Romy has officially branched out from The xx with Mid Air, her first-ever solo album. The project is out now via Young.
Like much of The xx members’ solo releases, Mid Air is a dance album. Romy worked with producers Fred again.., Stuart Price, and xx bandmate Jamie xx for the record, which a press release describes as a “love letter” to queer clubs. Still, its 11 songs also deal with heavy subject matter including grief and identity. According to Romy, the record is full of “emotional music to dance to.”
Mid Air begins with lead single “Loveher,” the first song written for the project. The cheerful queer love song comes with an equally wholesome background story: After Romy and Fred again.. were paired up to write songs for other artists, “Fred asked me, who could this be for?” the singer recalled. “And I tentatively said… Maybe me?’” From there, work...
Like much of The xx members’ solo releases, Mid Air is a dance album. Romy worked with producers Fred again.., Stuart Price, and xx bandmate Jamie xx for the record, which a press release describes as a “love letter” to queer clubs. Still, its 11 songs also deal with heavy subject matter including grief and identity. According to Romy, the record is full of “emotional music to dance to.”
Mid Air begins with lead single “Loveher,” the first song written for the project. The cheerful queer love song comes with an equally wholesome background story: After Romy and Fred again.. were paired up to write songs for other artists, “Fred asked me, who could this be for?” the singer recalled. “And I tentatively said… Maybe me?’” From there, work...
- 9/8/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
It’s Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday — especially when it’s New Music Friday! We’re breaking down this week’s best new tracks to keep on your radar.
New Music Friday – September 8th, 2023
Olivia Rodrigo – “all-american b***h (live from rehearsal)”, plus Guts (Album)
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion – “Bongos”
The Rolling Stones – “Angry”
Carly Pearce – “We Don’t Fight Anymore” (featuring Chris Stapleton)
Citizen Queen – “Whatchu Want”
Leigh-Anne and Ayra Starr – “My Love”
Marshmello and Dove Cameron – “Other Boys”
The Chainsmokers – “Summertime Friends”
The Chemical Brothers – “For That Beautiful Feeling”
Tyler Childers – “Rustin’ in the Rain”
LP – “Long Goodbye”
Other noteworthy releases include Katelyn Tarver – “Ignorance Is Bliss”, Romy – “Mid Air” (featuring Beverly Glenn-Copeland), Laufey – “Lovesick”, James Blake – “Tell Me”, Courtney Barnett – “Get On With It”.
Keep On Your Radar:
Citizen Queen – Clique (EP)
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New Music Friday – September 8th, 2023
Olivia Rodrigo – “all-american b***h (live from rehearsal)”, plus Guts (Album)
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion – “Bongos”
The Rolling Stones – “Angry”
Carly Pearce – “We Don’t Fight Anymore” (featuring Chris Stapleton)
Citizen Queen – “Whatchu Want”
Leigh-Anne and Ayra Starr – “My Love”
Marshmello and Dove Cameron – “Other Boys”
The Chainsmokers – “Summertime Friends”
The Chemical Brothers – “For That Beautiful Feeling”
Tyler Childers – “Rustin’ in the Rain”
LP – “Long Goodbye”
Other noteworthy releases include Katelyn Tarver – “Ignorance Is Bliss”, Romy – “Mid Air” (featuring Beverly Glenn-Copeland), Laufey – “Lovesick”, James Blake – “Tell Me”, Courtney Barnett – “Get On With It”.
Keep On Your Radar:
Citizen Queen – Clique (EP)
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- 9/8/2023
- by Mikael Melo
- ET Canada
Following a pair of new singles earlier this year, the xx’s Romy has announced her first solo album Mid Air.
Ahead of the much-anticipated debut LP’s arrival on Sept. 8, Romy has shared Mid Air’s opening track and third single “Loveher,” produced by rising artist Fred Again…
“‘Loveher’ is the first song I wrote that made me feel like I was ready to make a solo project, so it feels like a good place to start the album and to share now,” Romy said of the single in...
Ahead of the much-anticipated debut LP’s arrival on Sept. 8, Romy has shared Mid Air’s opening track and third single “Loveher,” produced by rising artist Fred Again…
“‘Loveher’ is the first song I wrote that made me feel like I was ready to make a solo project, so it feels like a good place to start the album and to share now,” Romy said of the single in...
- 6/7/2023
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Romy of The xx has shared a new single called “Enjoy Your Life,” a sentimental ode to living optimistically. Listen to the track below.
“Enjoy Your Life” samples Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s song “La Vita.” One evening, when Romy attended a concert by the artist, she was moved by the line “My mother says to me, ‘enjoy your life,’” particularly because her mother passed away when she was 11. With that piece of advice as its centerpiece, Romy’s latest single soundtracks a concerted effort to let go of fear and appreciate all the world has to offer.
Produced by Fred again.., Stuart Price, and Jamie xx, “Enjoy Your Life” comes with a music video directed by Romy’s wife, Vic Lentaigne, that splices old images of the singer’s mother with clips of the artist driving with the windows down, swimming in the ocean, and dancing in the club — living her best life,...
“Enjoy Your Life” samples Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s song “La Vita.” One evening, when Romy attended a concert by the artist, she was moved by the line “My mother says to me, ‘enjoy your life,’” particularly because her mother passed away when she was 11. With that piece of advice as its centerpiece, Romy’s latest single soundtracks a concerted effort to let go of fear and appreciate all the world has to offer.
