Black Friday, the new album from Palehound is out now. Their third full-length, Black Friday is a finespun exploration of all the forms that love can take: love between friends, love for people no longer in your life, love in the face of self-hate, love that endures through major life changes or through many tiny catastrophes. Palehound hope that the album might help others to work through their own troubles...
Jai Paul has returned. Double B-side single ‘Do You Love Her Now’ / ‘He’ is the first official release from Paul since 2012’s ‘jasmine (demo)’ which, alongside ‘BTSTU (demo),’ changed the face of a generation of musicians and producers. Both songs are written, recorded, produced, and mixed by Jai Paul. Hear them via Jai Paul’s first official website: www.jai-paul.com. As well as the new music, Paul has also for the first...
Juan Wauters returns with Introducing Juan Pablo… out now via Captured Tracks. Travel has always left a mark on Juan’s music. While his previous album, with its folkloric airs and Latin roots, made that clear, this is an album which at its core is an internal journey. Wauters explores his two worlds, his two languages, and his day-to-day life in his NYC neighbourhood, and his life as an artist. “At...
Thrilled to announce the return of, and the new label home of, Sleater-Kinney. The first new music since 2015’s No Cities To Love, ‘Hurry On Home‘ is out now via Milk! Records in AU/NZ. Legends of punk Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker, and Janet Weiss teamed up with master of industrial rock Annie Clark (St. Vincent) on production for what is their boldest sound yet. It’s a hint of more music to come...
Katz is back! His first new music since last year’s collaborative debut EP Waterfall – ‘Back From Nothing‘ is out now everywhere via Dot Dash Recordings. Written and produced in Katz’ Collingwood home studio with Melbourne based songwriter Janeva Burrill, the track features powerful, soaring vocals that are both rich and intimate. “It’s a song about being grateful for someone’s friendship and guidance, particularly through difficult times,” says Katz. It...
Remote Control and our friends at Boss Battle Records are thrilled to announce the release of the soundtrack for video game Hell Is Other Demons. Listen to it here. Created by Berlin’s Remi Gallego (Hacknet, Hacknet Labyrinths) the synthwave soundtrack is an exercise in bridging the gap between to monuments of sound – EDM and progressive metal. Hear it soundtrack you play the game on Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Kartridge....
FKA twigs has taken ‘Cellophane‘ to a new dimension with a stunning live rendition, and on piano for the first time. Directed by twigs herself, the intimacy of the performance strikes a deep contrast with the conceptual scale of Huang’s original video. It was filmed in London’s renowned The Wallace Collection, a place that has long inspired both twigs and one of her favourite designers, Vivienne Westwood. In celebration of...
After two years, jade imagine are back! Premiering via Double J and Pilerats, check out the video and listen to ‘Big Old House‘ here. Front-person and key songwriter Jade McInally says of the track “I wrote ‘Big Old House’ in Sunshine Beach, after a dream in which a loose melody and lyrics came to me and stuck around just in time for me to get them down on paper. It was the...
Meet Velvet Negroni – experimental R&B vocalist and songwriter, based in Minneapolis. His debut album NEON BROWN is out 30 August on 4AD. Listen to first single ‘CONFETTI’ here. Velvet Negroni is the alter-ego of creative polymath Jeremy Nutzman. Raised in an outer suburb of the Twin Cities, Jeremy – a black kid adopted into a white evangelical Christian family – split his formative years between classical piano lessons and late night jam sessions....
Feature album on Double J and Album of the Week at the Herald Sun, The National have released their eighth studio album I Am Easy To Find. Listen here. The Mike Mills directed film of the same name, inspired by the record, is now available to watch here. On September 3, 2017, director Mike Mills emailed Matt Berninger to introduce himself and in very short order, the most ambitious project of the National’s 20-year career...
black midi have announced their debut full length, Schlagenheim, to be released Friday 21 June via Rough Trade. black midi are Georgie Greep(vocals/guitar), Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin (vocals/guitar), Cameron Picton (vocals/bass), and Morgan Simpson (drums). The band laid down eight of the record’s nine tracks in just five days. The process was one of refining and rebuilding tracks around the initial structures. Five hour jams would sometimes yield a riff that then...
Thrilled to announce Carla Geneve‘s debut self-titled EP will be released on Friday 7 June via Dot Dash Recordings! Hear the triple j premiered new single ‘Yesterday’s Clothes‘ and preorder the EP vinyl here. Carla explains the meaning behind the song – “Yesterday’s Clothes is about falling out of love with someone and feeling guilty about it. I wrote it at time when I was burning the candle at both ends and...
Holly Herndon has released her third album, PROTO, via 4AD. The album isn’t so much about A.I. as much as it was created in collaboration with A.I. – with her own A.I. ‘baby’ Spawn, to be precise. PROTO makes reference to what Holly refers to as the protocol era, where new ideological battles over the future of A.I. protocols, internet protocols, and personal and political protocols force us to ask...
How good were Huntly‘s album launch shows? To celebrate their signing to US label House Arrest, and the re-release of their debut album Low Grade Buzz in North America, Huntly have shared their video for ‘Giving Circle.’ Huntly share “Giving Circle is about the mess left in the aftermath of a break up. The moments you look around your friendship group and want to extricate yourself from the whole scene...
Moscow singer and producer, Kedr Livanskiy, has released her second album Your Need (2MR). The album cements Kedr at the forefront of Russia’s burgeoning electronic and experimental music scene. It’s a celebration of life and rebirth. It’s about a fighter’s spirit, and if you will, a little audacity and courage. DJ’ing and early forms of dance music inspired a furious burst of creative energy after months of melancholy, sadness, and...
Check out the new single and video from Palehound – ‘Worthy.’ It premiered at PAPER Magazine, and is another taste of their forthcoming album Black Friday, out 7 June. Prolific singer / songwriter Ellen Kempner says the song is “about feeling unworthy of love even within a relationship. It’s about years of being conditioned to hate my body and the shock of finding someone who isn’t telling me to change....
