Pool House Records and Remote Control are thrilled to announce the signing of Melbourne’s Jess Locke, she’s the first addition to the Pool House family. To celebrate, Jess has shared a new single ‘Better/Bitter’, taken from an album due for release later this year. Watch the video below! Pool House Records’ Chris Cowburn says of Jess: “We have loved and admired Jess Locke for some time now. We were all...
After sharing two singles ‘My Old Man’ and ‘The Old Dog’, Mac DeMarco offers up a self-directed video for the latter track, filmed in his new hometown of Los Angeles. Read his statement about the video below: “A devoted dog discovers the meaning of its own existence through the lives of the humans it teaches to laugh and love. Reincarnated as multiple canines over the course of five decades, the...
We’re excited to welcome Portland, Oregon’s dream Reptaliens to the Captured Tracks / Remote Control family. Today, the band release a 7″ featuring two tracks ‘Prequel,’ and ‘Olive Boy.’ Reptaliens is the husband and wife team of Bambi and Cole Browning. The couple met on a basketball court while filming a music video for a mutual friend’s band that didn’t exist. After dating for six months, the two married under...
Aldous Harding announces her second album Party to be released Friday 19th May. She has shared a new single ‘Imagining My Man’ to celebrate, it’s taken from the upcoming album, followed from the first single ‘Horizon’. Check out the accompanying video below! Party was produced with the award-winning John Parish in Bristol, a world away from Harding’s New Zealand home. As well as contributions from Parish, Perfume Genius’s Mike Hadreas lends vocals to ‘Imagining My Man’...
Planetarium, the new collaborative album co-composed by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister, will be released on 9th June. Watch the video to ‘Saturn’, the first single taken from the album, below. A completely reimagined version of the project originally undertaken years ago and performed in various iterations around the world, Planetarium unites Stevens’ vocals, McAlister’s beats, Dessner’s guitar performance, and Muhly’s instrumental compositions. Planetarium revolves around the cosmic ideas...
John Moreland has released a video for ‘It Don’t Suit Me (Like Before)’. Taken from his upcoming fourth studio album Big Bad Luv, out on 5th May. Watch the clip below. Serving as much as a document of John’s life on the road as a snapshot of the US southern states, the video was created by Sterlin Harjo. A fellow Oklahoma native, he has watched Moreland’s audience grow over the years, and...
Baltimore trio Future Islands have released a new single from their upcoming album The Far Field out Friday 7 April. The chest-pounding ‘Cave’ speaks directly to the bruised but brave romantic in each of us. For a unique spin on a lyric video, the band enlisted American sign language interpreter Jonathan Lamberton to sign ‘Cave’s lyrics. Watch it below! The Far Field refines and builds on the breakthroughs of their...
Arca has released another piece of new music from his forthcoming album. ‘Saunter’ is the latest in a line of new songs that feature revelatory vocal performances from the London-based, Venezuela-born artist. Listen below! Arca has also announced a limited-edition vinyl release of ‘Reverie / Saunter’. Limited to just 220 copies, the 12” release will be hand-numbered and features hand-stitched fishnet tights packaging. The vinyl release is available to pre-order via...
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker have announced new single ‘Nine Times Along’ from their latest album Overnight. Listen below! Josienne & Ben have also just been nominated in the ‘Best Duo’ category at this year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. The Awards will take place on 5th April at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The fifth time they have been nominated for awards in various categories since 2014, including winning...
Julien Baker’s new 7” Funeral Pyre is fresh in stores this week! The single, with previously unreleased track B-side ‘Distant Solar Systems’ can be heard below. The Memphis, TN-based songwriter’s contribution to the Our First 100 Days compilation – a piano version of Sprained Ankle track ‘Good News’ – was also released today. Our First 100 Days was started in conjunction with Secretly Group and 30 Songs, 30 Days, and is raising funds...
After Molly Burch released her acclaimed debut album Please Be Mine last month, following a triumphant round of SXSW showcases, she shares the Jordan Moser directed video for the album’s title track, watch it below. Growing up in LA with a writer/producer father and a casting director mother, Burch’s childhood was filled with old Hollywood musicals and the sounds of Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. After finding her...
Perfume Genius’ fourth album, No Shape will be released on May 5. The album was recorded in Los Angeles, produced by Blake Mills, mixed by Shawn Everett. Watch the video to first single, ‘Slip Away’ below! With his new songs, Mike Hadreas goes even further, merging church music, makeout music, R&B, art pop, krautrock, and queer soul into his take on stadium anthems, completing the journey from critically acclaimed underground hero to...
Sam Gellaitry shares new single ‘Ceremony’ from his Escapism III EP out 7 April. Listen below! Escapism III is the third chapter in his Escapism saga: a coming-of-age trilogy that demonstrates Sam’s unique, filmic musical productions. The EP sees Sam Gellaitry’s sound transcending, invoking a cinematic feel of technicolour-esque scope to his experimental production. “I always liked when people would compare my tracks to a story or a journey. It is...
Client Liaison have shared their long awaited video clip for ‘Off White Limousine’. Directed by Tobias Willis (KEWL) and Zachary Bradtke (BANALARAMA), the video expands on the grand Client Liaison narrative. ‘Off White Limousine’ reveals that in the chess game of international diplomacy, for every move you make, for every advance across the board, a counter lies in wait. Those with Diplomatic Immunity, however, will always prevail. Watch it below! Along with the video...
Arca surprises us with a new song and video from his forthcoming, self-titled third album, watch it below. Shot in one take and featuring Arca (aka Alejandro Ghersi), the new video for ‘Reverie’ was created by longtime visual collaborator Jesse Kanda, who has also directed the video for previous cut, ‘Anoche’ and created the stunning artwork for Arca. In ‘Reverie’, Arca is a wounded matador, made mighty with mechanical legs, or bleeding...
Spoon’s new album Hot Thoughts is out today! Produced by Spoon and Dave Fridmann, they’ve created the bravest, most sonically inventive work of their career. Last week, Spoon announced two in-store appearances ahead of their Sydney and Melbourne shows at The Metro Theatre and The Croxton Bandroom next week. More details below. “I love going down to Australia, but it seems we’re never able to stay for long, so I rented a...
