For the first time, Call Signs, the critically acclaimed 2009 third album from Melbourne group Black Cab has been reissued on vinyl via Interstate 40. Purchase Call Signs on vinyl here Call Signs incorporates an original blend of ’70s rock, 80s post-punk and proto electronic dance beats. With shades of Cold War tension and undertones of political intrigue, the album possesses an anxious and exciting energy that holds you captive from start to finish....
Moscow singer and producer, Kedr Livanskiy, has released her second album Your Need (2MR). The album cements Kedr at the forefront of Russia’s burgeoning electronic and experimental music scene. It’s a celebration of life and rebirth. It’s about a fighter’s spirit, and if you will, a little audacity and courage. DJ’ing and early forms of dance music inspired a furious burst of creative energy after months of melancholy, sadness, and...
Check out the new single and video from Palehound – ‘Worthy.’ It premiered at PAPER Magazine, and is another taste of their forthcoming album Black Friday, out 7 June. Prolific singer / songwriter Ellen Kempner says the song is “about feeling unworthy of love even within a relationship. It’s about years of being conditioned to hate my body and the shock of finding someone who isn’t telling me to change....
A new album out through out Dot Dash family! Sunbeam Sound Machine‘s Goodness Gracious is out now everywhere. Stream it here. The album debuted at #10 on the NACC (North American College and Community Chart) this week and has sold out on vinyl through Bandcamp. Copies will be available at a special in-store in Melbourne at Oh Jean Records, this Saturday 4 May at 5pm. Details here! Goodness Gracious is a self-produced...
We’re thrilled to share with you Big Thief‘s powerfully affecting new album U.F.O.F. (4AD). Stream it here. U.F.O.F., F standing for ‘Friend’, was recorded in rural western Washington at Bear Creek Studios. In a large cabin-like room, the band set up their gear to track live with engineer Dom Monks and producer Andrew Sarlo, who was also behind their previous albums. Having already lived these songs on tour, they were...
Holly Herndon operates at the nexus of technological evolution and musical euphoria. Listen to new song, ‘Frontier’ now. It follows previous single ‘Eternal,’ music punctuated by grandiose orchestration and the voices of her Berlin-based vocal ensemble. The video was constructed from footage processed from the perspective of an intelligent machine, analysing and searching for a face, yearning for a connection. These songs are lifted from her forthcoming third full-length album,...
The National have shared new single ‘Hairpin Turns‘ featuring Gaill Ann Dorsey and Lisa Hannigan, alongside a Mike Mills directed video. With performances from Dorsey, mina tindle, Kate Stables and featuring dancer Sharon Eyal, co-founder, co-artistic director and choreographer of L-E-V Sharon Eyal | Gai Behar. I Am Easy To Find is out 17 May. Preorder here. To celebrate the release of the new record and short film, The National have announced...
Meet Soaked Oats, our friends from across the ditch, and the latest signing to Dot Dash Recordings. They’ve announced their new EP Sludge Pop to be released 14 June. Hear the new single ‘Coming Up’, and take the scenic route through the video here. Soaked Oats have done a lot of time together. Last year, they embarked on a DIY US tour on an old and cheap RV with no...
black midi present a new single ‘Talking Heads‘, out now via Rough Trade. “We’ve always tried to make it heavy but danceable, melodic but good rhythms,” says vocalist and guitarist, Geordie Greep. “It is accessible music, there are experimental aspects that we’ve taken from when we went crazy at the beginning, we’ve just reigned it in to make something that is pop music.” Listen here.
Introducing SL, and his debut EP Everything Good Is Bad. Listen here. Watch the video for EP track ‘Homage’ below. At 17 years old, South London’s SL is one of the most intriguing prospects in UK music. If you’re new, check the videos for ‘Gentleman,’ ‘Tropical,’ and ‘Summertime Santa.’ He’s got over 45 million views across all his videos on YouTube. At only 17 years old South London’s SL is one of...
Ahead of both Taurus Season and Mother’s Day in May, Lucy Dacus has shared a devastating new song – ‘My Mother & I.’ Listen here. This is the first composition for her ongoing 2019 holiday song series, which will also include singles tied to US Independence Day, Springsteen’s Birthday, Halloween, Christmas and New Year’s. In Lucy’s words: “Being adopted has encouraged me to consider what mothers pass on through blood...
FKA twigs has returned with her first new music in over three years. Listen to ‘Cellophane‘ here and watch the breathtaking visual below. Written and produced by FKA twigs with Jeff Kleinman and Michael Ozuwuru, ‘Cellophane’ is twigs’ most vulnerable song to date and is an enticing first glimpse of what to expect from her second album; the follow up to her Mercury Prize and Brit Award nominated 2014 debut,...
SOAK has released her new album Grim Town – out now via Rough Trade. Listen here. Grim Town is a record about getting lost that you can, also, truly get lost in. It arrives as inspired by the audio-visual environmentalism of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ as the production of Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene or Phoebe Bridgers. Bridie tackles everything from long-distance love, depression, divorce and social anxiety to the...
Designer, the third album by Aldous Harding is out today via 4AD. Listen here. The album finds the New Zealander hitting her creative stride. After the sleeper success of Party (internationally lauded and crowned Rough Trade Shop’s Album of 2017), Harding came off a 100-date tour and went straight into the studio with a collection of songs written on the road. Reuniting with John Parish, producer of Party, Harding spent...
Some new music to tide you over to the long weekend. Happy chocolate to you. No holds barred on Pixx‘s new single and video, ‘Bitch.’ “[It’s] about accepting and forgiving yourself for struggling; not being too hard on yourself for getting stuck in your head, and finding the relief in waking up and getting out of your hole to show the world you’re a strong bitch.” Her new album Small...
Thrilled to announce we’ll be releasing the third album from Palehound – Black Friday. Out 7 June. Preorder here. Fronted by Ellen Kempner, the Boston trio’s new album is a finespun exploration of all the forms of 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. Watch...
