A new and gorgeous chapter from Courtney Barnett releases her first instrumental album End Of The Day. Comprised of 17 improvisations that were originally recorded in 2021 as part of the score to the film Anonymous Club, Barnett returned to these tracks a year later, remixing, re-ordering and reframing them into a seamless meditative collage. Barnett also collaborated with filmmaker Claire Vogel to create an album-length visual accompaniment to End...
Beloved Naarm record label Milk! Records reveal the second instalment of their forthcoming remix album out Friday, 12th May. New Zealand’s Tiny Ruins get the re-work treatment from Naarm-based producer, DJ, Butter Sessions label-head and one-half of electronic duo Sleep D, Corey Kikos. Full of dark, grimy synths, the result is a hard hitting club adaptation of ‘Holograms’. Milk! Records Remixed Vol 1 is a celebration of the label’s 10 year anniversary and will be its first compilation filled with Milk!’s most beloved songs, crafted into something fresh by a collection...
Jen Cloher reveals ‘Being Human’, the second single from their forthcoming fifth album I Am The River, The River Is Me – released on Friday, 3rd March 2023. A powerful anthem committed to truth telling and Indigenous sovereignty, ‘Being Human’ builds its intensity upon an urgent drum beat, driving bass line, angular guitars and synth. The track breaks down before bursting into an exclamation of haka chants from Naarm based Kapa Haka (cultural performance group) Te Hononga o...
Courtney Barnett today announces Here And There – a boutique touring festival with a rotating line-up featuring many of the most exciting songwriters in music today. This August and September, Barnett will take the one-day, one-stage festival to 15 locations around North America, each city with an extraordinary and unique line-up. Joining Barnett at various points on the line-up will be Alvvays, Arooj Aftab, Bartees Strange, Bedouine, Caroline Rose, Chicano Batman, Ethel Cain, Faye Webster, Fred Armisen, Hana Vu, Indigo...
Milk! Records / Remote Control Records present Hachiku Remixed, a double single that finds Hachiku reinterpreted by a pair of beloved Australian musicians: Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Kurt Vile, Courtney Barnett) and Georgia Maq (Camp Cope). Mozgawa takes ‘Bridging Visa B‘ – Ostendorf’s lyrical tale of submitting your romantic relationship to the scrutiny of immigration officials – to the dancefloor, stripping the sparkling original back to a flickering lost highway of Blue Monday drum machines, squelchy synths, and ersatz bird calls: “My Hachiku remix for ‘Bridging Visa...
Fake / Fear the band’s new single, picks up where their self-titled fourth album left off. A mantra sits at the heart of ‘Fake’, on which Julia Shapiro examines her inability to be vulnerable. “I’m a fake,” she sings repeatedly, as she takes stock of a situation in which all language broke down and communication failed. “The song is about not being able to be honest with someone and say what you mean,” she explains. “I wrote it because...
Acclaimed artist Courtney Barnett has released her third studio album Things Take Time, Take Time on Milk! Records / Remote Contol Records. The album is a finely-woven collage of snapshots recorded at a time of creative renewal and deeper understanding for Barnett, signalling an exciting new chapter for a musician who is operating at the very peak of her powers. Already receiving rave reviews from the likes of Mojo, Uncut, Rolling Stone and Loud and Quiet, Things Take Time, Take...
Chastity Belt (Seattle / LA) have announced Fake / Fear – a limited 7″ to be self-released worldwide and on Milk! Records / Remote Control Records in Australia. Along with the news, the band share an anthem-of-a-single ‘Fear‘, accompanied by a mystically triumphant video directed by Eleanor Petry. About ‘Fear’, Chastity Belt member Lydia Lund says: “I wrote the song a few summers ago based around a dream I had. At one point in the dream, I was opening door after door, noticing the fear build, then dissipate upon opening,...
LA-based Hand Habits – the moniker of Meg Duffy (they/them) – has released their new album Fun House via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. There is a moment halfway through Fun House where Duffy asks the question, “How many times must I rewind the tape?” It’s a fitting question planted squarely in the middle of a sonically adventurous record concerned largely with making sense and taking stock. How much time must we spend examining our own past in order to fully...
Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), has shared a striking video for ‘Clean Air,’ the new single from their upcoming album, Fun House – out October 22 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. The song features Dave Hartley from The War On Drugs on bass. them., who premiered the V Haddad directed video today and profiled Duffy, says Fun House “indicates a sea change, not only in its sound, but in how Duffy writes of their pain — now centring compassion, empathy,...
One of the shimmering highlights of her upcoming album Things Take Time, Take Time, Courtney Barnett’s new single ‘Write A List of Things to Look Forward To’ is gorgeous and poignant; a joyful and melodic love letter to friends and friendship. ‘Write A List of Things to Look Forward To’ takes its name from the technique one of Barnett’s friends advocated for her to get her out of a depressive funk, and paints a bittersweet picture of small...
The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are the hidden gem of Melbourne’s DIY music scene – sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, subtle but unpolished. Today, they release The moment the world rushed in via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Recorded in a tiny, sun-filled apartment during a pandemic, this “non-album” is an introvert’s consolation – a meticulously arranged collection of digital and analogue sounds, heartbreaking melodies and private...
