Bartees Strange announces his new album Farm to Table released digitally on 17 June, with LP and CD following on 7 October, plus a brand-new song, ‘Cosigns’ and a stunning accompanying video directed by Pooneh Ghana. Watch below! An unapologetic and braggadocious indie-trap banger, ‘Cosigns’ celebrates Bartees’ peers, collaborators and friends, through a genre-defying outpouring somewhere between swaggering hip hop and euphoric alt rock. ‘Cosigns’ is also a moment for Bartees to acknowledge himself, giving himself credence and unashamedly basking in that glow. Where...
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The Smile will release their highly anticipated debut album A Light For Attracting Attention on 13 May, 2022 with CD and vinyl formats to follow on June 17. Brand new single ‘Free In The Knowledge’ is out now, with an accompanying video directed by Leo Leigh. Watch below! The track was first performed by Thom Yorke as part of the Letters Live event at London’s Royal Albert Hall, in December 2021, the first time Thom had performed since the pandemic began. Introducing the song, he dedicated it...
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Brooklyn-based Scout Gillett joins the Captured Tracks roster and shares her first release for the label: the title track of her debut EP one to ten, out April 29th, 2022. Listen below! The five-song collection consists of four covers — of Broadcast, Blaze Foley, Ferrante & Teicher, and Brenda Lee — alongside the hypnotic original ‘one to ten’, which arrives today alongside a dreamy video, shot by Julie Orlick. “I wrote ‘one to ten’ a few years ago to my future self,...
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HANDSOME announces BLAME – her new EP and companion short film out Friday 3 June. Alongside the announcement, HANDSOME unveils the title track and accompanying video serving as the first instalment in a trilogy of videos that together make up the BLAME visual experience. Watch below! Enter the world of BLAME – where desert grit meets hyper real adventure. Thanks to the AMEX Music Backers Fund, HANDSOME travelled to the middle of Australia to...
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Saâda Bonaire shares the dubbed out time-capsule ‘Extremes’, the second single from their forthcoming collection of unreleased ’90s material, 1992, out 6 May. Until recently, it was thought that we had heard all there was to hear from Saâda Bonaire. The German studio project’s 1980s recordings had been compiled on the now cult-classic double LP Saâda Bonaire, released by Captured Tracks in 2013. Though the group had continued working until 1994, founder Ralph “von” Richthoven had firmly stated that...
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Belle and Sebastian have released a new single, ‘Young and Stupid,’ taken from their forthcoming new album A Bit Of Previous, out May 6th. The song is accompanied by a lyric video which gets unfettered access into the band members respective family photo albums. Watch below! A Bit of Previous was recorded in Belle and Sebastian’s hometown of Glasgow when plans to fly to Los Angeles in spring of 2020 were scrapped due to the pandemic....
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Recently, Interpol premiered ‘Toni‘, the first single from their new album The Other Side Of Make-Believe, released July 15th on Matador. The song was accompanied by the opening instalment of a two-part film directed by Van Alpert (Post Malone, Machine Gun Kelly), which quickly went to garner over a quarter of a million views on YouTube. Interpol have now released the second and concluding part, as well as unveiled new song ‘Something Changed’. Singer Paul Banks says: “In “Something Changed,” part 2 of...
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Jamie xx releases his first new music in two years. Having spent the time since 2020’s ‘Idontknow’ concentrating on new music, ‘LET’S DO IT AGAIN’ is a triumphant return and the first glimpse of what’s to come over the next year from the London artist and DJ. It’s a track that’s all about tension, drama and catharsis; an anthemic, joyous call to arms built around an unrelenting “I get higher and higher… Let’s do it...
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London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have shared their brand new single and video ‘Concrete Over Water’; another hint at a still-to-come TBA debut full-length record on their new label home Rough Trade / Remote Control. ‘Concrete Over Water’ received its first national airplay from Lauren Laverne on her BBC Radio 6 Music Breakfast show. Watch the video below! Commenting on the new single – which comes complete with hugely inventive and ambitious storytelling visuals, directed by the band themselves...
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Arca shares the latest offering from the KICK series, and ancillary new single ‘Cayó’, a song generated from the period in which she recorded the KICK series, originally premiered on her DIVA_EXPERIMENTAL FM Twitch transmission in 2020. ‘Cayó’ features additional production from Tim Hecker and arrives with a music video directed by Albert Moya, starring Arca. Watch below! Following the December 2021 digital release of KICK ii, KicK iii, kick iiii and kiCK iiiii, and June 2020 release of KiCk i, Arca announces the physical release of all five albums from...
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Perth-based singer-songwriter Carla Geneve releases her debut album Learn To Like It, out now on all digital platforms with physical formats coming soon. Learn To Like It serves as a reflective statement of an artist finally coming into her own whilst simultaneously navigating the trials and tribulations of self-discovery and personal growth. From humble beginnings in the small south-west town of Albany to a rapid ascent wrapped up in two years of prolific touring, accolades...
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Following their syrupy bop ‘Sugar’ and lush single ‘Sister’, Dorsal Fins share ‘Criminal’, their third single from their long-awaited third album Star of the Show, out Friday May 13. Watch the accompanying animated video by artist and illustrator Eleanor James below! ‘Criminal’ came together from a demo that Jarrad Brown had hidden in his vault, initially titled ‘Spirit Gambler’. Channeling the power of three in the name of the magic of collectivism. Brown’s sweet spy jazz/funk instrumental forming the basis, they rode...
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Overmono release their latest EP Cash Romantic. Following the release of singles ‘Gunk‘ and ‘Gfortune’, Cash Romantic gets a highly anticipated digital release alongside the launch of pre-sale for the 12” vinyl which features artwork by longtime collaborator Rollo Jackson. While in 2021 Overmono celebrated the underground sound systems and clubbers with acclaimed releases ‘BMW Track / So U Kno‘, ‘Diamond Cut / Bby‘ and ‘Pieces Of 8 / Echo Rush‘, Cash Romantic marks the start of a new phase in their evolution; one that...
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Horsegirl share new single and lyric video ‘World of Pots and Pans’ from their debut album Versions of Modern Performance, out June 3rd. Following the propulsive ‘Anti-glory’, ‘World of Pots and Pans’ has a rough, blown-out pop charm. Watch below! Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums) do everything collectively, from songwriting to trading vocal duties and swapping instruments to sound and visual art design. Reece and Cheng, college freshmen, and Lowenstein, a high school senior,...
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Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK shares ‘purgatory’, the second single from their third album If I Never Know You Like This Again. Listen to ‘purgatory’ and watch the accompanying video shot by Ellius Grace below! Bridie explains “’purgatory’ is about the weight of time and the perpetual fear of reaching the end of your life, unsatisfied with how you’d spent it. The song came out of a slump phase, I wasn’t really a fan of myself and honestly just felt...
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The Smile (aka Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner) share their newest offering ‘Pana-Vision’, along with an animation by Sabrina Nichols of artwork from artist Stanley Donwood. Watch below! Featured in BBC’s broadcast of Peaky Blinders, ‘Pana-vision’ was likely identifiable to sonically savvy viewers as the latest from The Smile, the same episode premiered a sublime, Satie-esque instrumental piece that the keenest of ears might recognise as the work of Thom Yorke: ‘That’s How Horses Are’, out now here. ‘Pana-vision’ follows last month’s release of ‘Skrting on the Surface’....
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