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Katie Alice Greer, formerly the lead singer of Priests, has announced Barbarism, her debut full-length album. The record is led by the new song “FITS/My Love Can’t Be,” which arrives with a music video that Greer directed, produced, and edited herself. Watch the video below. Barbarism is due out June 24 via FourFour. The LP follows Greer’s three solo EPs: Freaky 57, 3 Colors, and No One Else on Earth. Of the new single, Greer said in a statement: I’d spent something like 70 days mostly alone since the pandemic started. Then one weekend I biked out to Fairfax Avenue and found myself amongst thousands of people. It was jarring…. To go from mostly the stillness of a barely-lived-in bedroom to projectile shopping carts, strangers chanting, phalanxes of beige gun toters, and tanks parallel park...

Ibeyi have announced a world tour in support of their forthcoming LP Spell 31, kicking off this September in Los Angeles before wrapping up in Paris next February. They’ve also shared a video for the third single from Spell 31, “Lavender & Red Roses” (ft. Jorja Smith). Check out the video and the full list of tour dates below. Ibeyi have previously shared the Spell 31 singles “Sister 2 Sister” and “Made of Gold” (ft. Pa Salieu). Last March they shared “Recurring Dream,” a song they wrote and composed for the Ed Morris film How to Stop a Recurring Dream. Read about Ibeyi’s “No Man Is Big Enough For My Arms” in “When Feminism Meets Music: Great Songs That Sample Radical Speech” on the Pitch.  Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. All products featur...

Nilüfer Yanya has shared the video for her Painless song “The Dealer.” Check it out below. Yanya released the album, her third, last month. She’s previously shared videos for “Stabilise” and “AnotherLife.” Last month she played “Midnight Sun” on the Tonight Show. Yanya is set to kick off the U.S. leg of her world tour this month in Austin, Texas.  Read Pitchfork’s “Rising” feature “Nilüfer Yanya’s Brilliantly Nonchalant Guitar Soul.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.

Hercules & Love Affair have shared a new single from the forthcoming album In Amber. It features ANOHNI, marking Andy Butler’s first song with her since “Blind” from Hercules & Love Affair’s self-titled 2008 debut. The song also features Budgie, the drummer best known as a member of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Listen to it below. In a statement, Butler said, “‘Poisonous Storytelling‘ started as a song called ‘Sacral’—the music evoked sacred rites, but the word ‘Sacral’ also speaks to the one of the sources of our rootedness and stability.” ANOHNI added: “We must be careful with new narratives, because everyone is rotted out from poisonous storytelling.” In Amber is out June 17 (via Skint/BMG). “Poisonous Storytelling” has also been remixed by Justin K Broadrick of Godflesh and the t...