DIGITZZ "Cardboard Planes" release

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After 'Katjing' Digitzz is back with the following video of his 'Thank God It's Froday' EP. Also 'Cardboard Plane' is produced by Soulsearchin 'and the English rapper is assisted by Kameron Corvette. - 

JAY CHOU "One Breath" release

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While continuing to release an album yearly, he also entered the movie business with his debut role as the lead actor in Initial D, for which he won Best Newcomer at the Golden Horse Awards in 2005.[9] The following year, Chou was cast as a supporting character in the world-wide release of Curse of the Golden Flower, starring international Chinese stars Chow Yun-Fat and Gong Li, giving Chou his brief but formal introduction to North American audiences. In February 2007, he finally fulfilled his childhood dream of being a director in Secret, in which he also played the main character.[10] In March 2007, his 8-year contract with Alfa Music ended. Chou, his manager Yang Jun Rong, and lyricist Vincent Fang co-founded a new record company, JVR Music through which Chou will continue his music career and fulfill his goal of fostering new singing talent.

GIRL'S DAY "Darling" (Japan release)

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We saw the teaser video for Girl’s Day’s Japanese version for “Darling” the other day, and if you were curious to see more, here is your chance! The short preview video for the song has been released, and it’s giving fans many memorable shots showing the members dancing away. The Japanese version for the track, along with ‘Something” will be released on September 30thin japan.

 

The release date also will be marking the girls’ debut in the country, so it’s a very special day! If you need a little Girl’s Day in your life to bring up the cheerfulness, be sure to check the short version preview video for “Darling” above here.

DEATH AND VANILLA "Follow The Light" release

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If there were ever a musical Barbarella, the latest creation from Swedish songsters Death and Vanilla, is it! ‘Follow the Light’ is pure intergalactic 60s musical fantasy of the non-gravity kind.

Short ‘n’ sweet, Follow the Light is 2.4 mins of such utter musical other worldliness it would impress the most ardent Whovian. Landing on our aural moon, is a sweet acoustic guitar step sequence, upon which some sonic popping candy and mega-reverbed vocal is multi-layered. The spaced-out sound is built up with the addition of organ, Moog and Mellotron, climaxing with a starburst of solar synth and an Empire Strikes Back military style drumbeat. This is a baroque space odyssey of the seriously trippy kind, and with it comes the most trip-notising video.

Directed by Clement Beauvais, it is a day-glo acid trip, which he says, he tried to make “as haunting, hypnotic and mysterious as the song”. Well mysterious it is; a menagerie of psychedelic images, featuring a ‘Dr No’ like figure and his erstwhile ‘patient’ who is tripping the light fantastic and them some, inside her own head. Dreamy within and without, both song and video will take you, albeit fleetingly, outside of yourself and this planet, into the starlit great beyond.

Death and Vanilla are currently playing live dates across Europe (listed below) to promote their EPThe California Owls, which is on release via Fire Records.

Death And Vanilla Live Dates 2015

18 Sep: Espace B, Paris, France
19 Sep: Levitation Psych Fest, Angers, France
26 Sep: Liverpool Psych Fest, Liverpool, UK
27 Sep: Broadcast, Glasgow, Scotland
28 Sept: Brudenell Social Club, Leeds, UK
29 Sep: Corsica Studios, London, UK
23 Oct: Six D.O.G.S, Athens, Greece
24 Oct: Xilourgeio, Thessaloniki, Greece

MANNA "Your Brittle Bones Are Meant To Shake" release

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It’s been a busy week for Finland’s Manna! In addition to being announced for both our Ja Ja Ja Club Nights in Berlin and Hamburg, she’s also released a fantastic new video for ‘Your Brittle Bones Are Meant To Shake’, which we’re thrilled to share with you today here on Ja Ja Ja!

Manna specialises in a dynamic, moody take on classic singer-songwriter styles, and ‘Your Brittle Bones Are Meant To Shake’ is no exception. Driving, discordant guitar lines make up the nervous system of the song, giving it both backbone and pulse. A bluesy melody gives the song a no-nonsense style that Manna inhabits so perfectly onstage; simply put, Manna is not messing around. With a chorus reminiscent of a playground chant in places, it’s easy to feel worked up by it, but this isn’t the jeer of a bully, it’s of the underdog standing tall and taking charge. ‘Your Brittle Bones Are Meant To Shake’ is not a taunt, it’s a battle cry.

