Remote Control Records‘ inaugural compilation Bloom and Simmer is out now! Released digitally, the compilation is a celebration of community, connexion and creativity, featuring 21 tracks you’ve never heard before from the Remote Control Records family of artists. This is the music they make when they’re not making music; a dive beneath the waves, a journey off the beaten path, a glimpse behind the curtain. Bloom and Simmer brings together...
Jess Ribeiro follows up LOVE/HATE with a brand new song. Ribeiro is undoubtedly one of this country’s most gifted and enigmatic songwriters, a master of genre, nonchalance, double-entendre, intuition and melody – all of which is present on her new track ‘Wildflowers’ – out now via Barely Dressed Records. On ‘Wildflowers’ Jess Ribeiro has teamed up again with legendary producer and multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) to deliver a stunning song. Soulful and poignant...
Jess Ribeiro’s third album LOVE HATE is out now – a masterclass in songwriting and melody. Jess pivots to the visual realm with her directorial output for album track ‘Young Love.’ Premiering via Pilerats, watch the video below. ‘Young Love’ is a standout sleeper on her new record. It’s noticeably different from Ribeiro’s previous work – a trip-hop groove, and a more heavily processed electronic sound. The song was inspired...
Melbourne trio Huntly have released their debut album Low Grade Buzz, a beautifully constructed and deeply personal record. Out now via Barely Dressed. Listen here. Drawing lines between all spectrums of RnB and electronica, its an album that engages the heart as much as it does the body. Hear it live in Sydney and Melbourne in May. From Huntly: “Low Grade Buzz is that feeling you get on a Sunday night...
Denise Le Menice has shared a new track and video ‘Stars.’ Based in Melbourne-via-Sydney-via-Perth, Denise Le Menice is the project of Ali Flintoff. Listen to the track here. Premiering on triple j Home & Hosed, ‘Stars’ is a psyched-out, dream pop triumph of happiness over total darkness. It radiates from the video; an hilarious and adorable montage of Ali as a young’un. Take a trip down memory lane, Denise Le...
Jess Ribeiro today releases the brand new track ‘Stranger’, produced by Ben Edwards and recorded as a 3-piece with Dave Mudie and Jade Imagine. It comes with an accompanying new video, directed by Nick McKinlay. Watch below! ‘Stranger’ displays another shift in sound for the singer. Ribeiro has kissed the swampy humidity of the Australian Music Prize-nominated Kill It Yourself goodbye, and embraced the precise down-strokes and valve-amp hum of a very...
‘Low Grade Buzz’ is the gorgeous, melodic and slow-burning title track from Huntly’s debut album, Low Grade Buzz, to be released 15 March. ‘Low Grade Buzz’ is an ethereal ballad that communicates life’s bittersweet ache, a blissful comedown the day after a euphoric night. Listen below! Singer and songwriter Elspeth explains, “It was written while I lay in Tempelhof airfield in Berlin after a night out, accompanied by a dinky Yamaha...
Eighteen year-old Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu released her EP How Many Times Have You Driven By back in June this year. It was a unique and compelling collection of pop-unfused indie-chill. Now, she shares a follow-up, a cover of Fleetwood Mac’s classic ‘Gypsy’. Listen below! Vu’s take on the Fleetwood Mac classic replaces the soft-rock radio sheen of the original with percussion heavy electronic grooves and synth tremolos – transporting Nicks...
Jess Ribeiro has today released her new single ‘Love Is The Score Of Nothing’, it’s the first taste of new music in more than 3 years and is something of an indie rock banger from Ribeiro, signalling a new sound for an artist whose previous albums explored a kind of intricate folk-noire. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Nick McKinlay and shot around Collingwood’s famous Ginger Hair Salon, below! This time...
In what could be either the most confrontational or hilarious video of the year, Jack Ladder willingly endures intense but creative punishment from British model, musician and writer Alys Hale in ‘Tell It Like It Is’, the fourth video taken from the Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders album Blue Poles, out now. The video was directed and shot by acclaimed and exhibited photographer McLean Stephenson. Stephenson isn’t worried about how it will...
Minimalist pop-luxe masterminds Huntly have released new single ‘Wiggle’, a strikingly original and danceable track with a glossy and voguish new video (directed by Gianna Mazzeo and shot by Amy Dellar), watch below! On ‘Wiggle’, Huntly pair an elastic bass-line with a deep percussive groove to provide clean, evocative dance music at its best. Lead singer Elspeth’s typically mellifluous lead-vocal celebrates space and freedom while second singer Charlie’s compelling counter-melodies provide...
Art-folk virtuoso Ryan Downey will be joining the incredible Marlon Williams on his tour throughout the UK & Europe this November. The combination of two of the antipode’s most breathtaking voices is sure to be something special for European audiences – dates and details below. Ryan’s new song ‘No More Miracles’ was released a few weeks ago alongside the haunting B-Side ‘Those Eyes That Answer (Reprise)’ – a fitting follow-up to...
Denise le Menice (AKA Perth’s Ali Flintoff) has made a name for herself as the razor-tongued lead singer of punk rock outfit BOAT SHOW. Ali is now channelling her pop sensibilities and trademark wit into her solo project Denise le Menice. Today, Denise le Menice releases her first single ‘Heart’ after the exciting announcement of signing to Barely Dressed Records. ‘Heart’ is as satisfying as guitar pop gets – vocal...
Melbourne trio Huntly bring emotional vulnerability to the dance-floor, making radical electronic pop songs where the personal and political coexist, where moving and feeling are symbiotic. Today they release brand new single ‘Drop Gear’ and announce they have signed to Barely Dressed Records. On ‘Drop Gear’, Huntly double down on their “doof you can cry to” manifesto, marrying intimate songwriting with forward-thinking dance music. ‘Drop Gear’ is a song about...
Ryan Downey has released the striking new track ‘No More Miracles’, alongside the haunting B-Side ‘Those Eyes That Answer (Reprise)’ – a fitting follow-up to his debut album released earlier this year. Listen below! ‘No More Miracles’ is the Melbourne-based indie-crooner‘s most stunning song to date. Ambitious in its scope but simple in its execution, a gritty introduction gives way to a majestic choral interlude. It needs to be heard...
Hop Along have shared the charming, playful video for ‘Somewhere a Judge’, taken from their new album Bark Your Head Off, Dog which was released earlier this year. Watch below! The video invites viewers behind the scenes on the road, in the studio and documents the new Hop Along mural – which has just gone up on the Studebaker building in Philadelphia – done by the artist Noségo and woven together...
