Before there was news of Home Video, an album which captured the complexities of Lucy Dacus’ formative years growing up in Richmond, VA, leading it to be described alternately as “a triumph” (Sunday Times) and “… a record with a rich storytelling impulse that could easily have seen it released as a written memoir in a parallel reality” (i-D), Lucy presented the long-awaited ‘Thumbs’ to the world. Debuted on tour in 2018 while on the road with boygenius, ‘Thumbs’...
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Brad Barr – the lead singer and songwriter of The Barr Brothers – announces The Winter Mission: a brand-new instrumental solo guitar album out January 21 2022 via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. The guitarist has also shared the first single from the album titled ‘ANCIENT CALENDARS‘. Of the single, Barr shares: “’ANCIENT CALENDARS’ is a solo guitar piece, a long-form improvisation where I explore a basic motif and progressively extend it outwards in two directions. I played it on...
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Radiohead have released KID A MNESIA, a multiple format triple-album release marking the 21st anniversary of Kid A and Amnesiac, out via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. KID A MNESIA collects Radiohead’s fourth and fifth albums alongside the debut of a newly compiled third disc titled Kid Amnesiae. Exclusive to this release, Kid Amnesiae is comprised of unearthed material culled from the Kid A / Amnesiac sessions. Along with alternate versions and elements of Kid A and Amnesiac album tracks and B-Sides, Kid Amnesiae features ‘If You Say the Word‘ (available now as a digital single) and a previously...
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Snail Mail (Lindsey Jordan) has released Valentine, her new album out now via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. “I wanted to take as much time as possible with this record to make sure I was happy with every detail before unleashing it unto y’all,” says Jordan. “Referring to the process as the deepest level of catharsis and therapy I have ever experienced would be a huge understatement. Valentine is my child!” A hugely anticipated follow-up, Valentine was written and produced...
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Arca returns to premiere ‘Prada / Rakata‘, a new music video featuring two new songs from her upcoming album KICK ii, which is out December 3 via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. A continuation of her work with artist Frederik Heyman, ‘Prada / Rakata’ introduces an ambitious act of musical world-building that reveals Arca’s many identities as an artist in a quantum superstate. Speaking on the songs, Arca shares:“’prada’ is about celebrating psychosexual versatility; a song explicitly about transness and nonbinary modes...
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Chastity Belt (Seattle / LA) have announced Fake / Fear – a limited 7″ to be self-released worldwide and on Milk! Records / Remote Control Records in Australia. Along with the news, the band share an anthem-of-a-single ‘Fear‘, accompanied by a mystically triumphant video directed by Eleanor Petry. About ‘Fear’, Chastity Belt member Lydia Lund says: “I wrote the song a few summers ago based around a dream I had. At one point in the dream, I was opening door after door, noticing the fear build, then dissipate upon opening,...
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Following the success of Sensational, Danish producer and songwriter Erika de Casier has announced a special remix compilation. Entitled The Sensational Remixes, de Casier invited friends and respected peers to reimagine songs from her critically-acclaimed second album. The 9-track digital-only release is out next Friday 12th November via 4AD / Remote Control Records, with the first track, Isabella Lovestory and Chicken’s reworking of ‘Drama’, out now. Born in Portugal to Belgian and Cape Verdean parents and raised in...
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Los Angeles-based artist and songwriter Hana Vu shares her new album Public Storage, her debut record on Ghostly International / Remote Control Records. Public Storage follows the release of the “ethereal” (NYLON) ‘Maker’, and the “quasi-darkgaze banger” (MTV) ‘Everybody’s Birthday’ and “satisfyingly fuzzy” (Stereogum) ‘Gutter’. Public Storage expands on the sounds of Vu’s early work, underscoring her strengths as a songwriter with a deeper sense of luster, sophistication, and urgency. She calls it “very invasive and intense sounding music,” refreshingly out of step with contemporary trends; this is music to...
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Hugely respected for his pop melodies and energy, Sydney singer-songwriter Richard Cuthbert has released his third full-length album Daydreaming – a direct line to the heart of Richard’s songwriting. It’s pure and unfettered in the way everyday life is framed and conveyed via his matter-of-fact and poetic lyrics. There’s also a lush simplicity to the way that guitar lines unfurl, as they do on the title-track and right across the album. The trio format is...
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Earlier this year, 4AD released Bills & Aches & Blues, where 18 of its current artists reworked songs from 4AD’s catalogue: a creative experiment rooted in the spirit of collaboration and a snapshot of the label, 41 years after its inception. In tandem with this celebratory compilation, today 4AD releases Go Back For New, a 5-track digital EP of 4AD songs reimagined by five Chinese musicians. The five recordings showcase some of China’s most forward-thinking and influential musicians, all of...
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Following the release of the Bills & Aches & Blues compilation, Maria Somerville shares her reworking of Pale Saints’ ‘Kinky Love’ today, via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Previously only available as a bonus track on the Bills & Aches & Blues Japanese edition, the song is now available worldwide on all digital services. Originally made famous by Nancy Sinatra, ‘Kinky Love’ was covered by Pale Saints as part of their 1991 Flesh Balloon EP. Maria Somerville’s version of ‘Seabird’ by Air Miami is also included in Bills &...
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Spoon’s tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band’s purest rock ’n roll record to date. Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade. Lucifer on the Sofa bottles the physical thrill of a band tearing up a packed room. It’s an album of intensity and intimacy, where the music’s harshest edges feel as...
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Melbourne’s cult pop-mystiques, Dorsal Fins are back after an extended stay in the musical wilderness, returning with new single and video ‘Sugar‘, via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records. In the 5 years since their last release, Dorsal Fins have peeled back from the epic cast of 9 mates, entrusting the band’s songwriting trinity, Liam McGorry, and co-vocalists, aka The-Twin-Tweaks, Ella Thompson & Jarrad Brown to navigate a kaleidoscopic bag of sun-soaked horns, love-puddle funk, and brat-pop night moves. Soak up...
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Snail Mail (Lindsey Jordan) has released ‘Madonna’, the third preview from her forthcoming new album Valentine – out November 5 via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Alongside the single’s release, Jordan shares a live performance of ‘Madonna’ filmed at the Armour-Stiner Octagon House in New York. Lindsey says, “I am excited to share this one! In summation it’s about why love can’t exist between a person and a concept of a person. Remove the pedestal and you might...
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Following the release of their acclaimed debut EP Tranquilize in July and their standout performance for triple j’s Like A Version in August, today, Melbourne three-piece Telenova share their Tranquilize Remixes EP via Pointer Recordings / Remote Control Records. Preceded by the release of LA-producer Meija‘s remix, the EP also features contributions from UNO Stereo, Joe Smallwood & Tim Zen. Of the remix EP, frontwoman Angeline Armstrong shares, “We wanted to see what happened when you put our first ever written song, ‘Tranquilize’, through the sonic prism of artist/producers from...
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NYC-based producer and artist Yaeji, in collaboration with OHHYUK, founder of the Seoul based indie band HYUKOH, has announced two new singles and music videos: ‘29′ and ‘Year to Year‘ (out now on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records). Starting as sketches exchanged between the two artists, the songs took full shape when they connected for studio sessions in Seoul earlier this year. Written, recorded and produced by Yaeji and OHHYUK, the singles premiered with two new music videos: ‘Year to Year’ directed by Seoul-based...
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