Even voorstellen – Purity Ring – announce self-titled album
P U R I T Y   R I N G ANNOUNCE SELF-TITLED ALBUM OUT SEPTEMBER 26
AUG 25 single "imanocean” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjWuQ2dO-qM
JULY 25 SINGLE AND VIDEO "place of my own" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTukPlUdunw

Trailblazing electronic pop duo Purity Ring announce their highly-anticipated self-titled LP due out on September 26 via the fellowship. Their new single, "place of my own" out today serves as a fresh preview to the album.

"place of my own", is a euphoric and pulsating 2025 trance anthem that takes us out of place and time. The words "all i want is a place of my own / some way to be alone" serve as a spell over the blissful synth melodies that have become a signature of Purity Ring's sound. The track takes the listener to a series of disappearing places: "come find me where the ocean's gleaming off the sky / come find me where the cliffside calls / we're out of time." Yearning for a sense of belonging amid places that are slowly fading out of view on a burning planet. This new single brings us the glimmering satisfaction we've come to expect from this duo, yet it lingers with the melancholy feeling of slipping away.
"This is one of those songs that came into being with ease and immediacy. We were in a hazy forest in the mountains, and the beat felt just like the cloud we were in. It was succinct and ready for the type of lyrics that imbued places we dream of, places we wish we could exist in, places we see everyday but are just out of reach. In the end, this song is meant as a sort of spell in the way that maybe we can reach these places if we watch our steps carefully, if we take the time to build them for ourselves."

Purity Ring's self-titled fourth album marks the beginning of a bold new chapter as the band's most immersive release to date. Long known for their fusion of body horror imagery and ethereal electronics, the duo now shift their focus from the physical to the fantastical, crafting a concept album that serves as the soundtrack to an imagined RPG. Inspired by games like Nier Automata and Final Fantasy X, the record tells the story of two hapless characters - embodiments of mj and Corin - on a journey to build a kinder world amid the ruins of a broken one. But this is no escapist fantasy: it is the first step of forbidden dreaming, of imagining a place where the vulnerable are heeded, where grief is spoken aloud and held collectively, where family is a verb rather than a noun, where hope and home can bloom together.

Purity Ring Tracklist:
relict

many lives

part ii

place of my own

red the sunrise

memory ruins

mistral

the long night

Imanocean

between you and shadows

mj odyssey

broken well

glacier ::in memory of rs::

Even voorstellen – Suede - nieuw album – Antidepressants!

Na het succesvolle Autofiction en hun grootste shows tot nu toe, keert Suede terug met hun tiende plaat: intens, urgent en vol van de energie die hun live-reputatie zo legendarisch maakt.
Brett Anderson over het album:
"Als Autofiction onze punkplaat was, is Antidepressants onze postpunkplaat. Het gaat over de spanningen van het moderne leven - paranoia, angst, neurose. We zoeken allemaal naar verbinding in een wereld die steeds meer ontwricht is. Dit is gebroken muziek voor gebroken mensen."

Oorspronkelijk begon het album als soundtrack voor een performance-art-project, maar na drie jaar touren en het intensieve contact met het publiek, gooide de band het roer volledig om. Die collectieve energie moest de studio in. Het resultaat is een plaat die rechtstreeks uit hun livebeleving voortkomt.

Antidepressants werd live opgenomen met hun vaste producer Ed Buller (sinds The Drowners in 1992). De band werkte in ICP Studios (België), RAK en Sleeper Sounds (Londen), en RMV (Zweden).

35 jaar in hun carrière voelt Suede zich creatief nog altijd op stoom. Brett: "Het is echt spannend om in deze band te zitten. Het voelt alsof we nog steeds grenzen verleggen." Bassist Mat Osman noemt het: "Een groots, ambitieus album. Een plaat voor het grote podium."

Naast die muzikale urgentie laat Antidepressants ook Bretts meest persoonlijke songwriting tot nu toe horen. Disintegrate, de eerste single, is een anthem over de aanvaarding van sterfelijkheid, die onze angst voor de dood omzet in een duistere, bijna opbeurende viering van het einde. Typisch voor de dubbele gelaagdheid die het hele album kenmerkt.

