Collaboration has always been at the core of Milwaukee Banks. Their latest single ‘Lights Down’ sees the duo explore new sonic territory, as well as team up with Melbourne based vocalist Sophiegrophy. Watch the video below! ‘Lights Down’ is unlike anything you’ve heard from Milwaukee Banks before. A breezy and bouncy jam that is an ode to late night summer house parties. After meeting Sophie in early 2017, the pair...
With Lotta Sea Lice Barnett and Vile have delivered something utterly miraculous, an instant-classic record which sounds as if the two have played together for decades. This is a conversation between friends, documented in raw, unvarnished song form, brimming with personal history, crackling with energy and shot through with humour. There’s an unforced ease to the record helped the fact that the pair have been not just friends, but hardcore...
Julien Baker shares the video for the title track from her new album Turn Out The Lights, out October 27. Directed by Sophia Peer, who also helmed Baker’s video for first single ‘Appointments’, watch the new single below. Recorded at Ardent Studios in Baker’s hometown of Memphis, TN, Turn Out The Lights expands upon the sound and vision of Sprained Ankle while retaining the haunting, confessional songwriting style.The result is a deeply empathetic...
Thirty Days of Yes is a subscription mixtape that releases a song a day over 30 days. Developed in response to the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey, to drive the ‘Yes’ message and show support for the LGBTQI+ community, particularly the youth community who don’t have a voice in this public debate. 100% of the profits will go to LGBTQI+ youth organisations, Minus18 and Twenty10. The project launched in support of...
The Bennies have announced their forthcoming record Natural Born Chillers, released Friday 2 February. To celebrate, the band have announced a national single tour, with the first cut from they album they have also shared ‘Get High Like An Angel’, watch the video below! It’s been a wild time since the release of Wisdom Machine in 2016. The band supported The Living End, released a song with Damian Cowell, toured 3 times around Europe, completed...
Belle and Sebastian announce three new EPs under the umbrella title How To Solve Our Human Problems. To celebrate, they reveal the first single ‘I’ll Be Your Pilot’, which can be found on EP2. Listen below! ‘I’ll Be Your Pilot’ encapsulates the essence of the groups gentle attention to melody, and takes as its subject Stuart Murdoch’s young son: “Having your first kid is a huge event, so I wrapped a...
Jen Cloher has shared the video for ‘Strong Woman’, the third single off her instant-classic self-titled fourth record. Filmed just weeks ago in a London warehouse, the video is the result of a back-to-basics approach – a two-camera crew. Watch it below! The song itself serves as an exploration of gendered identity in Cloher’s childhood in 1980’s Adelaide and a celebration of Cloher’s unique matriarchal heritage. Cloher explained the inspiration behind the...
Cults have released their new album Offering, an exciting collection of songs exploding with heart, confidence, shimmering melody and buzzing life. At the same time, it goes places Cults haven’t gone before. Offering marks the band’s first LP since the 2013 album Static. It also marks the beginning of a more collaborative phase for Cults. The duo have always traded ideas, but for the first time they sat down to jam...
Meg Remy, the unapologetic pop revisionist, known as U.S. Girls, has just dropped a new video for her song ‘Mad As Hell’. Directed by Remy and Emily Pelstring, the video pieces together historic patriotic and military imagery. Watch it below! The wall-of-sound arrangement and throbbing disco beat along with Remy’s radiant voice make a candy-coated Trojan horse for her powerful call to action for pacifism and impassioned critique of military...
Spoon have released a new video set to a live recording of ‘I Ain’t The One’ from their latest album Hot Thoughts. Watch below! Renowned British artists and filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard captured the band in an intimate studio setting, the slinky silhouettes and blue-tinged shadows complimenting the song’s sinewy synths and Britt Daniel’s soulful vocals. The minimalist drums and bass surface sporadically throughout, building tension across the...
King Krule gives us yet another taste from his upcoming album The OOZ, out 13 October, with ‘Half Man Half Shark’. The track is accompanied by a visual culled from VHS footage of King Krule’s recent LA/NYC/London surprise concerts overlaid with animated loops by Theo Chin. Watch below! The jittery punk rock ‘Half Man Half Shark’ digs even deeper into the gritty, decaying blues of previous single ‘Dum Surfer’, delivering an...
The Breeders announce their return with new track, ‘Wait in the Car’. The single marks the reunion of band members Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson. Watch the accompanied video below! The artwork and visuals for ‘Wait in the Car’ come from Chris Bigg and Martin Andersen, with the video piecing together 800 still images. “It all started with a brick,” the pair say. “We both liked the...
Ibeyi released a music video for new song ‘I Wanna Be Like You’, off their album Ash, out today. The video, which stars twins, Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, was shot in France and directed by Remi Besse and produced by Standard Films. Watch it below! Lisa-Kaindé wrote the track for Naomi – her twin by nature but opposite in reality. Lisa-Kaindé explains further, “Sometimes I want to be like Naomi. I want her eyes,...
TORRES, the creative alter-ego of Brooklyn-based Mackenzie Scott, has released her new album Three Futures today, watch the video to new single ‘Helen In The Woods’ below! In describing the album, Scott says it “is entirely about using the body that each of us has been given as a mechanism of joy.” The 10 original tracks on Three Futures embrace ecstasy, desire and indulgence rather than self-denial, and exude this...
Kamasi Washington’s new EP Harmony of Difference is out today, the new music is an original six-movement suite, featuring artwork by Kamasi’s sister Amani Washington. Watch the short film to the single ‘Truth’ below. The EP explores the philosophical possibilities of the musical technique known as “counterpoint,” which Kamasi defines as “the art of balancing similarity and difference to create harmony between separate melodies.” Beyond the artistic impulse to expand the possibilities within counterpoint, Washington wanted to create...
Aldous Harding has aired a brand new song, ‘Elation’. Taken from the recording sessions for her recent album Party, Harding assumes the role of chanteuse, as the slow-burn of ‘Elation’ builds from a quiet lament to a dramatic zenith. Listen below! Earlier this summer, Harding performed the track exclusively for KEXP. Check out the startling performance here. Aldous Harding’s second album Party was recorded with John Parish in Bristol. She...
