Animal Collective released a new song, Defeat, via Domino on July 26. The sprawling 20+ minute track plays like a piece of classical music, with surprising shifts in mood, pacing, and arrangement. Defeat features guest appearances by musicians Samara Lubelski (violin), Leila Bordreuil (cello), and Ben Chapoteau-Katz (saxophone). Listen below. Preorder the 12” vinyl version here.

The Smile (Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Tom Skinner) released a new song, Bending Hectic, on June 20. Listen below.

Blonde Redhead will release a new album, Sit Down for Dinner, on September 29 via Section1. It’s the band’s first LP of new songs since 2014’s Barragan. Hear the mesmerizing lead single, Snowman, below.

Sit Down for Dinner

01 Snowman
02 Kiss Her Kiss Her
03 Not for Me
04 Melody Experiment
05 Rest of Her Life
06 Sit Down for Dinner (Part 1)
07 Sit Down for Dinner (Part 2)
08 I Thought You Should Know
09 Before
10 If

11 Via Savona

Animal Collective will reissue their debut album, Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished (2000), on May 12 via Domino. The reissue will feature remastered audio, new artwork by Abby and Dave Portner, and a new EP — A Night At Mr. Raindrop’s Holistic Supermarket — of previously unreleased material from that era.

Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished (Remastered 2023)

01 Spirit They’ve Vanished (Remastered 2023)
02 April And The Phantom (Remastered 2023)
03 Untitled (Remastered 2023)
04 Penny Dreadfuls (Remastered 2023)
05 Chocolate Girl (Remastered 2023)
06 Everyone Whistling (Remastered 2023)
07 La Rapet (Remastered 2023)
08 Bat You’ll Fly (Remastered 2023)
09 Someday I’ll Grow To Be As Tall As The Giant (Remastered 2023)
10 Alvin Row (Remastered 2023)

In the late summer of 2022, Liars announced a limited edition recycled vinyl series. Reissues of They Threw Us All in a Trench and Stuck a Monument on Top (2001), They Were Wrong, So We Drowned (2004), and Drum’s Not Dead (2006) were released over the subsequent months. On February 10, the band’s 2007 self-titled LP (cover shown above) was also reissued as part of the series.

You can purchase Liars albums in the recycled vinyl series from first-rate record shops, online merchants, and the band’s label, Mute.