It comes at a very strange time now given we’re all locking ourselves in our homes, ‘socially isolating’ from our normal functional lives. There is no more dehumanising experience than to be cut off from everything you know. It can plunge you into total despair.” Later, upon arriving home, Gordi recorded a single vocal to an out-of-tune piano. At her parents’ farm in Canowindra, with the help of Bon Iver production duo Chris Messina and Zach Hanson, these original parts were teased out to add soundscape. If you listen closely to the track, you can hear elements from the farm shining through – gates and chains, creaking doors, and a revving Subaru Impreza. This stripped back approach to the recording process was applied to the album in its entirety with all ten tracks laid down at the farm, using minimal equipment.  Eager to bottle the isolation and emptiness she felt during that period of rediscovery, the remoteness of Canowindra proved the right location. Messina and Hanson flew from Wisconsin to Canowindra with several cases of gear and set up a temporary studio in an old cottage on the farm, dialing into the isolation of the songs’ subject matter; a musical quarantine. There was no phone reception, no wi-fi, and a tin outhouse located in a nearby shearing shed. “A big theme of the record is: there’s nothing to hide behind. We didn’t have all the bells and whistles. You’re just standing there, with your hands in your pockets going: this is me. This is it. This is all I have.” ‘Aeroplane Bathroom’ arrives complete with a cinematic video from Kasimir Burgess, appropriately filmed across two aeroplane graveyards outside Bangkok. “To get in we had to negotiate with the squatters that live there,” says Gordi. “It was one-million-percent humidity and there were wild dogs and a small crocodile so any fear in my eyes is genuine.” It follows the release of the album’s first official single ‘Sandwiches’, which was swiftly added to triple j and has seen strong support from both Apple Music and Spotify. Earlier this year, Gordi also released ‘The Cost’, (a standalone track in support of the Australian Bushfire Relief and regional drought efforts), and ‘INDIFFERENT’ (a haunting collaboration with Willaris. K). Gordi’s previous full-length offering, 2017’s J Award-nominated Reservoir, established her place as an in-demand collaborator, seeing her release music with Troye Sivan, and touring with Sam Smith, Julien Baker and Fleet Foxes. In addition to sold-out local tours, Gordi has performed at Eaux Claires, Big Red Machine, and PEOPLE Festival amongst others, working with a dream list of like-minded artists, including Feist, Damien Rice, Alex Somers and Justin Vernon. Gordi is due to tour the US with Of Monsters And Men later this year, keep an eye on  www.gordimusic.com for the full run of dates. Australian and further international tour dates will be announced as soon as is appropriate, in light of current COVID-19 advice. Our Two Skins will be released on June 19 via Liberation Records for Australia/ New Zealand and Jagjaguwar for the rest of the world.

‘Aeroplane Bathroom’ Gordi Single out now through Liberation Records Available to buy/stream here Our Two Skins Gordi Album out 19 June 2020 through Liberation Records Available to pre-order here Our Two Skins tracklisting: 1. Aeroplane Bathroom 2. Unready 3. Sandwiches 4. Volcanic 5. Radiator 6. Extraordinary Life 7. Hate The World 8. Look Like You 9. Limits 10. Free Association

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Chef’Special presents their new album, Unfold. This is the successor of Amigo, which reached a platinum status in the Netherlands and gathered over 62 million streams worldwide. 

Later this month the band will go on a European tour to celebrate the release. 

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The Album Unfold features ten tracks, which are all produced by the guitarist Guido Joseph. Chef’Special went back to their hometown Haarlem the Netherlands to record the album. Self-acceptance is the theme, looking ahead and connecting with others are the mottos for this album. 

Chef’Special about the album: “During the process of creating this new album we tried to stay as true to ourselves as possible. By also producing this album ourselves we managed to make this a very personal album, both lyrically and musically. We are very proud of the result, and we feel like we managed to challenge ourselves and explore new paths. 

In January the first single Trouble of the new album released. This track was featured in 24 New Music Friday playlists on Spotify, was played several times on BBC Radio 2 in the UK, entered the Dutch Airplay Top 200 at #10, and also entered the Airplay Top 200 in Germany. 

Whether Chef’Special is touring America as support act of Twenty One Pilots, performing on the main stage at festivals like Pinkpop, Sziget or Lowlands, or in huge sold-out venues like the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam; they always convince the whole audience and turn every show in a party. The tour to promote Unfold will bring the band to Germany, Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Czech Republic and of course The Netherlands. 

Unfold  is out now on all (streaming) platforms

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Iconic multi-platinum rock band BUSH have unveiled the video for their hard-charging lead track “Flowers On A Grave”

The Jesse Davey-directed video features an electrifying BUSH performance of the pensive and pummelling track, all shot in one take.

