The National release a surprise second album of 2023, Laugh Track, out now! The album is a companion to and features material originally started in the same sessions as First Two Pages of Frankenstein. The National also confirmed Australian shows next spring with support from longtime friends Fleet Foxes. Full tour dates below. Laugh Track is the band’s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+...
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Big Thief have shared a captivating new single, ‘Born For Loving You’. Recorded and produced by Dom Monks at Guissona, Spain’s Teatre de cal Eril Studio on a recent tour, ‘Born For Loving You’ finds Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, James Krivchenia and Max Oleartchik at their most earnest and unashamedly romantic – “I was born for loving you / Just something I was made to do” It follows the release of live fan favourite and viral anthem, ‘Vampire Empire’,...
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Brendan Perry announces the reissue of his 1999 album, Eye of the Hunter, expanded for its first ever repress to now include a bonus live album Live at the I.C.A., recorded during 4AD’s infamous 13 Year Itch residency at the storied London venue in 1993. A record that has been out of print on vinyl since its release in 1999, people have been asking for it to be repressed for long enough. Having been...
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Anjimile releases his new album, The King – his debut release for 4AD / Remote Control and first full-length since 2020’s breakthrough Giver Taker. The record includes recently released singles: powerful title track ‘The King’, the gently emotive ‘Father’, protest song ‘Animal’, and the haunting new single ‘Black Hole’. The songs of The King document the range of complicated emotions of Anjimile’s lived experience – from the deep appreciation of parental support in ‘Father’, to the grief (‘Genesis’),...
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Pale Saints announce an expanded reissue of their 1992 album In Ribbons, featuring previously unreleased demo’s and two reworks by The Tintwistle Band to be released October 6th. Missing its original release date last year due to Covid delays and production plant woes, the record, which Pitchfork named one of The Best Shoegaze Albums of All Time, is finally getting the 30th Anniversary celebration it deserves with a special double LP / CD release. Pre-order In Ribbons 30th Anniversary Reissue: https://4ad.ffm.to/inribbons30
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Anjimile previews a third song from his upcoming album, The King, out 8 September. ‘Animal’ is a protest song about police brutality, written in the summer of 2020 and explicitly references the death of George Floyd. Like the rest of The King, every sound heard on ‘Animal’ comes from two instruments: an acoustic guitar and Anjimile’s own voice. Throughout, Anjimile’s feelings of rage and frustration are tinged with sardonicism, and the song is accompanied by an equally potent video directed by Robby Opperman. Pre-order...
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Celebrating their headline show at NYC’s Madison Square Garden, The National surprise fans with two new songs ‘Alphabet City’ and ‘Space Invader’. Stream / Download ‘Space Invader’ here.Stream / Download ‘Alphabet City’ here.
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New York four-piece cumgirl8 release the EP phantasea pharm, their debut release for 4AD / Remote Control. Recorded, mixed and mastered entirely from analog tape, phantasea pharm was born out of an obsession with Ella Fitzgerald’s ‘Old McDonald’ ahead of a show in Charlottesville, Virginia. The band decided to pay homage. Vilim dressed up in a cow leotard with pig accessories, Lombardo in a g-string and apron that read ‘The Grillfather,’ Rodrigues became a lawn mower, and Fox took on the role of a sexy rooster. “We went on stage that night and told everyone...
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Future Islands make their anticipated return with ‘Deep In The Night’ Stream / Download ‘Deep In The Night’ here.
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New York four-piece cumgirl8 share the new single ‘cursed angel,’ the third offering from their forthcoming EP phantasea pharm, out August 18th. ‘cursed angel’ is a whimsical dance with insanity, with repeating hook, “I feel like I’m losing my mind.” Speaking on the song, cumgirl8 says: “‘cursed angel’ is about feeling like you’re slipping out of reality; it’s uncontrollable and sometimes you can’t contain it. if you don’t fight it, the outcome can be positive.“ Stream / Download ‘cursed angel’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save phantasea...
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Buck Meek presents his propulsive new single and video ‘Cyclades’, from his forthcoming album, Haunted Mountain, out on 25 August. The love that colours ‘Cyclades’ is familial, depicting a true story of Meek’s father narrowly avoiding a motorcycle collision with a herd of elk. “These are all true stories, or at least as I was told, or remember them being told,” explains Meek. “There’s a thin line between history and mythology. Our lives are made of...
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Big Thief present their highly-anticipated new single, ‘Vampire Empire’, off their forthcoming ‘Vampire Empire’ / ‘Born For Loving You’ 7” out on 20th October. ‘Vampire Empire’ is Big Thief’s most eagerly awaited song ever, with the non-album single taking on a life of its own as it became a live fan favourite. Coming off the back of a Grammy-nominated album and debuting on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, it’s already a viral anthem. The television performance and hundreds of live performances of ‘Vampire...
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The wait is over. All three studio albums by Lush will finally be back in print on vinyl starting 11 August. Built around the songwriting talents of Emma Anderson and Miki Berenyi, Lush successfully defined a myriad of 90s scenes such as shoegaze, dream pop and Brit pop before they disbanded in 1998. Outside of a lavish Record Store Day career retrospective boxset in 2016, all three studio albums – Spooky (1992), Split (1994) and Lovelife (1996) – have been unavailable on vinyl since the 90s. Pre-order Lush – Spooky, Split & Lovelife here.
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Anjimile shares his new single, ‘Father’, the latest from his upcoming album, The King, out September 8th via 4AD / Remote Control. Earlier this year he shared title track ‘The King’, accompanied by a lyric visualiser inspired by the work of Daniela Yohannes, the artist behind the cover art. ‘Father’, with its gentle thrumming, recalls 2020 debut album Giver Taker’s soft, stirring folk. Anjimile needs little more than his voice and a guitar, played by Brad Allen Williams, to draw forth...
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A defining album of the 90s, Last Splash by The Breeders turns 30 this year. Recorded by the ‘classic’ Breeders line-up of Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson, and featuring the infectiously appealing ‘Cannonball’, Last Splash immediately became an alt-rock classic, achieving platinum status in the UK and US, and is ranked in Pitchfork’s Top 100 Records of the 1990s. To celebrate this anniversary, the album has been remastered from the original analog tapes – previously thought to be lost – a process which also...
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Buck Meek – Texas-bred singer/songwriter and Big Thief guitarist – presents his new single, ‘Paradise’, from his first album for 4AD / Remote Control, Haunted Mountain, out 25 August. The band is always finding their sound, every time they pick up their instruments, and you can hear them forming anew on ‘Paradise’, where attention is thick in the form of spaciousness and the supportive listening becomes atmospheric. Stream / Download ‘Paradise’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save Haunted Mountain here
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