Nog wat praktische info:
Antidepressants verschijnt op 5 september 2025 op CD, vinyl, cassette en als deluxe boxset.
Suede Takeover (uitverkocht!): begint op 13 en 14 september in de Royal Festival Hall met twee verrassingssets vol geliefde klassiekers, hits en gloednieuw materiaal. Op 17 september speelt de band een bijzondere en intieme off-mic avond in de Purcell Room. De residentie wordt op 19 september afgesloten in de Queen Elizabeth Hall, met Suede's allereerste volledige symfonische show als headliner, in samenwerking met de Paraorchestra.
Europese tour gepland voor 2026.

(bron: Les Fabuleux) 

Sony music news - Pommelien Thijs releaset nieuwe zelf geregisseerde videoclip voor ‘Ben je klaar?’ en breekt all-time Ultratop record met ‘Atlas’

Pommelien Thijs - Ben je klaar? (Official Video)
Ben je klaar?
Afgelopen donderdag 14 augustus deelde Pommelien Thijs een nieuw voorproefje van haar tweede album ‘Gedoe’, dat op 3 oktober verschijnt. ‘Ben je klaar?’ – de openingssong van het album – is een drieluik waarin stijlen als folk, rock en electronica Pommelien’s gemoedstoestand op urgente wijze reflecteren. De single kwam meteen op #1 binnen in de Spotify charts, en op #2 in de Ultratop charts, net onder ‘Atlas’. Vandaag releaset Pommelien de bijhorende videoclip, waarvoor ze de regie en screenwriting opnieuw op zich nam.

“Dat vind ik leuk aan ‘Ben je klaar?’: dat je drie delen hebt waarin je elkaar telkens weer op een andere plek in het verhaal ontmoet. Je praat bij een relatiebreuk eerst met jezelf, daarna met de ander, en gaandeweg komt er boosheid bij. Het is mooi dat je dat allemaal in drie minuten en veertig seconden kan vangen."

Net als bij haar hit ‘Atlas’ heeft Pommelien de videoclip voor ‘Ben je klaar?’ zelf geregisseerd. “Het speelt zich af in een verhoorkamer waar een andere Pommelien zit. In de andere kamer zit nog een ik, verkleed als alien. Dat concept paste goed bij het bevreemdende gevoel waaruit de song is ontstaan — en bij het idee van jezelf observeren. Dat leek me een mooi vertrekpunt voor een nummer dat klinkt vanuit een break-up. Misschien ís het dat ook, want ‘Ben je klaar?’ is een samenraapsel van alles.”

Ultratop record
Afgelopen weekend schreef Pommelien Thijs ook nog eens muziekgeschiedenis. Pommelien staat met haar nummer ‘Atlas’ voor de achttiende week op nummer één in de Ultratop 50, en verbreekt daarmee het zes jaar oude record van ‘Dance Monkey’ van Tones and I en ‘Blinding Lights’ van The Weekend.

Pommelien Thijs op tour 2025/2026
08/31/2025 Eindhoven, NL @ Hit The City
02/27/2026 Amsterdam, NL @ AFAS Live – UITVERKOCHT
04/23/2026 Antwerpen, BE @ Sportpaleis - Show 1 – LAATSTE TICKETS
04/24/2026 Antwerpen, BE @ Sportpaleis - Show 2 – UITVERKOCHT

Even voorstellen – TOPS Announce new album ‘Bury the Key’

Out end August “wheels at night” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryhNoVnGiAg

Out August 22nd on Ghostly International
- Hear new single "Chlorine" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6fD5zdct94

July 25 “annihilation” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8JUH7w6-qY

live:
Nov 20 - Kortrijk, BE @ Wilde Westen
Nov 22 - Brussels, BE @ Botanique

Following the recent news that they have joined the Ghostly International family, TOPS announce details of a forthcoming new album, Bury the Key, due for release on August 22nd. The announcement comes accompanied by a brand new single and tour dates across the UK, Europe and North America.

TOPS - musicians Jane Penny, David Carriere, Marta Cikojevic and Riley Fleck - write timeless music that reliably threads immediacy and depth. Bury the Key, their first full-length since 2020 and with new label home Ghostly International, is a captivating reintroduction for the Montréal band: ever refined, undoubtedly masters of their melodic craft yet unafraid of evolving and testing themselves against different, at times darker tones.

