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One Liners: Songwriter Fonts, Janelle Monáe, Suerorganism, more

By Andy Malt | Published on Wednesday 11 April 2018

Other notable announcements and developments today…

• You can now get a daily CMU news summary via our Messenger bot. Click here to get started.

• The handwriting of David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg and John Lennon have been turned into fonts that you can download and use on your next big report.

• Janelle Monáe has released another new track off what will almost certainly be the album of the year, ‘Dirty Computer’. This one, called ‘Pynk’, has Grimes on it and is described as “a brash celebration of creation, self love, sexuality and pussy power”.

• Superorganism have released the video for ‘Night Time’ from their recently released debut album. They’re just announced October tour dates too. Super.

• You know how it is, you’re sitting there and then Kero Kero Bonito put out a new video.

• Ishan Sound is set to release a new twelve-inch featuring collaborations with Hodge and Muttley on 27 Apr. Here’s the track with Hodge, ‘C5’.

• Korn’s Jonathan Davis has announced that he will play two headline solo UK shows before appearing at this year’s Download festival on 8 Jun. Catch him at Manchester Club Academy on 6 Jun and London’s Islington Academy on 7 Jun.

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