Thea Gustafsson – who writes, records, and produces under the moniker Becky and the Birds – turns a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with her self-produced debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, out today. Her new single ‘To trust you’ contributes an air of vulnerability to the LP’s emotively hard-hitting and sonically diverse soundscape through hypnotic looped vocals, stomping 808s, and transportive electric...
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After years of garnering intrigue across the mainstream and underground, London-based rapper, poet and producer John Glacier will finally release her debut album, Like A Ribbon on 14 February 2025. To celebrate, Glacier unveils the album’s lead single, ‘Found’. ‘Found’ is the perfect example of Like A Ribbon’s deft, quietly emotive atmospheres. Produced by Kwes Darko, ‘Found’ is an uplifting mantra that provides a light at the end of the...
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Basia Bulat shares ‘My Angel’, the opening track from her forthcoming album Basia’s Palace, out 21 February 2025. The new single arrives with a Nora Rosenthal-directed video, watch below! “This is a song about love at first sight–a rush of overwhelming emotion that feels definite, unmistakeable, and mysterious all at the same time. I wanted my singing on this song to reflect the way that I wrote the music: sneaking...
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BADBADNOTGOOD release ‘Poeira Cosmia’, a new single featuring Brazilian singer-songwriter, composer and producer Tim Bernardes, with additional contributions from the legendary composer Arthur Verocai. The song premiered live at BADBADNOTGOOD’s sold-out, eight-night Blue Note residency in September, when Bernardes joined the ensemble for a series of songs including ‘Poeira Cosmia’, and a cover of Milton Nascimento’s ‘Tudo O Que Vocé Podia Ser’. The trio struck up a friendship with Bernardes...
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Liz Stringer returns with triumphant new single ‘Coming Home’, following a premiere on Double J Mornings. The single is a driving, indie-pop satirisation of the so-called perfect relationship. “I wrote ‘Coming Home’ about the ludicrous idea that we’re fed since we’re small children; that a romantic relationship will be the salve for all that ails in a lifetime. And that, without a romantic partner, we will forever be adrift, unfulfilled...
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Fontaines D.C. release a music video for ‘Bug’, taken from their acclaimed fourth album ROMANCE and directed by celebrated Academy-Award®-winner Andrea Arnold. The stunning video is a short-form reimagination of Arnold’s lauded forthcoming film Bird and includes unseen footage exclusive to the ‘Bug’ video. Watch below! Bird features remarkable performances from Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski, and newcomer Nykiya Adams as the latest in the filmmaker’s canon of indelible heroines alongside newcomer Jason...
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Best-selling, prizewinning novelist and member of legendary sadcore band Art of Fighting, Peggy Frew shares her debut album Dial-Up. It drops just ahead of her launch show in Melbourne at the Bergy Bandroom on 9th November. Dial-Up is Frew’s first solo album. Luminous and ominous, the songs on Dial-Up are full of both vulnerability and bravado. Silver days, thunderstorms, broken-down cars and lonely winter train rides. The fraught sweetness of...
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SAM MORTON, the musical duo comprised of singer, songwriter and acclaimed actor and director Samantha Morton and music producer and co-songwriter Richard Russell, reveal their first new music since the release of their acclaimed debut album Daffodils & Dirt earlier this year. New single ‘Never Understand’ sees the pair putting their own unique twist on Ibrahim Hesnawi’s 1980’s cult classic; a drum-heavy, melancholic dub-inspired rendition that acts as an experimental...
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Planet Rami graces us with new single ‘Another Day At Home’, which follows Rami’s recent announcement that he has signed to Pointer Recordings. ‘Another Day At Home’ is a lush, melancholic indie tribute to the dull days produced by Julian Sudek, and is accompanied by a tongue-in-cheek, gorilla-filled music video directed by film maker Luke Hackett. Watch below! Planet Rami says, “’Another Day At Home’ is about the stagnant nature...
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After releasing her debut album earlier this year, Fabiana Palladino returns with new single ‘Drunk’. Self-written and produced, ‘Drunk’ was recorded at London’s iconic Abbey Road Studios in August of this year alongside Ellis Dupuy (Drums) and Joe Newman (Guitar), with her father and the legendary Pino Palladino later adding his signature bass to complete the track. The new single sees Palladino shift from the silky, polished production on her debut album to a more raw, immediate sound. It captures the energy of live performance...
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This Halloween, Bartees Strange shares a new single ‘Too Much’, from his upcoming album Horror (out on 14 February), a sonic and lyrical love letter from Strange to himself, growing from a deflated ego into a feral giant. As the opening salvo for Horror, ‘Too Much’ sets the tone for the Baltimore-based genre-shifter’s third outing with nods to early hits by the Isleys and the Brothers Johnson. Watch the accompanying...
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Gus Englehorn invites listeners into the twisted world of One Eyed Jack to celebrate Halloween — ‘One Eyed Jack Pt. I and Pt. II (The Interrogation/The Otherside)’, followed by ‘One Eyed Jack Pt. III (The Epilogue)’, giving listeners the urge to dive deep into the gripping storyline and vivid inspiration behind the fictional character invented by Gus himself. Englehorn describes One Eyed Jack as “a railroad song, of the kind that...
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To celebrate Frank Black’s landmark solo album, Teenager Of The Year turning 30, 4AD release a one-time vinyl pressing on 17th January. This special vinyl tour edition of Teenager Of The Year, has been remastered for the first time from its original analogue studio tapes. Sounding as essential as the day it was released, the LP is is cut at 45 rpm for optimum playback with liner notes by both...
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Philadelphia group Bardo Pond release a much overdue reissue of Set and Setting (1999) to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. The record has been fully remastered and returns pressed on purple vinyl. Set and Setting is accompanied by a new double LP compilation, Melt Away, cataloging late-’90s rarities and outtakes from a creative apex in the band’s career, and released together on vinyl for the first time. Of these, album highlight ‘The Trail’, originally recorded...
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Fontaines D.C. announce their ROMANCE Australian tour. They will play five headline shows and two festivals across the country in February and March 2025. They begin their Australian romance at Perth Festival on February 27th, before moving onto Brisbane where they will play at Riverstage on March 1st. The band will join the stacked lineup at Yours & Owls Festival in Wollongong on March 2nd before playing Sydney Opera House...
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Having been friends and labelmates since their teens, Romy and Sampha make their long-awaited first appearance on record together with the collaborative new single ‘I’m on your team’. The pair wrote the song during sessions for other artists before finally recording it together in London following the release of their acclaimed 2023 albums LAHAI and Mid Air, alongside co-producer and composer Thomas Bartlett. It’s a startlingly beautiful song that documents...
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