New Music

Ichiko Aoba Shares “air,” a New Single Recorded in the Cotswolds for Climate Week NYC

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Ichiko Aoba has announced a new track, “air,” arriving September 18th as part of the Sounds Right initiative, timed to launch alongside New York Climate Week. The song was recorded at Studio Richter Mahr in the Cotswolds with composer Taro Umebayashi, built around field recordings captured at dawn on a spring morning, and arrives in…
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Death Cab for Cutie Drop Video for “Stone Over Water,” EU/UK Tour Underway

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Death Cab for Cutie have released the official video for “Stone Over Water,” from their eleventh album, I Built You A Tower, out now via ANTI- Records. The band call it a song for anyone who’s ever tried to convince the world they’re fine when they’re really not. The video, directed by musician-animator Sean Solomon,…
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Robocobra Quartet Announce 100-Song Album Hundred Pieces

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Experimental collective (and long-time KV favourites) Robocobra Quartet have announced Hundred Pieces, a sprawling 100-track album out 13th November, alongside new single “Haha.” Inspired by Marina Abramović’s durational art, the band began writing specifically for “the hundred” after the idea started as an off-hand joke. At the same time, saxophonist Thibault Barillon grew petri-dish fungus…
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Reissues

[News] Ichiko Aoba reissues Windswept Adan, headlines the Royal Albert Hall on March 31st

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Credit: Kodai Kobayashi The ethereally-talented Ichiko Aoba has reissued her seventh studio album, Windswept Aden, on hermine. Conceived as the soundtrack to an imaginary film, Windswept Adan follows a young girl exiled from her homeland to the mythic island of Adan – a lush, otherworldly place filled with strange creatures, abundant flora and fauna, and…
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[News] Tanya Donelly and Chris Brokaw revisit medieval music

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Image credit: Ben Stas Longtime KV favourite Tanya Donelly (fun fact -KV’s partial origins lie in a Tanya Donelly fansite hosted on Angelfire in the 90s) has teamed up with Chris Brokaw (Come, Codeine) to release a four-track EP of modern interpretations of medieval music, The Undone is Done Again, out on Fire Records on…
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Film

[Film Review] LFF 2025: Broken English

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Filmmaking duo Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth have a track record of breaking the music doc mould. Their 2014 Nick Cave film 20,000 Days on Earth remains the high watermark for music films. Like that film, Broken English has clearly been made with a deep love of knowledge of a complex and often misunderstood artist.…
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[Film review] Mogwai: If the Stars had a Sound

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Mogwai’s signature, largely instrumental post-rock sound has lent itself to the medium of film for a long time, including the score for football doc Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait. So it seems fitting that in If the Stars Had a Sound, filmmaker (and long time Mogwai collaborator) Antony Crook has finally turned the camera on…
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