Watch Flowers On A Grave here
https://youtu.be/EtIV1oKetYc

The single is the dynamic follow-up to BUSH’s cinematic Bullet Holes, heard by audiences all over the world atop the end credits to the international blockbuster, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.

Both songs will be featured on BUSH’s much-awaited new album The Kingdom out on May 15 which is available for pre-order HERE.

“Flowers On A Grave,” co-produced by Erik Ron and Rossdale himself, is off to a great start at US radio, having been on Active Rock Radio’s “Most Added” New Track list for the last two weeks in a row.

THE KINGDOM TRACKLISTING
Flowers On A Grave
The Kingdom
Bullet Holes
Slaves
Blood River
Quicksand
Send In The Clowns
Undone
Our Time Will Come
Crossroads
Words Are Not Impediments
Falling Away

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https://BushBand.lnk.to/TheKingdomAlbum

Bush will return to Australia in early 2021 with Live and the Stone Temple Pilots as part of the Under The Southern Stars Festival which was due to take place next month but has been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.

ABOUT BUSH
With a discography that includes such seminal rock albums as 1994’s 6x platinum-selling SIXTEEN STONE, ‘96’s triple-platinum-selling RAZORBLADE SUITCASE and ‘99’s platinum-selling THE SCIENCE OF THINGS, BUSH has sold close to 20 million records in the U.S. and Canada alone. They’ve also compiled an amazing string of 18 consecutive Top 40 hit singles on the Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts. Eleven of those hit the Top 5, six of which shot to No. 1: “Comedown,” “Glycerine,” “Machinehead,” “Swallowed,” “The Chemicals Between Us” and “The Sound of Winter.” The latter made rock radio history as the first self-released song ever to hit No. 1 at Alternative Radio, where it spent 6 weeks perched atop the chart’s top spot.

The song appeared on 2011’s “comeback album,” THE SEA OF MEMORIES, which was BUSH’s first studio album in ten years. That year Billboard ran a story about the band under the headline, “Like They Never Left” – a fitting title as the multi-platinum quartet (vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Gavin Rossdale, guitarist Chris Traynor, bassist Corey Britz and drummer Nik Hughes) promptly picked up where they left off.  They’ve continued to dominate rock radio and play sold-out shows to audiences around the world ever since. The Kingdom follows 2017’s Black And White Rainbows, which People magazine hailed as “a triumphant return.”

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“Thrilling, weirdo party jams that have never heard of convention. Ocean Grove still proudly give not one single fuck.”
Kerrang!

“Great heavy records are those that are different from the pack, and ‘Flip Phone Fantasy’ is a fiery beacon in this regard, one that excites as much as it surprises.”
Album Of The Week, The Music

“Ocean Grove starved for this album, they bled for this album. ‘Flip Phone Fantasy’ is that union of imagination, time, and sound manifest…history will never forget the name Ocean Grove.”
10/10, Hysteria
 
“The band embody the importance of individuality… ‘Flip Phone Fantasy’ is a fitting tribute to that, and a breathtaking adventure to be with.”
10/10, Depth Magazine

Oddball icons Ocean Grove have debuted at a whopping #8 on the ARIA Album Chart following the release of their sweltering new album  Flip Phone Fantasy last Friday. The release also landed at #1 on the ARIA Vinyl Album chart.

The band’s technicolored sophomore record has been praised for its “no-fucks-given” attitude (Kerrang!), was named Album Of The Week via The Music, meanwhile Hysteria classed the record as one for the history books, asserting that the name Ocean Grove will never be forgotten alongside a whopping 10/10 review.

In true Ocean Grove fashion the four-piece – comprising frontman Dale Tanner, bassist Twiggy Hunter, guitarist Matt Henley and drummer Sam Bassal – remained as free and lawless as possible while birthing Flip Phone Fantasy, answering only to the truths of their famously-coined “Oddworld” while meticulously crafting every creative output themselves, from music production, to merch, to art.

Between the blistering chaos of opener ‘SUPERSTAR’, to the tenants of alt-rock present throughout ‘SENSE AGAIN’ and  the dreamy haze of closer ‘FREAKS’, Ocean Grove plough through a thoughtfully complex series of moods and bends on Flip Phone Fantasy, refusing to sit still long enough to be categorised into anything other than pure creativity and resistance to the mainstream.

Ocean Grove will take their acclaimed record on the road in the latter half of 2020.

Flip Phone Fantasy is out now via UNFD.

STREAM / PURCHASE ‘FLIP PHONE FANTASY’ HERE

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Rock icons Deep Purple have released “Throw My Bones”, the first single from their highly anticipated new studio album “Whoosh!”.

“Throw My Bones” is a song to remember; a powerful insight into the bands 21^st studio album.

It is available for Streaming and Download here:
deeppurple.lnk.to/ThrowMyBones

The single is accompanied by a music video that pushes the boundaries of time and place. It is an invitation to take a step back and see the bigger picture, a call for action and an invitation to observe the planet and the current situation on earth.

