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London collective HMLTD (Henry Spychalski, Duc Peterman, Andrei Martynchyk, Theo Spark) today announce their new album FANGS, which will be released on October 23rd. They also today share new single “I Used To Ride In Limousines” which is accompanied by a stunning new video, once again directed by frontman Henry Spychalski.

Of new single “I Used To Ride In Limousines”, HMLTD say –

“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. This is a song about failure and success. It’s about making peace with failure, finding liberation in the sovereign, non-productive waste of failure, and about rejecting all instrumentalist notions of ‘success’ that subjugate life and the human experience itself to ‘success’ as an end goal. It’s about rejecting the ego, and it’s about rediscovering and redefining a sense of self-worth that is entirely one’s own”

On their third album, FANGS, HMLTD have created an entirely new genre: Götherdammerüng (or ÜberGöth). Predictably unpredictable, it could not be further away from their last outing, 2023 rock opera The Worm. The sixteen-piece orchestra has been traded in for Ableton, the timpani and violins replaced with side-chained four-to-the-floor and rave synths, and the gospel choir swapped for guttural gothic howling and black metal screams. The result is both unique and terrifying: a total reinvention and rehabilitation of the goth genre, through the looking glass of modern electronic and doomscroll-era dance music.

This new beginning was accompanied by a change in personnel, with Theo Spark and Andrei Martynchyk joining the fray alongside original members Henry Spychalski and Duc Peterman. Decamping to a ruined château in the Loire Valley, the quartet became obsessed with vampire lore, and the EBM and goth sound that inspired their early work: Fad Gadget, DAF, Nitzer Ebb, Suicide and Bauhaus. FANGS also points to more contemporary influences like Crystal Castles, German hardcore, 2000s blog-house a la Justice, and 2020s sleazepop.

The world crafted in FANGS is full of cosmic pessimism, glowing horror, imperceptible evil and digital dismemberment, ancient curses and ruined castles, Vampires. But it is also a thoroughly fun, and funny, record, as danceable as it is deep. Born of the club, some tracks would not sound out of place on Brat. Like a Smiths song which sounds happy and carefree until your brain tunes in to the misery of the lyrics, it can be listened to – and enjoyed – on two levels. One can get lost in the throb of bass and ludic synths, or tune into the horror of the lyrics which overlay them.

FANGS attempts to offer up a reflection to a culture that – like a Vampire – has lost its own. The result is something not only thoroughly modern, original and inventive – but that feels genuinely dangerous and potent. FANGS delights in this ambiguity: simultaneously indicting decadence, decay and moral rot, while luxuriating in its intoxication by it. Cacophonous sub-bass becomes a chthonic call of the void; seraphic rave synths become the screech of valkyries; four-to-the-floor becomes a deathly funeral march. Vampire apocalypse.

Additionally, following their forthcoming sold out show at Club Cheek, the band also today reveal details of their next London headline show at Village Underground on March 4th 2027. They will also be playing at the Arise festival: Berlin edition, presented by Fetchish, this coming November 7th.

London collective HMLTD (Henry Spychalski, Duc Peterman, Theo Spark, Andrei Martynchyk) today return with new single “Blitzkrieg” – their first new music since the critically acclaimed 2023 album, The Worm.

Mixed by Nicos Kennedy (Machine Girl, Femtanyl), “Blitzkrieg” is an abrasive and confrontational thrill ride before collapsing into its melancholic coda; the band continue to delight in confounding listener expectations whilst at a new forefront of experimental and ground-breaking music. The accompanying video delights in exploring the new visual identity which the band inhabits.

On “Blitzkrieg”, HMLTD say –

“Blitzkrieg is our first single in three years, and a reinstatement of intent and the values which defined our early manifesto: it is a return to radical experimentation, violent confrontation, and music as revolt.”

Born in the club, Blitzkrieg is the clarion call of a new sound, which the band call GÖTHERDÄMMERUNG, or ÜberGöth. In the cybernetic sprawl of AI, hyperreality and techno-capital acceleration, GÖTHERDÄMMERUNG is a form of gothic insurrection which resurrects the ghosts that modernity attempted to bury: plague pits, witches, ruined castles, vampires, as a means of understanding and mapping the new demons created by capital.