Produced by Fred again.., Stuart Price, and Jamie xx, “Enjoy Your Life” comes with a music video directed by Romy’s wife, Vic Lentaigne, that splices old images of the singer’s mother with clips of the artist driving with the windows down, swimming in the ocean, and dancing in the club — living her best life,...
- 4/11/2023
- by Carys Anderson
- Consequence - Music
Courtney Barnett Heads ‘Here and There’ on Touring Fest Featuring Sleater-Kinney, Japanese Breakfast
Courtney Barnett will play with some of her favorite artists during her touring festival, “Here and There,” set to launch later this summer. The singer-songwriter will be joined by acts such as Japanese Breakfast, Wet Leg, Chicano Batman, and Sleater-Kinney on different stops of the trek.
Other artists featured on the lineup include Bartees Strange, Caroline Rose, Arooj Aftab, Fred Armisen, Lucy Dacus, Snail Mail, Waxahatchee, Faye Webster, Indigo De Souza, Lido Pimienta, Men I Trust, and The Beths. Tickets for all shows will go on sale next Friday, April...
Other artists featured on the lineup include Bartees Strange, Caroline Rose, Arooj Aftab, Fred Armisen, Lucy Dacus, Snail Mail, Waxahatchee, Faye Webster, Indigo De Souza, Lido Pimienta, Men I Trust, and The Beths. Tickets for all shows will go on sale next Friday, April...
- 3/24/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
This follows the rediscovery of Beverly Glenn-Copeland in his 70s – an electronic musician who radiates life and happiness
Here’s a spirit-lifting documentary about black transgender electronic music pioneer Glenn Copeland. It begins with the story of how he was “discovered” a few years ago, aged 72. At home in Canada, Copeland reads the email he got in 2015 from a record shop owner in Japan: the guy offered to buy any spare copies of Keyboard Fantasies, an album Copeland self-released in 1986 on cassette. At the time he was known as Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and the album is a trippy mix of electronica, folk and new age, overlaid with Copeland’s sumptuous contralto tenor; it’s now seen as his masterpiece. He had pressed 200 tapes and sold around 50.
I could watch Copeland talking for hours. With his smiling eyes he radiates life and happiness, basking in autumnal success – the world has finally caught up with him.
Here’s a spirit-lifting documentary about black transgender electronic music pioneer Glenn Copeland. It begins with the story of how he was “discovered” a few years ago, aged 72. At home in Canada, Copeland reads the email he got in 2015 from a record shop owner in Japan: the guy offered to buy any spare copies of Keyboard Fantasies, an album Copeland self-released in 1986 on cassette. At the time he was known as Beverly Glenn-Copeland, and the album is a trippy mix of electronica, folk and new age, overlaid with Copeland’s sumptuous contralto tenor; it’s now seen as his masterpiece. He had pressed 200 tapes and sold around 50.
I could watch Copeland talking for hours. With his smiling eyes he radiates life and happiness, basking in autumnal success – the world has finally caught up with him.
- 11/9/2021
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
"This film, this artist, this music, this story: all rare gems." Greenwich Ent. has released an official trailer for Keyboard Fantasies, a compelling documentary about a musician not many people have heard of. As a sci-fi obsessed woman living in isolation, Beverly Glenn-Copeland self-released "Keyboard Fantasies" in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered home studio, the cassette had 7 tracks of a "folk-electronica hybrid." Three decades later the musician - now Glenn Copeland - began to receive messages from around the world, thanking him for the music they'd just discovered. Courtesy of a rare-record collector in Japan, a reissue of Keyboard Fantasies and subsequent plays by Four Tet, Caribou and more, the music had finally found its audience two generations down the line. The film "sees the protagonist commit his life and music to screen for the first time - an intimate coming of age story spinning pain and the suffering of prejudice into rhythm,...
- 10/20/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
The 14th Annual QFest St. Louis — presented by Cinema St. Louis (Csl) — will take place from April 16-25. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Csl will offer all programs virtually, protecting the health of patrons. Programs can be streamed at any time during the festival’s dates. Recorded introductions and Q&As will be available for most film programs.
The St. Louis-based LGBTQ film festival, QFest will present an eclectic array of 24 films. The participating filmmakers represent a wide variety of voices in contemporary queer world cinema. The mission of the film festival is to use the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of LGBTQ people and to celebrate queer culture.
The fest is especially pleased to host the St. Louis premiere of new works by internationally acclaimed filmmakers Agnieszka Holland (“Charlatan”) and François Ozon (“Summer of 85”). Another QFest highlight is this year’s Q Classic, the 50th anniversary of the trippy,...
The St. Louis-based LGBTQ film festival, QFest will present an eclectic array of 24 films. The participating filmmakers represent a wide variety of voices in contemporary queer world cinema. The mission of the film festival is to use the art of contemporary gay cinema to spotlight the lives of LGBTQ people and to celebrate queer culture.
The fest is especially pleased to host the St. Louis premiere of new works by internationally acclaimed filmmakers Agnieszka Holland (“Charlatan”) and François Ozon (“Summer of 85”). Another QFest highlight is this year’s Q Classic, the 50th anniversary of the trippy,...
- 3/30/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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