Albums Out Today: Iceage, dodie, Weezer, Squid, Czarface and MF DOOM, Miranda Lambert, Nancy Wilson
Iceage,
Iceage are back with their fifth album,
Seek Shelter, out now via Mexican Summer. The Danish rock outfit recorded the LP over the course of 12 days with help from producer Sonic Boom (Pete Kember of Spacemen 3) at Namouche, a dilapidated wood-paneled vintage studio in Lisbon. It marks the first time the band have ever worked with an outside producer for one of their albums and their first full-length with guitarist Casper Morilla Fernandez. The follow-up to 2018’s
Beyondless,
Seek Shelter was mixed by Shawn Everett and was preceded by the singles ‘High & Hurt’, ‘Shelter Song’, ‘Vendetta’, ‘The Holding Hand’, and ‘Gold City’.
Ten years after uploading her first original song on YouTube, dodie has released her debut studio album,
Build a Problem. Though this marks her first full-length release, the 25-year-old British singer-songwriter, born Dorothy Miranda Clark, has established a strong online presence with nearly 2 million subscribers on her main YouTube channel, and her three independently released EPs – 2016’s
Intertwined, 2017’s
You, and 2019’s
Human – went on to reach the UK pop charts. One thing dodie’s videos and her music have in common is that they both can feel like soul-baring admissions of vulnerability. Throughout her career, she’s channeled that intimacy through lush folk pop built around soft vocals and plucky acoustic guitars, and her debut LP is no different – this time, though, the variations in sound and mood also reflect the contradictions she often speaks about in her discussions of mental health. Working with producer Joe Rubel as well as an 13-piece orches
OUT NOW
“‘Sword From The Stone’ is destined to become the ultimate pandemic anthem.” – Daily Star
“Stunning” – The Sun
“With ‘Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted,’ Passenger has crafted artful, hooky anthems that stick with you in the way the best pop songs often do.” – All Music
Following the release of his acclaimed new album
SONGS FOR THE DRUNK AND BROKEN HEARTED,
Passenger (Mike Rosenberg) now shares
‘Sword from the Stone (Gingerbread Mix)’, a special single version of the album’s opening track produced by
Ed Sheeran and
Spike Stent.
Written during lockdown,
‘Sword from the Stone’ is instantly relatable as Rosenberg struggles with feelings of loneliness during these isolating times and reflects on a past love. The song juxtaposes simple conversation in the verses with an outpour of raw emotion in the chorus.
Rolling Stone Passenger Drops Ed Sheeran-Produced ‘Gingerbread Mix’ of ‘Sword From the Stone’
Original version appears on English singer-songwriter’s new album,
Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted
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English singer-songwriter Passenger has shared a new mix of his track, “Sword From the Stone,” co-produced by Ed Sheeran.
Sheeran and Joe Rubel helmed the so-called “Gingerbread Mix,” in which they transform the airy original with some extra punch in the piano, shuffle in the drums and other atmospheric touches that lend the song a pop sheen without sacrificing any feeling from the original.
“Sword and the Stone” appears on Passenger’s new album,
NEW ALBUM SONGS FOR THE DRUNK AND BROKEN HEARTED OUT NOW “‘Sword From The Stone’ is destined to become the ultimate pandemic anthem.” – Daily Star “Stunning” – The Sun “A perfect lockdown companion.” – “With ‘Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted,’ Passenger has crafted artful, hooky anthems that stick with you…