17 July 2025
Following last month’s announcement of his first album in seven years, Who Is the Sky?, and a subsequent world tour, David Byrne has unveiled the project’s latest single, ‘She Explains Things to Me’. ‘She Explains Things to Me’ taps into some of the deeper themes of Who Is the Sky? and was partially inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s book Men Explain Things to Me. Through the narrator’s curious internal monologue, Byrne…
17 July 2025
‘Playing Classics’ is the second single from Water From Your Eyes’ forthcoming album, It’s a Beautiful Place, landing 22nd August via Matador Records. The track finds duo Nate Amos and Rachel Brown delivering an expansive and coolly composed banger – a 6-minute dance-floor-friendly epic that threads elegantly heat-warped piano lines across pulsing four-on-the-floor rhythms. Watch the James Dayton directed video below. ”Playing Classics’ started as an attempt to transform an existing…
16 July 2025
Introducing Mouseatouille – the dynamic nine-piece ensemble hailing from Naarm/Melbourne and the newest addition to the Dot Dash Recordings family. Mouseatouille unveil their third album DJ Set, led by the electrifying new single ‘Harry and the Jets’. DJ Set was recorded haphazardly over the course of five years, using whatever equipment was available at the time and employing a ‘learn-as-you-go’ approach to composition and arrangement. Through endless rehearsals and recording sessions…
16 July 2025
Everything Is Recorded return with a bold new twist on ‘Porcupine Tattoo,’ a standout track and the first single from this year’s acclaimed album Temporary — now reimagined by none other than genre-defying sonic alchemist DJ Koze. “Richard asked me to approach this remix not with reverence – but with disrespect. It was liberating. Now it sounds a bit like a midlife crisis meets The Prodigy. You’ve been warned.” — DJ…
16 July 2025
After announcing their signing to Rough Trade Records in May with their first-ever song ‘SWEAT’, Los Angeles six-piece The Sophs have returned with a brand new single and video, ‘DEATH IN THE FAMILY’. A bold admission of vulnerability and moral failure, delivered over an undeniably head-noddable, fuzzed-out beat, every instrument and lyric on ‘DEATH IN THE FAMILY’ lands like a gut punch. Frontman Ethan Ramon says it’s “one of the most…
16 July 2025
On International Non-Binary Day, Sydney-based queer rap artist Jamaica Moana shares empowering new single, ‘GIVE INTO MY FEARS’. A track centered around powerful lyrics, paired with raw, minimalist beats, delivers a message of perseverance for QPOC artists from the West. ‘I claim this song to be the lyrically best song I have ever created. I always wanted to do a track like this. If I was a QPOC artist from The West, I would…
16 July 2025
On the heels of a milestone Glastonbury performance, Two Shell dropped the recording of their IICON set with an accompanying 12 track surprise release. IIcons features a collection of previously unreleased tracks. The project offers a deep dive into glitchy, dark, and emotive club music – much of it familiar to fans who’ve caught Two Shell live over the past year. In a message to fans on Instagram, the duo indicate…
11 July 2025
Big Thief release ‘All Night All Day’. the second single from their sixth studio album, Double Infinity, out September 5. Following lead single ‘Incomprehensible’, boasting “crunchy psych-folk guitars, a smorgasbord of percussion, and the delicate power of Adrianne Lenker’s voice”, ‘All Night All Day’ is an expression of love and desire without shame. Lenker sings: “Swallow poison swallow sugar / Sometimes they taste the same / But I know your…
11 July 2025
Canadian hip hop veteran Shad is set to start a bold new chapter with the announcement of his seventh studio album, Start Anew, and the release of its first single ‘Bars & BBQs’ out now. The album will be available across all platforms and in vinyl format on October 31. The lead single ‘Bars & BBQs’ showcases Shad’s signature wit and lyrical dexterity serving up food for thought with clever pop…
10 July 2025
London-based musician, composer and producer Danny L Harle heralds the start of a new musical era with the release of ‘Starlight’. A collaboration with alt-pop icon PinkPantheress, the single sees Harle searching for euphoric melancholy via his love of Elizabethan Madrigals, 90s Eurodance and 2000s trance to stunning effect. Despite a prolific period for the GRAMMY-nominated artist as a producer, writer and remixer for some of the most luminous names in contemporary culture – including Caroline Polachek, Charli XCX, Dua Lipa, oklou and Shygirl –…
4 July 2025
John Glacier’s debut album Like A Ribbon compounded the Hackney-born rapper and poet’s reputation as one of the UK’s gripping new voices, with her debut album appearing on ‘Best of Albums of 2025 so far’ lists. Utilising a variety of sounds across the spectrums of rap, electronic, post-punk, ambient and more to provide the backdrop to Glacier’s singular, stream-of-consciousness delivery, Like A Ribbon synthesises a unique, developed atmosphere across its…
27 June 2025
Following a successful US headline tour in April 2025, Melbourne multi-instrumentalist Sunbeam Sound Machine returns with the bright new single ‘Waterfall (Strange Gravity)’. The track arrives with the announcement of Sunbeam Sound Machine’s fourth album Double Magic due for release on August 15th. The sparkling soundscape of ‘Waterfall (Strange Gravity)’ was built from a forgotten guitar loop takes inspiration from burbling Australian nature sounds into a lush layered opener. Sunbeam…
27 June 2025
On September 26th, two decades and seven albums into his career, American musician, composer, and academic John Maus will release his most transcendent work yet: Later Than You Think. Arriving via his new label YOUNG, the album explores themes of grief, justice, rebirth, transformation, and spiritual warfare – coalescing into a work of confession and confrontation: an aural metaphysics where affect, intellect, and spirit converge in search of the beautiful,…
27 June 2025
Richard Russell’s collaborative music project Everything Is Recorded announce and release Solstice Equinox – a new album comprising forty pieces recorded in four days between 2023 and 2024 at The Copper House, Russell’s West London studio. Solstice Equinox is the fourth Everything Is Recorded album and comes four months after the third, Temporary. Each session took place on a solstice or equinox — the Summer and Winter Solstices, and the…
27 June 2025
Joy Orbison and Overmono come together once again. This time, they’re stepping into fresh territory with ‘Lippy’, a collaborative new single featuring original vocals from rising Montreal rapper Skiifall. The single premiered as the Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1 with Jack Saunders. ‘Lippy’ started during a session at the XL Recordings studio, where Joy Orbison and Overmono began exploring more melodic ideas beyond their previous club-focused collaborations ‘Blind Date’…
27 June 2025
Giggs and XL Recordings are proud to announce the 15th anniversary reissue of Let Em Ave It, the British rap icon’s seminal second album, which will be available on vinyl for the very first time. Originally released on 21st June 2010, Let Em Ave It marked Giggs’ bold introduction to a wider audience and laid the foundation for one of UK rap’s most uncompromising and influential careers. Emerging from South…
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Out now: Car Seat Headrest – Teen of Denial: Joe’s Story (Teens of Denial 10th Anniversary)
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Announced: Pixies – Complete B-sides: 1988-97
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