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Big Thief will release a new edition of their 2016 debut album Masterpiece. The album containing much-loved songs ‘Paul’, ‘Real Love’ and title track ‘Masterpiece’, will be remastered and reissued on reVinyl pressing out 8 December. Masterpiece was recorded in July 2015 at an old house that they turned into a studio on Lake Champlain with producer Andrew Sarlo and engineer James Krivchenia (who would go on to become a...
Coming off a national tour on this years Listen Out, Eora-based Handsome enlists Elgusto of Hermitude to transport a track from her latest collaboration album to new dimensions. Incorporating drum & bass elements, Elgusto transforms ‘Delirium ft. Hope D’ into a rave-ready anthem. The glitch-laden intro falls away to reveal a high-energy, emotionally-charged remix, employing some seriously heady beats in the hooky chorus. Stream / Download ‘Delirium (Elgusto Remix)’ here.
It’s been a triumphant year in Yo La Tengo-world: Georgia, Ira, and James released a highly-acclaimed new album (This Stupid World), performed a sold-out US tour, and traveled throughout the globe. They’ve got a new EP landing on digital services – The Bunker Sessions – which collects live performances of This Stupid World songs ‘Fallout’, ‘Sinatra Drive Breakdown’, ‘Aselestine’ and ‘Apology Letter’, plus James McNew-led classic ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ from 1997’s I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One. Stream / Download The Bunker Sessions here.
Artist, producer, DJ and cultural icon Peggy Gou releases ‘I Believe In Love Again’, the highly-anticipated follow up to her global summer hit single ‘(It Goes Like) Nanana’. A truly unique collaboration with legendary Grammy award-winning artist Lenny Kravitz, ‘I Believe In Love Again’ is the sound of an artist who continues to defy categorisation: a timeless R&B-tinged anthem that reflects Gou’s diverse range of influences and open-ended musical philosophy. On it, we hear Kravitz as we’ve rarely heard him before. Stream /...
Gruff Rhys is pleased to share the second track from his new album ‘Silver Lining (Lead Balloons)’ taken from his 25th Album Sadness Sets Me Free out 26 January 2023. Another elegiacally beautiful track by Rhys, the track is accompanied by a shimmering visual thatcompliments the care-worn wonderment of the music. Stream / Download ‘Silver Lining (Lead Balloons)’ herePre-order / Pre-save Sadness Sets Me Free here.
Following the release of her much anticipated and critically acclaimed debut album With A Hammer earlier this year, Yaeji returns with a brand new single and music video for ‘easy breezy’. ‘easy breezy’ sees Yaeji draw inspiration from a lot of the Japanese and Korean music she grew up listening to (and still does), which itself is heavily influenced by UKG, House and Brazilian music; Yaeji combines a Bossa nova style guitar sample with her unique beats and vocals...
Fabiana Palladino and Jai Paul come together to release ‘I Care’. The single, which the pair co-wrote and produced – is the first track to be released from Palladino’s highly-anticipated debut album and the first piece of new music from either musician in over three years. Fabiana Palladino first broke out in 2017 as one of Paul Institute’s founding artists after her shadowy R&B-influenced spectral pop reached Jai Paul, who founded the label alongside his brother A.K. Paul. Stream / Download ‘I...
Jockstrap & Taylor Skye have today released their remix album I<3UQTINVU, a fully reworked version of the Mercury Prize shortlisted 2022 album I Love You Jennifer B. I<3UQTINVU – I Love You Cutie, I Envy You – is the brainchild of Taylor Skye, who was making multiple versions of the album’s original tracklisting to stay inspired during the writing of I Love You Jennifer B. Stream / Download I<3UQTINVU here.
U.S. Girls, the experimental pop project of North American multidisciplinary artist Meg Remy, releases its first-ever live album entitled Lives digitally. The album showcases the last five years on stage non-chronologically. The musicians on this 15-song album represent three distinct versions of the U.S. Girls live band; the “Poem Band,” a jam-oriented outsider jazz-funk unit that often stretched Remy’s deep-pocketed groovers and plastic soul ballads out the nether-regions of abstraction, the “Heavy Light Band,” which reigned in...
5-piece outfit 15 15 (FKA QuinzeQuinze) make music like no one else, conjuring up epic soundscapes coated in Moombahton and club-ready jaunts of the underground that’s been lauded by Crack, Dazed, Pitchfork, Resident Advisor, and NPR. Today, they share their new shapeshifting 7-track EP ATAHEVA. “The overall theme of the EP is centred around the concept of death,” says the Parisian outfit of their latest release, ATAHEVA. “But not presented as a sad or dark subject – more as an invitation to...
bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. Today they release their second full length of 2023, The Twits, via Matador / Remote Control, less than six months after their acclaimed Matador debut, Tracey Denim. Songs like ‘my little tony’, with its in-the-red riff and excitable hooks, the cathartic four-on-the-floor of ‘world’s greatest emoter’ and the festival tent psychedelia of ‘Hi-fiver’ need little in the way of exposition – these are exhilarating rock songs, if...
Wild Nothing shares new album Hold. Wild Nothing’s first LP in five years, and Tatum’s first self- produced record since his 2010 debut Gemini. A glorious capture of finding the space to grow during quieter moments, Hold melds the 80’s influences of Wild Nothing past with a spread of new electronica influences, reshaping the LP’s undercurrent of anxiety into a package that encourages meditation, levity, and moments of exhilaration. Deemed an “excellent comeback cut” by KCRW, and an “exciting...
bar italia have released new single and video ‘worlds greatest emoter’, a driving and ascending standout from their forthcoming second full length of 2023, The Twits, out November 3rd. ‘worlds greatest emoter’ follows singles ‘my little tony’ which is currently on the BBC 6 Music playlist and ‘Jelsy’, which The Times described as “slow-burning eerie bluesy rock with a hint of bossa nova from the celebrated trio”. Pre-order / Pre-save The Twits here.Stream / Purchase ‘worlds greatest emoter’ here.
Celebrated for her powerhouse vocals, raw vulnerability and storytelling prowess, multi-award-winning artist Carla Geneve releases her deeply personal second LP Hertz via Dot Dash / Remote Control. Hertz marks a change in perspective for Geneve, informed by major life changes and intense growth brought to life with her signature brutally honest lyricism. Its lead by focus track ‘Jesus Take The Wheel’ which pairs an optimistic tone with the struggle of steering one’s life, and follows the downtempo wonder ‘Drive Carefully’, “dreamy” (Pilerats) ‘Euthymia’, and “earworm” (Happy Mag) ‘Bills’. Listen...
Special Interest have announced Endure Remixed, six remixes from their critically acclaimed 2022 album Endure, out Friday, November 10th. They’ve also shared electronic cyber-punk duo Machine Girl’s remix of ‘Concerning Peace’ – Special Interest’s incendiary screed against authority. Straddling the line between club banger and punk anthem, the remix feels especially timely. Endure Remixed contains remixes of Endure favorites by artists such as Marie Davidson – and in a nod to their New Orleans roots, a bounce remix of their single ‘Midnight...
