Following her signing to Fire Records, and the release of her single “Ash and Orange,” Bristol-based artist Lucy Gooch has just announced her sophomore EP, Rain’s Break, which is described as “an exploration of repression, longing and ‘otherness'”. She has also unveiled the title track, which draws inspiration from the monsoon scene at the end of Black Narcissus (1947).

“That amazing tradition in early film of using weather to reflect the character’s emotional journey – it seems cliched now but at the time it was revolutionary,” she stated. “This is my attempt at trying to recreate the feeling of total surrender to drama, of something totally sensual.”

The accompanying sylvan, nocturnal video, courtesy of director Derrick Belcham, features a self-choreographed performance by Stephanie Crousillat.

Experimental and ambient artist Julianna Barwick has just announced the follow-up to her 2013 LP Nepenthe. Her third solo album, Will, is due to be released on May 6 via Dead Oceans. The first single is called “Nebula” and you can already watch the accompanying video.

The haunting video was filmed in Connecticut’s landmark Glass House, which was designed by the architect Philip Johnson, and directed by Derrick Belcham, who already worked for almost 2 years on videos about this place.

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According to the press release, “Will” is an international project as it was recorded in “a variety of locales, from a desolate house in upstate New York to the Moog Factory in Asheville, North Carolina to Lisbon, Portugal.” It will also feature contributions from Chairlift drummer Jamie Ingalls, cellist Maarten Vos, and Thomas Arsenault, who is better known as Mas Ysa.