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Hot Chip are pretty damn excited to share their Peter Serafinowicz-directed video for Night And Day, the first single from their forthcoming fifth LP, In Our Heads (the album is out on June 11th). The (really quite awesome) video features appearances from Terence Stamp, Reggie Watts, Lara Stone and of course the music constructors themselves, Hot Chip.

"Many animals were harmed during the making of this video. Regrettably, none of them made the final edit" – Peter Serafinowicz

Why don't we quit all this jibber-jabber and just post the damn thing? Well, here we are:

So there we are. The band can also announce that they have invited The 2 Bears, Peter Um and Factory Floor as special guests on their forthcoming June UK tour. The London Heaven show on June 13th is now sold out. UK and Irish tour dates are as follows:

• SUN 10 JUNE – SHEFFIELD, UK – LEADMILL - with The 2 Bears Live
• MON 11 JUNE – CAMBRIDGE, UK – JUNCTION - with Peter Um plus The 2 Bears DJs
• WED 13 JUNE – LONDON, UK – HEAVEN - with Factory Floor (SOLD OUT)
• FRI 15 JUNE – LONDON, UK – LOVEBOX (headline) 
• FRI 27 JULY – DORSET, UK – CAMP BESTIVAL
• SUN 2 SEPT – STRADBALLY, IRELAND – ELECTRIC PICNIC 
• THU 6 SEPT – ISLE OF WIGHT, UK – BESTIVAL

"Night and Day" itself will be available on 12" and via digital download and will come with a remix from The 2 Bears featuring Trim as well as an exclusive b-side track entitled "Jelly Babies". Pre-order it here.

And the new album, In Our Heads will be available on 11th June on CD, LP and digitally. There will also be a special vinyl edition of the album available on gatefold double LP with a bonus artworked 7" featuring an exclusive track. A free download of Flutes is available when pre-ordering the special edition of In Our Heads on vinyl through Dom Mart.

One of the very best electronic albums of last decade, Max Tundra's Mastered By Guy at The Exchange is a solid-gold smash that I would instantly recommend to you if I didn't know that you hip and well-informed cats already owned and loved it.

But why mention this now? Well, as some of you may have figured out from the descriptive title of this news piece, Max has donated the original painting used as the cover art for the album to a charity auction aiming to raise money for awesome freeform non-commercial New Jersey radio station WFMU.

So why not head on over to the eBay page and make a bid? But first, enjoy the video for Lysine, a single from that album, just because:

We've very excited to share the cover for Dirty Projector's Swing Lo Magellan and make the album available for pre-order.

So, let's get down to the details.

In addition to the long-playing compact disc we also have a limited edition Swing Lo Magellan bundle featuring a deluxe vinyl LP and the aptly named "Gun Has No Trigger Tablet Of Values". Each bundle contains:

Limited Edition Swing Lo Magellan LP Vinyl
- Limited to 3000 Numbered Copies
- 180 Gram Vinyl
- Deluxe Tip-On Embossed Gatefold Sleeve
- 11" x 22" Embossed Fold-out Lyric Tablet
- High Fidelity 24bit WAV files + MP3 Download



Gun Has No Trigger Tablet Of Values
- 8" x 8" Square Vinyl Single Pressed on Tablet Thick Audiophile-Grade Vinyl (equivalent to 200 GM @ 12")
- Super-Limited to 1000 Copies Worldwide (pre-order while supplies last)
- A Side Features Single "Gun Has No Trigger' Cut @ 45 RPM
- B Side Features Sumerian Akkadian Cuneiform Etching Of Complete Lyrics Of "Gun Has No Trigger" Translated By Dr. M. Wllis Monroe

PRE-ORDER HERE

In other Dirty Projectors news the band has just launched a new website at dirtyprojectors.net. It's an immersive and mind-boggling experience.

Get those raincoats off and those sunglasses on because Real Estate's easy-breezy awesomewave track "Exactly Nothing" is going to be released as their next single on the 2nd July 2012. It's not from last year's critically lauded album, Days, but it's very much in the same mood (by which I mean "good") and very much of the same quality (by which I mean "awesome").

You can listen to that big slice of summer right here:

The New Jersey band will be back to the UK to play their biggest show to date at Camden's Electric Ballroom on Wednesday June 27th and will be joined by New York's Frankie Rose and London's The Proper Ornaments. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here.

The show comes following sold-out gigs at London's Scala and Koko alongside Kurt Vile.

And why not psyche yourself into the Real Estate gig mood by watching the band's full set from Coachella right here?

Roar! Late last night Animal Collective announced their brand new album, Centipede Hz, via myanimalhome.net.

Centipede Hz (out on September 3rd) is Animal Collective's follow-up to 2009's awesome Merriweather Post Pavilion.

Watch this Animal Collective-esque introduction to Centipede Hz:

And in case you weren't paying attention, here's the tracklist you just saw flash up:

1. Moonjock
2. Today's Supernatural
3. Rosie Oh
4. Applesauce
5. Wide Eyed
6. Father Time
7. New Town Burnout
8. Monkey Riches
9. Mercury Man
10. Pulleys
11. Amanita

And seeing that neither track is on the album, what better reason to pre-order the Honeycomb/Gotham 7" announced last week? Get to it!

