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King Woman Has Returned With Brooding Single and Video for “Morning Star” [Video]
Doomgaze band shares the first single from their forthcoming LP, Celestial Blues.
It’s a music kind of day here on Bloody Disgusting, with two of my personal favorite bands dropping singles on the same day. (I’m not quite sure that’s ever happened before so I’m off to buy a lottery ticket.)
Digressing, if you’ve never heard of Kristina Esfandiari, she’s a super talent who refuses to be defined by a single band. Before coming into her own, she got her start with the popular shoegaze band Whirr and eventually branched off into several of her own projects; she’s dabbled in rap with Dalmatian (her single “Friday the 13th” is a must for horror fans); mutated industrial with NGHTCRWLR; and even soothed with shoegaze projects Sugar High and the (excellent) ’90s-inspired Miserable.
Every single one of those projects is great and yet, King Woman is somehow even better. After four long years, the doomgaze band has returned with a brooding new single and video for “Morning Star” off their forthcoming LP, Celestial Blues, out July 30th via Relapse Records. It’s unbelievably good.
The “Morning Star” video is a raw, one-take performance directed by Muted Widows…
Pre-order Celestial Blues physical and digital packages here.
Celestial Blues tracklist:
- Celestial Blues
- Morning Star
- Boghz
- Golgotha
- Coil
- Entwined
- Psychic Wound
- Ruse
- Paradise Lost
Celestial Blues was recorded in Oakland, California by GRAMMY-nominated engineer Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Amenra, Oathbreaker). The band is rounded out by drummer Joseph Raygoza and guitar player Peter Arensdorf. Visual collaborations featured in the album packaging were created by Nedda Afsari, Collin Fletcher, and Jamie Parkhurst.
King Woman has confirmed a series of performances in support of the new album. Tickets and VIP Fan Club passes are on-sale this Friday, June 4 at 10 am pacific.
July 30 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room
July 31 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room
October 15 Brooklyn, NY TBA
October 16 Brooklyn, NY TBA
October 17 Brooklyn, NY TBA
October 29 Oakland, CA Starline
October 30 Oakland, CA Starline
October 31 Oakland, CA Starline (covers show)
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on Sacred Bones Records.
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “noirish” is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone.
“The trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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