Side A · the five newest blog singlesSide B · the five before them
Inner sleeve · stills from the sleevespull the PLAY tab on each single to load the film
Fontaines D.C.:Where Is Gone?№ NMU 261012 · filed October 12, 2026Julia Margaret Cameron, The Parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, 1874. Musée d’Orsay.
violet edition
James McCartney:Justice№ NMU 261011 · filed October 11, 2026London. The Law Courts, photochrom, c. 1890. Library of Congress.
ink edition
Paul McCartney:Chelsea Boots№ NMU 261010 · filed October 10, 2026Boots, 1860s. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
oxblood edition
ABBA:When I Kissed The Teacher№ NMU 261009 · filed October 9, 2026Frances Benjamin Johnston, zoology class, Eastern High School, Washington, D.C., 1899. Library of Congress.
ink edition
Fontaines D.C.:Tongue№ NMU 260930 · filed September 30, 2026Berenice Abbott, Fifth Avenue Bus, Washington Square, Manhattan, 1936. The New York Public Library.
oxblood edition
Placebo:Helen Keller№ NMU 260928 B · filed September 28, 2026Charles Whitman, Helen Adams Keller, 1904. National Portrait Gallery.
ink edition
Erasure:Wings Of Love№ NMU 260928 A · filed September 28, 2026Eadweard Muybridge, Cockatoo flying, 1887.
oxblood edition
M83:Heart Motion Foto№ NMU 260924 · filed September 24, 2026Georges Demenÿ, Photographie de la parole, c. 1892. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
ink edition
Soft Cell:The Rainbow Room№ NMU 260908 · filed September 8, 2026Samuel H. Gottscho, RCA Building at night, 1933. Library of Congress.
violet edition
M83:Blister Sunrise№ NMU 260904 · filed September 4, 2026Gustave Le Gray, An Effect of the Sun, Normandy, 1856. The Cleveland Museum of Art.
oxblood edition
Echo & the Bunnymen:Take Me By The Hand№ NMU 260903 · filed September 3, 2026Jessie Tarbox Beals, Ring Around the Rosie, St. Louis, 1904. Missouri History Museum.
jade edition
Protomartyr:Feed the Sewer№ NMU 260827 · filed August 27, 2026Nadar, the sewers of Paris, 1864–65.
jade edition
Fontaines D.C.:Marianne№ NMU 260818 · filed August 18, 2026Robert Rive, Atrani, 1860s. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
oxblood edition
Echo & the Bunnymen:The Light That Surrounds You№ NMU 260817 · filed August 17, 2026Frederick H. Evans, Height and Light in Bourges Cathedral, 1899.
oxblood edition
Soft Cell:The Space Inside№ NMU 260811 · filed August 11, 2026Berenice Abbott, West Washington Market, Manhattan, 1936. The New York Public Library.
violet edition
Protomartyr:Sounds We Cannot Hear№ NMU 260722 · filed July 22, 2026William Henry Jackson, the atrium, West Baden Springs Hotel, Indiana, c. 1900–1910. Library of Congress.
jade edition
Echo & the Bunnymen:Brussels Is Haunted№ NMU 260715 B · filed July 15, 2026St. Hubert’s Gallery, Brussels, photochrom, 1890–1900. Library of Congress.
ink edition
Soft Cell:In Heaven (When I Dance With You)№ NMU 260715 A · filed July 15, 2026Marion Post Wolcott, juke joint outside Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939. Library of Congress.
violet edition
Brian Eno & Beatie Wolfe:Afterlife№ NMU 260612 · filed June 12, 2026Isaac Roberts, The Great Nebula in Andromeda, 1888.
violet edition
Peter Gabriel:A Hard Lesson№ NMU 260531 · filed May 31, 2026François-Edmond Fortier, young Lébou wrestlers, Dakar, early 1900s.
oxblood edition
Peter Gabriel:Won’t Stand Down№ NMU 260501 · filed May 1, 2026Gandhi on the Salt March, March 1930. Photographer unknown.
ink edition
The Claypool Lennon Delirium:Melody of Entropy№ NMU 260429 · filed April 29, 2026Central News / Agence Rol, Eric the robot, London, 1928. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
jade edition
Peter Gabriel:Till Your Mind Is Shining№ NMU 260402 · filed April 2, 2026Agence Meurisse, Jagadish Chandra Bose at the Sorbonne, Paris, 1926. Bibliothèque nationale de France.
ink edition
The Claypool Lennon Delirium:Meat Machines№ NMU 260324 · filed March 24, 2026Étienne-Jules Marey, Walking, chronophotograph, 1883.
oxblood edition
Peter Gabriel:What Lies Ahead№ NMU 260302 · filed March 2, 2026Dickenson V. Alley, Nikola Tesla, Colorado Springs, 1899. Wellcome Collection.
ink edition
The Claypool Lennon Delirium:The Golden Egg of Empathy№ NMU 260224 B · filed February 24, 2026Carved peacock, Yōmeimon gate, Tōshō-gū, Nikkō, c. 1890–1903. Rijksmuseum.
violet edition
The Twilight Sad:Attempt A Crash Landing – Theme№ NMU 260224 A · filed February 24, 2026U.S. Army Air Service, Plane No. 30516 crashed as about to land, 1919. National Archives.
oxblood edition
Flea:Thinkin Bout You№ NMU 260211 · filed February 11, 2026Cornet in B-flat, Köhler, ca. 1849. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
jade edition
Soft Cell:Danceteria№ NMU 260204 · filed February 4, 2026Samuel H. Gottscho, Times Square, 1953. Library of Congress.
violet edition
Peter Gabriel:Put the Bucket Down№ NMU 260201 · filed February 1, 2026Santiago Ramón y Cajal, self-portrait, Valencia, c. 1885. CSIC, Madrid.
ink edition
Catalogue · blog singles · newest first5,000 and some · 2011–2026
Liner notes
Blog singles
Since 2011 New Music United has filed one song at a time: a blog single is the track, a few lines, and the film. Five thousand and some are in the catalogue above, from 2011 to this morning, and every one of them still plays.
The sleeves
From 2026 each new single is cut as a sleeve: a photograph from the song’s own world, taken from the public collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Library of Congress; a catalogue number drawn from the date it was filed; and a fold-out PLAY tab that loads the film only when you pull it. The sleeves are numbered № NMU, year–month–day, with A and B when two are filed on one day.
Editions
Four tints so far — ink, oxblood, jade and violet — each a ground, an accent and a single colour laid over a photograph. Nothing is colourised by hand; the picture is turned grey and the edition is laid over it, the way a one-colour print is pulled.
The ten
New Music United is one of ten music blogs published from Berlin-Charlottenburg: ballet20, chambermusic20, classical20, electronic20, newjazzunited, newmusicunited, opera20, realdj, realvj and soundtrack20. The archive stays as it was filed; only the front and the new singles wear the sleeve.
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