Mdou Moctar returns with the tour-de-force title track from his new album Afrique Victime, out May 21st on Matador Records / Remote Control Records. “The wind born in Tunisia spread all over Arabia / Africa is a victim of so many crimes / If we stay silent it will be the end of us / Why is this happening?” sings Moctar on the heartfelt yet defiantly incandescent seven-and-a-half-minute rallying cry as...
Dry Cleaning is Nick Buxton (drums), Tom Dowse (guitar), Lewis Maynard (bass) and Florence Shaw (vocals). Buoyed by the universal acclaim they received for 2019 EPs Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess, the south London foursome spent more and more of their lives on tour, refining their craft even further and developing a near-psychic knowledge of how to leave the right amount of space for each other in their songs. Their debut album New Long Leg, produced by John Parish, and featuring the...
Muslim poet and songwriter Mustafa details his debut project When Smoke Rises, due May 28th via his own Regent Park Songs / Remote Control Records. After revealing its title and speaking about the body of work in his recent GQ Middle East cover story, Mustafa is sharing one more offering from the new record, the powerful ‘Ali’, which arrives alongside a self-directed visual. Mustafa’s two singles to date – ‘Stay Alive’ and ‘Air Forces’ – have been met with adoration from fellow artists, critics and fans...
‘Contact’ is the second single to be taken from Ryan Downey’s forthcoming Burke Reid (Julia Jacklin, Courtney Barnett) produced album A TON OF COLOURS, out 14 May via Dot Dash Recordings. Whilst first single ‘Heart Is An Onion’ was a luminous and anthemic art-rock affair, described as “the Cars fronted by Bryan Ferry” (Sunday Times Culture UK – Hottest Tracks), ‘Contact’ shows a more atmospheric and vulnerable side of Downey’s new record. ‘Contact’ balances the stylistic grandeur and deep humanness in Downey‘s raw sophisticated sound, with both these elements...
Bills & Aches & Blues features 18 of the label’s current artists covering a song of their choosing from 4AD’s past: a creative experiment rooted in the spirit of collaboration and a snapshot of 4AD, 41 years after its inception. Bills & Aches & Blues will be released with standard vinyl and CD editions following on 23 July and a deluxe vinyl boxset later this year. To pre-order head to 4AD.ffm.to/billsandachesandblues. The first 12 months’ profits...
Winnipeg songwriter JayWood (aka Jeremy Haywood-Smith), announces his debut EP, Some Days, out April 23 and signing to Captured Tracks. Along with the announcement, Jaywood shares the first single/video ‘Some Days’ via KEXP. Read KEXP’s interview + ‘Some Days’ premiere here. JayWood on Some Days: “It’s been really nice reconnecting with a younger version of myself through this EP, I hope he’s stoked.” JayWood is the pseudonymous indie-alternative project of Jeremy Haywood-Smith from Winnipeg, Manitoba. What started as a bedroom recording project of sad jangle-pop songs, evolved into the psych-funk approach present on JayWood’s latest...
Juan Wauters shares ‘Estás Escuchando’, featuring five-time Latin GRAMMY nominated artist El David Aguilar. ‘Estás Escuchando‘ is the fourth single from Juan’s forthcoming album Real Life Situations, out April 30, which also features collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Peter Sagar (AKA Homeshake), Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, and more. Directed by Juan Molinet, the ‘Estás Escuchando’ video is a colourful expression of playful animations. Juan Wauters on ‘Estás Escuchando’: “I had heard of David when I was in Mexico recording ‘La Onda de Juan Pablo’. People there regarded him as one of the most...
dvr is Dillon van Rensburg, a seventeen year old songwriter and producer from North Berwick, Scotland. In 2020, he digitally self-released an EP (tape_01) and single (‘thru the city’) which quickly became organic, word-of-mouth success stories, racking up streams in the millions. With influences ranging from Tyler, The Creator, Frank Ocean and Kaytranada to Jimmy Hendrix and the Foo Fighters, dvr already counts the likes of Kenny Beats (who discovered dvr via fan enthusiasm on his...
