Today is All Souls Day. But because I grew up Jewish, I admittedly had to google what precisely that meant. Here is what I deduced: All Souls Day — also called Day Of The Dead or Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed — is a day to remember those who have died. This year, that also means we get a brand-new single from Queens duo the Form...

Queens-based duo the Forms, aka Alex Tween and Matt Walsh, have returned with their first material since 2011’s EP Derealization, which featured the National, Dirty Projectors, Pattern Is Movement, and Craig Wedren. New single “Southern Ocean,” out today, was recorded by Steve Albini, who worked on Icarus and their...

Even without the above headline you’d recognize the voice on “Fire To The Ground,” a track from the Forms’ Derealization EP, a collection that revisits and revamps material from the band’s first two LPs. Here, Matt Berninger replaces vocalist Alex Tween as part of an overhaul of the older track &...

The Forms’ forthcoming Derealization EP reimagines material from the band’s first two LPs. Ironically, it’s these revisitations of older material that have revealed a newly vital band. When posting “Steady Hand” — a remake of the Forms’ “Bones,” from their ...

The Forms, now the duo of vocalist/keyboardist Alex Tween and multi-instrumentalist Matt Walsh, are releasing a new “remix” EP, Derealization, in February. The six-song collection features instrumentally reworked versions of older material and a number of guests: The National’s Matt Berninger, Shudder To Think&#...