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SOHN "Signal", signals the master craftsman's return following a stint of production in the studio with Banks among others.



Best news of the week so far without a shadow of a doubt is the fact that Baltimore's Future Islands are putting out a new single on 4AD and you can listen to "Haunted By You", right now.



Having gone missing for most of November and December last year, we negelcted to inform you of the new stuff from Purity Ring, including previous track "Push Pull". Well off the back of that, the duo have unveiled details of their Shrines follow up, Another Eternity and dropped new track "Begin Again".

Merchandise unveil video for "Telephone" from one of this years best releases, After The End.

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It seems like new video day today, first Wampire and now Merchandise with this self directed video for After The End joint, "Telephone".

Merchandise unveil "Green Lady" another cut from upcoming LP At The End.

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We've featured a whole host of tracks from the band in recent months and it feels good to know that come August 25th, we'll all be able to get our hands on the full copy of MerchandiseAt The End.

Watch the video for "Enemy", a new track from Merchandise's forthcoming album After The End


You heard "Little Killer" a while back, now take a look at the video for "Enemy", the next single to be taken from Merchandise's highly anticipated upcoming album on 4AD.

Merchandise unveil new single "Little Killer" & announce new album ahead of their upcoming London show

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Aired for the first time on Radio 1 last night, Merchandise's "Little Killer" is the first track to be taken from their forthcoming LP After The End, which will be released this August via 4AD.

Merchandise unveil "Figured Out" as part of their split 12" with Milk Music and Destruction Unit, for Record Store Day.

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"Figured Out" is Merchandise's first bit of new material since the release of "Begging For Your Life" / "In The City Light" back in January and hopefully a sign of things to come.

Watch SOHN perform his latest track "Artifice" live for a 4AD Session.



"Artifice" is set to feature on Sohn's upcoming LP, Tremors, which is out through 4AD on April 7th.






Following a pretty epic promo campaign, Baltimore's Future Islands have made their latest LP Singles available to stream.

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Off the back of previous track releases; "Seasons (Waiting On You)" and "A Dream Of You And Me", the band have now made their 4AD debut LP, Singles, available for online streaming.

If those two tracks are anything to go by were in for an absolute treat - who knows, maybe even one of our albums of the year?

Singles is released through 4AD on March 24th, to grab a pre-order head here - but until then you can stream the full thing for now, below. Keep on dancing!


Baltimore post-waver's Future Islands unveil "A Dream Of You And Me" ahead of their upcoming Singles release on 4AD.

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Off the back of the brilliant "Seasons (Waiting On Me)"comes Future Islands' equally brilliant, "A Dream Of You And Me".

London via Vienna's SOHN announces debut album Tremors, unveils "Artifice".

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Now all the dust seems to have settled around SOHN's release of "Artifice", his first track to come from debut LP Tremors, we can now post feeling largely and proudly unbiased. We loved early track "The Wheel" and with "Artifice" in comparison, SOHN's sound has progressed ten-fold.

Future Islands return with "Seasons (Waiting On You)" fresh from signing to 4AD for fourth LP, Singles.

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Considering Baltimore's Future Islands have switched labels, one thing's for sure; there's no chance of a change in those anthemic indie/electro/synth pop anthems we're so used to hearing from the group and "Seasons (Waiting For You)" will back it up.

Merchandise sign to 4AD and unveil a re-working of "Begging For Your Life / In The City"

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After dodging every single label under the sun for the past 18 months, 1FTP fav's Merchandise have finally penned a deal with one of the best labels out there right now, 4AD. And so, with a new album in the pipeline, they're releasing "Begging For Your Life / In The City Light" (it's full 14 minutes) as as single in the meantime.



First we were brought a cover of Donnie & Joe Emmerson's "Baby" and then given a free download of the brilliant, "Only In My Dreams", now we can bring you the stream of Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's Mature Themes.



It certainly feels like Purity Ring's debut LP Shrines has took a long time coming. And in a way it has, ever since early 2011 with "Ungirthed" to be precise.


As anticipation builds for Purity Ring's debut LP Shrines next month, out comes another cut from the LP in form of the wonderfully sing-a-long "Fineshrine".



After the success of 'Before Today' back in 2010, the ever enigmatic Ariel Pink and his Haunted Grafitti have announced its follow up, 'Mature Themes', and today show off the first cut from it - "Baby".



Purity Ring, straight off the back of Certified New track "Obedear", have finally dropped their debut video and it's for the rework of last year's skittish, "Belispeak".



We haven't heard much from Purity Ring since "Belispeak" in August last year, but following on from their debut album announcement last month, the band finally have some new sounds with "Obedear".