‘Your Brittle Bones Are Meant To Shake’ is taken from her latest LP Blackbird, which will receive a worldwide digital release via Is This Art! on the 2nd October 2015. The video harks back to a similar style which we saw her use for ‘Troublebirds‘ in that it’s a very sparse affair, visually speaking. Like with ‘Troublebirds’ Manna herself is the complete focus, with the camera documenting her movements as she performs in almost uncomfortable focus, but this reflects the song’s tension perfectly. This is not a joyful song, but it’s defiant, and full of vitality – the kind you discover in yourself as you climb back up after a fall.

Manna joins Astrid S and First Hate on Wednesday 7th October at Molotow in Hamburg, and then on Thursday 8th October at FluxBau in Berlin. You can get tickets for just €5 if you become a member, and you can grab tickets right here. In the meantime, get excited by checking out ‘Your Brittle Bones Are Meant To Shake’ below!

Artists: 

• Manna

SNAP CAPONE "Amen" ft. Young Adz, Corleone, Prince (release)

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Snap Capone, Young Adz, Corleone and Prince  have linked up for a new track entitled ‘Amen’, check the Music Video brought to you by Link Up TV. -

FWIZZY1 "Where's My Award" ft. Seejay, Jusco, Shower Malik (release)

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Fwizzy1, Seejay100, Jusco and Shower Malik hook up for new track ‘Where’s My Award?’, check the music video via Link Up TV.

SOX "You Got Sperm On Your Face" release

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Sox records his Hype Session ahead of his clash with Lady Lykez in Lord of the Mics 7. Get your tickets for Lord of the Mics Live here: https://www.musicglue.com/lordofthemi… Lord of the Mics VII Available on CD/DVD: https://www.musicglue.com/lordofthemi…

CHIP "Hat Trick" release

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It’s that time! Chip unveils the third and final diss track aimed at Manchester’s Bugzy Malone exclusively for SBTV viewers.

Purchase all of the tracks now via iTunes here and catch up with the previous dropshere and here.

LADY GAGA "Til It Happens To You" release

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Lady Gaga has been focusing on acting lately by appearing in the new season of American Horror Story, but now she has returned to music with a video for a new song called "Til It Happens to You." 

The clip is a disturbing one that addresses the grim reality of sexual assault on college campuses. It in, we see some horrifying scenes of rape and watch people as they deal with the aftermath of these traumatic experiences. The clip offers some hope for these women and emphasizes the need for a change in order to stop these assaults from happening. The accompanying song is a reflective piano ballad in which Gaga intones, "Till it happens to you, you don't know how it feels." 

Watch the video below. Part of the proceeds from the song will go to organizations that support sexual assault survivors. 

TRAVIS SCOTT "Antidote" release

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Travis Scott is roping us into his Rodeo world again, having just delivered a new music video for his recent studio LP's "Antidote." That said, it looks as if the rapper has skipped out on horse-breaking adventures this time around to keep it cool at a creepy DL carnival. 

The rapper is seen here pulling up to a sketchy-looking fair full of caged dancers and insane clowns. Scott stalks the grounds, taking in an eyeful of neon sights and delivering AutoTuned bars in the middle of a wind-whipping late-night sandstorm. 

While he could be partying during a natural disaster, the hip-hop video's hurricane may well be created by a driver's non-stop donut action. 

Will "Antidote" be a cure-all for your pre-weekend jitters? You could at least give it a try by pressing play down below. 

OUGHT "Sun's Coming Down" release

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Today (September 18) is release day for Ought, who released Sun Coming Down via Constellation, and the Montreal band are celebrating with a music video for the sort-of-title-track "Sun's Coming Down." 

The song is a squalling, half-spoken post-punk track, and the music adds a threatening sense of menace to everything that happens in the clip. We see three young women biking around town and stopping for ice cream, and things take a turn for the symbolic as a boy watches his ice cream melt, the girls smash plates with their bikes, a bird sits in its cage, and we see a collection of broken mirrors. 

Check out the cryptic clip, directed by Aaliyeh Afshar, below. 

See Ought's tour schedule here, and be sure to read Exclaim!'s interview with the band. 

LOCO DICE "Sending This One Out" ft. Just Blaze (release)

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Loco Dice is in the mood to challenge himself.

Summer single 'Get Comfy' found the techno don exchanging fresh ideas with none other than Giggs, and – with new album 'Underground Sound Suicide' on the way – it seems that this pattern is only going to continue.

New cut 'Sending This One Out' finds the producer working alongside Just Blaze, uniting two key figures in the evolution of techno and hip-hop, respectively.

Packed with outrageous energy, the track is already a key point in any Loco Dice set. Clash is able to premiere the visuals, and it pits the music against some grainy, gritty and rather dystopian animation.

Check it out now.

