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Release round-up: Kylie Minogue, Afghan Whigs, Barbra Streisand, Swans, Lana Del Rey and Todd Terje

By | Published on Tuesday 28 January 2014

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Rounding up the latest release news…

Kylie‘s back! OK, you already knew that, but it’s still exciting, right? She’s going to release a new album called ‘Kiss Me Once’ on 17 Mar, through Warner Music (having moved over to the smallest major with its purchase of the Parlophone Label Group). It’s now been announced that the first single from the album, ‘Into The Blue’, will come out a week earlier than previously planned, on 9 Mar.

Says Kylie: “Making this album was quite a journey but I loved it! It was through a time in my life where there were a lot of changes and new beginnings. I’m thrilled with the response to ‘Into The Blue’, and I can’t wait for you to hear the rest of the record!” This here is the single’s lyric video:

Meanwhile, having ‘become one’ in 1986, only to split in 2001, only to reverse the split eleven years later by getting back together again, The Afghan Whigs have pinned details on their first LP since 1998’s ‘1965’. Whilst the band released the latter via Sony’s Columbia Records, they have this year re-signed to their long-time former label Sub Pop, with whom they released 1990’s Up In It’ and a string of EPs/vinyl in the early-mid nineties. Anyway. The new LP is titled ‘Do To The Beast’, and will be available on 14 Apr.

A new duets LP by Barbra Streisand and guests looms, as let slip by its super-producer, a Walter Afanasieff, on his site. In a post he wasn’t supposed to post (and thus one that was taken off the site rather quickly) Afanasieff named Beyonce, Stevie Wonder, Lady Gaga, Bette Midler and Michael Buble amongst Babz’ singing partners, though he later added, with his apologies, that the cast-list had not been “finalised” and was still “in the making”.

In more concrete new-LP-news, prog oracles Swans (pictured) have allowed info on their new LP, ‘To Be Kind’, to filter online. Released via Mute, with whom Swans have just signed, on 13 May, it features St Vincent, Cold Specks, Little Annie, and was mastered by Swans’ own Michael Gira in Texas. With a running time of over two hours, it’ll be in stock digitally, on triple-disc vinyl, as a deluxe and/or non deluxe double CD, and, possibly, muses Gira, as a USB stick, “so that this ultimate, high quality version can be listened to from beginning to end, without interruption”.

Moving on to the next bit of this bulletin, without interruption, sweet baby Lana (Del Rey) has released a slightly nightmarish twist on ‘Once Upon A Dream’, to be used on the soundtrack of Disney’s weird new ‘Sleeping Beauty’ remake ‘Maleficent’. Hear it via the film’s trailer here, (warning: Angelina’s sharp cheekbones), and get it free here at Google Play’s pleasure.

And last of all, it’s album time. Norway’s most high disco-pop DJ, Todd Terje, has given his first LP a name, and it’s ‘It’s Album Time’. Which isn’t the greatest title ever invented, but, what can you do. Carrying Terje’s past hit-tracks ‘Stranbar’ and ‘Inspector Norse’, it’ll be released via Olsen Records on 7 Apr. Hear Terje’s recent single ‘Spiral’, which will be on the LP, here:



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