Parquet Courts announce their fifth album, Wide Awake! which will be released on May 18th. ‘Almost Had To Start A Fight / In And Out Of Patience’ is the first taste of what’s to come from the record. Watch the clip below! Wide Awake! is a groundbreaking work, an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. Love is at its center. There’s also a freshness here, a breaking of new...
Hachiku shares a steamy new video for latest single ‘Murray’s Lullaby’. Having just returned from a sold out tour of the Europe and U.K. opening for Jen Cloher, you can catch them heating up a stage in celebration of the single’s launch in March. Full details below! The video for ‘Murray’s Lullaby’ is slick in every other meaning apart from ‘cool’. Set within the dripping wet walls of a sauna...
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker shared a new single ‘Bathed In Light’ from their forthcoming album Seedlings All which will be released physically Friday 9 March and digitally Friday 23 March in Australia. Catch the duo perform their debut Australian shows this March at Port Fairy Folk Festival, Blue Mountains Music Festival and The Thornbury Theatre in Melbourne. Full tour details below. Josienne explains the background to the song, “As...
New York City’s Wiki is back to share two bonus tracks from his debut album No Mountains in Manhattan. ‘Ballin on the Low’ ft. Antwon and ‘Hands Out’ ft. Suspect are available across all digital streaming platforms now. Listen below! As the album’s original track-list featured artists from New York, it’s fitting that the bonus tracks include appearances from Wiki’s friends from Los Angeles and London, respectively. The two tracks...
Philadelphia’s Hop Along will be releasing their third studio album Bark Your Head Off, Dog on April 6. Having just announced a handful of shows at SXSW, Hop Along have also shared the brilliant next track from the album, ‘Not Abel’. Listen below! ‘Not Abel’ begins as a delicate waltz, violins and cellos make way for a series of explosive choruses before the song collapses into an exuberant guitar jam....
Robert Earl Thomas, guitarist of Brooklyn band Widowspeak, has just debuted his solo full-length, Another Age. To celebrate, he shares the new video for album track ‘Cryin’,’ in which delicate melancholy follows him from a winding, wooded road to a warmly lonesome hotel room. Watch below! Another Age‘s sweet nostalgia and glowing guitar shines through each shot. Of the single he notes, “‘Cryin’ isn’t really about crying; or me. It’s about being there for...
Jarrow has released the exultant garage-rocker ‘Kelp’, it’s the second single to come from his second album Expensive Hugs, out Friday 16 March. Watch the clip below! As the opening track off Expensive Hugs, ‘Kelp’ perfectly sets the tone for Jarrow’s weird and wonderful second album. Hooks, yelps and a dynamic lead-guitar adorn his compelling turn of phrase as it battles to break free of the songs perfect garage pop...
Gift Wrap – Brendon Avalos of B Boys – has shared the new video for his single ‘Either Way’, taken from his forthcoming debut album Losing Count, out Friday 2nd March. Watch ‘Either Way’ below! For some time now, Brendon Avalos has been forging a path for himself among the clamor of emerging indie artists as the bassist and vocalist of Brooklyn punk trio B Boys. Now, he is releasing his first solo effort...
Jeremy Neale has shared a new clip for ‘Video’. The track comes from his debut album Getting The Team Back Together. Catch Jeremy launch the album on his national tour this March with a new Adelaide date just added! Full tour info below. Jeremy described the clip “Outside of astral projection – the most accessible way to get a break from the day-to-day grind is to go for a drive or...
Brisbane duo Primitive Motion have shared a second single ‘Small Orbit’ from their album House in the Wave, out Friday 23 February. Watch the clip below! ‘Small Orbit’ is a two minute minimalist jaunt for shuffling drums, piano and wind instruments in the spirit of Penguin Cafe Orchestra as played by Maher Shalal Hash Baz, in a Brisbane home studio. The duo of Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig recorded the...
Belle and Sebastian have released the third and final part of their EP trilogy under the umbrella title How To Solve Our Human Problems. Recently adding an Australian leg to their busy live schedule in 2018, the band will embark on a national tour throughout May playing Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Further details below. How To Solve Our Human Problems has the classic blend of joy and melancholy and idiosyncratic spirit that...
Multi-disciplinary Toronto artist Meg Remy has released her sixth full-length album as U.S. Girls, In a Poem Unlimited. In a Poem Unlimited was brought to life by an impressive body of talent – including Toronto collective The Cosmic Range and long-time collaborators Max Turnbull and Louis Percival. The album features dark meditations reflecting charged atmospheres that precede and follow acts of violence. Many of the songs are character studies of...
To celebrate the release of his debut album, Everything Is Recorded (aka musician, producer and XL Recordings co-founder Richard Russell) presents a video for new self-titled single ‘Everything Is Recorded’ (feat. Sampha & Owen Pallett). Watch below! The video has been created by friend, collaborator and acclaimed visual artist Toby Ziegler and builds on Ziegler’s work exploring the algorithms of online image search engines. From a series of over 3000...
Car Seat Headrest releases new album Twin Fantasy – the re-recorded, re-imagined new version of the 2011 self-released Bandcamp masterpiece of the same name. The band will tour Australia next week. Further tour details below. Will Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record...
After a mysterious album teaser online and indie record stores worldwide unexpectedly receiving vinyl copies of a previously unheard song, Courtney Barnett announces her second studio album Tell Me How You Really Feel, and shares its scathing lead single ‘Nameless, Faceless’. Watch the video below! In Tell Me How You Really Feel Barnett has revealed a thrilling and unexpected shift. From its title (A question? An order?) to the cover image, Barnett...
Spellbinding indie-folk artist Ryan Downey releases the striking video for his new song ‘Running’, the title track to his debut album due April 13. Like a time-lapse flower, ‘Running’ reveals itself over the course of three gorgeous minutes. Watch below! Ryan and director Alex Badham took the video’s character into a half internal void, half real world space, drawing from the sensual aesthetics of Italian cinema to compliment the songs mix of...