The album faces feelings once locked away, engaging the give-and-take between happiness, hedonism, and self-destruction. While often inhabited by fictional figures, their glowing, grooving, self-produced songs draw from personal observations: intimacy (both inside and outside the band), toxic behavior, drug use, and apocalyptic dread. When recording started, they noticed a shift and leaned in, jokingly dubbed "evil TOPS," says Penny. "We're always kind of seen as a soft band or like naive or friendly in a Canadian way, but we made it a challenge to really channel the world around us." Through the lens of a looming epoch and the clarity that comes with age, TOPS dip into a more sinister disco realm with Bury the Key, giving their soft-focus sophisti-pop a sharpened edge.

The band share the album's centrepiece with new single "Chlorine," an "empty love" ballad that crosses toxins, the nostalgia of chemical-filled waterparks, and the comfort of an unhealthy bar night.
Jane explains: "At one point I was caught in a cycle of going out to the bar hoping that I would cross paths with a certain person who was not good for me but who I felt irresistibly drawn to. I grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, where it's very cold and I used to go to the pool a lot in the winter. It's also where I first started going to bars to drink with my friends. I was thinking about alcohol and chlorine both being poison, thinking about all the people that I've tried to be close to that have ended up being bad for me, how I still love them all, and I wrote the song 'Chlorine.'"
Emerging from Montréal's DIY scene in the early 2010s as progenitors of an indie pop sound still radiating its influence across the contemporary landscape, TOPS' secret to longevity is simple: keep the songwriting honest and open-hearted and the recording unforced yet pristine, allowing for a band dynamic deeply attuned at every level. Their songs outline the silhouettes of life, and as time goes on - now five LPs, countless tours, and various side projects in - TOPS have only gotten better at what they do.
The voice of TOPS is Jane Penny, a songwriter, producer, flutist, and singer whose hushed delivery hosts a deceivingly vast range of expression and has surely informed a wave of today's greats from Men I Trust to Clairo. Her lyrical subjects never go out of style: dynamics of power, desire, struggles to be seen, having love requited or otherwise. Following her move back to Montréal and first solo release in 2024, Penny returns to the neighbourhoods of her former self a step wiser; the sleek cars and forever highways of her songs, penned with her rhythmic counterpart David Carriere, find assured depth in Bury the Key. Carriere, a songwriter, producer, and guitarist with a flair for high-sheen hooks and the relentless drive to match (other projects include DVC Refreshments and Born At Midnite), adds to his bag of tonal and textural tricks. Drummer Riley Fleck, the band's heartbeat since day one and occasional gun for others (Jessica Pratt's live band as of late), broadens his utility, venturing into higher and harder tempos. Keyboardist Marta Cikojevic, who joined TOPS in 2017 just before the landmark I Feel Alive and in 2022 released her breakout debut as Marci (produced by Carriere), expands her role here as well, joining the writing process and backing Penny for some of the record's fullest, most satisfying vocal lines.
It is rare to see a band so aligned and complete, self-sufficient, specialised but agile and ambitious, reaching an elite level of pop precision as their legacy remains largely unwritten. They've toured the world over, from major festivals to the dingiest of dives, sleeping on floors and tour-managing themselves for years, manifesting their success the hard way. Beyond work ethic, it also comes down to chemistry and taste; when pressed for which artists get airplay in their van, some expected names appear, Fleetwood Mac and Steely Dan, but dig deeper and the veneer of artists like China Crisis, Prefab Sprout, and Francois Hardy, Missing Persons, and Everything But the Girl start to fill out the playlist. An instinct for luster and thrills, songs both sweet and bleak, brings the band to Bury the Key, a prismatic album polished out of the rough. Grounded by pain and pleasure, the complicated joys of being alive, of being a band from one of our era's finest.

Bury the Key track list:

Stars Come After You

Wheels at Night

ICU2

Outstanding in the Rain

Annihilation

Falling on my Sword

Call You Back

Chlorine

Mean Streak

Your Ride

Standing at the Edge of Fire

Paper House