Pre-Order 'Underground Sound Suicide' HERE // Buy 'Sending This One Out' HERE

TORO Y MOI "Half Dome" release

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Reformed chillwaver Toro y Moi recently released the hip-hop-inclined mixtapeSamantha, but now he's revisiting this spring's What For? by releasing a video for his song "Half Dome." 

This psych-pop album standout describes hiking up Half Dome, a rock formation in Yosemite National Park. Appropriately, the video consists of footage of that same geographical feature. In fact, the video was directed by a photographer that Toro y Moi main man Chaz Bundick happened to meet on top of Half Dome, R. Adam Prieto. His nature footage appears inside of a frame, and the initials "TYM" can be seen at the bottom of the screen. 

Scroll past Toro's tour schedule to watch it. 

Tour dates: 

09/19 Portland, OR - Revolution Hall 
09/21 Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom 
09/24 Minneapolis, MN - Mill City Nights 
09/25 Madison, WI - Majestic Theatre 
09/26 Des Moines, IA - Wooly's 
09/27 Grand Rapids, MI - The Pyramid Scheme 
09/28 Cleveland, OH - Beachland Ballroom 
09/29 Buffalo, NY - Waiting Room 
09/30 South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground 
10/01 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg 
10/02 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg 
10/03 Richmond, VA - The National 
10/04 Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live! 
10/06 Charleston, SC - Music Farm 
10/07 Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre 
10/08 Jacksonville, FL - Free Bird Live 
10/09 Tampa, FL - State Theatre 
10/12 Pensacola, FL - Vinyl Music Hall 
10/13 New Orleans, LA - Republic New Orleans 
10/14 Birmingham, AL - Saturn 
10/15 Memphis, TN - Minglewood Hall 
10/16 St. Louis, MO - The Ready Room 
10/17 Columbia, MO - The Blue Note 
10/18 Lawrence, KS - The Granada Theatre 
10/19 Omaha, NE - Waiting Room 
10/21 Denver, CO - Gothic Theatre 
10/22 Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theatre 
10/23 Phoenix, AZ - The Crescent Ballroom 

ROZI PLAIN "Best Team" release

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Rozi Plain is difficult to categorise.

Folk, but not folk; indie, but not indie; the songwriter's curious, whimsical, sometimes funny, sometimes sad but always engaging material lives in a world of its own.

New album 'Friend' is out now on Lost Map, and Clash is able to premiere the video for new single 'Best Team'.

The clip features Rozi, Kate Stables from This Is The Kit and more – as endearing as the music itself, you can check it out below.

MAYBUG "Out To Sea" release

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Maybug is nothing if not honest.

The Bristol-based songwriter tells it like it is, wearing his heart on his sleeve in the process. Emotive, sparse and deeply affecting music, his soft and tender voice is matched to lyrics which come from a very real place.

New cut 'Out To Sea' ably demonstrates this. The melody washes over you, partially obscuring the lyrics which, on deeper inspection, deal with some rather dark moments in the songwriter's life.

Maybug: "It [Out to Sea] is a song about how there are times that I struggle with my state of mind, but that's OK, and not a completely bad thing - and that it is a part of who I am. And also letting go and forgiving myself for that. It is also a thank you to those people who took the time to help me, and how I look forward to being able to help them out whenever they should need it."

Check it out now.

Maybug's new EP is out now – purchase link.

LUO "Ebb & Flow" release

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Luo is all about expansion.

The project's music seems to move ever-outward, filling more and more space as it travels.

A fusion of live instrumentation and flickering electronics, the jazz-tinged percussion is reminiscent of Flying Lotus while the arrangements often mirror the sweeping emotion of the Erased Tapes stable.

Releasing new EP 'Ebb & Flow' on October 9th via Brighton's Small Pond Recordings, the project is fresh from appearances at ArcTanGent and Drill festivals.

Clash is able to air a live performance of 'Ebb & Flow' and it, well, ebbs and flows. There's a remarkably easeful, entirely natural feeling at work here, with Luo building and building in intensity.

Check it out now.

Catch Luo at the following shows:

September
18 Brighton Green Door Store
19 Bristol Stag & Hounds
20 Cardiff GWDIHW
21 Leicester Firebug
22 York The Basement
23 Glasgow Barbloc
26 London The Islington

MAC MILLER "Brand Name" release

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This morning is a good one with the arrival of Mac Miller's GO:OD AM. To coincide with it, the rapper has released a video for "Brand Name." 

The clip offers some eerily perfect suburban living for Miller, whose life is broadcast on television. In other words, it's a hip-hop version of The Truman Show. 

Watch the video for "Brand Name" below. GO:OD AM arrives today via Warner Bros. 

