May 2021 | Music Junkie Press

DROWN THIS CITY ANNOUNCE UPCOMING EP ‘COLOURS WE WON’T KNOW’

May 6, 2021

Melbourne metalcore risers Drown This City have announced their new EP “Colours We Won’t Know” will be released on Friday, May 28 via UNFD. Following their new single and video “New Burn Order” last month, the band is following up with a fierce new cut from the EP titled “Borderline Existence” today. DTC vocalist Alex Reade shares how the track’s haunting scenario – depicting a person’s out of body experience watching on at themselves trapped in an asylum – represents the agitation and anger she’s experienced feeling forced to pursue a certain path due to external pressure placed on her. “I’ve found myself wearing thin because of this, wondering what I was fighting against and how long could I keep going for. This song reflects the battle I feel to succeed against all odds, fuelled by sheer terror that my life will be for nothing”, she shares. “The line ‘I really thought that I’d amount to something, I should have known you’d get me in the end’ really reflects the exhaustion I feel wondering if [Read More]

Sumo Cyco drop new single “Bad News”

May 5, 2021

Prepared to satiate a legion of devoted fans, Canadian alt-metal/heavy rock crossover stars SUMO CYCO will finally drop their highly anticipated upcoming full-length album, Initiation, this Friday, May 7 via Napalm Records! If their three ultra-successful current singles “No Surrender“, “Bystander“, and the Kane Churko (Ozzy Osbourne, In This Moment, Papa Roach) produced “Vertigo” (which have now surpassed one million combined cross-platform streams/views) are any indication, it should come as no surprise that the band’s final pre-album single – the eclectic, infectious “Bad News” – is another total winner, showing off the band’s perfected multi-genre attack more potently than ever! Frontwoman Skye “Sever” Sweetnam says about “Bad News”: “I’m sure many people can relate to feeling like everyday is ‘Bad News’ over and over again. There was a point in 2020 when I was so glued to the news and current events it felt like my personal identity was fading away into an abyss and replaced with a scrolling, media consuming robot. It made me miserable, but I felt like I had a responsibility to [Read More]

SYDNEY SPRAGUE RELEASES THE NEW MUSIC VIDEO FOR “END OF THE WORLD”

May 5, 2021

Sydney Sprague has released the new music video for the song “end of the world” taken from her critically acclaimed album “maybe i will see you at the end of the world”, which is out now through Rude Records. Her songs and music videos for “quitter”, “object permanence”, “staircase failure” and “steve” have grabbed the attention of places like NPR, Refinery29, Under The Radar, Atwood Magazine, CLASH Magazine, The Line of Best Fit, UPROXX and more who steadily keep Sydney’s songs in their New Music Friday highlights of the week. She’s also been added to Spotify’s top indie playlists such as Fresh Finds and Amazon’s Fresh Indie. Sydney Sprague makes music for the end of the world. With everything seemingly imploding in on itself, there’s one thing we can all try to be: authentic, and that’s the one word that best describes Sydney’s songwriting. There’s a connection felt immediately between Sydney and the listener. She’s able to vocalize everything everyone can’t put into words sometimes and holds a rhythm that blurs the line between melancholy [Read More]

Hacktivist release new version of “Reprogram”

May 4, 2021

UK grime-metal quintet Hacktivist have revealed a new take on their single ‘Reprogram’, originally released in 2019. The new version, which features on their eagerly anticipated album “Hyperdialect”, sees Hacktivist’s new line-up put a fresh spin and shine on their earlier material, with new instrumentation throughout. Check out the new recording of ‘Reprogram’. “Hyperdialect” will be released on June 18th via UNFD. Co-vocalist Jot Maxi comments: “There’s a double meaning to this one. Society needs reprogrammed, Hacktivist has been reprogrammed, so if you’re listening and you’re vibing out to it, have a little think about what you might need to do in your own life to reprogram – to make yourself like yourself better, or to have less regret. Society needs a reboot, our band has had a reboot, so why don’t you? At the same time, it’s got this little science fiction story within it, about a future that breaks down and actually needs reprogrammed from zero. In an ideal world, hopefully, we will have all reprogrammed before anything like that happens to us [Read More]

Descendents announce new album “9th & Walnut”

May 4, 2021

Today, legendary punk band Descendents announce their upcoming album “9th & Walnut” due out July 23 via Epitaph Records. Recorded in 2002, the original four-piece lineup — bassist Tony Lombardo, drummer Bill Stevenson, guitarist Frank Navetta (d. 2008), and vocalist Milo Aukerman — entered the studio to finally record the songs with which they first forged their genre-defining sound. Named for their Long Beach practice space back in the day, the 18-track collection features the bands’ earliest material written from 1977 through 1980. The collection also includes Descendents’ debut tracks “Ride the Wild” & ”It’s a Hectic World” (heard here for the first time with vocals by Milo), and the Dave Clark Five’s “Glad All Over” with the full Descendents treatment. The band offers the first glimpse of 9th & Walnut with “Baby Doncha Know.” “’Baby Doncha Know’ was maybe the 5th song we learned,” recalls drummer Bill Stevenson. “We would go out to 9th & Walnut every weekend and practice all day. I mainly just remember being in awe of how ‘a kid my [Read More]

Mannequin Pussy release new song and video for “Perfect”

May 2, 2021

Indie-Punk-band Mannequin Pussy will release a five-song EP on May 21st via Epitaph records. The EP is produced by Will Yip and follows the 2019 released and highly praised album “Patience”, which made it into several annual hit lists (f.e. Pitchfork, NPR, Rolling Stone, Spin, Flood, Vogue). After the band released the song “Control” last month, they shared the title track of the upcoming EP “Perfect” a few days ago. Check out the short, flashy mini movie: Singer and guitarist Missy comments: “Last year, I found myself spending more time on my phone than I ever had in my life. Physically separate from other people, I spent hours of time watching other humans perform on my rectangle. I realized that through years of social media training, many of us have grown this deep desire to manicure our lives to look as perfect, as aspirational as possible We want to put ourselves out there, share our lives, our stories, our day to day – and these images and videos all shout the same thing: ‘Please look [Read More]

Gloo (UK) present new song “Big Smoke”

May 2, 2021

UK-Indie rockers Gloo present the video for their new single “Big Smoke”. The catchy track is another sign for a new studio record, which is supposed to be released this year via Hassle Records. “Big Smoke” was recorded with producer Jag Jago (The Maccabees, Jamie T, The Ghost Of A Thousand), just like “Down” and “Work So Hard“. Singer and drummer Mark comments: “It’s so easy to romanticise life… Daydreaming and think that moving to London, getting married or having a nice car can fix all your problems. From what I can see, these things are much more of a smokescreen than a remedy… So! Here’s 2 minutes and 25 seconds of me shouting about how much it annoys me.” For more information on Gloo, follow their social media: https://www.facebook.com/glooband https://www.instagram.com/glooband https://twitter.com/glooband?lang=de