Mike Simonetti has shared ‘Release Your Body To The Best‘ and ‘Slave‘ out now on 2MR / Remote Control Records. It’s rare to hear an acid track with vocals these days, but when you do it’s done well and done right by New Jersey based, 2MR co-founder and producer Mike Simonetti. Santana of French group Claap! features as guest vocalist, coaxing the listener “come to me” on minimal acid tweaker ‘Release,’ and on ‘Slave’ floating above an intensely hypnotic rhythm in francophone whisperings. The two releases...
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The irrepressible King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have shared People-Vultures, the latest track to be taken from their forthcoming album, Nonagon Infinity. Amazingly their fourth album in 18 months, Nonagon Infinity is released on Flightless / Remote Control on Friday April 29th 2016 and the band previously announced its release with a free-wheeling video to album track, Gamma Knife. After the acid-flecked cosmic jazz of Quarters and the hazy,...
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Melbourne duo Oh Pep! have a HUGE year ahead of them. Having just signed to Dualtone Music Group(The Lumineers, Shakey Graves) in the US and announced a giant run of shows across Europe and America, they have now shared with us their incredible new single ‘Doctor Doctor.’ ‘Doctor Doctor’ is the first taste of an indie-pop masterpiece with the DNA of a folk record. Their obsession with great songs, regardless of genre, has led them...
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Car Seat Headrest is excited to announce the release of Teens of Denial out Friday 20 May via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Teens of Denial is the thirteenth album in Car Seat Headrest’s (aka 23-year-old Will Toledo) oeuvre, second on Matador, and first to be recorded in a proper studio with a full band and producer (Steve Fisk). On Denial, Toledo moves from bedroom pop to something approaching classic-rock grandeur and huge (if detailed and personal) narrative ambitions, with nods to the Cars, Pavement and William...
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Danish artist Søren Juul will release his new album This Moment on Friday 17 June via 4AD / Remote Control Records. This is his first album under his own name, having previously recorded under the moniker Indians. It’s a deeply personal account of Juul’s life over a tumultuous three-year period, and a first taste of the record can be heard today, the track ‘Dear Child’. As Indians, Juul scored the song ‘Oblivion‘ for the major motion picture The Fault In Our Stars, composed works for the...
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Tim Hecker, the pioneering electronic composer has today shared a second track, album closer ‘Black Phase’ from his eighth studio album Love Streams, out next Friday 8 April via 4AD / Remote Control. As with its predecessor, the cavernous ‘Castrati Stack’, the influence of 15th century choral scores strongly resonate on ‘Black Phase’, which showcases the voices of the Icelandic Choir Ensemble dissolving into a darkly hypnotic dissonance Listen to ‘Black Phase‘ on: Spotify | Apple Music | Google Play Buy on iTunes | Google Play Check out Hecker’s selection of his past and current collaborators on Spotify,...
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Matador Records and Remote Control are excited to announce the release of Steve Gunn’s new album ‘Eyes On The Lines’, out Friday 3 June. To celebrate, Gunn has shared the first single from the record ‘Conditions Wild.’ Gunn’s music has always embraced expanse and movement, springing from the simple and profound relationship between humans and their environment. Eyes On The Lines, his Matador debut and follow-up to the pastoral and...
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On May 20th, 4AD will release Day of the Dead — a celebration of the Grateful Dead’s music created and curated by brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. Today 5 of the album’s 59 tracks have been made available via instant grat with album pre-order, on streaming services and accompanied by a series of videos directed by Michael Brown, Nick Ciontea, and Christopher Bartlett. The five songs shared today include the first new music from The War on Drugs since 2014’s critically-acclaimed Lost In The Dream with a...
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Future Of The Left are once again contractually obliged to tell you that their new album the peace and truce of future of the left will be released in Australia on the 8th April 2016 via Remote Control Records. Recorded by Anthony Chapman at Monnow Valley studios in Monmouth it contains thirteen songs (you are welcome to call them ‘tracks’, only not near the band) and is, once again, their best one...
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After teasing its release at SXSW this week, KAYTRANADA is back to share details of his highly anticipated debut album 99.9%. Due Friday 6th May via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records, the album finds the Haitian born, Montreal raised producer delivering on the promise of his early self-released EPs and remixes. Since the age of fourteen, when he first began to DJ and when his brother introduced him to...
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Danish teenagers Liss have shared their brand new single and video ‘Sorry’. Recently premiered as Annie Mac’s ‘Hottest Record’ on BBC Radio 1, ‘Sorry’ is an enchanting slice of R&B built around singer Søren Holm’s distinct, soulful vocal. The video for ‘Sorry’ was filmed and directed by the band themselves. ‘Sorry’ is the follow up to Liss‘ debut single ‘Try / Always’ released in November last year via the highly-respected Danish label Escho. Described by The Guardian as “a liquid piece of fast-paced funk pop that...
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4AD / Remote Control Records are pleased to announce the release of Day Of The Dead, a celebration of the Grateful Dead’s music created and curated by brothers Aaron and Bryce Dessner of The National. For both Aaron and Bryce, the Grateful Dead were a gateway to playing music together; the first music the brothers investigated deeply. The two recall their first-ever jam session at 14 years old with The National’s future drummer Bryan Devendorf playing the Dead’s ‘Eyes of the World’ for several hours in Bryan’s attic in suburban Ohio. The brothers...
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The Murlocs have released Young Blindness, their second full-length LP today via Flightless / Remote Control Records. In addition, the band have shared their video for ‘Young Blindness.’ Frontman Ambrose Kenny-Smith described the video: “I kinda grew up fast as a kid. I was always hanging out with older people so I cut my teeth early on. Years later I realise how oblivious I was to my surroundings. The idea...
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Melbourne based hip-hop / electronic duo Milwaukee Banks have today released their debut record Deep Into The Night via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. To celebrate, the pair have shared an incredible video for ‘Reincarnated.’ Dyl and Edo explain the inspiration behind the track: “We like exploring the supernatural as inspiration for new material. The idea of reincarnation is spiritual (something we truly believe in) but it’s also reflected in the cyclical nature of society. We’re rebirthing the good and...
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LA’s Empress Of today releases new single ‘Woman Is A Word.’ Previously unheard and taken from her recording sessions for her critically acclaimed debut album Me (out on Terrible Records), ‘Woman Is A Word‘ is a deeply personal and political track. Empress Of explains its genesis: “Sometimes as a songwriter and a human, I feel very restricted by words. One word can have so much social implication, standard, limitation, qualification...
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Singer and producer Rostam releases ‘Gravity Don’t Pull Me‘ as a beautiful dance video. Alongside previously released tracks ‘EOS‘ and ‘Wood,’ ‘Gravity Don’t Pull Me‘ is part of a collection of singles Rostam is releasing on XL recordings this year. The video for ‘Gravity Don’t Pull Me‘ was co-directed by Rostam and Josh Goleman (who he previously worked with on Ra Ra Riot’s ‘Water’ Music video). “This video was in...
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