Courtney Barnett has shared the video for brand new single – ‘Everybody Here Hates You.’ Peek some behind the scenes fun times footage here! Recorded late in 2018 during some rare off-time on her Tell Me How You Really Feel world tour, ‘Everybody Here’ is about as close as you’ll get to hearing the extraordinary weight and swagger of her live show on a recording. It’s got one of the...
She’s done it again. Aldous Harding shares a new song and video for ‘Fixture Picture’ from her forthcoming third album Designer, out April 26 via 4AD. Co-directed by Aldous Harding and Jack Whiteley, the video’s suspenseful opening scene finds Harding strumming her guitar on the white cliffs of Dover. The pay-off comes later with a dramatic and enigmatic live performance by Harding and her band inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Preorder Designer here.
Jess Ribeiro‘s third album LOVE HATE is out now via Barely Dressed. Listen or download here. The album is confirmation (if ever it was needed) that Ribeiro is one of the country’s most gifted and enigmatic songwriters, a master of genre, nonchalance, double-entendre, intuition and melody. Indeed it’s been confirmed by album features this week on Double J, 2SER and Edge Radio. Opening track ‘Stranger‘ echoes the infatuation of poet...
Black Cab have announced the reissue of their critically acclaimed third album, Call Signs. It’s an original blend of 70s rock, 80s post-punk and proto electronic dance beats. Shortlisted for the 2009 Australian Music Prize, the album also features a guest vocal on track ‘Ghost Anthems’ by legendary Died Pretty frontman Ron Peno. Celebrating 10 years since its release, Call Signs has been remastered and pressed on limited edition ‘stasi...
Soaked Oats, our pals from across the pond, dropped a single and video ‘Driftworld,’ the name lovingly given to the 30ft 1980s tour-RV wherein they lost their wallets and their minds. Broken Stone Records‘ in house guitarist, Evan Lock, branches out solo on beautiful new song ‘Scorpio.’ His new album Kaleidoscopic is out 24 May. Iceage offer up a visual for the Sky Ferreira featured Beyondless track, ‘Pain...
The National share another album track ‘Light Years‘ – the closer on I Am Easy To Find. Their eighth studio album will be released 17 May via 4AD. Preorder here. Watch the accompanying video below, directed by Academy Award-nominated director Mike Mills, and starring Academy Award Winner Alicia Vikander. I Am Easy To Find will be released with a companion short film, directed by Mills, named after, and inspired by...
Big Thief share another new song, ‘Cattails.’ It’s Big Thief as nothing but transcendental. “Cattails came about while we were at the studio in Washington in the pine forest. Writing it was just one of those electric multicoloured waves of connectivity just sweeping through my body. I stayed up late finishing the song and the next morning was stomping around playing it over and over again. We thought why not...
Melbourne’s Jess Ribeiro shares a new single ‘Dylan‘ ahead of the release of her new album LOVE HATE, out Friday 12 April, via Barely Dressed. Opening with a hypnotic chorus spelling out “L. O. V. E. H. A. T. E.” the song descends into a purred verse which dissects the nuances and disappointments of former relationships. On its surface, Dylan is a song about trying to be friends after breaking up with someone –...
Interpol have announced a 5-track EP titled A Fine Mess. Out 17 May via Matador. Listen to single ‘The Weekend’ / preorder here. It’s a living, breathing postcard from the band to their fans as they tour the world throughout 2019. If you loved Marauder, this one’s for you – a linear continuation of the visceral and contagious energy created by the album.
Chris Cohen has released his new self-titled album via Captured Tracks. Listen here. “My parents got divorced while I was making this record,” he says. “They were married for 53 years and my father spent most of his life in the closet, hiding both his sexual identity and various drug addictions. For me it was like being relieved of a great burden, like my life could finally begin.” It is...
Thrilled to announce our latest signing to Dot Dash, Gena Rose Bruce. Her debut album, Can’t Make You Love Me will be released Friday 28 June. Watch the video for ‘Angel Face’ here. We are taken by Gena’s vocal. It drives this album; a stirring force amidst the pulsing rhythms, with echoes of Mazzy Star and Lynchian undertones. We can’t wait for you to hear it. Or maybe you already...
black midi have been dubbed by NME as “the best new band in the UK that no one knows anything about” but today you’re about to get to know them. Listen to the caustic new single ‘Crow’s Perch‘ – out now via Rough Trade. The accompanying video, directed and edited by Villi Hijálmarsson reflects the track’s frenetic energy, juxtaposing saturated graphics and peculiar scenes with mundane images. black midi is...
Meet Jelani Aryeh, a new signing to b4, and listen to new song ‘Union Station.’ It’s an ode to leaving suburbia and finding home, not only in a new place, but in the people you take with you. At 18yrs old Jelani already finds the sweet spot between hip hop, RnB, and pop – Jack Kolbe helping out on production duties. The pair are members of the rising global collective...
Take notes from a few corners of the globe on this week’s roundup of new music. Moscow’s Kedr Livanskiy shares the closer to her upcoming album Your Need (3 May via 2MR) – ‘Ivan Kupala (New Day).’ Electronic leaning left field pop, informed by a sense of darkness unique to Kedr’s musical-cum-geographical upbringing. Portland-based, sci-fi inspired group Reptaliens share a new track + video for ‘Venetian Blinds.’ The track...
Melbourne’s Sunbeam Sound Machine (Nick Sowersby) has shared his new video ‘Seems Like You’ve Made Up Your Mind‘ – premiering via Document Journal. Following on from ‘Talking Distance,’ the track is a second taste of Sunbeam’s second LP Goodness Gracious, out 3 May via Dot Dash. Here are some of Nick’s favourite things about the making of the video (dir. Clancy Walker, shot by Sean T. Barnes, starring Terry Yeboah). 1....
Art of Fighting have shared a beautifully affecting new track and video – ‘Your Love.’ Premiered by Triple R Breakfasters and The Music, ‘Your Love’ is “about that feeling when what you fear the most in the world is the inability to contain and rationalise your love for someone. How that makes all the other genuinely terrifying things in both the internal and external world seem completely insignificant,” says Ollie...
