Los Angeles-based rapper and producer Asha Imuno shares his debut album Good News. Out now on all available platforms via b4, this marks the first full-length release for the label. The album drop is paired with the release of the third track ‘SIX PACK’ accompanied by the official video directed by Lucas Chemotti. “A lot of Good News is about redemption and the struggle to claim your place in the world,”...
Melbourne’s Ex-Olympian, aka Liam McGorry, releases his debut album Afterlife via Dot Dash Recordings. Featuring McGorry’s vocal debut ‘Voices In My Head‘, soulful second single ‘Lilac Youth‘ co-written and sung by former Saskwatch bandmate Nkechi Anele, the funk-driven ‘Penny In The Well‘ featuring Sam Lawrence and disco-tinged ‘Netherworld Boogie‘, Afterlife is now here to be listened and danced to in full. Ex-Olympian is the new musical vessel for Liam McGorry...
June Jones releases a new single ‘Jenny (Breathe)‘ on her imprint Emotion Punk Records, via a freshly inked deal with Remote Control Records. As premiered on FBi Radio’s Up For It, ‘Jenny (Breathe)’ is her first new material since her debut solo album, 2019’s Diana, which received the prestigious title of Album Of The Week on 3RRR. Jones says, “I wrote ‘Jenny (Breathe)’ in December 2018 while I was catsitting...
Following last month’s announcement of Hachiku’s forthcoming debut album I’ll Probably Be Asleep, Anika Ostendorf returns with its second single ‘Bridging Visa B’. Premiered by Visions, it’s a tale of being left in bureaucratic limbo. On the surface, the track exudes breezy delight with Hachiku’s trademark production of elastic guitars, Casio drum beats and gentle vocals but beneath lies a concern that the validity of your romantic relationship—not to mention...
Wolf & Cub release new single and accompanying video ‘Close to the Edge’, the second taste of the bands’ forthcoming LP, NIL which is set for release on Friday 20 November via Part Time Records. Like previous single ‘Blue State’, ‘Close to the Edge’ is a searing piece of music which shows the band continue to lean toward a revelatory heaviness over previous psych-rock offerings. The screaming intro attacks the...
Broken Stone Records & Remote Control Records are pleased to announce the return of Sydney’s Magnetic Heads. After a sizable pause, Des Miller has reignited the project and shared new single and video for ‘The Street‘. ‘The Street’ is a cheery pop banger with streaks of melancholy running down its face. “It’s about the alienation we’ve all experienced. When COVID came around the song took on a very literal meaning,”...
Portland duo Reptaliens announce their forthcoming EP Wrestling out November 6 via Captured Tracks. Along with the announce, the duo share their first single, ‘Taking,’ with a lyric video overlaid on top of the eerie deep red Oregon skies during the wildfires, posing the question “are we existing?” Reptaliens on ‘Taking‘ – “‘Taking’ is about perception and existence. It’s a song that carries the listener through the balance between action...
Perth-based, Albany-native Carla Geneve has released a new single and accompanying video titled ‘The Right Reasons‘. Premiered via triple j Good Nights, the track is the second taste of her debut full-length due in 2021 via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records. ‘The Right Reasons’ is an exercise in finding strength through vulnerability. “It took me a long time to write The Right Reasons, I think I probably wrote...
Melbourne’s Ex-Olympian has released a new single ‘Netherworld Boogie‘ from his debut album Afterlife out Friday 16th October via Dot Dash Recordings. Liam McGorry says of the track “I’ve found that purchasing new musical equipment really makes you creative (maybe largely because you’ve just spent a whole lot of money you shouldn’t have and you need to justify it)?. Sometimes making music is like banging your head against a brick...
Future Islands have released their sixth album As Long As You Are via 4AD. Earlier this week, the band launched As Long As You Are Listening, Together, an interactive real-time cooperative listening event, released a new video for ‘Born In A War‘ and performed ‘For Sure’ on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Tomorrow night, to celebrate the release of As Long As You Are, Future Islands will perform their...
Matador Records & Remote Control Records are thrilled to announce the addition of prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar to its roster. A once-in-a-generation artist backed by an unstoppable rhythm section, Mdou’s music has roots in both traditional Tuareg melodicism and Eddie Van Halen’s daredevil majesty. Today we offer you ‘Chismiten’, the white-hot ripper that will kick off an expansive new full-length due to hit down next year. “The...
Norway’s Smerz return with two new songs, shared in the form of a trailer for an as-yet-unannounced project known as Believer. The visual takes shape around the songs ‘The favourite‘ and ‘Rap interlude‘, a taster for a forthcoming body of work that pushes Smerz far beyond their previous releases. The duo of Henriette Motzfeldt and Catharina Stoltenberg decamped for a time from Copenhagen (where they cut their teeth in the...
Overmono were on a roll before lockdown. As the top YouTube comment for their Joy Orbison collaboration track ‘Bromley’ put it, “so this is the track that was on every 5 minutes at Warehouse Project.” That track and the duo’s own ‘Le Tigre’ were played out constantly by the likes of Four Tet and Ben UFO, the former also hiring the duo to remix his track ‘Teenage Birdsong’. Then there...
Yo La Tengo have released Sleepless Night – a six-song EP with one new tune (‘Bleeding’) plus covers of songs by The Byrds, The Delmore Brothers, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Lane, and The Flying Machine. The tracks on Sleepless Night were initially released as one side of an LP, included within a limited-edition catalogue accompanying the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s career retrospective for the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. A...
This is The Kit have shared new single ‘Was Magician‘ alongside a live performance video. The single comes from her upcoming album Off Off On, out on Rough Trade Recordson October 23rd, 2020. The video was recorded and filmed by Lyon Sound and Vision at L’Epicerie Morderne in France and remotely directed from NYC by Marisa Gesualdi. ‘Was Magician’ is both a wander through the books of author Ursula K....
Barcelona trio, MOURN, share their fourth single ‘Stay There‘ off their forthcoming album, Self Worth, out October 30 via Captured Tracks. On Self Worth, MOURN is leaving behind abusive ties and externalizing the interior noise, ‘Stay There’ sticks to that empowered spirit. Its fury does not overshadow the vocal arrangements as Jazz sings “No matter what I said/ I’m the form you don’t respect.” MOURN on ‘Stay There’ – “Stay...
