So, I have some new music for you…the inspiration for these three pieces came the last time I was walking the streets of Lisbon. It’s my favourite place to wander it just generally feels like the streets are singing this wonderful melancholic sound for your walk, that pulls you into small winding roads, that make you feel like you’ll get lost and never return. Hence the mermaid title. It’s an incredible...
This Is The Kit are pleased to release a 7-track EP titled Off Off Oddities on Rough Trade Records. As the follow up to last year’s Off Off On EP (which reached 21 in the UK album charts), and featuring lead single ‘Keep Going (Desert Island Version)’, the new project showcases the band’s inner workings and craftsmanship with gorgeous instrumentals, alternate versions and exclusive cuts. Kate on the EP: “In the making of an album there are inevitably bits and bobs...
Ahead of her headline show in Sydney this Saturday, Sydney-based, Papau New Guinea-born future soul artist Ngaiire today shares the stunning accompanying visuals for her new single ‘Closer’. Co-written by Japanese Wallpaper and Jack Grace and premiered via triple j, the track is taken from her forthcoming album 3 out Friday 27 August via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records for AUNZ and Majestic Casual for the rest of the world. Described by Ngaiire...
Melbourne three-piece Telenova today announce their debut EP Tranquilize will be released Friday 2nd July via Pointer Recordings / Remote Control Records. Off the back of their sold-out ‘Bones’ single tour, and to celebrate the EP release Telenova will return to Sydney and Melbourne, as well as playing debut shows in Brisbane and Adelaide. Full tour dates below, tickets on sale this Friday. The EP announcement follows on from the bands two singles ‘Tranquilize’...
Dean Blunt has released a new album BLACK METAL 2. It is out now through Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Available digitally, the album will be released on vinyl and CD on Friday 22 October. www.i-go-chop-your-dollar.com
Rock band Sleater-Kinney have released their 10th studio album, Path Of Wellness via Milk! Records/Remote Control and share lyric video ‘Method’. The song is a scrappy plea for tenderness, a grasp at vulnerability in times that require toughness and armor. Path of Wellness has already been lauded one of the most anticipated albums from the likes of Vulture and Vogue. Click HERE to watch to ‘Method,’ with a lyric video by Lance Bangs....
Late nights, sweaty bodies, blue smoke and beer-fuelled dance freak-outs over a gravely wailing saxophone – think New Orleans processionals meets Twin Peaks. This is JAZZPARTY. The Melbourne cult party outfit returns with ‘Nobody Gets Away’ – the title track of their forthcoming album, due Friday 23 July via Remote Control Records. Weaving existential angst and claustrophobia through urgent percussion and groovy riffs, ‘Nobody Gets Away’ handles the fight against a hopeless situation...
Mississippi Hill Country bluesman Cedric Burnside has shared his brand new single ‘Pretty Flowers’ while “ushering the genre into a beautifully Black future” (Ebony). Written by the two-time GRAMMY nominee while on the road in 2018, ‘Pretty Flowers’ tells the story of a man looking back at his past mistakes with women and recognizing that he’s learned important lessons over the years while growing into a loving, supportive partner. Throughout the coming-of-age love song, flowing extended guitar riffs become one...
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. On December 10th, Matador Records / Remote Control Records will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Fucked Up’s titanic 78-minute early ’10s...
Future Islands have shared three remixes online, with legendary LA dance producer Egyptian Lover, Moss of Aura (Gerrit Welmers’ solo project) and German DJ Alle Alle reworking songs from the Baltimore quartet’s acclaimed 2020 album As Long As You Are. Egyptian Lover says of his ‘Thrill’ remix, “I absolutely love the vocals from Future Islands and could not wait to put an 808 beat behind it. Now this banging song is...
From her forthcoming album, Molly Burch releases ‘Heart of Gold’, an irresistibly effervescent anthem for unrequited love. The new single from her upcoming album Romantic Images (out July 23rd via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records) follows the release of recent singles ‘Control’, which Nylon praised for “its smoky vocals and romantic, timeless sound” and ‘Emotion’ ft. Wild Nothing that earned a nod as one of Cosmopolitan’s Best Songs of 2021 so far....
DARKSIDE has retuned with a new single ‘Lawmaker‘ – taken from their second full-length album, Spiral, out July 23rd via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Written and recorded in 2018, the album was mixed by Rashad Becker and mastered by Heba Kadry. Late last year, the band emerged with the song ‘Liberty Bell‘ and announced the existence of a new album. That news was followed in April with a formal announcement and another piece of...
Later this month on June 25th, Lucy Dacus will release her new album, Home Video, via Matador / Remote Control Records. Today, she presents ‘Brando‘, the album’s fourth track in a string of emotive singles – ‘VBS‘, ‘Hot & Heavy‘, and ‘Thumbs‘. Continuing to showcase Dacus’ incredible storytelling and songwriting, ‘Brando‘ weaves together Old Hollywood references with frank observations of a temperamental relationship. “‘Brando’ refers to a very dramatic friend I had in high school whose whole personality was the media...
Following singles ‘John L’, ‘Slow’ & ‘Chondromalacia Patella‘, London band black midi have released their second album Cavalcade via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. Cavalcade is a dynamic, hellacious, and inventive follow-up to 2019’s widely-praised Schlagenheim, “a labyrinth with hairpin-turn episodes and lyrics full of dourly corrosive observations” (New York Times, Best Albums of 2019). It scales beautiful new heights, pulling widely from a plethora of genres and influences, reaching ever upwards from an already lofty base of early achievements. black midi picture Cavalcade as a line...
Today, rock band Sleater-Kinney share their second offering ‘High In The Grass’ from their forthcoming 10th studio album, Path Of Wellness which is due out June 11 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. To coincide with the track release, the band also shares the Kelly Sears directed video. ‘High In The Grass’ follows the release of the first single ‘Worry With You’ which was met with great critical praise from the likes of...
Today, Melbourne-based songwriter and producer Katz shares ‘Only You’ – the title track from his newly announced sophomore EP, due August 13 via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. Featuring vocalist Sophia Brown, ‘Only You’ intertwines see-sawing keys, 808s and a boom-bap rhythm with Brown’s mournful vocals. As Katz puts it, “I’m a sucker for sad pop, and always love writing songs that juxtapose melancholy lyrics against hopeful instrumental backdrops. From...