You would no doubt be surprised to hear that The Magnetic Fields had released a rubbish video, but that is the case. Well, actually the video is wonderful, but it's about rubbish. Rubbish bins to be exact.

In typical iconoclastic fashion, Stephin Merritt et al have put out a lovely video for the latest single from Love at the Bottom of the Sea: "Quick!", which has at its heart a tentative love affair by two of the loveliest rubbish bins (or "trash cans" for our American audience) you have doubtless ever laid eyes on. The song itself is a strident while utterly heartbroken eulogy for a stricken relationship, constructed around a glacial synth-bass line and featuring the pitch-perfect Merritt couplet: "Torture me for your  amusement/Oh but who will pay the rent?".

The video, though, is a much more life-affirming affair. Watch it here, now, for FREE!

Animal Collective are back with a new 7inch single titled Honeycomb/Gotham featuring two brand new songs. The Honeycomb/Gotham digital bundle is available right now and the physical 7" is available to pre-order now on the Domino Store with instant MP3 gratification of both tracks included. So don't say we don't love you.

The 7" will be released via Dom Mart on the 26th of June and will also be available in stores later this summer. But what are you waiting for - have a listen to both tracks right now, right here:

For all you Eugene McGuinness fans out there, we're excited to share that if you head over to Eugene's facebook page now, you can download both the singles 'Lion' and 'Shotgun' for free.  Both singles are taken from the forthcoming album 'The Invitation To The Voyage', out on 2nd July on Domino.

Head over to his facebook page here to download the tracks and get more news on Eugene.

For those of you not yet familiar with Eugene or these tracks, check out the videos to both the singles below, both directed by the Grammy-nominated, Sundance selected duo Thirtytwo.

LION

SHOTGUN

Baltimore boppers Lower Dens have set a new, weird-but-great video loose into the wild to snap at your heels/delight your senses. The promo is for "Propagation", one of the many wonderful songs included on the ethereal masterpiece of an LP, Nootropics that came out just yesterday. Check out our friends at Ribbon Music for the full story.

Hang on to your beards, because it's a bumper Bonny bag o' bits today; a whole bucketful of news. Are you sitting comfortably (preferably with a glass of your favourite moonshine-flavoured soft drink)? Then let's get to it.

2012 is shaping up to be a celebratory year for Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. First there was Will Oldham on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy – the recently published book of his reflections on a truly idiosyncratic approach and ethos that have seen him rub shoulders and share stages/recording space with the disparate likes of Johnny Cash, R Kelly, James Earl Jones and Bjork in a quarter-century stretch of fearless artistry. The wonderful Faber & Faber published conversation with long time collaborator and friend Alan Licht illuminates the scope and scale of Bonny's unique vision, allowing never-before-gleaned insight into the ideas of mystery, intimacy, spontaneity and community that run deep through his formidable canon of work.

Between 1993's There Is No-One What Will Take Care Of You Palace Brothers debut and last year's Bonnie 'Prince' Billy return Wolfroy Goes To Town, Bonny has released no less than seventeen studio albums, twenty-five EPs and five live albums. Be it in the guise of Palace Brothers, Palace Music, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy or simply under his birth name, the integrity of Bonny's output has remained a constant and his journey through (and indelible impression on) the storied landscapes of American country, folk, punk and indie-rock is incomparable.

It is in the spirit of celebration of an artistic life so remarkable that Domino is this year to re-issue six classic Bonnie 'Prince' Billy recordings dated between 1996 and 2004. On July 30th, new, re-named editions of Palace Brothers release Arise Therefore (1996) and Joya (1997), the definitive Bonnie 'Prince' Billy debut I See A Darkness (1999) and subsequent BPB albums Ease Down The Road (2001), Master And Everyone (2003) and Greatest Palace Music (2004) will be available under Oldham's now stable Bonnie 'Prince' Billy moniker.

Whether starkly primitive and intensely spare as Arise Therefore, rich with haunted grace like I See A Darkness or swinging with an almost straight-up country lushness on Greatest Palace Music, these albums represent a golden era for Bonny as a writer – his powerfully affecting, deeply human meditations on sex, death, isolation and longing achieving a rare universal understanding despite being rooted in a fiercely intimate system of belief.

For less compulsively prolific and relentlessly creative artists it may be tempting to sit back and enjoy such a handsome retrospective at this moment in time but that is plainly not the Bonnie 'Prince' Billy way. Enter another new release, the Now Here's My Plan EP – a collection consisting of new versions of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy classics recorded by Steve Albini, due for release in accompaniment with the Will Oldham on Bonnie 'Prince' Billy book on June 4th and separately through Domino on July 24th. Now Here's My Plan features members of the Wolfroy Goes To Town band with whom Bonnie 'Prince' Billy currently tours and records. You can pre-order Now Here's My Plan HERE.

The track listing of the Now Here's My Plan EP is as follows:

1. I Don't Belong To Anyone
2. Beast For Thee
3. No Gold Digger
4. After I Made Love To You
5. I See A Darkness
6. Three Questions

The Wolfroy players are Ben Boye, Van Campbell, Emmett Kelly, Danny Kiely and Angel Olsen.

The six Bonnie 'Prince' Billy albums which are being reissued on the 30th of July are:

• Arise Therefore
• Joya
• I See A Darkness
• Ease Down The Road
• Master and Everyone
• Greatest Palace Music