New Jersey-based group Pinegrove have shared their new single titled ‘Respirate‘. A crushing ballad, the track is the latest song to release from their forthcoming new album 11:11 (out January 28th on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records) and urges us to look out for and love each other. “With ‘Respirate,’ I was thinking about the opportunity we had in the chaos Covid brought to redesign society so that it works well for more people, but that...
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The Smile, the new group comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, have revealed their debut single ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’ – out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. The track, which is available now and accompanied by a lyric video (dir. Duncan Loudon) was first heard in the band’s secret show as part of last year’s Glastonbury event Live At Worthy Farm. It is the first official release from The Smile, produced by Nigel Godrich. Stream / Download The Smile – ‘You Will Never Work In Television...
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Matador Records / Remote Control Records celebrate the 25th anniversary of Bardo Pond’s long out-of-print second album and label debut, Amanita, with a newly remastered 2xLP reissue, featuring ‘Clean Sweep’ and ‘Bramble’ – tracks previously only available on original vinyl pressings. Recorded by the lineup of John Gibbons (guitar), Michael Gibbons (guitar), Isobel Sollenberger (voice, flute), Clint Takeda (bass), and Joe Culver (drums), Amanita is the place where the band’s collective...
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Harvey Gruff Rhys – Seeking New Gods Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth – Utopian AshesRose City Band – Earth TripDry Cleaning – New Long LegAlan Vega – MutatorSteve Earle & the Dukes – JTThe Mountain Goats – Dark In HereRedspencer – DreamworldBlack Country, New Road – For The First TimeKhruangbin – Mordechai RemixesThe Reds, Pinks & Purples- Uncommon WeatherThe Weather Station – IgnoranceFemi & Made Kuti – Legacy +The Beach Boys...
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Big Thief‘s forthcoming album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, was recorded in four different sessions, and during the third, in the Colorado Rockies, the band heard someone playing beautifully from a nearby lookout tower. They soon met the person responsible for the sound – musician Richard Hardy. They invited him to sit in on some songs, and his inspired fluting brings a lot of love to the tearfully wholesome...
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Rounding out a milestone year, Melbourne three-piece Telenova release a brand new film clip for their glistening hit single ‘Bones’, taken from their debut EP Tranquilize, out now via Pointer Recordings. Co-directed by frontwoman Angeline Armstrong and LA-based filmmaker Jill Sachs, the video is a nod to the film references that influence Telenova’s songwriting and a visual feast of the drama dreamt up in Armstrong’s lyrics (I was dreamin’ of blue skies in California / While you were loading your gun / Thе time has come Red and bluе lights chase us...
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On April 16th, 2021, in between shows on their recent Australian tour, Wolf & Cub travelled to a remote location in NSW with the idea to perform and record a selection of live tracks from their recently released fourth album, NIL. Creating a makeshift live setup in the carpark of the Watagan Forest Inn Motel – and with full support of the owners – the band treated a small audience of...
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Parquet Courts present the music video for ‘Marathon of Anger’, off their new album, Sympathy For Life, out now on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. The video, directed by Mara Palena, was originally part of Sympathy For Life, Visualised, a live-streamed Noonchorus film event broadcast earlier this year that featured videos for all 11 songs from the album, and features guest appearances from Bill Walton and Joe Pera. ‘Marathon of Anger‘ is the first of the previously unreleased videos to be...
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In 2011, Toronto’s Fucked Up delivered an album that chafed the edges of punk rock’s conceptual boundaries – a set of songs that splayed freely into unexpected instrumentation, psychedelic drift, and situationist philosophy. Its ambition was limitless and its run time opulent. Which is to say, they made a concept album. Matador Records / Remote Control Records celebrate’s the 10th anniversary of Fucked Up’s titanic 78-minute early ’10s masterpiece, David Comes to Life, with a limited-edition 2xLP...
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Matador Records / Remote Control Records celebrate the 21st anniversary of The New Pornographers’ debut record and breakout, Mass Romantic (2000), with the release of a limited-edition LP reissue – out now. The album – clocking three singers and 12 effervescent and undeniable power-pop gems – returns to us on red vinyl and will include a bonus 7”, Letter From An Occupant, which includes two rare B-sides, ‘The End of Medicine’ and ‘When I Was a Baby.’ All told, Mass Romantic took three...
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Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records present the 15th anniversary edition of The Long Blondes‘ Someone To Drive You Home, which was originally released in November 2006 and was produced by Pulp member Steve Mackey – out now as a limited edition, double gatefold LP. Pressed on to red and yellow vinyl to mirror the album’s artwork – a picture of actress Faye Dunaway also painted by Jackson – the edition will feature the original record, plus 11...
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Arca, the Venezuelan artist, singer, DJ, performer, model, painter, pop diva and experimental music composer, has released the three newest instalments in her KICK series of albums: KICK ii, KicK iii and kick iiii. If KiCk i is a multidimensional self-portrait that held all of Arca’s many mutations, KICK ii sees her deconstruct reggaeton rhythms she grew up listening to in Caracas, balancing structure and chaos to create her most accessible work yet, without sacrificing...
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Milk! Records / Remote Control Records present Hachiku Remixed, a double single that finds Hachiku reinterpreted by a pair of beloved Australian musicians: Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Kurt Vile, Courtney Barnett) and Georgia Maq (Camp Cope). Mozgawa takes ‘Bridging Visa B‘ – Ostendorf’s lyrical tale of submitting your romantic relationship to the scrutiny of immigration officials – to the dancefloor, stripping the sparkling original back to a flickering lost highway of Blue Monday drum machines, squelchy synths, and ersatz bird calls: “My Hachiku remix for ‘Bridging Visa...
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Fake / Fear the band’s new single, picks up where their self-titled fourth album left off. A mantra sits at the heart of ‘Fake’, on which Julia Shapiro examines her inability to be vulnerable. “I’m a fake,” she sings repeatedly, as she takes stock of a situation in which all language broke down and communication failed. “The song is about not being able to be honest with someone and say what you mean,” she explains. “I wrote it because...
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US-based Australian artist Kelly Dance has revealed her long awaited album The Yips: a hypnotic and alluring set of avant-folk songs that reside in a sonic dream-state where poetry and musicality co-exist in perfect harmony – out now via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. The overwhelming mood of The Yips is one of exploration and meditation. Its tranquil musings navigate a range of musical genres with dexterity and subtlety. Folk music...
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Melbourne-based electronic rock band Black Cab return with new single ‘Halo‘, released via Interstate40 / Remote Control Records. Comprising Andrew Coates and James Lee, and accompanied by drummer Wes Holland, the trio’s latest track is the third teaser of their forthcoming album – Rotsler’s Rules – slated for release in mid-2022. Punctuated by glimmering arppegiated synths and driven by expansive, pacing percussion, ‘Halo’s woozy dreamlike trance encapsulates the otherworldly daze the track’s lyrical protagonist finds themselves in. Following on from...
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