On July 7th, Matador Records / Remote Control Records will release Crowd Can Talk / Dressed in Trenches, a composite of two EPs by Lifeguard. Crowd Can Talk was originally released in the summer of 2022 by Chicago label Born Yesterday, while Dressed in Trenches features five brand new and unreleased songs. On each record, there are echoes of underground guitar bands from decades past. This is not record-collector music, though. It’s the product of a present-day community. Lifeguard are, first and foremost, a...
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Swampy, the new EP from Dry Cleaning, is out now. Serving as a companion release to last year’s critically acclaimed second LP, Stumpwork, the five-track EP includes recent singles ‘Swampy’ and ‘Sombre Two’, a demo of song ‘Peanuts’ and remixes from Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul and Nourished By Time (who supported Dry Cleaning on their recent North American tour). Of the remixes and remixers, Dry Cleaning said: “We asked Marcus (aka Nourished by Time) to remix his choice of song from Stumpwork as we are big fans of his...
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Two Shell surprise with the release of a brand new EP titled lil spirits. The new project takes the listener directly into the core of shell.tech, the cyber-world first explored on Icons. Taking elements of hyper-pop, nu-grunge, and UK garage, Two Shell present a new form of cyber-pop that will propel you to another dimension. Download/Stream lil spirits: https://twoshell.ffm.to/lilspirits
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Taking time out of her stacked summer festival appearances, producer, artist and DJ Memphis LK today reveals her Too Much Fun EP via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. The EP lands in the same month she was named SpotifyAU/NZ’s EQUAL ambassador, following in the footsteps of Meg Mac and KYE taking over billboards and playlists. The title-track is a play on tempos featuring floating, silky vocals atop a bed of energetic, forward-thinking production. It was co-written and co-produced by Pharaoh Vice and Vendr (of multi-platinum collective Internet Money)...
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Memphis LK announces her EP Too Much Funout Friday, 13th January 2023. Memphis LK continues to push genre boundaries with the club-fuelled, pop anthem ‘Coffee’. One to scream along to on the dancefloor, ‘Coffee’ captures the conflicting emotions of being in a situationship, combining silky soft vocals, with energetic, UK underground-inspired production. A self-taught DJ and beatmaker already, Memphis LK has turned her attention towards building herself as a producer, fleshing the knowledge she already had out into a fully realised passion. With...
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Australian trio Telenova cap off another landmark year by unveiling their late-night alter ego – Telenoir – a beats driven side project delivering a deeper, darker take on the band’s shadowy brand of alternative pop. Telenoir has reworked the band’s lauded Stained Glass Love EP into a brand new project out today via Remote Control Records, reconstructing it with dark dance floors and smoky speakeasies as inspiration. Modern trip-hop, breakbeat...
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Sunset Poem features three songs from Circuit des Yeux’s otherworldly 2021 album, -io, re-worked by experimental musician, Claire Rousay. In its first year on Earth, -io has continued to evolve. Though the record was written for a 25-piece orchestra, Haley Fohr’s songs have been refreshed and rearranged to suit each round of touring. This has included performances with string ensembles, a trio with bass and drums, and an expansive duo with multi-instrumentalist Whitney Johnson (Matchess). Sunset Poem extends this...
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Mdou Moctar announce details of part two of the Niger EP series – featuring live and alternate versions of songs spanning the band’s discography recorded in their native Niger – which will be released digitally on October 25th. A preview of Vol. 2 is available to listen to with a live version of ‘Ibitilan’. First appearing on 2019’s Blue Stage Session, the latest iteration of ‘Ibitilan’ captures the band’s renowned live energy in unmediated form, pushing the...
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On Sunset Poem, experimental musician Claire Rousay reworks three songs from Circuit des Yeux’s otherworldly 2021 album, -io. The complete EP will be out on October 20th. Rousay’s work often utilises environmental recordings to cultivate rich and evocative ambience. Here, the composer unspools three -io compositions –’Vanishing,’ ‘Sculpting the Exodus,’ and ‘Argument’ – stripping back layers of instrumentation and sheltering Fohr’s voice amid a weave of hushed electronic textures. The results reveal a newly tender, meditative, and boundless space within the songs. Circuit des...
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Tama Gucci aka Kymani Floyd, shares Almost Blue (After Hours Deluxe). His latest project features remixes of several tracks originally found on his Almost Blue EP. The project also includes a cover of the Britney Spears classic ‘Toxic,’ check out the accompanying video directed by Jonathan Qualtere below! The ‘Toxic’ video was imagined as an intimate companion piece to ‘Challenge’ and shares the same premise: Tama Gucci totally embodies the sense of being young, hot, fun and free. “The authenticity and self love he exudes and...
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Fresh from taking out Best Breakthrough Artist at this year’s AIR Awards, Telenova release their sophomore EP Stained Glass Love. In celebration, the band will take to the road travelling around Australia and New Zealand this August, September and October. Full tour info below! Widescreen pop music, cinematic in scope and ambitious in design. The tracks on Stained Glass Love delve into self-destruction, heartbreak, addiction, desire, anxiety, isolation, and – eventually – rebirth. There’s...
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After traversing North America on tour with Mono this Spring, Bing & Ruth has shared a new EP Species (Solo Piano). The two-track digital release finds the group’s leader David Moore transpose to piano songs from their 2020 album, Species. Moore says, “While I wrote and recorded the songs on Species with an organ I had always felt, in the back of my mind, that they would also be interesting ...
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After a sold-out debut at Glastonbury and packed Boiler Room set, Two Shell release their hotly anticipated EP Icons, out now digitally alongside the pre-sale of a limited 12” vinyl. From shell.tech to the real world Icons started life in the mainframe and is now smashing into the mainstream. Listen below! Two Shell are quickly becoming one of the wildest names in dance music, bringing a new spirit into the...
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Following their appearance at The Great Escape (UK) and sold-out debut London shows, Telenova are thrilled to announce their brand new single ‘Haunted’, lifted off the Stained Glass Love EP to be released Friday 19 August. Listen below! ‘Haunted’ is a hypnotic tale of addiction, with echoes of Northern Soul amidst dark dub, all draped in dramatic synth strings. To celebrate the EP announcement and new single the band has shared a run of EP...
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Mdou Moctar’s Afrique Victime was one of 2021’s most lauded releases: an innovative alchemy of Tuareg folk, blues and rock, electric guitar pyrotechnics, field recordings and electronics with poetic call-to-arms lyrics about the plight of his homeland of Niger. In line with their activity supporting African artists, Mdou Moctar announce Afrique Refait, a remix collection of songs from Afrique Victime. The tracklist features sound-makers at the vanguard of electronic music in Africa, with a view of highlighting different...
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UK electronic duo Overmono release their new Everything U Need EP via XL Recordings. “Clipper was written just after Andrew Weatherall sadly died,” say the duo. “In the days after his death we went on a massive Weatherall bender, listening to all his various projects. We don’t usually listen to much music when we’re writing, but in this case there’s no doubt the influence of his back catalogue shaped this...
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