FATHER JOHN MISTY "Night Josh Tillman Came To Our Apartment" release

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Earlier this week, Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) teased us with a trailer for a new video for "The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment," and now the real deal has arrived. 
  
The clip was directed by Drew Pearce, whose previous credits include Iron Man 3 and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, and takes its inspiration from an unlikely source. 
  
"This video is partially inspired by the LeBron James quote: 'It is precisely the superficial differences between people who are otherwise alike that inform the hostilities between them,'" Tillman explained in a press release. 
  
That gets interpreted into a meta narrative that sees two Tillmans meeting at a bar before heading home together for a cocaine-fuelled pool party. A synchronized swim routine is followed by the two Tillmans getting rather intimate with each other. 
  
"Special thanks to my body double Tyler who I had to kiss no fewer than two dozen times and whose breath I can still smell in my mind's eye," his statement continued. Watch the Tillmans get to know each other — and themselves, I guess? — in the player below. 
  
I Love You, Honeybear is available now via Sub Pop. 
  

MYKA 9 & FACTOR "Fly Paper" release

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Back in the spring, Los Angeles underground rap legend Myka 9 and Saskatoon-based producer Factor delivered their latest collaborative effort Famous Future Time Travel, and now Exclaim! has got your first look at the duo's new video for that record's "Fly Paper." 
  
It sees Myka 9 spitting lines through a blue-tinged filter and prism-esque screen-splitting techniques. Of course, to reflect the title and subject matter of the song there are also some superimposed flies buzzing about that ultimately get stuck on some fly paper made out of money. Oh, and there's a special cameo appearance by Donald Trump's face near the end. 
  
Check it out in the player below. Famous Future Time Travel is out now onUrbnet. 
  

LADY LYKEZ "Sox Soar" release

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GEORGE FITZGERALD "Full Circle" release

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When George FitzGerald announced his debut album Fading Love early this year, the British-born/Berlin-based DJ and producer did so by sharing the track "Full Circle." Now, his promotional push behind the record has come, ahem, full circle, since that track has now gotten a music video. 

The clip for this dreamily thumping, Boxed In-featuring dance track is loaded with cryptic symbolism, as a camera spins slowly around a room that contains, at various points, a pregnant woman rubbing her belly, dangling paper boats, a couple dancing and a woman lying on a hospital bead. 

Director Alan Masferrer explained the video with the following statement: 

Conceptually, the video is an abstract and personal approach to the stages of life: conception, pregnancy, birth, childhood, youth, adultness, oldness and death. This is for me the full circle. This idea is complemented by the circular mise en scène, simulating a continuous trip that turns on the different sets that represent each stage, showing that life can be seen just as a representation, a simple play.   

Coincidentally the actress, Anna Hierro, one of the most talented contemporary dancers from Spain, was 4 months pregnant when we asked her to appear in the video. Definitely that fortunate coincidence gave an additional dimension to the essence of the project. 

Watch it below. 

IBEYI "Stranger/Lover" release

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Twin sisters Naomi and Lisa-Kainde Diaz impressed with their debut self-titled LP as Ibeyi earlier this year, delivering an eccentric and refreshing fusion of traditional French-Cuban music with modern R&B and pop. Now, the sisters have unveiled a new video for album cut "Stranger/Lover." 
  
The clip was directed by friends of the band, Léo Bigiaoui and Maxime Baudin, and features close-up footage of the Diaz twins against a stark black background. They trick the viewers with their best visual impressions of one another, as the deliver poignant lyrics "about finding your way out of hard times, while trying to salvage a love that once existed." 
  
You can watch the clip below. Ibeyi is out now via XL Recordings. 
  

FOLLY & THE HUNTER "Awake" release

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Montreal folk-pop ensemble Folly & the Hunter returned with a new LP calledAwake earlier this year, and now they've unveiled a new video for the album's title track. 
  
The clip sees a bedazzled, feathered woman encouraging people to conquer their fears. She helps an elderly man learn to laugh again, and literally turns a child's frown upside down. 
  
"The concept of this music video explores how we can let our strongest emotion, fear, control our lives," explained video director Brandon Calader via a press release. "I wanted to explore this theme without being too bleak or depressing about it. Even if we all experience fear in our lives, how we overcome it is up to us. And when we do beat it, the reward is one unmatched." 
  
Awake is available now through Outside Music, and you can see the band's upcoming Canadian tour dates listed below. Scroll past the live shows to watch the new video for "Awake." 
  
