“This song is about my internal battle with this new era of social media we live in,” Katie explains. “The lyrics “rewrite your mind” pretty much just mean that I need to rethink what I thought being a musician was like, and get with “the times”. If I don’t do it, somebody else will.

“One voice tells me they can “take it all away” if we don’t use social media to try and make it as a band. Another voice tells me to “rewrite” my mind, so maybe it’s not so bad to use this new tool of promotion.”

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Goat Girl have released a new single, ‘words fell out’. The trio’s third record, Below The Waste is set for release on June 7 via Rough Trade Records, and has already been teased by early singles ‘ride around’ and ‘motorway’. Singer/guitarist Lottie Pendlebury wrote the track while watching drummer Rosy Jones struggle with addiction, she explains: “The song is about the helplessness felt amongst our friends as we attempted to nurture Rosy, a time that felt really hard to find words for. “I wrote it to sort through the emotions that are pushed aside in the midst of dealing with a crisis. The opening line ‘I only want the best for you’ is the central theme, not only of the song but also our friendship.” [via Dork]

Canadian singer/songwriter Goldie Boutilier has released ‘The Actress’, the first track from her upcoming EP of the same name for release later this year via ONErpm. It features Goldie exuding her unique cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, glamour and melancholia. The accompanying video, shot in Montréal, QC with Kevin Calero and Wynn Holmes can be seen below. “This song is my triumphant return,” states Goldie. “I’ve grown, conquered my demons, and now stand confident. It’s a sassy statement to men and anyone who believes they hold control over me. I used to claim I was a great actress due to a life spent pretending. Now, I am in the driver’s seat. I am The Actress, and everyone is an extra in my movie.” [via Broadway World]

ATARASHII GAKKO! dropped its new music video accompanying ‘Fly High,’ a track off the four-member group’s first full album in five years entitled AG! Calling. The first song on the group’s third full-length project, ‘Fly High’ is being featured as the opening theme song of the recently released animated Netflix movie Hanma Baki VS Kengan Ashura. The four women perform their latest dance moves in a boxing ring in this new video, and hyper-muscular versions of the members transformed through hard training in the gym also appear. [via Billboard]

French pop and nu-disco group L’Impératrice have released their new album Pulsar and also sharednew video ‘Any Way,’ a collaboration with Maggie Rogers. “L’Impératrice has been one of my favorite bands for a few years now, so when we started talking about working together on some music, I jumped at the opportunity to travel to Paris and create with them,” Rogers said in a statement. “The song came together really naturally and effortlessly in one afternoon and I really think it represents this perfect hybrid of what we both do. I’m so happy it’s out in the world.” “The French way is that we are pretty slow people,” the band’s founder, Charles de Boisseguin, added. “We really take time to make things good. But Maggie Rogers showed up and showed us her skills and the American way. It was a magical moment.” ‘Any Way’ comes with a music video directed by Zite and Léo. Pulsar also has guests Erick The Architect and Fabiana Martone. [via Stereogum]

Picture Parlour are back with news of a new EP. The London-based foursome will release Face In The Picture next week, on June 14, teased by the title-track and accompanied by an intimate release party at London’s Third Man Records on June 18. Of the release – which will follow their early singles ‘Norwegian Wood’ and ‘Judgement Day’ – singer and guitarist Katherine Parlour says: “The face in the picture represents the haunting of the past. The song confronts turbulent relationships with the things we have seen or experienced. Our track is a portal to remind the listener that the faces, feelings, and wounds which fade as time progresses never truly leave us.” [via Dork]

Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan hard launched their relationship at this year’s Met Gala and now they’re following in the time-honored Hollywood couple tradition of making a music video together. Keoghan starred as the bad boy to Carpenter’s (semi) good girl in the video for her new Jack Antonoff-produced single, ‘Please Please Please.’ The four-minute video begins with a nod to Carpenter’s currently inescapable hit, ‘Espresso’. The video for that earworm ends with her being arrested, and ‘Please, Please, Please’ picks up with Carpenter and Keoghan meeting in jail. Carpenter, rocking her signature fluffy curtain bangs, gets out, but returns to visit Keoghan in a Bonnie and Clyde-era Faye Dunaway look by way of 2024. Later, she greets him outside the jail yard atop a vintage car in a luxe pink fur coat, where they embrace. Things quickly go awry, though, as Keoghan’s character fails to get on the straight and narrow. As the song, which has a Kacey Musgraves twang to it, continues, Carpenter begs her love to “please, please, please” not embarrass her. “Heartbreak is one thing, my ego’s another,” she croons, voicing the concerns of any woman who’s ever bragged about a man only to be thoroughly humiliated by him. In the end, she chooses herself over him, handcuffing Keoghan and planting a kiss over his duct-taped lips to say goodbye. [via W Magazine]

Ariana Grande has released a new music video for her Eternal Sunshine cut ‘The Boy Is Mine.’ Directed by Christian Breslauer, the clip shows Grande tuning in for a TV press conference from the city’s mayor, played by Gossip Girl and You actor Penn Badgley, and concocting a love potion in her kitchen to win his heart. Once finished, she dons a Catwoman suit and breaks into his apartment to stalk him. Brandy and Monica also star as news reporters. Watch it below. [via Pitchfork]

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Haunting, coy and vulnerable, ‘L Word’ is an incredibly intimate look into Katie’s private thoughts surrounding her hesitations with love. Soaring, reverb-doused vocals, oscillating lyricisms and howling riffs immaculately compliment her fears towards opening up to loved ones about her feelings. “This song is personal to me”, she candidly states, “and quite frankly lays all the emotion down right in front of your ears and eyes. I’m not known for verbally saying “I love you” to the people I love.”

