To celebrate the forthcoming release of new album We Were Trying To Make It Out, on February 28, Jeremy Neale will play four in-stores across Brisbane, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne. Catch Jeremy perform at Jet Black Cat, Red Eye Records, Summertown Studios and Rocksteady Records. Full dates available below. Sonically, We Were Trying to Make It Out contains Neale’s penchant for melodic hooks, delivered coherently and directly without compromise or pastiche. This is the Jeremy Neale sound – the result of years of searching and refining – honest, fully realised and...
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After more than five years, Purity Ring have returned to announce their third album. WOMB will be released on April 3rd and is entirely written, recorded, produced and mixed by the duo of Megan James and Corin Roddick. WOMB chronicles a quest for comfort and the search for a resting place in a world where so much is beyond our control. Lead single ‘stardew’ is a glittering, transcendent invitation to “just be where you are” – to experience the kind of powerful peace that can only...
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Introducing Becky and the Birds, the monikier of Thea Gustafsson. She joins the 4AD family and releases her new single ‘Do U Miss Me‘ off the pop producer and songwriter’s forthcoming debut EP for the label. Stream it here. The b4 family ever grows. Syv De Blare is a newcomer on the avant-garde pop scene. Hypnotic, sensual and futuristic. She releases ‘WAKE‘ her first since signing to b4, which...
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‘Delete Forever’ is written, produced and performed by Grimes. It’s about losing friends to the opioid crisis and the self-hatred that arises when the grieving process mimics the behaviours that cost your friends their lives. The video is a collaboration between Grimes, Mac Boucher and Neil Hansen. It depicts a tyrant’s lament as her empire crumbles. This IP is wholly owned by Media-Empire. On Friday 21 February, Grimes will release her highly-anticipated fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Preorder here.
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“The video is about loneliness and the feelings of ostracisation that arise when your issues seem too much for the world to handle. It follows a woman roaming the landscape in a wedding dress, totally prepared to give herself up to something, yet completely alone and isolated by her sadness. The circles in the clip represent a safety zone, something I created for myself when I felt like I had...
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Check out the second single from U.S. Girls (Meg Remy) forthcoming album Heavy Light, out 6 March. ‘4 American Dollars‘ is an anthem, one that turns inward and recounts deeply personal narratives. It comes with a technicolour video directed by Emily Pelstring and Remy with VFX by Beyond Wonderland Films. Preorder Heavy Light here.
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“I wrote this song in LA back in July last year, where I was doing a bunch of sessions every day for a month straight. This specific day I had the studio to myself, and it was on a day when it was unusually hard to deal with the distance between me and my personal life in New York. It started with the guitar, and the rest wrote itself. It’s...
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English songwriter and musician Jack Peñate announces the release of an expanded edition of his recent album After You. The follow-up to his critically acclaimed album Everything Is New, and over a decade in the making, After You was originally released on November 29 and today an expanded edition of the project, that includes a full-live version of the album, is available digitally everywhere. The live version of the album was also captured on film, which today...
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Last week, Everything Is Recorded – Richard Russell’s collaborative artist project – returned with a new single ‘10:51PM / THE NIGHT‘ via XL Recordings / Remote Control and a subsequent Toby Ziegler-directed music video. It was the first new music in nearly two years from the London artist and producer whose eponymous 2018 debut album went on to be nominated for the Mercury Music Prize and was hailed by Q...
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We’re New Again, a unique reimagining of Gil Scott-Heron’s final album I’m New Here by the acclaimed Chicago-based jazz musician and producer Makaya McCraven is out now. The release marks the tenth anniversary of Scott-Heron’s original and is the second full-length interpretation of I’m New Here, following Jamie xx’s 2011 We’re New Here album. First conceptualised in 2005, and ultimately produced, by Richard Russell during New York recording sessions commencing in January...
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King Krule has released ‘Alone, Omen 3.’ It’s the second single from his forthcoming album Man Alive! out Friday 21 February. The track comes with a video directed by Archy Marshall’s close friend Jocelyn Anquetil and was co-written by the artist and director. Featuring Archy surrounded by his friends, band mates and collaborators, the video backs up the message that “you’re not alone”. “I felt like I had gotten out...
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On Friday 20 March, Låpsley will release her highly-anticipated second album via XL Recordings / Remote Control. Titled Through Water, it’s the follow up to her 2016 album Long Way Home. Through Water is without doubt Låpsley’s most accomplished work to date, written and recorded during her transition into young womanhood. With Låpsley as the major producer and songwriter, the ten songs (whittled down from over one hundred) reflect her...
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Basia Bulat shares ‘Already Forgiven‘ from her forthcoming record Are You in Love? out March 27. Bulat has joined forces once again with Jim James of My Morning Jacket for the new album, who also produced her 2016 release Good Advice. The song was recorded during a session in Joshua Tree. “One day Andrew recorded the wildest wind outside and sent the signal through a path of electronics and the swirling feeling...
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Remote Control and Boss Battle Records are pleased to announce the release of two video game soundtracks – Wargroove: Double Trouble by Phonetic Hero and Kunai by PONGBALL. The soundtracks are now available for streaming and purchase on all digital services. Wargroove: Double Trouble features add-on downloadable content for the critically acclaimed, turn-based strategy game Wargroove. Wargroove: Double Trouble adds a brand new co-op enabled campaign story which introduces several new characters. After an unexpected kidnapping and some severe ransom demands, your group of rogues have no...
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Chastity Belt and Loose Tooth have shared a “digital split single” today featuring new material from both acts: Chastity Belt’s A Side ‘The Process’ and Loose Tooth‘s B side ‘Lonely.’ Fifty percent of Bandcamp sales for either track will benefit Australian wildfire relief efforts, specifically the Red Cross and Country Fire Authority. Purchase here. Additionally, Chastity Belt and Loose Tooth hit the road together for a run of North American...
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After finishing a 2019 tour with Frankie Cosmos and signing to Captured Tracks, Christina Schneider, the brainchild behind Locate S,1, shares the first single/title track “Personalia” from her forthcoming sophomore album Personalia, out 3 April. Schneider seeks to address how the attention economy is plaguing us with feelings of FOMO and anxiety, and is causing many of us to abandon more progressive values. Working under various aliases since 2014—including CE Schneider Topical, Jepeto...
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