Following singles ‘Fool‘, ‘Destroy Everything‘, ‘Dead and Gone‘ and ‘Halo‘, Melbourne singer-songwriter Jess Locke releases her third album Don’t Ask Yourself Why, out on Dot Dash Recordings. The album traverses themes of human behaviour, our egos and self-reflection and was recorded with bandmates James Morris and Chris Rawsthorne, and produced by Rob Muiños (Saskwatch, Julia Jacklin) in a tiny studio in the back of a guitar shop in Collingwood, before...
Afterlife Remixed is a fresh take on Ex–Olympian’s 2020 debut Afterlife, calling on some friends, favourite musicians & DJs to rework some of their favourite songs on the record – giving them an Afterlife of their own. Afterlife Remixed is out Friday 9 April via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. The original record itself was influenced by themes of starting again, trial & error, renewal and dialogue. Liam McGorry aka Ex–Olympian says: “In this way, I thought it would be interesting to extend that...
Liz Stringer shares the second single ‘Dangerous’ lifted from her forthcoming sixth studio album First Time Really Feeling out Friday 30 April on Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. The track sees Stringer flex her 80’s rock muscles with hair-metal guitar solos and the driving urgency of early Tom Petty or Divinyls. Stringer has collaborated with director Dyllan Corbett again for the ‘Dangerous’ video. Corbett says, “ I love how Dangerous throws you straight into a family’s history with little context. Untangling threads across time, we delve...
Tune-Yards release their fifth studio album, sketchy., and share a new video for third single ‘hypnotized’. A soulful plea to stay awake and present in this time of pandemic and oligarchy, the video is directed by Tee Ken Ng posits the viewer on a never-ending looping train track. Last week, Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus channelled her puppeteering past for a unique rendition of ‘hypnotized’ on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Watch the performance here. sketchy., which includes the singles ‘hold yourself.’, ‘nowhere, man’ and ‘hypnotized’ is ut now. Unlike the lyrical...
Palehound’s Ellen Kempner and Jay Som’s Melina Duterte recently announced their new collaborative project Bachelor and shared acclaimed first single ‘Anything At All’. Today, the duo announces their debut album — Doomin’ Sun due out May 28 on Milk! Records / Remote Control Records — alongside brand new ‘Stay in the Car’ track and music video directed & edited by Haoyan of America. On the bass-heavy rock song, the duo paint a yearning portrait of a woman in a supermarket parking lot, a barely-contained...
London band black midi announce Cavalcade, their new album out May 28th on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records, and also offer its lead single/video, ‘John L.‘ Cavalcade is a dynamic, hellacious, and inventive follow-up to 2019’s widely-praised Schlagenheim, “a labyrinth with hairpin-turn episodes and lyrics full of dourly corrosive observations” (New York Times, Best Albums of 2019). It scales beautiful new heights, pulling widely from a plethora of genres and influences, reaching ever upwards from an already lofty base of early...
The third chapter of the Bills & Aches & Blues compilation is released today. The four tracks that comprise ‘Side 3’ see Future Islands, Dry Cleaning, Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound) and new signing Jenny Hval cover Colourbox, Lush, Grimes and Breeders respectively. Bills & Aches & Blues – Side 3 11 Future Islands The Moon Is Blue ( Colourbox ) 12 Jenny Hval Sunbathing ( Lush ) 13 Dry Cleaning Oblivion ( Grimes ) 14 Bradford Cox Mountain Battles ( Breeders ) Bills & Aches & Blues features 18 of the...
Following the release of DJ Python’s ‘Young Buck’ remix, which saw support by Pitchfork, BBC 6Music and more, Braids is thrilled to reveal today two brand new songs titled ‘Slayer Moon’ and ‘2020′. Recorded during the sessions of their last album Shadow Offering, the new tracks were premiered by the band last night during their WWWorld Premiere live concert on their YouTube channel. Watch it here. The band shares their inspiration behind the songs: ‘Slayer Moon‘ is inspired by a Sailor...
