Out now, Nothing is the third album by DARKSIDE and the first that the group – founded by Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington – have completed as a trio with new drummer Tlacael Esparza. Nothing is nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas and loose melodic fragments to...
Out today, Tears of Injustice is the acoustic version of Mdou Moctar’s Funeral for Justice. It is an evolution of the band’s critically-adored breakout – the meditative mirror image to the blistering original. The band has also shared a new live session ‘The Agadez Folders: Live at Mdou’s House’, premiering at 4pm today AEDT. The 20-minute performance features three songs – ‘Takoba,’ ‘Modern Slaves,’ and ‘Funeral For Justice’ – filmed...
Julien Baker & TORRES release new single ‘Tuesday’, offering another glimpse into their forthcoming collaborative album Send a Prayer My Way, out April 18. With a stripped-back Americana sound, the TORRES-fronted song centres on trying to overcome and heal from the guilt, shame and religious abuse that so many people experience discovering their identity and growing up Queer. Send A Prayer My Way has been in the works since Baker and TORRES played their first...
Indie-folk darlings Rowena Wise and Didirri release their stunning duet ‘No Cure For Love’ out through the exciting new partnership with Beloved and Remote Control Records. To celebrate, they announce an 11 date, dual coast Australia tour. Didirri, known for his masterful storytelling and dynamic live performances, joins forces with Rowena Wise, whose crystalline vocals and delicate songs have earned her a devoted following across the country. This national tour...
Jenny Hval announces her new album Iris Silver Mist, out on May 2nd, and shares the lead single ‘To be a rose’, with an accompanying video composed of footage shot on various tours from 2015-2024 and edited by Jenny Merger Myhre, who handled visuals on tour in 2015. Iris Silver Mist is named after a fragrance made by the nose Maurice Roucel for the French perfume house Serge Lutens. It’s...
Leif Vollebekk announces his Revelation Australian tour. He will play four headline shows across both coasts as his sweeping guitar tones and arresting vocals journey across the country. This tour comes off the back of his critically acclaimed alternative masterpiece Revelation which was released late last year. A project which settled Leif into the realm of lasting indie-folk influence. The tour kicks off at The Rechabite in Perth on Tuesday...
Fontaines D.C. launch into 2025 with brand new single ‘It’s Amazing To Be Young’. Produced by ROMANCE album producer James Ford, it’s Fontaines D.C. at their most anthemic and is set to soundtrack a huge year of live shows for the band. The single is accompanied by a video from acclaimed BAFTA-winning filmmaker Luna Carmoon, who previously directed the videos for Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Here’s The Thing’ and ‘In The Modern...
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has released his newest single ‘No Front Teeth’ featuring New Zealand folk singer-songwriter Aldous Harding. The track is full of tension bolstered by time changes throughout the song and the haunting, ethereal chorus driven by Harding’s vocals. The music video is directed by Cody Critcheloe and is a fever dream-unhinged, sexually charged, hilarious and riveting, leaving the viewer questioning what is real and what is an aberration. It features Hadreas, Harding and longtime Perfume Genius band member...
Irish musician Maria Somerville announces her forthcoming second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, due for release on April 25. To celebrate, she also shares the album’s second single, ‘Garden’, produced by Diego Herrera, aka Suzanne Kraft. The transportive track sinks her emotive siren-esque vocal stylings into a whirring, all-consuming merger of soaring feedback, airy percussion, and nostalgic guitar chords reminiscent of classic 4AD. Its release is accompanied by a music video filmed...
The Smile have today announced two new remixes of tracks from their critically acclaimed third album Cutouts, from James Holden and Robert Stillman. ‘Don’t Get Me Started (James Holden Remix)’and ‘Instant Psalm (Robert Stillman Remix)’ are out now digitally, each track accompanied by a ‘recycled video mix’ by audiovisual artist Weirdcore, who created videos for every track on Cutouts. Watch below! The remixes will also be released as a limited edition AA side 12-inch on 28th March. Stanley Donwood’s sleeve design...
DJ Python announces i was put on this earth, his first solo music since 2022, and debut on XL Recordings. The five-track EP will be released on Friday 28 March. The first look at the EP comes in the form of ‘Besos Robados’. Isabella Lovestory lends an insouciant yet insistent vocal to this sublime downtempo lovers’ reggaeton track that’s been a fan-favourite since appearing on Python’s epic BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix. The track comes alongside a...
Montreal-based artist Basia Bulat today released her lush and shimmering new album Basia’s Palace on vinyl and CD. The most searching record of her career was co-produced by Bulat with frequent collaborator Mark Lawson (who worked with her on previous albums Tall Tall Shadow and The Garden), mixed by legendary engineer Tucker Martine (Beth Orton, Neko Case, The National), and features string arrangements by Grammy-nominated Drew Jurecka (Dua Lipa, Metric, Alvvays). The album includes gently sweeping new single ‘Daylight,’ about which Bulat explains: “I wrote so much of this...
Mess Esque, the heavenly duo of Helen Franzmann and Mick Turner, descend from their altostratus with a new single! ‘Let Me Know You’ is out today with a music video from Denny Ryan. With no guitars or drums anywhere in sight, just keyboards twinkling in stark space, Mess Esque assume an improbable new form on ‘Let Me Know You’: the celestially curious star child, caught in the unfamiliar weight of...
Within the UK, there are a select few burgeoning icons, artists that push the boundaries with their musical output while embodying a presence across all mediums that feeds into mass intrigue and curiosity. London-based rapper, poet and producer John Glacier is one of the few that can lay claim to this status. After years of garnering intrigue across the mainstream and underground, John Glacier finally releases her debut album Like...
Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — release their second album Phonetics On and On, 11 songs which experiment with space and texture, all while maintaining a pop song at the core. These are songs to dance to. Produced by Cate Le Bon and recorded at The Loft in Chicago, Horsegirl’s original and sonic home, Phonetics On and On is...
Bartees Strange releases his new album Horror, a rich tapestry of a record about facing your fears and growing to become someone to be feared, out now. Strange was raised on fear. His family told him scary stories to teach life lessons, and at an early age, he started watching scary movies to practice being strong. The world can be a terrifying place, and for a young, queer, Black person...
