Ontario’s Chastity announce their sophomore album and share the first single off the record. Home Made Satan is due Friday 13 September via Captured Tracks. Check out the video for new track ‘Sun Poisoning.’ Stream it here. The single is about the contradictory melancholy that often comes with the vulnerability of a new relationship, capturing the juxtaposition of feeling both joy and sadness simultaneously. The raucous visual features an adolescent...
Thom Yorke’s new album ANIMA is out now The physical release will follow on Friday 19 July. ANIMA is available to stream, download and physically pre-order now via https://thomyorke.ffm.to/anima. A ‘one-reeler’ also entitled ANIMA will be available to watch exclusively via Netflix from 27 June. The one-reeler, made by Paul Thomas Anderson, is set to three tracks from Thom’s new album. ANIMA was written by Thom Yorke and produced by Nigel Godrich. The album features 9 tracks, with an extra...
Following the release of her acclaimed 2018 debut EP No Hat No Play, Sydney-based artist HANDSOME shares her new single ‘Delete You’, as premiered by Double J. ‘Delete You‘ perfectly exhibits HANDSOME‘s brand of tomboy pop and brooding electronic and is accompanied by a self-directed video which was premiered overnight by The Line of Best Fit. HANDSOME on ‘Delete You’: “The ‘Delete You’ video shows one of the most vulnerable moments of my life. It was an experience so...
Sui Zhen has announced her latest chapter, Losing, Linda, which is set for release Friday 27th September via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records and is sharing the first single & video from the record ‘Perfect Place’. The video for the lead single, ‘Perfect Place’ introduces the character Linda, a ghostly apparition, representing the fragments of self, the avatars we leave behind after one dies in the physical realm — but do our digital selves ever...
Lucy Dacus has released her new single ‘Forever Half Mast’ the third instalment of Dacus’ 2019 holiday song series. ‘Forever Half Mast’ follows her Valentine’s Day-inspired cover of ‘La Vie En Rose’, and an original ode to Mother’s Day and Taurus Season, ‘My Mother & I’. Still to come in Lucy’s 2019 singles series are tracks tied to Springsteen’s Birthday, Halloween, Christmas, and New Year’s, with a physical EP of the collection coming in...
A pleasure to welcome Leif Vollebekk to the Remote Control family, announcing his new album New Ways. The follow up to his Polaris Music Prize finalist Twin Solitude, the announcement comes with a beautiful single and visual for ‘Hot Tears.’ New Ways is the sound of desire in its unfolding. Two years ago, things were changing so fast, and the songwriter didn’t want to forget. “I often think of Leonard Cohen’s line,...
Just announced as FBi Radio’s Album of the Week, black midi have released their debut album Schlagenheim (Rough Trade Records). Watch the surreal visual for new single ‘Ducter‘ below. Over the past many months, black midi – Geordie Greep (vocals/guitar), Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin(vocals/guitar), Cameron Picton (vocals/bass), and Morgan Simpson (drums) – have built a reputation for their dynamic, collaborative energy and uncompromising live shows. Their songs are slippery creatures and they play them as a musical unit that’s constantly in a state...
Our favourite party boys The Bennies are back with a new burner ‘Green Mitsubishis.’ It’s a ballad, but not in the way that you know it. Vocalist Anty explains – “It is a ballad about the disco before the breakdown, claustrophobia in sweaty nightclubs, prioritising time with friends over everything else, it is about the heights of ecstasy, it is about finding family in friendship, but most importantly it is a...
jade imagine have announced their debut album Basic Love, to be released 2 August via Milk! Records. Watch the shimmering video for new single ‘Remote Control‘ below. The album is an existential ride through playful pop-tones and more stripped back textures. Jade McInally shows off the wit and noir of her vocal delivery, backed by an arrangement of synthwave and art-rock. It’s bleak pop at its most incandescent. Preorder the...
Another taste of the debut album from Gena Rose Bruce, ‘I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You.’ It comes with a beautiful lyric video created by Kate Adams and Alex Badham. Gena explains – “We wanted to create a meditative, surrealist-inspired video for this song. The imagery hints at the concept of being buried, in this case by the thoughts or memories of someone you can’t let go of. It’s quite...
Seven years after their last album release, Efterklang make a welcome return with a fifth studio record Altid Sammen on Friday 20 September via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Check out the Danish trio’s video for first single ‘Vi er uendelig’ with a video starring Helena Christensen below. Directed by Andreas Koefoed (behind the band’s film The Ghost Of Piramida), and featuring a fellow Dane, the model and photographer Helena Christensen, are a homage to an iconic Johnny Hallyday TV performance in 1964. Altid Sammen (meaning...
Saddle Creek’s newest signing Ada Lea has announced her debut album what we say in private will be released Friday 19th July. Premiered via The Fader, the Montreal-based artist has shared the video for new single ‘mercury‘. The Montreal, Quebec-based Alexandra Levy — who records and performs as Ada Lea — is also a painter and visual artist, and traces of her many creative abilities run throughout what we say in private. Levy explores the...
Pixx has shared her new album Small Mercies. Listen here. Small Mercies is a series of poetic examinations of love across the experiential spectrum, from the micro (self-love) to the macro (devotional faith-inspired love), all set to a soundtrack that mixes electronic pop and grungy guitar rock. Album highlight ‘Andean Condor’ “is written about the link between wo/mankind and nature,” Rodgers says. “It is important to recognise how many times women...
Local Feature at RTR FM, and featuring a KUTX Song Of The Day, Carla Geneve‘s self-titled debut EP is out today! Check out the intimate video for ‘Yesterday’s Clothes‘ released alongside the EP. Directed by Matt Sav, Carla says of the video, “I wanted the video to reflect the personal nature of the song. To me, sitting alone in front of a camera is a vulnerable situation, a lot like...
PicaPica are the lush vocal interplays of dual front women Josienne Clarke and Samantha Whates, atop the textural arrangements of Adam Beattie and Sonny Johns. Today, they have shared Together & Apart, their new album out now via Rough Trade. The album is about health and heartache, spring and shade, love and loss and life – beautifully balanced through their expert songwriting. Stream / download it here.
Iconic, ARIA-Award winning, Australian indie band Art of Fighting have returned with their first album in twelve years! Luna Low is out now – expansive, heartfelt, and sublime, with a newfound wry sense of humour. Hear the title track and preorder the album now. Of the finished album, Art Of Fighting say: “Luna Low is not an autobiographical work, more a proxy by which we can reflect on some of our own could-have-beens and would-have-beens. It’s about...
