Two Shell finally extend the invitation to explore them with the announcement of their self-titled debut album, due for release on October 25th, 2024. For those that have been paying attention, the road to the opening of the portal of Two Shell has been long and windy. Stems and full tracks have been smoothly revealed through their own digital hub, shell.tech, for months, with code-savvy devotees scraping digital breadsticks left to their own rapidly building...
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On March 28th-30th 2022, Car Seat Headrest played three consecutive sold out nights at Brooklyn Steel in New York. An air of celebration, community and showmanship was present, made all the more palpable as the shows were far from a certainty – they took place amidst a year which saw the band having to postpone or cancel a large swath of their North American tour dates due to ongoing health...
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bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. They will release their second full length of 2023, The Twits, on November 3rd via Remote Control, less than six months after their acclaimed album, Tracey Denim. The Twits was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia’s economical yet evocative songcraft taking raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally...
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CASISDEAD announces his debut studio album, Famous Last Words, the London-based rapper, producer and director’s most ambitious statement yet will be released on 27th October. For a taste, brand new single ‘Matte Grey Wrap’ is out now. Featuring Megan Louise and Johnny Jewel’s Desire project, it’s accompanied by a video directed by CASISDEAD himself. Watch below! Famous Last Words is a fully realised expansion of the dystopian futurism that has captivated audiences since CASISDEAD first announced himself in...
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Tahitian/Parisian 5-piece outfit 15 15 (FKA QuinzeQuinze) have announced their new EP ATAHEVA, out November 3rd via Remote Control. The monstrous shapeshifters keep pushing the boundaries of their expansive electronic-tinged music with new single ‘Perfect Heaven’ – which delicately merges sweet melodies with dark, grumbling basslines and sputtering r&b beats – the song depicts what the band calls “the landscape of a marvellous nightmare”. Pre-order / pre-save ATAHEVA here.Stream / download ‘Perfect Heaven’ here.
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Marking the two year anniversary of the release of her critically acclaimed album Valentine, Snail Mail (Lindsey Jordan) will put out Valentine Demos EP on November 3rd via Remote Control digitally and on vinyl. Consisting of four early stripped-down recordings of songs from the 2021 album including the previously shared ‘Adore You’ (a working title for ‘Valentine‘), it also features previously unreleased song ‘Easy Thing’. Pre-order / Pre-save Valentine Demos EP here.Stream / Purchase ‘Easy Thing’ here.
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Jockstrap & Taylor Skye have today announced I<3UQTINVU, a fully remixed version of the Mercury Prize shortlisted 2022 album I Love You Jennifer B. I<3UQTINVU – I Love You Cutie, I Envy You – is set for release on November 3 via Remote Control and its lead single ‘Red Eye (feat. IAN STARR)’ is out now. The remix record is the brainchild of Skye, who was making multiple versions of the album’s original tracklisting to stay inspired during the writing of I Love...
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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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Sydney’s multi-hyphenate Glenn Hopper follows up his melancholic debut single with the shimmering piano ballad ‘Easy Way Out’. The track lands alongside news of his first EP Something About The Weather which will arrive on Friday, 13th October. With a measured blend of humour and sincerity, ‘Easy Way Out’ explores a crisis of identity and motivation. Early 2022, in the aftermath of a heavy breakup is when the phrase “there is no easy way out” came to him, the idea that one often looks for...
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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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Wild Nothing announces new album Hold (out October 27). While honouring the shoegaze-inspired, 80s synth-pop atmosphere of Wild Nothing’s past, Hold showcases Tatum’s deft songwriting at the forefront of a searching and existential record that finds joy in electronica-inspired music, bringing the beloved sounds of Wild Nothing past into Jack Tatum’s present. This is accompanied by a music video directed by Nathan Castiel (Remi Wolf, Hatchie, Model/Actriz) for new single ‘Headlights On (ft. Hatchie).’ Pre-order / Pre-save Hold here.Purchase / Stream ‘Headlights On (ft. Hatchie) here.
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Gena Rose Bruce quickly follows up her critically acclaimed album Deep Is The Way with the announcement of the Lighting Up EP to be released on September 1st. Alongside the news she shares an enchanting reworking of ‘Destroy Myself (Avoid Myself Orchestral Version)’. Bruce enlists the Budapest Art Orchestra to breathe new life into the single, elevating it to new emotional heights with the haunting cacophony of strings. Pre-order / Pre-save Lighting Up EP here.Stream / Download ‘Destroy Myself (Avoid Myself Orchestral Version) here.
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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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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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Yorkshire-born, London-based singer, songwriter, and. producer Ethan P. Flynn announces details of his debut album, Abandon All Hope. Out October 6 via Young / Remote Control Records, Abandon All Hope pours twenty-four years’ worth of experience into 8 eclectic tracks. Featuring backup vocals from rising singer, Ava Gore, Abandon All Hope is a bold statement to mark Ethan P. Flynn’s arrival as a true artist in his own right. The album’s title single ‘Abandon All Hope’ is the first released today alongside a self-directed music video...
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Jeremy Dutcher – the classically trained Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist and member of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation) in Eastern Canada – announces his sophomore record, Motewolonuwok, to be released October 6th, with new single ‘Ancestors Too Young.’ The Motewolonuwok album inspiration began with a poem by Cherokee writer Qwo-li Driskill. A singular story of a two-spirit kin who was taken too soon. Jeremy sings in Wolastoqey — his native tongue, considered an endangered language — anchoring his work while he continues to reimagine the song traditions...
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