A pleasure to welcome Leif Vollebekk to the Remote Control family, announcing his new album New Ways. The follow up to his Polaris Music Prize finalist Twin Solitude, the announcement comes with a beautiful single and visual for ‘Hot Tears.’ New Ways is the sound of desire in its unfolding. Two years ago, things were changing so fast, and the songwriter didn’t want to forget. “I often think of Leonard Cohen’s line,...
B Boys share ‘Pressure Inside,’ another track off their forthcoming album, Dudu. The song boasts the raucous, in-your-face energy of an angsty Parquet Courts cut. Over a tight, jittery guitar, they shout, “I’m always busy in my mind / Can’t think things through / It’s getting harder to breathe.” Dudu is out 26 July via Captured Tracks. Molly Burch has shared ‘Only One’ the A-Side to her Ballads...
Just announced as FBi Radio’s Album of the Week, black midi have released their debut album Schlagenheim (Rough Trade Records). Watch the surreal visual for new single ‘Ducter‘ below. Over the past many months, black midi – Geordie Greep (vocals/guitar), Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin(vocals/guitar), Cameron Picton (vocals/bass), and Morgan Simpson (drums) – have built a reputation for their dynamic, collaborative energy and uncompromising live shows. Their songs are slippery creatures and they play them as a musical unit that’s constantly in a state...
Our favourite party boys The Bennies are back with a new burner ‘Green Mitsubishis.’ It’s a ballad, but not in the way that you know it. Vocalist Anty explains – “It is a ballad about the disco before the breakdown, claustrophobia in sweaty nightclubs, prioritising time with friends over everything else, it is about the heights of ecstasy, it is about finding family in friendship, but most importantly it is a...
Their first new music since 2017’s Hot Thoughts, Spoon have shared new track ‘No Bullets Spent.’ It’s the band at their full creative forward momentum; staccato rhythms and spooky film-noir guitar. The song joins classic from the Spoon catalog on Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon compilation coming out 26 July via Matador Records. Check the album track list below and, as directed by the band, any complaints...
jade imagine have announced their debut album Basic Love, to be released 2 August via Milk! Records. Watch the shimmering video for new single ‘Remote Control‘ below. The album is an existential ride through playful pop-tones and more stripped back textures. Jade McInally shows off the wit and noir of her vocal delivery, backed by an arrangement of synthwave and art-rock. It’s bleak pop at its most incandescent. Preorder the...
New Zealand’s indie sludge-pop rockers Soaked Oats are on a high. After a massively successful summer tour of Australia and New Zealand and, having just returned from their UK tour, the band have released their new EP Sludge Pop – digitally and on limited edition 10″ multi-coloured vinyl via Dot Dash. Soaked Oats also reveal their most ambitious music video to date for ‘Don’t Chew‘ – premiered via Pilerats. Of the song itself, lyricist Oscar Mein shares “Inspired by the line...
Another taste of the debut album from Gena Rose Bruce, ‘I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You.’ It comes with a beautiful lyric video created by Kate Adams and Alex Badham. Gena explains – “We wanted to create a meditative, surrealist-inspired video for this song. The imagery hints at the concept of being buried, in this case by the thoughts or memories of someone you can’t let go of. It’s quite...
Seven years after their last album release, Efterklang make a welcome return with a fifth studio record Altid Sammen on Friday 20 September via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Check out the Danish trio’s video for first single ‘Vi er uendelig’ with a video starring Helena Christensen below. Directed by Andreas Koefoed (behind the band’s film The Ghost Of Piramida), and featuring a fellow Dane, the model and photographer Helena Christensen, are a homage to an iconic Johnny Hallyday TV performance in 1964. Altid Sammen (meaning...
Saddle Creek’s newest signing Ada Lea has announced her debut album what we say in private will be released Friday 19th July. Premiered via The Fader, the Montreal-based artist has shared the video for new single ‘mercury‘. The Montreal, Quebec-based Alexandra Levy — who records and performs as Ada Lea — is also a painter and visual artist, and traces of her many creative abilities run throughout what we say in private. Levy explores the...
Pixx has shared her new album Small Mercies. Listen here. Small Mercies is a series of poetic examinations of love across the experiential spectrum, from the micro (self-love) to the macro (devotional faith-inspired love), all set to a soundtrack that mixes electronic pop and grungy guitar rock. Album highlight ‘Andean Condor’ “is written about the link between wo/mankind and nature,” Rodgers says. “It is important to recognise how many times women...
Local Feature at RTR FM, and featuring a KUTX Song Of The Day, Carla Geneve‘s self-titled debut EP is out today! Check out the intimate video for ‘Yesterday’s Clothes‘ released alongside the EP. Directed by Matt Sav, Carla says of the video, “I wanted the video to reflect the personal nature of the song. To me, sitting alone in front of a camera is a vulnerable situation, a lot like...
PicaPica are the lush vocal interplays of dual front women Josienne Clarke and Samantha Whates, atop the textural arrangements of Adam Beattie and Sonny Johns. Today, they have shared Together & Apart, their new album out now via Rough Trade. The album is about health and heartache, spring and shade, love and loss and life – beautifully balanced through their expert songwriting. Stream / download it here.
Four years on from Holding Hands With Jamie, Girl Band are back to announce their new album, The Talkies, out 27 September via Rough Trade Records. The album was recorded in November 2018 at Ballintubbert House, a stately home on the outskirts of Dublin “a few pay grades above what we’re used to”. The alien construction of Ballintubbert and its corridors help to navigate Girl Bands cataclysmic sound within a...
Iconic, ARIA-Award winning, Australian indie band Art of Fighting have returned with their first album in twelve years! Luna Low is out now – expansive, heartfelt, and sublime, with a newfound wry sense of humour. Hear the title track and preorder the album now. Of the finished album, Art Of Fighting say: “Luna Low is not an autobiographical work, more a proxy by which we can reflect on some of our own could-have-beens and would-have-beens. It’s about...
Black Friday, the new album from Palehound is out now. Their third full-length, Black Friday is a finespun exploration of all the forms that love can take: love between friends, love for people no longer in your life, love in the face of self-hate, love that endures through major life changes or through many tiny catastrophes. Palehound hope that the album might help others to work through their own troubles...
