After leaving a digital breadcrumb trail in the lead up to the track’s release in its newest form, Two Shell unveil an enhanced version of ‘Talk To Me’, a vibrant, hi-octane collaboration with avant-garde icon FKA twigs. A saccharine blast of dance music drums, very cool sounds and very nice vibes, ‘Talk To Me’ is Two Shell at its most ecstatic. Marking her first musical appearance since 2022, FKA twigs is electric on the track, providing...
Fabiana Palladino releases ‘I Can’t Dream Anymore’ the latest single taken from her highly anticipated self-titled debut album which is out on 5th April. Premiered during the Radio Fabiana show on NTS, ‘I Can’t Dream Anymore’ is released alongside a music video conceptualised by Fabiana and directed by Josh Renaut and Caroline Waxse. It places Fabiana aboard Radio Caroline ship – the world’s most famous pirate radio station during the 60s and 70s – where her sense of longing exists in her isolation as she broadcasts out to...
Kamasi Washington today confirms his new album, Fearless Movement, is set for release May 3rd via Young / Remote Control. A new song, ‘Prologue,’ debuts today alongside a video directed by longtime collaborator AG Rojas. Washington calls Fearless Movement his dance album. “It’s not literal,”Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music—expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.” Pre-order / Pre-save Fearless Movement here. Stream / Download ‘Prologue’ here.
Kicking off 2024 with a bang, Manhattan four-piece cumgirl8 (aka cg8) return with a brand new single entitled ‘glasshour’. It’s a spiky post-punk haze, showcasing all that’s exciting and unique about cumgirl8 via jarring electro-punk flourishes, industrial sludge, and an irrepressible hook tying it all together. A live highlight of their incendiary underground shows, the new track also previews the group’s upcoming debut 4AD / Remote Control record (due later this year). The release additionally marks the...
Out May 3rd, Funeral For Justice is the new album by Mdou Moctar. Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, it captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are passionately political. Nothing is held back or toned down. The songs on Funeral For Justice speak unflinchingly to the plight of...
The Toronto-born-and-raised singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Day Wilson announces her sophomore album Cyan Blue out May 3rd. First single ‘I Don’t Love You’ is a stark and devastatingly beautiful confessional, highlighting Wilson’s immaculate production skills and chill inducing vocals laid atop smooth groove piano chords and soft drums. The track also arrives with a visual directed by Dani Aphrodite featuring layered low-fi footage of the artist and producer performing at home, living every day...
Signing to XL Recordings / Remote Control, Nourished By Time returns to announce his new EP Catching Chickens will be released on 22 March digitally and on 12” vinyl. With tracks like ‘Hell of a Ride,’ in which Nourished By Time contemplates the fall of the American empire and late-stage capitalism loneliness, and ‘Had Ya Called’, which deals with the frustrations of growing distance in friendships, Nourished By Time chronicles his own test of agility as he weaves through the motions of his...
Adrianne Lenker shares a new single ‘Fool’ from her upcoming album, Bright Future, out on 22nd March. With bent, plucked, and trembling strings, ‘Fool’ chases its tail for answers with softened beach glass geometry. Accompanying the single is another video directed by Adrianne’s brother, Noah Lenker, featuring Adrianne’s family and their dogs. “I feel like I can hear her laughing and smiling when I listen back to this song. The joy is palpable,” says producer Philip Weinrobe. “It’s easy to forget that Adrianne can do unbridled ecstatic...
Musician and visual artist Kim Gordon has released ‘I’m a Man’, the latest preview track from her second solo album, The Collective, out March 8th on Matador / Remote Control. Atop a dark, churning soundscape, Gordon ruminates on discrimination, gender norms and societal constraints in her inimitable style—once again challenging the listener to think deeply about the world around them. An evocative video for ‘I’m a Man’ is also out today, starring Coco Gordon Moore and Conor Fay and was directed by filmmaker Alex Ross Perry,...
Twenty years ago today, in a small studio on Fairfax Boulevard in Los Angeles, indie quartet Warpaint was born. To mark the anniversary of their formation, they are thrilled to announce the release of a new 7”, ‘Common Blue’ b/w ‘Underneath’, out March 22 on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. For their first new material in two years, Warpaint reunited with Rough Trade, the label behind their debut album and creative home for most of their existence. “It...
SAM MORTON – the musical duo comprising singer, songwriter and acclaimed actor and director Samantha Morton, and music producer and artist Richard Russell – today release a new single, ‘Cry Without End’, via XL Recordings / Remote Control. Featuring musician and composer Alabaster DePlume, ‘Cry Without End’ is simultaneously fragile and powerful, a gorgeous, heart-jangling song that sees Morton’s ethereal vocal – acapella for the first verse – ultimately enveloped by delicate, lush orchestration. The single is complimented by a...
Goat Girl – Lottie Pendlebury (she/her), Rosy Jones (they/them) and Holly Mullineaux (she/her) are excited to announce their third album Below The Waste which is being released on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records on June 7th. The album was co–produced by the band and John Spud Murphy (Lankum and black midi). Singer Lottie says on the lead track ‘ride around’, “I was listening to lots of music at the time by Phillip Glass and Deerhoof that plays with the relationship between tension and resolution which...
Recorded in the same session as recent solo album Several Songs About Fire, ‘Black Holes, the Stars and You’ has been a long-time coming from visual artist and Parquet Courts co-frontman, A. Savage. Featuring infectious, Latin-inspired grooves and production by John Parish, the single is about the different ways people see each other versus the different ways people view themselves. A. Savage has a knack for lyrical poetry, which is on full display here. ‘Black Holes, the Stars...
Erika de Casier shares a new single and video from her highly-anticipated third album Still, out on 21 February via 4AD / Remote Control. ‘ice’ featuring Tampa rap duo They Hate Change marks the first collaboration in de Casier’s discography, and what a marvellous first showing. For the three-minute cut de Casier moonlights as the duo’s third member, flipping a classic hip-hop trope (“Ice – you put it all on me,” she sings) into a comment on a frustratingly noncommittal person. The song...
Alongside becoming the face of Daniel Lee’s first global campaign for Burberry and walking for Marine Serre at Fashion Week, Hackney-born rapper, producer and poet John Glacier also began to gain notoriety globally, working with in-demand NY production team Surf Gang on a spontaneous collaborative project last year. With her star continuing to full ascent, John Glacier today announces her signing to Young / Remote Control with ‘Money Shows’, the Eartheater-featuring first cut from a brand new EP, Like A Ribbon. Produced by Kwes Darko and inspired by the sounds of...
Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD return to release a new single ‘Take What’s Given,’ featuring emerging Houston vocalist reggie; out now digitally on XL Recordings / Remote Control with a limited edition 7” available for pre-order. Recorded in Los Angeles at Valentine Studios, across multiple sessions in 2023, ‘Take What’s Given’ is a country inspired track that radiates at the point in which reggie’s soulful vocal performance and BADBADNOTGOOD’s funk inspired, horn-tinged arrangements intersect. Stream / Download ‘Take What’s Given’ here.
