First Aid Kit announced their new album, Palomino, due out November 4 via Columbia, and shared the video for new single "Out of My Head," which was inspired by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. "We wrote this song last year together with songwriter and producer Björn Yttling," they say. "It was the first time we wrote for First Aid Kit with someone else and it was very inspiring. The song was written in the spur of the moment, almost like a stream of consciousness. It's about feeling stuck inside your own thoughts and desperately wanting to escape. We produced the song with Daniel Bengtson in Stockholm. It has a bit of a different sound from our previous songs. We wanted the production to feel like an old rock song from the 80s. We were inspired by Fleetwood Mac, Kate Bush and Tom Petty. This is one of our favorite songs we've ever written, we're so proud of it and are so excited to finally get to share it."
Light in the Attic has shared a previously unreleased 1965 Lou Reed demo, "Men of Good Fortune," from the upcoming Words & Music, May 1965. It's the same title as a song on Lou Reed's 1973 album Berlin, but not the same song. Archivists Jason Stern and Don Fleming say it was presumably inspired by the same traditional English and Scottish Child Ballads that informed Simon & Garfunkel’s "Scarborough Fair" and Bob Dylan’s "Girl from the North Country."
Out via Sub Pop Singles Club, this new 7" from UK band The Shadracks. Fans of Thee Headcoatees and Country Teasers will dig the dour, shambolic DIY guitarpop heard on these to tracks.
