Monday Music News

New York quartet LVL UP have announced that they’re breaking up. Making a statement on Twitter, the band explains: “We have decided to retire this project. It has been an extremely rewarding journey beyond anything we could have realistically imagined... Our deepest gratitude goes out to every label, band, and person who’s played a role in this wild ride.” In one last kind gesture, the four-piece has shared a final single, “Orchard.” LVL UP will go on a final tour that kicks off in Seattle on Saturday, August 11 at SPF30. [ Pitchfork ]

Spiritualized have announced their first album in over six years. Titled And Nothing Hurt, the album is slated for released on September 7th. Today, the Jason Pierce-led band shared two songs from the record,  “A Perfect Miracle” and “I’m Your Man.” A video for the latter song has also been revealed. Pierce recorded the entire album alone, at his home in London. And Nothing Hurt follows up 2012’s Sweet Heart Sweet Light. [ Stereogum ]

Nearly a year after releasing their latest album, Everything Now, Arcade Fire have shared a video for album track “Chemistry.” Directed by Ray Tintori, the clip takes place at a wedding, with the heads of all the characters replaced by computer-animated animal heads. Animated by Starburns Industries (Rick & Morty, Anomalisa), the plotline follows a dog-headed man who falls in love with a cat-headed woman who has presumably just been betrothed to a shark-headed man. "We've been big fans of Ray's work since his early videos and there was talk of collaborating during 'The Suburbs' shoot--we were going to film it in New Orleans but then it got moved to Austin at the last minute, and Ray was caught up working on Beasts of the Southern Wild, “ says frontman Win Butler. “So it was very full circle to finally be working with him in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. There is a playful, carnivalesque energy to the song; to capture that by filming literally during carnival felt right." [ Under the Radar ]