They will perform an underplay at Club Cheek, London on October 26th – tickets on sale now – with more dates to be announced imminently.

Jay Som – the project of Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Melina Duterte – will release Belong, her first new album in over six years, this Friday, October 10th. Belong features Jay Som’s first-ever collaborations, and today she shares one final taste of the album with “Past Lives” featuring Hayley Williams of Paramore. Jay Som opened for Paramore on tour in 2018, and Duterte and Williams have wanted to collaborate ever since. The two met in Nashville to try a song together, alongside Steph Marziano. Williams’ soft harmonies on the arcing “Past Lives” reinforce its forlorn sense of drifting in and out of doldrums, of finding momentum only to watch it fade. It is a powerhouse of a tune, its downshifted midsection landing like a fistfight with oneself.

“It’s a dream come true to have Hayley sing on my first feature on an album before the recording “Float”, I still can’t believe it happened,” Duterte says of the collaboration. “She’s one of the kindest artists out there and she graciously accepts and uplifts the people around her. We’re all so lucky to witness her talent and live on the same timeline as her.”

Los Angeles fans can also join Jay Som on Thursday 9th October for a Belong Release Party at Permanent Records. The event takes place from 7-10pm and is free with RSVP. Jay Som will embark on her first tour in over 5 years this winter, kicking off in Europe on 1st November, stopping through the UK to play at London’s Pitchfork Festival on Saturday 8th November, before heading onto her headline run of North America through November and December. See the full list of dates and get your tickets on her website HERE.

Momma, the band of Etta Friedman, Allegra Weingarten, Aron Kobayashi Ritch, and Preston Fulks, today announced Welcome to My Blue Sky (Deluxe Edition) – an expanded digital reissue of their critically-acclaimed latest album – will be released November 14th. The release features five new recordings, including their new single “Cross Your Heart”, and a cover of “Christian Brothers” by Elliott Smith/Heatmiser. The new track, out now alongside a video directed by Steph Rinzler for Prophet Media, is the Brooklyn-based band at their best: fuzzed-out, dynamic, and catchy as hell. Welcome to My Blue Sky (Deluxe Edition) is now available for pre-save HERE.

?“This was one of the first songs we started working on in the writing process for Welcome to My Blue Sky,” the band explains. “We actually were messing around with this one during soundchecks while we were still touring Household Name. We always knew it had potential but we could never fully crack it, and this was one of the first songs we started working on in the writing process for Welcome to My Blue Sky. It’s about a forbidden romance and sneaking around with another person.”

“This video is rooted in the spirit of early ‘90s DIY VHS culture–loose, raw, and unpolished in all the right ways,” Rinzler adds. “I wanted to capture Momma in their own world, goofing around, stumbling into moments, and letting the night carry them. What unfolds is less of a traditional music video and more of a time capsule of a night out. At its core, this project was about keeping the process as fun and unselfconscious as the band is in real life.”

After completing a round of headlining U.S. shows and amphitheatre dates supporting The Marías, Momma’s Autumn tour continues later this month with more UK and European dates, including Pitchfork London, Pitchfork Paris, a sold-out headline at London’s The Garage. Their biggest NYC venue to date at Brooklyn Steel follows on November 20th and they’ll also play Australia and Japan for the first time in early 2026. Tickets for all announced shows are on-sale HERE.

Today, Jay Som – the project of Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer Melina Duterte – shares another track from Belong, her first new album in over six years, entitled “What You Need”, which highlights the collaborative nature of the record.

Inspired by a Peter Bjorn and John song that reminded Joao Gonzalez (Soft Glas) of Duterte’s music, “What You Need” was built together by the duo, crafting a track that is as springy yet sad as the lyrics, a tight-rope walk between adoration and annoyance. Addictive on first listen, it’s a subtle wonder of production, too, its layers of drums and curdled synths serving as a platform for the bright guitars that bend through it.

“Joao created and sent me the basic skeleton for ‘What You Need’ a couple hours before the fires in LA started,” Duterte says of the new single. “I remember feeling immediately drawn to it, but the uncertainty and danger we were about to face crept up, pulling our focus elsewhere. We eventually revisited the demo a month later, after witnessing how the people of LA came together in its darkest moments — it felt necessary and only right to create this song with friends.”