JayWood – the moniker of Winnipeg musician & songwriter Jeremy Haywood-Smith – has announced his new album, Slingshot, out July 15th on Captured Tracks, and shares its lead single/video, ‘Just Sayin.’ Since 2015, JayWood has captured the young writer’s journey of self-discovery and heartache through unique songwriting and an ever-evolving sound. After the loss of his mother in 2019 and a global standstill with multiple social crises throughout 2020, Haywood-Smith yearned for forward momentum. “The idea of looking back to go...
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Montreal-based artist, producer, engineer and remixer Patrick Holland has announced his debut album. Holland has been known in the past for his electronic releases under aliases such as Project Pablo and Jump Source, as well as his production and remix work for artists such as TOPS, Cut Copy, Jacques Greene, Homeshake, and more. Now with his forthcoming record entitled You’re The Boss, Patrick Holland is re-introducing himself and making his first foray into guitar-driven indie pop. Written and recorded in tandem, You’re The Boss finds Holland self-producing, playing...
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Aotearoa eight-piece The Black Seeds have today released their new heavy reggae single ‘Game Over’, accompanied by a captivating video set on the inside of a pinball machine! ‘Game Over’ is the fourth single to be released from their upcoming seventh studio album Love & Fire, out June 17. Packed with muted guitar riffs, driving bass and drums, and an infectious horn section, ‘Game Over’ is a classic reggae track that showcases the band’s iconic...
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Following the recent announcement of her upcoming EP and companion short film BLAME – out Friday 3 June via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records – Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist HANDSOME unveils her new single ‘Royally’ and accompanying video serving as the second instalment in a trilogy of videos that together make up the BLAME visual experience. It follows HANDSOME’s latest single ‘Blame’ and Part 1 of the BLAME video trilogy, which is out now. Watch below! HANDSOME invites you to enter the world of BLAME – where desert grit meets hyper real adventure. Thanks...
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Yo La Tengo’s undeniable classic 1997 album I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is now a quarter of a century old. To celebrate, the record will be made available in a limited 25th anniversary edition reissue on translucent yellow vinyl on July 29 (US/CA) & Aug 12 (ROW). Also available will be a reproduction of the video’s “President McKinley Academy of Rock” sweatshirts. The reissue serves as the latest entry in Matador Records’ Revisionist History series, our ongoing campaign...
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This month celebrates 30 years of Pavement’s debut full-length, Slanted & Enchanted, which was first released in 1992 via Matador Records. It remains a truly monumental album – one that defined/ruined a generation and a genre, depending on who you ask. On August 12th, a limited-edition run of the original LP will be released on red/white/black splatter vinyl, as well as a lovingly detailed replica of the cassette Pavement used to shop Slanted & Enchanted to prospective record labels,...
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Scout Gillett has released one to ten – her debut EP for Captured Tracks. Ahead of it’s release Gillett premiered ‘come on let’s go’ – her lush, faithful cover of Broadcast’s The Noise Made by People single – at The FADER with a self-directed and self-shot video. The new cover is one of four (also including Brenda Lee, Ferrante & Teicher, and Blaze Foley) on Scout’s hypnotic introductory EP, one to ten, and follows its recently released original title track. “The covers here complement the title track. one to ten is a peek...
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After a run of deliriously off-kilter singles, Montreal’s singer-songwriter Gus Englehorn has released his sophomore album Dungeon Master. Dungeon Master, Englehorn’s Secret City Records debut, is an outsider opus that sparkles with Dada spirit — a playful juxtaposition of isolation, alienation and mildish OCD. Surprising, paranoid, and studded with synths and strings, Dungeon Master is deeper than a cellar and blunter than a club — a shivering introduction to an artist who’s finally arrived. “I let my subconscious do...
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Part Time Records have unearthed two new discoveries from regional Australia who will feature on the next instalment of their 7” vinyl subscription service, PTR Singles Club – Mount Monda (VIC) and Manor (SA). A chance encounter at the foot of Mount Monda seemed a bit like a cosmic conspiracy. Producer and multi-instrumentalist Luke Postill worked on Matt Walters’ very first EP back when he was signed to the major label. Luke and Matt hadn’t seen each other since recording that EP. Then they...
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Jess Ribeiro has cemented herself as one of the Australian underground’s most engaging and unpredictable creative forces and her evolution is only just beginning. A shape-shifting musical enigma, the near-untouchable quality of Ribeiro’s recorded output is astonishingly consistent and the wait for new music is always worthwhile. Ribeiro’s new single, ‘In Love With This Place’, is a Synth doom pop song written in the Otways on the Great Ocean Road at the start of...
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Sleaford Mods have released a brand new EP, Live At Nottz. Recorded live at Nottingham Arena in 2021 during their biggest show ever, it features six fiery, transformative tracks and includes guest appearances from Billy Nomates and Amyl and the Sniffers’ Amy Taylor. Additionally, Sleaford Mods are sharing three electrifying live videos from the performance for ‘Nudge It’, ‘Mork n Mindy’ and ‘Tied Up in Nottz’. Watch below! If the legends are true, the first ever Sleaford Mods gig took place at a cafe near Nottingham...
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Mdou Moctar’s Afrique Victime was one of 2021’s most lauded releases: an innovative alchemy of Tuareg folk, blues and rock, electric guitar pyrotechnics, field recordings and electronics with poetic call-to-arms lyrics about the plight of his homeland of Niger. In line with their activity supporting African artists, Mdou Moctar announce Afrique Refait, a remix collection of songs from Afrique Victime. The tracklist features sound-makers at the vanguard of electronic music in Africa, with a view of highlighting different...
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Hideous, a new short film from Oliver Sim, has been selected for a special screening during the Semaine de la Critique at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film will make its global premiere with the screening. Watch the trailer and see the film poster below! “‘Hideous’—a horror film from the big heart and perverted imagination of Mr. Yann Gonzalez,” says Sim. “Starring yours truly, Fehinti Balogun, Jimmy Somerville, Jamie xx, Bimini and more. I’m trying to find a creative way to say what a dream...
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Telenova are thrilled to share their self-assured new single ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ with accompanied visuals, conceived and directed by Angeline Armstrong, featuring choreography from Zoe Marsh. Watch below! ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ is a sophisticated slice of modern nostalgia that evokes ‘90s melancholic guitar pop without losing its contemporary lean. Intensely personal in nature, the song is about letting go of someone you loved, someone bent on their own destruction. Teased earlier this month, mysterious...
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Patrick Watson releases his seventh full-length studio album. The CD and a limited-edition coloured vinyl will be released later this year and available for pre-order here. Along with the release, Watson has also shared a stop-motion music video for the title track. Watch below! In Patrick’s words, Better in the Shade “is about negotiating a world where you don’t know what’s real anymore.” “I was very inspired by Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson, The Waves by Virginia...
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London based electro-pop artist and harpist, TATYANA has released her highly-anticipated debut album, Treat Me Right via Sinderlyn. The ten-track album features recent acclaimed singles ‘Between The Lines’ – picked as Radio 1’s ‘Next Big Wave’ and which called The Forty Five to ask “is electro-harp pop our new fave genre? Quite possibly” and the irresistible ‘Kiss Me Right Now’. Over ten tracks on Treat Me Right, TATYANA manages to achieve pop excellence, combined with the twinkling, unrivalled sounds of a harp and production by dream collaborator, Joseph Mount (Metronomy). Speaking...
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