Singer-songwriter and producer Ruthven releases his new single ‘123 Days’. Flexing a different side to his multilayered productions, Ruthven follows recent single ‘Don’t Keep It To Yourself’ with this infectious drum-led track; adding to his growing catalog of timeless music. Speaking on the creation of the new record, Ruthven says:“123 Days came out of a tough time for me: struggling to finish music, frustrated, running out of money and burning out from a workaholic lifestyle. My head was in...
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Next month, Matador Records / Remote Control Records will honour the 10th anniversary of Fucked Up’s early ’10s masterwork David Comes to Life with a limited-edition lightbulb-yellow 2xLP reissue. That album – which clocks in at 78-minutes – may be as heavy a dose of genre-bursting progressive-psychedelic-hardcore punk brilliance as anybody can comfortably ingest at once. On March 25th, Fucked Up will release Do All Words Can Do, a nine-track compilation gathering David era-appropriate rarities and B-sides, all of which were previously available...
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Montreal’s Basia Bulat announces The Garden: a new album that reimagines songs across her five studio albums with stunning classical string quartet arrangements by Owen Pallett, PaulFrith, and Zou Zou Robidoux, set for digital release on February 25th 2022 and physically out March 25th, via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. While she has been known to play live with small chamber ensembles and full orchestras, The Garden marks Bulat’s first recording to capture this spellbinding configuration, which further showcases her singular voice...
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Leif Vollebekk shares a live version of ‘I’m Not Your Lover,‘ recorded at The Troubadour in Los Angeles back in 2020 – out now via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. “This was the first time we played the song live, a couple of months before the lockdowns. It was a beautiful sold-out show at one of my favourite venues,” Leif explains. “When I first heard the live recording,” he continues “I thought it sounded better than the record.” Its accompanying...
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Electro-pop artist and harpist, TATYANA, is back with new single and video, ‘Right Places,’ – out now via Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records – that dawns an impressive new era for the dynamic producer, songwriter and performer. The “New & Notable” (Bandcamp) “Rising Artist” (Vinyl Me, Please) is known to make a “Smooth pop gem” (Dork). Cultr calls TATYANA’s music “An astral surprise sculpting her musical dreamland – a vivid wonder that will consume your consciousness” and this new single is no exception, with it’s cheeky, fun...
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Acclaimed artist Courtney Barnett has released her third studio album Things Take Time, Take Time on Milk! Records / Remote Contol Records. The album is a finely-woven collage of snapshots recorded at a time of creative renewal and deeper understanding for Barnett, signalling an exciting new chapter for a musician who is operating at the very peak of her powers. Already receiving rave reviews from the likes of Mojo, Uncut, Rolling Stone and Loud and Quiet, Things Take Time, Take...
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Radiohead and Epic Games Publishing are proud to present KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION: an upside-down digital/analogue universe created from original artwork by Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood and sound design by Nigel Godrich to commemorate 21 years of Radiohead’s Kid A and Amnesiac albums. KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION will be available beginning November 18th as a free download for PlayStation 5 (HERE), PC and Mac at EPIC GAMES STORE. Some two years in the making, KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION was originally conceived as a physical installation debuting in London and designed...
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The unveiling of the KICK series continues as Arca shares the details of the third album in the anthology: KicK iii, due out December 3 on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Featuring the previously released single ‘Incendio,’ KicK iii finds ecstasy in turbulence, as Arca returns to the mutant club music of her breakthrough early work. Accompanying the news of KicK iii’s release, Arca is sharing a new music video for album track ‘Electra Rex,’ directed by Carlota Guerrero and shot in September 2020, featuring Arca and friends performing in...
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Following the release of ‘Under Belly‘ – one of the most talked-about tracks in dance music this year – English producer and DJ Blawan shares his XL Recordings / Remote Control Records debut EP, Woke Up Right Handed. Alongside the project’s release, hailed by The Quietus as “the sound of a producer at the very top of his game right now”, Blawan shares focus track ‘Blika‘. Moving away from the club and touring DJ life to focus on in-studio production; the EP...
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CASISDEAD returns with his new single ‘Boys Will Be Boys’, his biggest musical and visual statement to date and the second track to be revealed from his highly anticipated debut album (due in 2022 via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records). ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ is accompanied by a cinematic music video directed by Hollywood actor, screenwriter and director Ed Skrein (Dead Pool, Game Of Thrones), and starring Emma Rigby (Hollyoaks), singer-songwriter Connie Constance, Jo Hartley (This Is England)...
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Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval, “a post-punk pop philosopher at the height of her craft” (Pitchfork), announces her signing to 4AD / Remote Control Records with new single/video, ‘Jupiter’. The ‘Jupiter’ video sees Hval collaborating once again with director Zia Anger. Following its soulful, almost jazzy opening with Hval intoning over floating piano, ‘Jupiter’ blooms with shuffling percussion, and as Hval’s crystal cooing layers, it swells into a simple hymn-like chorus. “When I wrote the music for this song in 2015, it had no...
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Joy Orbison returns to once again side step expectations. If still slipping vol.1 explored Joy Orbison’s musical DNA with a warm casualness equally suited for home listening as on the dancefloor, ‘red velve7′ is music for DJs, soundsystems and dancers – out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. While nodding to O’Grady’s love of drum & bass and its metallic, bass-heavy textures, ‘red velve7’ is yet another characteristically future-facing production from one of the most influential electronic...
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London-based eight piece caroline are excited to announce that their eponymous debut album, mixed by John ‘Spud’ Murphy (black midi, Lankum), will be released on Feb 25th 2022 via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Hear ‘IWR’ – a new track taken from the forthcoming album – and check out its self-directed video below. Mike O’Malley explains the thinking behind new single ‘IWR’: “Jasper was sending a lot of home-recorded nylon guitar and singing ideas, and one just stuck because...
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Danish producer and songwriter Erika de Casier releases The Sensational Remixes EP – a reworking of her critically acclaimed album Sensational – out now via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Last week, de Casier kicked off the remix project with a new version of ‘Drama’ reworked by Isabella Lovestory and Chicken, followed by the release of Mura Masa‘s woozy, club-ready remix of ‘Polite‘. Elsewhere on The Sensational Remixes, the likes of Eartheater, Hannah Diamond & caro♡, Smerz have remixed tracks from de Casier’s acclaimed second album Sensational. Purchase / Download Erika de Casier...
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Tama Gucci shares Almost Blue, his latest EP out via Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records, the sister label to Captured Tracks and part of the Omnian Music Group. The New York City-based, Miami-raised musician, vocalist, and electronic composer forges his own sound that uniquely reimagines the intersection of pop and R&B. The seven tracks on the EP represent different parts of the sounds Tama Gucci’s Kymani Floyd wants to continue to create. The EP features lead single ‘Challenge‘ – an anthem about the...
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New Jersey-based group Pinegrove have announced their new album 11:11 will come out on January 28 through Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Self-produced, with mixing by Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Tegan & Sara), 11:11 is the band’s fifth studio album following 2020’s Marigold. They also share their lead single ‘Alaska,’ a gallop of dense, bracing guitar-fuelled rock that lurches out of the gate with...
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