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One Liners: Boyzone, Blood Orange, Idles, more

By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 26 July 2018

Other notable announcements and developments today…

• Boyzone have released new single ‘Because’. It’s co-written by Ed Sheeran. The band will release their final album, ‘Thank You And Goodnight’, on 16 Nov. Have a listen to the new track here and see if you can work out what song Sheeran has (allegedly) ripped off this time.

• Blood Orange has released new track ‘Charcoal Baby’. His new album ‘Negro Swan’ is out on 24 Aug.

• Idles have released new single ‘Samaritans’. “I truly believe that masculinity has gone from an evolution of cultural praxis to a disease”, says frontman Joe Talbot. “I wanted to encourage a conversation about gender roles by writing this song”.

• Tālā has released new single ‘Bedtime’. “When I wrote ‘Bedtime’ I was going through a lot of personal trauma in my life”, she says. “It was very in the moment and very real”.

• Pale Waves have announced that they will release their debut album, ‘My Mind Makes Noises’, on 14 Sep. They’re touring the UK and Ireland in September and October too. Here’s new single, ‘Eighteen’.

• Alexander Tucker has released new track ‘Visiting Again’. His new album, ‘Don’t Look Away’, is out on 24 Aug.

• Our Girl have released the video for recent single ‘In My Head’.

• HMS Morris have announced that they will return with their second album, ‘Inspirational Talks’, on 21 Sep. Here’s new single ‘Phenomenal Impossible’.

• Check out our weekly Spotify playlist of new music featured in the CMU Daily – updated every Friday.