Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK, has announced their third album If I Never Know You Like This Again. To be released by Rough Trade Records on May 20th, 2022, the announcement arrives alongside the the release of new track ‘last july’ – the accompanying video was shot by Ellius Grace, and stars Bridie and their partner. If I Never… is the follow up to 2019’s Grim Town and SOAK’s Mercury-nominated 2015 debut album Before We Forgot How to Dream. SOAK’s Bridie Monds-Watson (they/them) has incessantly documented their life in...
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Today, New Jersey-based group Pinegrove share their new album 11:11, alongside a new video for the mini-epic lead track ‘Habitat.’ A robust, textural masterpiece, ‘Habitat‘ was inspired by long drives around upstate New York with dilapidated houses covered in plantlife spotting the landscape along the way. Of the song, singer/guitarist Evan Stephens Hall stated, “‘Habitat’ collages imagery from across the 2020’s – monuments to the past torn down, vandalised, and thrown to the waves, making much needed room for...
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Songwriter, beatmaker, and multi-instrumentalist-maverick Ethan P. Flynn announces the release of his first “finished” project Universal Deluge; a purposefully curated seven-track EP set to be released digitally and as a 12” vinyl on Friday 11 March 2022 via Young / Remote Control Records. The announcement is made in line with the release of the visual for the lead single ‘Father of Nine’, a striking music video shot by Aliyah Otchere and directed by London-based visionaries ethan&tom. Speaking on the...
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Now out digitally via Matador Records / Remote Control Records, Steve Gunn’s Nakama EP features reinterpretations of six songs from the guitarist’s recent full-length, Other You, created with close friends. This includes new studio recordings made alongside Mikey Coltun and Ahmoudou Madassane of Mdou Moctar, and Natural Information Society, as well as remixes by Circuit des Yeux and Bing & Ruth. The artwork was shot and sequenced by American photographer Duane Michals. These are not covers, exactly. Nor are they full-blown from-the-ground-up collaborations. It’s a third path...
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Montreal songwriter and producer Jesse Mac Cormack has announced his upcoming album SOLO, to be released on April 8th via Secret City Records / Remote Control. Alongside the announcement, he has also shared his new song ‘Blue World’, for which he has released a dynamic live studio performance video, available to stream now. “Betrayal leads to more betrayal. As sheep, we follow and copy/paste behaviors,” writes Mac Cormack of the themes embedded in ‘Blue World’. This prophetic warning is a fitting starting...
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Widowspeak share ‘While You Wait‘, the second single off their forthcoming sixth studio album The Jacket, to be released March 11 via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. The track features Mellotron plug-in flutes drifting over a hypnotic and buoyant motif, and an angular chorus that repeats the phrase “while you wait, we’ll have it done today.” The duo (Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas) say, “the song itself is maybe one of the more narrative remnants from when the...
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Part Time Records / Remote Control Records announce their latest signing, EWAH & The Vision of Paradise, with a sneak peak of their upcoming sophomore album The Warning Birds. Hailing from Tasmania, EWAH & The Vision of Paradise’s moody sound has been described as “epic post punk with a scope as wide as the Australian skyline.” For this first release from Vol. 2 of PTR Singles Club, Part Time Records offers a sneak peak of EWAH & The Vision of Paradise’s sophomore album The...
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Cyber duo, Two Shell, initiate ‘22 with the release of home EP – a single that secretly lit up the festival main-stages > forums + underground clubs @ the end of last year. Out now via the duo’s Mainframe Audio imprint / Remote Control Records, A-side ‘home’ is a fast-paced t-pop track that stands at the front of a new sound taking shape in ‘22. Heard in sets across the world this is groove, soul and satisfaction for the...
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Brad Barr, the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of The Barr Brothers and The Slip, shares new singles ‘Two Hundred and Sixteen‘ and ‘THE COLOR OF NINE’ alongside the release of The Winter Mission – Barr‘s brand new instrumental solo guitar album out now via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. “For me, the song ‘Two Hundred and Sixteen’ is the centerpiece of the album,” shares Barr. “It contains all the themes and tenor that I set out...
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Next month, Big Thief will release Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, the group’s new 20-track double album. Ahead of its release, they’ve set the bar high with a string of singles, and newest single ‘Simulation Swarm’ is another powerhouse track. This previously unreleased track has been a staple and fan favourite of the band’s live shows. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is a sprawling double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities...
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DARKSIDE have made new song ‘Ecdysis!‘ available online. The propulsive six and a half-minute track, led by Nicolas Jaar’s coasting vocal and Dave Harrington’s volatile guitar work, was recorded in the same sessions that yielded their long-awaited second full-length, Spiral – out now via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. DARKSIDE is an American rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2011. The group consists of Chilean electronic musician & vocalist Nicolás Jaar and American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington. Jaar and Harrington first met while...
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Montreal singer-songwriter Gus Englehorn announces his sophomore album Dungeon Master, the cutest, heaviest, strangest rock’n’roll record you will hear this year. Set for release on April 29 via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records, the news is accompanied with a new single + video directed by Englehorn and Estée Preda; the stomping, paranoid ‘Tarantula‘. Englehorn says, “This song is about uninvited recurring irrational thoughts and fears. I decided to make a little fable where a tarantula is whispering bad things...
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Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval announces her new album Classic Objects, out on 11 March, and unveils the video for new single ‘Year of Love’, the album’s opener. Classic Objects is a map of places; past places, like the old empty Melbourne pubs Hval’s band used to play in, public places Hval missed throughout lockdown, imagined, future places, and impossible places where dreams, hallucinations, death and art can take you. It is interested in combining heavenly things and plain things. ...
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London-based eight piece caroline have shared a new song and video – ‘Good morning (red)‘ follows earlier single ‘IWR‘, and both hail from their eponymous debut album which will be released on February 25th 2022 via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Guitarist/vocalist Mike O’Malley says of ‘Good morning (red)‘: “We wrote the basic electric guitar parts, drums and “Good morning, it’s that time again” vocal line in early 2017 and used to play it as a...
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Parquet Courts have debuted a brand new single, ‘Watching Strangers Smile,’ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. This follows the release of Sympathy For Life, their new album available now on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. ‘Watching Strangers Smile’ came out of the same sessions the band did with Rodaidh McDonald for Sympathy for Life. The Ellen performance puts A. Savage’s fiery vocal performance at the forefront, once again cementing them as one of the most lauded indie bands of the last decade...
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Montreal’s Basia Bulat shares ‘Fables (The Garden Version),’ the breathtaking, deeply stirring second single arranged and orchestrated by Zou Zou Roubidoux and from her forthcoming album The Garden, out digitally February 25th and physically March 25th, via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. The track arrives alongside a video directed by Bulat that juxtaposes Hi 8 Camera footage from her childhood with recently shot footage of herself and her daughter. “This is one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written because, as...
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