Titus Andronicus announce new album Local Business: release date and tracklist

It didn't look like it for quite a while, but turns out we will have a new Titus Andronicus album by the end of the year. Local Business is the follow-up to 2010's The Monitor, and will be released on the 23rd October on XL Recordings. The album was recorded "primarily live with precious few overdubs, with an elite squad of musicians" (including Owen Pallett).The tracklist reveals that a number of songs featured are ones the New Jersey-loving punks have performed live, including "Upon Viewing Oregon's Landscape With The View Of Detritus", from Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol 1, a collection of free material from earlier in the year:

1. “Ecce Homo”
2. “Still Life With Hot Deuce And Silver Platter”
3. “Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With The Flood Of Detritus”
4. “Food Fight!”
5. “My Eating Disorder”
6. “Titus Andronicus VS. The Absurd Universe (3rd Round KO)”
7. “In A Big City”
8. “In A Small Body”
9. “(I Am The) Electric Man”
10. “Tried To Quit Smoking”

Track all the info up to the release of Local Business on the Upcoming Releases page.

Deerhoof - "The Trouble With Candyhands"

Awesome new Deerhoof song from the upcoming new album Breakup Song. Just when you think you know what to expect...

New Deerhoof album Breakup Song: album cover, tracklist, release date

Though Deerhoof have never been my favourite band, they are my kind of band, and I do indulge in them from time to time. Breakup Song (awww) follows quickly after last year's Deerhoof vs. Evil, and sees a UK release date of 3rd Septermber on ATP Records. Tracklist:

1. Breakup Songs
2. There's That Grin
3. Bad Kids to the Front
4. Zero Seconds Pause
5. Mothball the Fleet
6. Flower
7. To Fly or Not to Fly
8. The Trouble With Candyhands
9. We Do Parties
10. Mario’s Flaming Whiskers III
11. Fête d'Adieu

Track all of the info up to the release of Breakup Song on the Upcominng Releases page.

Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes Details

The new Flying Lotus LP, Until The Quiet Comes, will be released in the UK on Warp on the 1st October (a day later in the US). Returning guests Thom Yorke, Thundercat and Laura Darlington feature, as do Erykah Badu and Niki Randa. The album follows 2010's Cosmogramma. Album cover above, tracklist below:

1. All In
2. Getting There (ft. Niki Randa)
3. Until the Colours Come
4. Heave(n)
5. Tiny Tortures
6. All the Secrets
7. Sultans Request
8. Putty Boy Strut
9. See Thru to U (ft. Erykah Badu)
10. Until the Quiet Comes
11. DMT Song (ft. Thundercat)
12. The Nightcaller
13. Only if You Wanna
14. Electric Candyman (ft. Thom Yorke)
15. Hunger (ft. Niki Randa)
16. Phantasm (ft. Laura Darlington)
17. me Yesterday//Corded
18. Dream to Me

I'm imagining what the Thom Yorke track, "Electric Candyman" must sound like. Plenty of "Lotus Flower" music video memories to go from.

Track all the info up to the release of Until The Quiet Comes on the Upcoming Releases page.

Stream Frank Ocean's new album Channel Orange, available on iTunes

The official date for physical copies of Channel Orange appear to be the same (17th July, i.e. next week), however Frank Ocean decided to go ahead and release the digital version on iTunes last night. Channel Orange can also be streamed in full on Frank's Tumblr, so get on it!

JJ DOOM album gets release date, album art, tracklist

DOOM and Jneiro Jarel released their debut single together as JJ DOOM, "BANISHED" back in February. The subsequent album KEY TO THE KUFFS was supposed to come out in May, but now a release date has been set: 21st August. The album's being put out on Lex Records, and features "BANISHED" and contributions from Damon Albarn, Beth Gibbons (Portishead) and Khujo Goodie. A track called "RETARDED FREN" also features, which shares a name with a track DOOM worked on with Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead), and it's hugely likely to be the same / re-recorded. Tracklist:

1. WATERLOGGED
2. GOV’NOR
3. BANISHED
4. BITE THE THONG ft Damon Albarn
5. RHYMIN SLANG
6. DAWG FRIENDLY
7. BORIN CONVO
8. SNATCH THAT DOUGH
9. GMO ft Beth Gibbons
10. BOUT THE SHOES
11. WINTER BLUES
12. STILL KAPS ft Khujo Goodie
13. RETARDED FREN
14. VIBERIAN SUN PART II
15. WASH YOUR HANDS

No news on the DOOM / Ghostface Killah DOOMSTARKS. Maybe it's been scrapped?

David Byrne & St. Vincent collaborative album revealed: first single, tracklist, album art and release dates

Supposedly over 2 years in the making, the collaborative album is entitled Love This Giant, and will be released via. 4AD / Todo Mundo on 11th September. Of the twelve tracks ten were written together, with one coming from frrom the individual artists each. The track "The One Who Broke Your Heart" features the Dap-Kings and Antibalas. Tracklist below:

1. "Who"
2. "Weekend in the Dust"
3. "Dinner For Two"
4. "Ice Age"
5. "I Am An Ape"
6. "The Forest Awakes"
7. "I Should Watch TV"
8. "Lazarus"
9. "Optimist"
10. "Lightning"
11. "The One Who Broke Your Heart" (ft. The Dap-Kings and Antibalas)
12. "Outside of Space & Time"

The first track "Who" is said to be released on the album's new website later today, so check back for that.

UPDATE: "Who" everybody! It is indeed very brassy. I also take the new image above to be the album cover. The release date is 10th September for the UK (hooray):

The xx: new album coming September

This should be no surprise to anyone, but the xx will release their second album, called Coexist, later this year. It's coming out on Young Turks on 10th (UK) / 11th (US) September, and may possibly feature a final version of the "Open Eyes" demo that was released on Christmas Day last year. Stay tuned for more.

Dan Deacon announces new album, and shares new track

Dan Deacon's new album is called America, and is his first on Domino Records, and the first since 2009's Bromst. Will definitely be looking out for this one. The first single, "Lots", is below, as is the tracklist for America, out 27th (UK) / 28th (US) August:

1. "Guilford Avenue Bridge"
2. "True Thrush"
3. "Lots"
4. "Prettyboy"
5. "Crash Jam"
6. "USA I: Is a Monster"
7. "USA II: The Great American Desert"
8. "USA III: Rail"
9. "USA IV: Manifest"