Perth duo Hamjam have released their new album a/s/l? along with sharing the video for ‘Sippin’ Rosé All Alone.’ Watch the clip below! Hamjam is the collaborative project between Hamish Rahn and James Ireland, two creative individuals who make music they describe as “blissed out sadness”. Distinguishing themselves as a band, and only sometimes as a bizarre type of food yet to be invented. Their debut full length, a/s/l?, is a collection...
Jen Cloher releases her self-titled album. Four albums into her career, this is Cloher at her most incisive and witty, cutting and expressive. She’s delivered her best album yet. An album which plays it fearlessly close to the bone, with raw, unflinching dissections of her life, love, and Australia, Jen Cloher is the culmination of a period of artistic and personal growth in which the artist took her rightful place...
Queens Of The Stone Age unveil ‘The Evil Has Landed’, the second track to be released from their new album Villains out Friday 25 August. Listen below! Produced by Mark Ronson, and written by Josh Homme, Dean Fertita, Mikey Shuman and Troy Van Leeuwan, ‘The Evil Has Landed’ sees Queens on classic form in a monstrous six and a half minute epic. Villains was produced by Mark Ronson and co-produced by Mark Rankin...
Gold Class have released yet another stirring and urgent single, ‘Get Yours’, from the new album Drum, out on August 18. The accompanied video, directed by Defero Productions, was filmed at the band’s sold out Corner Hotel show last month. Watch it below! ‘Get Yours’ has been described by the band as the centerpiece of Drum. “It was the first of the songs we wrote for the album” said singer Adam...
Daughter has unveiled a partnership with SQUARE ENIX®, to create an original musical score for their new game LIFE IS STRANGE: BEFORE THE STORM™. The entire soundtrack entitled Music from Before the Storm will be released digitally on Friday 1 September 2017. The game also includes three songs from Daughter’s back catalogue. BEFORE THE STORM is the prequel to LIFE IS STRANGE. It was a boundary-breaking videogame, with principal characters...
The National share ‘Carin at the Liquor Store’, the 3rd single from their forthcoming album Sleep Well Beast, out Friday 8th September. Watch the accompanied video directed by Casey Reas, filmed by La Blogothèque and edited by Matthew Miller below! The album was produced by member Aaron Dessner with co-production by Bryce Dessner and Matt Berninger and recorded at Aaron’s Hudson Valley, NY studio, Long Pond. The National have announced...
Moscow’s Kedr Livanskiy shares her second single ‘Love & Cigarettes’, from her debut LP Ariadna, out Friday 8th September. Listen below! The album is Kedr’s escape from reality. She was born into a shifting and critical time for Russia’s Soviet Union – old values had been exhausted and were anathematised because of reconstruction. A sense of displacement drove Kedr to find herself. Ariadna repeatedly explores the imagery and ideas of romanticism, mythical and fairytale themes. Her...
Alex Calder announces his self-titled LP, to be released Friday 20 October. Calder also shares the album’s first single ‘Morning Ritual (feat. Caroline Levasseur)’. Listen below! He notes, “‘Morning Ritual’ is the first song I wrote off of the new album. It wasn’t properly recorded until most of the rest of the album was done though. It’s essentially your typical song about being lazy and not wanting to change. Pretty simple stuff.”...
Black Cab have have released their new album 明 (Akira). A blend of dark electronica, massed taiko drums and found sounds, the album is an alternative soundtrack to an anime sci-fi classic that is yet to be created. Written and recorded by Black Cab, the album was mixed and mastered by Simon Polinski. For the artwork, the band commissioned UK anime illustrator Mike Anderson to create some fictional anime cells...
Achievement unlocked. Remote Control are thrilled to announce new partnership with Boss Battle Records, a new video game music record label. Focusing to bring the best of new, obscure, and esteemed video game music to global audiences, and in doing so, facilitate VGM culture the world over. Founded by Fabian Malabello, after running The Otherworld Agency for five years, Boss Battle Records marks a serious shift in the way video game soundtracks are...
The Black Seeds have dropped the boogie with their new video ‘Freakin’, from their forthcoming album Fabric, out Friday 8 September. Watch it below! “It’s the party, pick-me-up track on the album,” says The Black Seeds co-frontman, Barnaby Weir of the new track created at Lee Prebble’s The Surgery. “It’s for the end of the week, end of the line, letting loose, shaking it off. It’s a good dose of feel-good funk.” The...
Kamasi Washington’s new EP Harmony of Difference will be released on September 29th. Watch the short film to the single ‘Truth’ from director A.G. Rojas below. The EP is an original six-movement suite, featuring artwork by Kamasi’s sister Amani Washington. It explores the philosophical possibilities of the musical technique known as “counterpoint,” which Kamasi defines as “the art of balancing similarity and difference to create harmony between separate melodies.” Beyond the artistic impulse to...
Melbourne’s electronic-rap pioneers Milwaukee Banks return with new single ‘The City’. It’s their first new music since their debut album Deep Into The Night. Listen below! The production on ‘The City’ gives way for a booming bass line, surging through a neon-bright, electrified soundscape. Dyl Thomas guides you through, delivering some of his most uninhibited, direct lyricism and flows to date. Resonating with an energy of ambition, this marks the...
NYC-based artists John Barera and Will Martin link up for their second collaborative album Proceed To The Root, released 22 September. Sharing with us ‘Polaris’, the first track from the album. Listen below! John Barera and Will Martin’s musical partnership grew out of a close friendship. Their chemistry with production and DJ’ing has been honed through many years of working, and sometimes living, together. The recording process for Proceed to the Root started almost immediately...
Jim Lawrie has shared shared a new video for ‘Lost on Earth’, taken from his new album Slacker of the Year. Teamed up with filmmaker James Ruse to create the clip, ‘Lost on Earth’ captures the magic of unearthing something new and exciting in someone else. Watch it below! As Jim explains; “The majority of this planet is accounted for by Google maps. This song is about the fact that, even when every...
LA’s Starcrawler share two tracks from their Rough Trade Session. The catchy as hell live favourite ‘Used To Know’ and ‘Ants’ which were previously released on a limited edition 7″. Watch the recordings below! Frontwoman Arrow de Wilde’s restrained menace is balanced with guitarist Henri Cash’s energy. On the day, Arrow remembers: “It was pissing rain. We recorded these sessions, Henri lost his voice, we played a crazy show at this club,...
