The Smile reveal their new album Cutouts, out today! The band shared new single ‘Bodies Laughing’ earlier in the week. It follows recent tracks ‘Foreign Spies’, ‘Zero Sum’, ‘Don’t Get Me Started’, and ‘The Slip’, the latter two of which were released via a limited edition 2-track 12-inch single at record shops globally. A brand-new, Weirdcore directed video for ‘Instant Psalm’ premieres at 9pm AEST tonight. The trio – Thom...
The Hard Quartet release their eponymous debut album and announce a run of Australian tour dates in early January 2025. Says the band, “Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney and Jim White formed The Hard Quartet in May 2023. They recorded a 15 song album in NYC and Malibu California without telling anyone except their families and friends – ideal times spent in idyllic locales. The Hard Quartet starts touring...
This October marks the one-year anniversary of Sampha’s globally lauded, Ivor Novello and AIM-nominated 2023 album LAHAI. To celebrate, Sampha announces a deluxe version of the album, with three new singles out now on streaming services: ‘Dancing Circles 2.0,’ ‘Re Entry’ and ‘Sensory Nectar’ plus the previously released single ‘Satellite Business 2.0’ featuring Little Simz. ‘Dancing Circles 2.0’ is a reimagination of the fan-favourite track, which Sampha performed during his...
After coming-of-age with their introductory self-titled EP (2020), experiencing their own end with their RIPcumgirl8 EP (2021), and witnessing a twisted vision of the afterlife through phantasea pharm (2023), cumgirl8 are now on the cusp of their 8th cumming by way of their long-awaited debut LP of that name, out now. Following the previous release of the record’s first tongue-in-cheek single ‘Karma Police’ and ‘ahhhh!hhhh! (i don’t wanna go)’ –...
Toronto rapper Shad and Michigan based producer 14KT have surprised everyone by dropping a brand-new EP showcasing their recent collaboration. Reel Speakers, a four-track EP stemming from freestyles Shad did on socials, is a compact, high-energy listening with beat, grit, soul, and hope. It is out now on all streaming platforms. The pair, having met at DJ Jazzy Jeff’s iconic Playlist Retreat years prior, connected over freestyles Shad was doing...
Bartees Strange announces his third full-length album, Horror, due on 14 February 2025, alongside releasing new single ‘Sober’, produced by Strange, Jack Antonoff, Yves Rothman and Lawrence Rothman, and paired with a music video directed by Ricardo Betancourt that draws inspiration from Sly & The Family Stone’s 1974 Soul Train performance. Watch below! Strange says, “This song is about falling short in a relationship, over and over and drinking because...
If Funeral for Justice was the sound of outrage, Tears of Injustice is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar’s new album is Funeral for Justice completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It is an evolution of the band’s critically-adored breakout – the meditative mirror-image to the blistering original. “We wanted to make a separate version of Funeral for people to hear,” explains the band’s US-based bassist and...
Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, returns with a brand new single, ‘Porcupine Tattoo’. It’s a stripped-back lament featuring two American musical icons – Noah Cyrus and Bill Callahan – who appear on record together for the very first time. The collaboration came together while Russell was hosting sessions for a forthcoming Everything Is Recorded album. Reaching out to Callahan, Russell asked the simple...
Peggy Frew, the best-selling, prizewinning novelist and member of legendary band, Art of Fighting, releases the latest single ‘Off Season Blues’ off her debut solo album Dial-Up, out 8 November. ‘Off Season Blues’ takes us to a vibrant oasis watered by Frew’s intimacy. A stirring, nostalgia-fuelled story of loneliness and lost love, this is four-minutes of Frew as her most personal and most fragile self. “I wrote this song on an Eavestaff mini piano in the dusty...
Enigmatic Irish musician (and regular NTS Radio host) Maria Somerville returns with her first new single in three years ‘Projections’, accompanied by visuals from Somerville, Michael Speers and Róisín Berkeley, recorded on VHS across Marseille and Somerville’s native Galway. Watch below! The wistful, romantic shoegaze track is drenched in longing via fuzzed-out bass and strummed guitar, carried by Somerville’s hypnotic and tranquil vocal stylings. The other-worldly, swirling single is a...
Basia Bulat announces her new album Basia’s Palace – co-produced by frequent collaborator Mark Lawson, and mixed by legendary engineer Tucker Martine – will be released on February 21, 2025. As well as sharing the glistening lead single ‘Baby’, an elegant dance-inflected track augmented by strings courtesy of GRAMMY-nominated arranger Drew Jurecka. The track showcases the stunning, silvery voice of three-time Polaris Music Prize finalist and five-time JUNO Award nominee...
The National have announced the December 13 release of Rome, a 21-track digital and two-LP set recorded live (without overdubs) on June 3, 2024 at the Italian city’s Cavea at Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. The double album, mixed by longtime collaborator Peter Katis, spans the band’s 20-plus years of songwriting and reveals how each song has taken on a new life in its live performance. “You have to...
Interpol celebrate the 20th anniversary of their iconic sophomore album, Antics (first released on September 27th, 2004) with a newly expanded reissue – now available on digital services, which includes the record, the new-to-streaming b-side ‘Direction’ (digital-exclusive), and a complete live recording and video of the band’s legendary 2005 performance at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes, “never before heard or seen”. A limited-edition red vinyl reissue will be available at record stores...
Adrianne Lenker shares a four-song session recorded for burgeoning musical platform Brodie Sessions. Watch below! Back in the Spring during her sold-out European solo tour, Lenker was invited to perform at a private residence outside the Danish capital. Captured in just one take on 16mm film, Lenker and her bandmate Nick Hakim played astonishingly raw cuts from her latest solo album Bright Future in front of a small Copenhagen audience. ...
Two Shell finally extend the invitation to explore them with the announcement of their self-titled debut album, due for release on October 25th, 2024. For those that have been paying attention, the road to the opening of the portal of Two Shell has been long and windy. Stems and full tracks have been smoothly revealed through their own digital hub, shell.tech, for months, with code-savvy devotees scraping digital breadsticks left to their own rapidly building...
Ruthven reveals ‘Itch’, the latest single from his debut album Rough & Ready, which is out October 25th. Written, performed and produced in collaboration with A.K. Paul, ‘Itch’ is yet another shining example of the South London-based ex-firefighter’s flawless vocals and sleek funk-inspired productions. Ruthven shares “‘Itch’ was one of the first tracks I wrote but the last I knew was going to be part of the album. It all...