Deep Purple’s brand-new studio album “Whoosh!” follows their worldwide chart-topping albums “inFinite” (2017) and “NOW What?!” (2013). For the third time, Deep Purple joins forces with producer Bob Ezrin, and together they created the most versatile album in their collaboration, “stretching out in all directions” without any limitation, letting their creativity go.

“Deep Purple is putting the Deep back into Purple” was the half-joking motto in the studio after the first songs made it clear that Ezrin and Purple were on a path to creating an album pushing the boundaries of time, while voicing their resentment about the current situation of the world and addressing all generations.

“Whoosh is an onomatopoeic word that, when viewed through one end of a radio-telescope, describes the transient nature of humanity on Earth; and, through the other end from a closer perspective, illustrates the career of Deep Purple.” – ig

“Whoosh!” will be available as Limited CD+DVD Mediabook (incl. the 1h feature “Roger Glover and Bob Ezrin in conversation” and, for the first time, the full live performance at Hellfest 2017 as video), 2LP+DVD Edition, Limited Boxset and Digital on June 12 via on earMUSIC.

You can pre-order the album here:
deeppurple.lnk.to/WhooshPR

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COSMO’S MIDNIGHT & RUEL – ‘DOWN FOR YOU’
OUT NOW

Today, Australia’s Cosmo’s Midnight and Ruel reveal the official video for their latest collaborative track “Down For You”, out via Sony Music (Australia), RCA Records (USA) and Black Butter Records (UK). Having drip-fed individual versions of the clip throughout the week, the trio of pop & electronic heroes now come full circle sharing a unified visual to bring their collaboration to life.

Across two simultaneous shots, Cosmo’s Midnight and Ruel each weave their way through the colour-glazed maze of costumes, masks and wild guests at the same quintessential house party. Directed and filmed by Ruel’s resident creative Grey Ghost from the perspective of each individuals’ adventures, Cosmo’s Midnight are seen stirring trouble and performing switcheroos, while Ruel navigates the dizzying scenes solo in his token space suit, dodging the fallout of the twins’ mischief along the way. Amidst squabbles, a live band, a police raid, apparent cameos by each act and a presiding go-with-the-flow mood, the visuals give a glimpse into the three personalities that forged the original single.

 “I wanted to play with the collaboration between Ruel and Cosmo’s Midnight in a unique way that allows fans of both artists to enter into each others’ worlds. Both film clips are seamless one shot videos from start to finish and follow through many rooms and spaces in the one property: my own home. We rehearsed with Ruel and Cosmo’s Midnight a million times before launching into the real takes with 60 extras all dressed in crazy costumes. We shot both videos in 3 hours and we were shitting ourselves before every take as there were SO MANY things that could go wrong even if it was a slight mistake. BUT thank the lawd we got there and it worked!”  Grey Ghost

“Down For You” arrived earlier this year as an opus of the forward-thinking abilities that have propelled both Australian acts into the spotlight, with Ruel’s alluring pull amplified by Cosmo’s Midnight’s playful production and signature sonic prowess. The track sees a perfect unification of their diverse talents, effortlessly moving between genres and delivering moments the world can’t peel their eyes from. Reaching 6 million global streams online in just 2 months after receiving strong playlist support right off the bat, the infectious pop serenade is an example of the impact a collaboration of it’s kind can have in uniting two globally-reaching audiences.

2019 saw another huge year for Cosmo’s Midnight, peaking into new directions for the twins with the effervescent and groove-heavy sounds of singles “C.U.D.I (Can U Dig It)”, “Have It All” feat. Age.Sex.Location and “It’s Love” feat. Matthew Young. The duo kept busy on the stage playing Splendour in the Grass, Australia-wide festival tours St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival and Listen Out, selling out headline shows across the US and Asia, and performing to major sold out venues on a national tour. In 2018, the brothers cemented their reputation at the pinnacle of Australian electronic-pop with their debut, triple j Feature Album ‘What Comes Next’, which featured the now gold-certified favourites “History”, “Talk To Me” and “Get To Know”. Ruel has quickly risen as a pop phenomenon since breakout single “Dazed & Confused”, which earned him a 2018 ARIA title as Best Breakthrough Artist and over 100 million streams on Spotify alongside fellow favourite, “Younger”. Since, he has released his 2019 EP Free Time (now reaching over 128 million Spotify streams), achieved platinum-status for three singles including most recent hit “Painkiller”, performed across St. Jerome’s Laneway tour, sold-out Sydney Opera House shows and international tours, and has been announced to play his debut set at Splendour in the Grass 2020.

With another monumental year on the cards for both Cosmo’s Midnight and Ruel, check out the new chapter in their delectable partnership with the new videos for “Down For You” now.

Cosmo’s Midnight & Ruel’s ‘Down For You’ video is out now

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