Tour dates: 
  
10/09 Lévis QC - Vieux Bureau de Poste 
10/10 Val-David, QC - Mouton Noir 
10/14 Quebec City, QC - Petit Imperial 
10/15 Montreal, QC - Casa del Popolo 
10/16 Wakefield, QC - The Blacksheep Inn 
10/17 Sherbrooke, QC - La Petite Boîte Noire 
11/06 St-Jérôme, QC - Agora du Cégep St-Jérôme 
11/14 Joliette, QC - La Mitaine 
12/07 Victoria, BC - Sugar Nightclub * 
12/08 Vancouver, BC - Imperial * 
12/10 Calgary, AB - Gateway at SAIT * 
12/11 Edmonton, AB - Starlite * 
12/12 Saskatoon, SK - The Capitol Music Club * 
12/13 Winnipeg, MB - Park Theatre * 
12/16 London, ON -  London Music Hall 
12/17 Toronto, ON - Mod Club * 
12/18 Kingston, ON - The Grad Club * 
12/19 Ottawa, ON - Ritual * 
  
* with Half Moon Run 
  

WAVVES "Way Too Much" release

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No matter how gnarly you may think Wavves' recent "Way Too Much" single may be, it doesn't appear to be anything compared to the damage delivered onto an extreme wrestler in the punk tune's new video. If you've ever wanted to see a guy getting bodyslammed into barbwire as sir Nathan Williams' music plays in the background, it's truly a great day to be alive. 

As you'll see down below, the new music video bounces between shots of Wavves performing the number with some brutal scenes in and out of the ring at an Underground Empire wrestling event. 

For the band's part, they do deliver hooks about as hard-hitting as a clothesline to the chops, and the bass is about as bouncy as a just jumped-off-of top rope. More intense, though, is the sight of one floppy haired grappler just getting pummeled by a Kane Hodder-inspired bruiser. 

You'll find the video down below, via Rolling Stone, while Wavves' forthcomingV drops like a mean left elbow October 2 through Ghost Ramp/Warner Bros. 

THE SHEEPDOGS "Downtown" release

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While most of us, if we're lucky, have drowsy muzak coursing through the overhead speakers above our cubicles, it looks as if a Prairies-area workplace has got the Sheepdogs working overtime. You can find the act crashing Casual Friday with their classic rock riffs in the new video for their Future Nostalgiasingle, "Downtown." 

Desk-locked pencil-pushers are sharing space with drum kits and crooning keyboardists in the light-hearted look at the 9-to-5 lifestyle. The unbuttoned rock posse have different goals in mind than their golf-enthusiast overlord, though, and shirk what one would assume would be a regular day's duties to serenade office mates and slide into boardroom meetings for some funky bass action. 

Will this unorthodox approach get the Sheepdogs a promotion, or at least notch up a couple more albums sales? Who knows, but you can see the video down below. 

As previously reported, Future Nostalgia wafts our way October 2 via Warner Music. 

SPEK WON "Black Body" ft. Shi Wisdom

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As hip-hop fans mull over the titular pun of Spek Won's Sofa King Amazing, the Toronto rapper has rolled out a video for his track "Black Body." 

This a jazzy, politically charged hip-hop track that borrows lyrics from the iconic anti-racism song "Strange Fruit." In it, we see someone lying lifeless in the street while guest Shi Wisdom kneels at a memorial. But the video also has an uplifting tone, as the fallen man stands up and dances and some other folks have a party in a park. Spek Won, meanwhile, struts around in a snazzy ODB shirt, and the whole thing wraps up with an inspirational quote about conquering racism. 

Watch the Mark Valino-directed video below, and read Exclaim!'s recent interview with the rapper here. 

LU HAN "That Good Good" release

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Luhan fans get ready as the former EXO singer is prepared to make his solo debut.

It would appear that an unresolved first court date with his former label has inspired him to be that much more serious about continuing his music career.

On the brink of his solo album release entitled "Reloaded," Chinese singer Luhan has revealed a music video teaser for a new music video. The teaser entitled "That Good Good," is available for fans to view below.

So far, fans have been reacting to Luhan's new teaser by commenting on the sexual nature of his dance moves.

"I'm not even a girl but I'm probably pregnant after those hip thrusts," said Saaim Wahid on YouTube.

"Reloaded" is Luhan's first solo album release since exiting EXO. Alongside Wu Yifan, Luhan is currently tied up in a contract lawsuit with SM Entertainment. After the first official court date on Aug. 19, legal representatives from both sides were ordered by the judge to continue delibertion on Sept. 14

According to Luhan's legal team Hankyul, "The lawsuit was filed due to an unfair contract. We also filed an additional suit for SM's embezzlement and professional negligence."

Luhan's "Reloaded" album was coincidentally released in China on Sept. 14.