Lina Tullgren has released a new single off their forthcoming album, ‘Bad At Parties‘ a second taste of Free Cell, out 23 August. It’s an elegant and introspective ballad featuring gorgeously arrange strings – communicating a moment of quiet social paralysis. The new video premiered via Tiny Mix Tapes earlier and was directed by Lina’s close friend and musical collaborator Ty Ueda, who explains: “[it’s] an adaptation of an old studio practice of mine that...
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Check out the brand new video from jade imagine – ‘The News‘ – the third track from their forthcoming debut album Basic Love, out 2 August through Milk! Records. It’s jade imagine at their most direct and succinct, ruminating on the troubles of a 24-hour news cycle. “I really can’t keep up with the news. No word of a lie. A story about accepting the fact that the wheels will...
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Sleater-Kinney release the title track from their forthcoming album, The Center Won’t Hold. It is the tenth album from iconic trio. Brownstein explains, “We’re always mixing the personal and the political but on this record, despite obviously thinking so much about politics, we were really thinking about the person — ourselves or versions of ourselves or iterations of depression or loneliness — in the middle of the chaos.” Watch the lyric video...
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It’s a total pleasure to announce the signing of Chastity Belt to Milk! Records for Australia and New Zealand! Their self titled third record is out 20 September. Chastity Belt’s energy is like a circuit, circling around the silly and the sincere. Tongue-in-cheek shit-shooting and existential rumination feed into each other infinitely. Theirs is a long-term relationship, and that loop sustains them. That’s a creative thesis in and of itself, but...
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Ahead of his North American tour opening for Tame Impala, Velvet Negroni, 4AD’s latest venture in experimental RnB, shares his new song ‘WINE GREEN’, whose visual features his own drawings. The single is the second to be taken from his forthcoming debut album NEON BROWN out 30 August. Velvet Negroni, the creative alter-ego of Minneapolis’ Jeremy Nutzman, creates raw, experimental R&B centered on the level of intimacy his voice evokes hybridizing classic soul and West Indian elements.‘WINE GREEN’ is preceded by a...
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pang [ pang] noun a sudden feeling of mental or emotional distress or longing: a pang of remorse; a pang of regret a sudden, brief, sharp pain or physical sensation; spasm: hunger pangs. Pang! the new album from Gruff Rhys, out Friday 13 September via Rough Trade. It’s a pop album with a couple of verses of Zulu and an English title, which developed unexpectedly over about 18 months. It’s...
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Following ‘I Want’ and their explosive follow-up ‘Pressure Inside’, New York punk trio B Boys have shared their new single & video ‘Instant Pace’ – taken from their second album Dudu out Friday 26 July via Captured Tracks. As premiered by Talkhouse, directors Jon Campolo and Josie Keefe explain “We were inspired by drummer Andrew Kerr’s introspective & candid photographs that document B Boys’ tours. His behind the scenes photos show the band goofing off, setting up, and blowing off steam – mostly offstage. We manipulated Kerr’s photographs by painting, cutting and tearing them,...
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New Zealand reggae-soul legends The Black Seeds have dropped REFABRICATED: Fabric Remixes & Rarities – a selection of unreleased tracks, remixes and versions from their 2017 Fabric album. The 6-track companion EP features 3 new, unreleased tracks from the Fabric sessions, as well as album re-workings from the likes of DJ Mu (Fat Freddy’s Drop), MC Gardna (UK), Israel Starr (NZ) & Deep Fried Dub (AUS). Firmly rooted in the bass-heavy Jamaican sounds that inspired the birth of the band, over the past...
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Jess Ribeiro’s third album LOVE HATE is out now – a masterclass in songwriting and melody. Jess pivots to the visual realm with her directorial output for album track ‘Young Love.’ Premiering via Pilerats, watch the video below. ‘Young Love’ is a standout sleeper on her new record. It’s noticeably different from Ribeiro’s previous work – a trip-hop groove, and a more heavily processed electronic sound. The song was inspired...
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Days of the Bagnold Summer began life as a 202 award-winning graphic novel by Joff Winterhart. It’s since been turned into a feature film, the directorial debut of Simon Bird (The Inbetweeners, Friday Night Dinner), and comes accompanied by an original soundtrack album by Belle and Sebastian. The album will be released 13 September via Matador Records. Watch the video for first single ‘Sister Buddha‘ – anthemic and transcendent, led...
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Ontario’s Chastity announce their sophomore album and share the first single off the record. Home Made Satan is due Friday 13 September via Captured Tracks. Check out the video for new track ‘Sun Poisoning.’ Stream it here. The single is about the contradictory melancholy that often comes with the vulnerability of a new relationship, capturing the juxtaposition of feeling both joy and sadness simultaneously. The raucous visual features an adolescent...
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Thrilled to share the debut album from Gena Rose Bruce – Can’t Make You Love Me. Stream / Order the vinyl here. The album is a distinct and dynamic debut from a young artist with a clear vision. It is an electrifying balance of tension and playfulness underpinned by a smouldering vocal performance that leaves audiences full of longing. Melbourne-based Gena Rose Bruce is one of the newest additions to the Dot Dash family and a truly exciting new voice in...
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Thom Yorke’s new album ANIMA is out now The physical release will follow on Friday 19 July. ANIMA is available to stream, download and physically pre-order now via https://thomyorke.ffm.to/anima. A ‘one-reeler’ also entitled ANIMA will be available to watch exclusively via Netflix from 27 June. The one-reeler, made by Paul Thomas Anderson, is set to three tracks from Thom’s new album. ANIMA was written by Thom Yorke and produced by Nigel Godrich. The album features 9 tracks, with an extra...
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Following the release of her acclaimed 2018 debut EP No Hat No Play, Sydney-based artist HANDSOME shares her new single ‘Delete You’, as premiered by Double J. ‘Delete You‘ perfectly exhibits HANDSOME‘s brand of tomboy pop and brooding electronic and is accompanied by a self-directed video which was premiered overnight by The Line of Best Fit. HANDSOME on ‘Delete You’: “The ‘Delete You’ video shows one of the most vulnerable moments of my life. It was an experience so...
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Sui Zhen has announced her latest chapter, Losing, Linda, which is set for release Friday 27th September via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records and is sharing the first single & video from the record ‘Perfect Place’. The video for the lead single, ‘Perfect Place’ introduces the character Linda, a ghostly apparition, representing the fragments of self, the avatars we leave behind after one dies in the physical realm — but do our digital selves ever...
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Lucy Dacus has released her new single ‘Forever Half Mast’ the third instalment of Dacus’ 2019 holiday song series. ‘Forever Half Mast’ follows her Valentine’s Day-inspired cover of ‘La Vie En Rose’, and an original ode to Mother’s Day and Taurus Season, ‘My Mother & I’. Still to come in Lucy’s 2019 singles series are tracks tied to Springsteen’s Birthday, Halloween, Christmas, and New Year’s, with a physical EP of the collection coming in...
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