Aldous Harding returns to announce details of a new studio album, the follow-up to 2019’s acclaimed Designer. Warm Chris will be released on March 25 via 4AD / Remote Control Records, and its first single ‘Lawn’ is available now accompanied by visuals created by Harding and Martin Sagadin. For Warm Chris, the New Zealand musician reunited with producer John Parish, continuing a professional partnership that began in 2017 and has forged pivotal bodies of work (2017’s Party and the aforementioned Designer). All ten tracks were recorded at Rockfield...
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DIY singer-songwriter and producer dvr has released dirty tapes, his debut EP on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Expressing raw vulnerability, dvr explores the ups and downs of teenage life through wry lyricism, unique production, and infectious guitar hooks; a charismatic style that shines from all corners of the EP. To mark the release of the EP, dvr premieres the visual to the newly released track ‘drugs’. Directed by underground visual-artist Elif Gönen aka FORLUCK (Lava La Rue, Louis Culture, Poppy Ajudha), ‘drugs’...
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On April 8th, Matador Records / Remote Control Records will release Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal, an exhaustive 45-track reissue of the band’s much-loved fifth and final album. The new special edition compiles the remastered original album, B-sides, home demos, rehearsal tapes, era-appropriate live recordings, and even the rough tracks from Pavement’s scrapped session at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon studio. Altogether, it features 28 unreleased tracks. Now out is the band’s never before heard track, ‘Be The Hook’. ...
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In the lead up to their forthcoming new album Lucifer On the Sofa, out February 11 (Matador Records / Remote Control), Spoon share ‘Wild’, a celebratory and anthemic song about finding one’s way from cashed out depths back into a vivid world full of colour and life. ‘Wild’ is the second track that Spoon have revealed off of Lucifer On the Sofa. Like ‘The Hardest Cut’ before it, the song captures the sound of a band cracking things open and letting it all spill...
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Widowspeak have announced their sixth studio album, The Jacket, to be released March 11 via Captured Tracks / Remote Control. Along with the announcement, the duo (singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas) have shared a propulsive, spirited song about shifting perspectives in increasingly complicated situations. In the music video directed by OTIUM, Hamilton croons “learned to love the ropes when you were caught, see they could be braided a better way and sinking into nothing – you learn to stay” fittingly...
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New Jersey-based group Pinegrove have shared their new single titled ‘Respirate‘. A crushing ballad, the track is the latest song to release from their forthcoming new album 11:11 (out January 28th on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records) and urges us to look out for and love each other. “With ‘Respirate,’ I was thinking about the opportunity we had in the chaos Covid brought to redesign society so that it works well for more people, but that...
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The Smile, the new group comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, have revealed their debut single ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’ – out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. The track, which is available now and accompanied by a lyric video (dir. Duncan Loudon) was first heard in the band’s secret show as part of last year’s Glastonbury event Live At Worthy Farm. It is the first official release from The Smile, produced by Nigel Godrich. Stream / Download The Smile – ‘You Will Never Work In Television...
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Matador Records / Remote Control Records celebrate the 25th anniversary of Bardo Pond’s long out-of-print second album and label debut, Amanita, with a newly remastered 2xLP reissue, featuring ‘Clean Sweep’ and ‘Bramble’ – tracks previously only available on original vinyl pressings. Recorded by the lineup of John Gibbons (guitar), Michael Gibbons (guitar), Isobel Sollenberger (voice, flute), Clint Takeda (bass), and Joe Culver (drums), Amanita is the place where the band’s collective...
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Big Thief‘s forthcoming album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, was recorded in four different sessions, and during the third, in the Colorado Rockies, the band heard someone playing beautifully from a nearby lookout tower. They soon met the person responsible for the sound – musician Richard Hardy. They invited him to sit in on some songs, and his inspired fluting brings a lot of love to the tearfully wholesome...
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Rounding out a milestone year, Melbourne three-piece Telenova release a brand new film clip for their glistening hit single ‘Bones’, taken from their debut EP Tranquilize, out now via Pointer Recordings. Co-directed by frontwoman Angeline Armstrong and LA-based filmmaker Jill Sachs, the video is a nod to the film references that influence Telenova’s songwriting and a visual feast of the drama dreamt up in Armstrong’s lyrics (I was dreamin’ of blue skies in California / While you were loading your gun / Thе time has come Red and bluе lights chase us...
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On April 16th, 2021, in between shows on their recent Australian tour, Wolf & Cub travelled to a remote location in NSW with the idea to perform and record a selection of live tracks from their recently released fourth album, NIL. Creating a makeshift live setup in the carpark of the Watagan Forest Inn Motel – and with full support of the owners – the band treated a small audience of...
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Parquet Courts present the music video for ‘Marathon of Anger’, off their new album, Sympathy For Life, out now on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. The video, directed by Mara Palena, was originally part of Sympathy For Life, Visualised, a live-streamed Noonchorus film event broadcast earlier this year that featured videos for all 11 songs from the album, and features guest appearances from Bill Walton and Joe Pera. ‘Marathon of Anger‘ is the first of the previously unreleased videos to be...
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In 2011, Toronto’s Fucked Up delivered an album that chafed the edges of punk rock’s conceptual boundaries – a set of songs that splayed freely into unexpected instrumentation, psychedelic drift, and situationist philosophy. Its ambition was limitless and its run time opulent. Which is to say, they made a concept album. Matador Records / Remote Control Records celebrate’s the 10th anniversary of Fucked Up’s titanic 78-minute early ’10s masterpiece, David Comes to Life, with a limited-edition 2xLP...
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Matador Records / Remote Control Records celebrate the 21st anniversary of The New Pornographers’ debut record and breakout, Mass Romantic (2000), with the release of a limited-edition LP reissue – out now. The album – clocking three singers and 12 effervescent and undeniable power-pop gems – returns to us on red vinyl and will include a bonus 7”, Letter From An Occupant, which includes two rare B-sides, ‘The End of Medicine’ and ‘When I Was a Baby.’ All told, Mass Romantic took three...
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Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records present the 15th anniversary edition of The Long Blondes‘ Someone To Drive You Home, which was originally released in November 2006 and was produced by Pulp member Steve Mackey – out now as a limited edition, double gatefold LP. Pressed on to red and yellow vinyl to mirror the album’s artwork – a picture of actress Faye Dunaway also painted by Jackson – the edition will feature the original record, plus 11...
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Arca is a singularity, a point where our preconceptions and prior knowledge break down, an entrance into a new realm of being. Her transcendent, transgressive body of work has collapsed long-standing barriers that once seemed impermeable: between artist and art, between human and technology, between avant-garde and pop, and between the many disciplines—from music to visual art to fashion and beyond—where she’s made her indelible mark. To complete the KICK series,...
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