She confesses that love puzzles her somewhat, however, not knowing if her feelings are true. Sometimes she doesn’t know if she’s “in love” or if there’s simply a reluctance to relinquish that relationship when she knows it so well, because “letting go is just too hard”. The video, directed by Leon Brinkley, further presents the notion of toeing the line between romance and conflict, with hazy rosy and mauve party scenes contrasting with solo darkened shots of the lone, lovelorn protagonists.

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Sprightly, synth-heavy, and softly chirpy goth-pop ‘Summer Haze’ sinks its teeth into a hazy, smoke-induced hysteria in the most soothing of ways. Swirling with reverb and jangles, albeit tranquil on the surface when bypassing the lyrical content, it in fact details vocalist Katie Dillon having a freak out after experimenting with smoking marijuana for the first time. “I think this song makes it out that I’ve done something much worse.” She says, referring to the melodrama of her swivet. “It’s about the first time ever I smoked weed in central park in Chelmsford, so some of you can imagine that was already a bad choice. This song tells the story of that time, the parts where I thought I was gonna die or I thought there were undercover police.”

However, there’s more to the story than meets the eye. Katie confesses, “As the song goes, I start to realise that it wasn’t just about the drug. I start to realise that I’m just falling apart as a person and also that people everywhere are falling apart, but relying on substances to get them through the shit times; sometimes we need an escape but it doesn’t completely push away the problems in our lives.”

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Speaking about ‘Cherish’, frontperson Katie Dillon explains “at the time ‘Cherish’ was written I was going through some weird times in my relationship, I was never good at communicating my feelings and so things would just build up, at the same time though, neither was he. We were young going into it, not that it was a bad thing, but we were growing up together and learning so much about ourselves and each other. What I write in this song mainly suggests to myself, at the time, to cherish the love that we have for each other because ultimately there was too much love and memories and history there to just let it all go. I hope people will feel uplifted when listening to this song. Cherish the love always because someday that person might go away.”

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‘I Follow You’ takes a distinctively darker, more enigmatic turn than their previous single, ‘Angelic’. “Something must have happened in the writing process for the song to take a turn.” Katie explains, “When the song started I must have been in a clearer state of mind as compared to the second half of the song, as it’s far happier and brighter lyrically/melodically. However when it came to writing the next verse and it came out much darker/scarier, I think it must have been because things were happening in my life that weren’t so great, so subconsciously I was writing about it as these words spilled out of my brain and into the song. When you hear the song it takes a darker turn in the pre-chorus, as many stories, books and films, they all have a twist or a fall leading to the climax, as does this song. It’s almost like a story in itself, at least I want it to be seen that way. By those last choruses the “character” picks themselves back up again.”

With the darkness, comes the light. Whilst following a shadowy, hypnotic journey within its lyricism, the contrasting instrumentals adopt an airy, intoxicating structure of shimmering, reverb-soaked vocals, dreamy, warm guitars and soft, delicate drums. Its bewitching nature binds perfectly with the supernatural elements sprinkled throughout the track. ‘I Follow You’ is showered in Irish folklore. The mention of banshees adds to the song’s tenebrous, albeit ethereal energy, serving as a powerful metaphor for the darkness that she felt in the writing process. She further expands on the metaphors hidden in the second verse, stating that the “idea of the “dark creature”, could refer to yourself or when you look at yourself in the mirror, the “hollow being” that exists opposite.”, building on the idea that people interpret messages and meanings in the way that they want to; that perception changes everything.

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The band is led by 20-year-old Irish-born frontperson Katie Dillon (vocals/guitar), alongside her friends Herbie Wiseman (guitar), Matt Carman (drums), and Charlie Johnson (bass). The band have steadily made a name for themselves in the Colchester live scene since playing their first show in 2021.

Katie explains that whilst the foundations of ‘Angelic’ didn’t start with a particular motive in mind, her experiences at the time of writing ended up having an impact on its ultimate meaning. “I started with a melody, and as I was singing, the lyrics were just sort of coming out. Usually this happens because there is a theme going on in my life or others around me. I started with the lyric “my soul’s washed away on this planet”, and then “lucky for you, you’re so manly” and it started to become a song about how women can be disrespected and treated quite badly” explains Katie. “I had seen a friend of mine getting played around by this guy, and also anytime I would go to this pub, the owner would be specifically weird with me. It is obviously the same for a lot of women in general life, where men think they can just stare at you on a train or touch you uninvited in a club. The idea for this whole song was to talk to men directly, it’s a message to respect women. It’s also a message for female-identifying people to really take a look at yourself and see that you are this divine being, and no one can take that away from you, specifically men. We are all angelic, not because a man sees you that way but because you see yourself that way.”

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