Titled
Fine Anyway, the album comes off the back of Habibi Funk first working with Fakhr on a 2020 compilation of Lebanese music, which was released in aid of victims of last year s explosions in Beirut. Shortly afterwards, the label s founder Jannis Stuertz received authorisation to make this compilation.
Fakhr is lauded among Lebanese musicians, having worked alongside the likes of Issam Hajali, Ziad Rahbani and Fairouz, but his solo music, sung mostly in English, has never received a widespread release and promotion until now. Ahead of the release of
Fine Anyway, you can listen to two songs from the compilation above ( Fine Anyway ) and below ( Had To Come Back Wet ), exclusively via tQ.
Luke Turner
, March 4th, 2021 10:06
Watch an exclusive excerpt from this weekend s GŴYL 2021 concert below
How about this for a meeting of tQ favourites? Nadine Shah has joined Suede s Brett Anderson and the Paraorchestra to perform a cover of Mercury Rev s Holes .
For the performance, which you can watch above, the pair are backed by a band including Adrian Utley, Seb Rochford and Charles Hazlewood as part of a special concert which will be broadcast this weekend as part of BBC Wales GŴYL 2021. The Paraorchestra is the world s first large-scale integrated virtuoso ensemble of professional disabled and non-disabled musicians.
Christian Eede
, March 4th, 2021 15:10
It s the second song to emerge from Xiu Xiu s forthcoming album OH NO
Xiu Xiu have shared a new track which features Liars Angus Andrew. Rumpus Room is the second cut to be unveiled from Xiu Xiu s new album
OH NO, which sees the duo team up with an extensive cast of artists, including Sharon Van Etten, Twin Shadow, Chelsea Wolfe, Owen Palett and Liz Harris, among others. You can watch the video for Rumpus Room , directed by Xiu Xiu s Angela Seo, above.
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Daryl Worthington
, March 4th, 2021 09:12
From restaurant themed sound art to saz led psych jams and pogoing black metal, Daryl Worthington finds the tape scene continues to shine a light throughout these weird days
A/C Repair School is the Brazilian duo of Rafael de Toledo Pedroso and Carolina Simionato (who also makes music as Soft Verges), and on new album Órfãs, they produce something remarkably lucid from the barest instrumentation. Their songs deal with abandonment (the album’s title translates to orphans), and not just in the lyrics – it’s inscribed into the very music itself. Simionato’s vocals on ‘bom demais pra ser mentira’ have a torch song quality, but pulled into the fuzz it feels fragile and isolated – a love song broadcast into the void.