Electro-pop artist and harpist, TATYANA, is back with new single and video, ‘Right Places,’ – out now via Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records – that dawns an impressive new era for the dynamic producer, songwriter and performer. The “New & Notable” (Bandcamp) “Rising Artist” (Vinyl Me, Please) is known to make a “Smooth pop gem” (Dork). Cultr calls TATYANA’s music “An astral surprise sculpting her musical dreamland – a vivid wonder that will consume your consciousness” and this new single is no exception, with it’s cheeky, fun...
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Acclaimed artist Courtney Barnett has released her third studio album Things Take Time, Take Time on Milk! Records / Remote Contol Records. The album is a finely-woven collage of snapshots recorded at a time of creative renewal and deeper understanding for Barnett, signalling an exciting new chapter for a musician who is operating at the very peak of her powers. Already receiving rave reviews from the likes of Mojo, Uncut, Rolling Stone and Loud and Quiet, Things Take Time, Take...
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Radiohead and Epic Games Publishing are proud to present KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION: an upside-down digital/analogue universe created from original artwork by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood and sound design by Nigel Godrich to commemorate 21 years of Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac albums. KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION will be available beginning November 18th as a free download for PlayStation 5 (HERE), PC and Mac at EPIC GAMES STORE. Some two years in the making, KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION was originally conceived as a physical installation debuting in London and designed...
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The unveiling of the KICK series continues as Arca shares the details of the third album in the anthology: KicK iii, due out December 3 on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Featuring the previously released single ‘Incendio,’ KicK iii finds ecstasy in turbulence, as Arca returns to the mutant club music of her breakthrough early work. Accompanying the news of KicK iii’s release, Arca is sharing a new music video for album track ‘Electra Rex,’ directed by Carlota Guerrero and shot in September 2020, featuring Arca and friends performing in...
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Following the release of ‘Under Belly‘ – one of the most talked-about tracks in dance music this year – English producer and DJ Blawan shares his XL Recordings / Remote Control Records debut EP, Woke Up Right Handed. Alongside the project’s release, hailed by The Quietus as “the sound of a producer at the very top of his game right now”, Blawan shares focus track ‘Blika‘. Moving away from the club and touring DJ life to focus on in-studio production; the EP...
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CASISDEAD returns with his new single ‘Boys Will Be Boys’, his biggest musical and visual statement to date and the second track to be revealed from his highly anticipated debut album (due in 2022 via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records). ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ is accompanied by a cinematic music video directed by Hollywood actor, screenwriter and director Ed Skrein (Dead Pool, Game Of Thrones), and starring Emma Rigby (Hollyoaks), singer-songwriter Connie Constance, Jo Hartley (This Is England)...
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Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval, “a post-punk pop philosopher at the height of her craft” (Pitchfork), announces her signing to 4AD / Remote Control Records with new single/video, ‘Jupiter’. The ‘Jupiter’ video sees Hval collaborating once again with director Zia Anger. Following its soulful, almost jazzy opening with Hval intoning over floating piano, ‘Jupiter’ blooms with shuffling percussion, and as Hval’s crystal cooing layers, it swells into a simple hymn-like chorus. “When I wrote the music for this song in 2015, it had no...
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Joy Orbison returns to once again side step expectations. If still slipping vol.1 explored Joy Orbison’s musical DNA with a warm casualness equally suited for home listening as on the dancefloor, ‘red velve7′ is music for DJs, soundsystems and dancers – out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. While nodding to O’Grady’s love of drum & bass and its metallic, bass-heavy textures, ‘red velve7’ is yet another characteristically future-facing production from one of the most influential electronic...
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London-based eight piece caroline are excited to announce that their eponymous debut album, mixed by John ‘Spud’ Murphy (black midi, Lankum), will be released on Feb 25th 2022 via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Hear ‘IWR’ – a new track taken from the forthcoming album – and check out its self-directed video below. Mike O’Malley explains the thinking behind new single ‘IWR’: “Jasper was sending a lot of home-recorded nylon guitar and singing ideas, and one just stuck because...
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Danish producer and songwriter Erika de Casier releases The Sensational Remixes EP – a reworking of her critically acclaimed album Sensational – out now via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Last week, de Casier kicked off the remix project with a new version of ‘Drama’ reworked by Isabella Lovestory and Chicken, followed by the release of Mura Masa‘s woozy, club-ready remix of ‘Polite‘. Elsewhere on The Sensational Remixes, the likes of Eartheater, Hannah Diamond & caro♡, Smerz have remixed tracks from de Casier’s acclaimed second album Sensational. Purchase / Download Erika de Casier...
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Tama Gucci shares Almost Blue, his latest EP out via Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records, the sister label to Captured Tracks and part of the Omnian Music Group. The New York City-based, Miami-raised musician, vocalist, and electronic composer forges his own sound that uniquely reimagines the intersection of pop and R&B. The seven tracks on the EP represent different parts of the sounds Tama Gucci’s Kymani Floyd wants to continue to create. The EP features lead single ‘Challenge‘ – an anthem about the...
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New Jersey-based group Pinegrove have announced their new album 11:11 will come out on January 28 through Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Self-produced, with mixing by Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Tegan & Sara), 11:11 is the band’s fifth studio album following 2020’s Marigold. They also share their lead single ‘Alaska,’ a gallop of dense, bracing guitar-fuelled rock that lurches out of the gate with...
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Before there was news of Home Video, an album which captured the complexities of Lucy Dacus’ formative years growing up in Richmond, VA, leading it to be described alternately as “a triumph” (Sunday Times) and “… a record with a rich storytelling impulse that could easily have seen it released as a written memoir in a parallel reality” (i-D), Lucy presented the long-awaited ‘Thumbs’ to the world. Debuted on tour in 2018 while on the road with boygenius, ‘Thumbs’...
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Brad Barr – the lead singer and songwriter of The Barr Brothers – announces The Winter Mission: a brand-new instrumental solo guitar album out January 21 2022 via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. The guitarist has also shared the first single from the album titled ‘ANCIENT CALENDARS‘. Of the single, Barr shares: “’ANCIENT CALENDARS’ is a solo guitar piece, a long-form improvisation where I explore a basic motif and progressively extend it outwards in two directions. I played it on...
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Radiohead have released KID A MNESIA, a multiple format triple-album release marking the 21st anniversary of Kid A and Amnesiac, out via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. KID A MNESIA collects Radiohead’s fourth and fifth albums alongside the debut of a newly compiled third disc titled Kid Amnesiae. Exclusive to this release, Kid Amnesiae is comprised of unearthed material culled from the Kid A / Amnesiac sessions. Along with alternate versions and elements of Kid A and Amnesiac album tracks and B-Sides, Kid Amnesiae features ‘If You Say the Word‘ (available now as a digital single) and a previously...
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Snail Mail (Lindsey Jordan) has released Valentine, her new album out now via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. “I wanted to take as much time as possible with this record to make sure I was happy with every detail before unleashing it unto y’all,” says Jordan. “Referring to the process as the deepest level of catharsis and therapy I have ever experienced would be a huge understatement. Valentine is my child!” A hugely anticipated follow-up, Valentine was written and produced...
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