John Maus returns with a new single and music video: ‘I Hate Antichrist,’ his first new music in 7-years, which arrives via his new label home YOUNG. Built around a rhythm that feels both ritualistic and futuristic, ‘I Hate Antichrist’ is a spiritual confrontation – part protest, part prayer, part digital exorcism. Delivered with Maus’ distinctive raw conviction, repetition of the titular phrase becomes more like a mantra than a lyric – its...
“The Sophs arrived out of the great blue yonder,” says Rough Trade co-founders Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee of the label’s newest signing, LA six-piece The Sophs. The band’s brutal honesty, flamingly intrusive thoughts, and broad genre-spreading caught their attention immediately. Rough Trade heard the sort of creativity and variety — and “don’t expect me to act pretty” sentiment — that could get The Sophs — including frontman Ethan Ramon, Sam Yuh (keyboards), Austin Parker Jones (electric guitar), Seth Smades (acoustic guitar), Devin Russ (drums), and Cole Bobbitt (bass) — a slot...
Toronto-based producer, film composer, and author Meg Remy anticipates her intuitive and adventurous U.S. Girls album, Scratch It (out 20 June) with a new single ‘Like James Said’, an ELO-styled nugget of AM gold and nod to James Brown about the healing power of dancing alone. Remy’s own lyrical response to Brown’s ‘Get Up Offa That Thing’, the track showcases her great — and characteristically tragicomic — phrasing, notably on...
Sui Zhen has announced her latest chapter, Losing, Linda, which is set for release Friday 27th September via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records and is sharing the first single & video from the record ‘Perfect Place’. The video for the lead single, ‘Perfect Place’ introduces the character Linda, a ghostly apparition, representing the fragments of self, the avatars we leave behind after one dies in the physical realm — but do our digital selves ever...
Zach Condon, the mastermind behind Beirut, will release his fifth studio album Gallipoli on Friday 1 February 2019 and today he shares the title track. Listen below. The 12-track Gallipoli started life in the winter of 2016, with Condon returning to his old Farfisa organ, the same one used to write the first two Beirut albums. Following recording stints in New York and Berlin (where he now calls home), Condon...
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Methyl Ethel have announced their new album Everything Is Forgotten, to be released Friday 3rd March via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. The band have also shared new single ‘Ubu’, a frenetic pop song inspired by Alfred Jarre’s surrealist play Ubu Roi. A self-portrait of self-flagellation and guilt, its companion video, directed by Paxi, takes some of its absurdist cues from Jarre. Watch it below. Due to overwhelming demand a handful of...
Jarrow has just released a new video for his track ‘Mutual Feelings’, ahead of a run of shows that includes supports for Car Seat Headrest and a headline show at Melbourne’s Yarra Hotel. Watch the clip below! Film-maker Max Wood drew from unlikely inspiration when making the visually compelling clip. It features a non-plussed Jarrow performing to the camera while the surprisingly beautiful urban landscape of Footscray swirls manically in the...
‘BHS’ is the first single from the upcoming Sleaford Mods album English Tapas out Friday 3rd March via Rough Trade / Remote Control. The album was recorded at Steve Mackey’s (Pulp) West Heath Garage studios in London. Watch the video below! British Home Stores (BHS) was a chain of department stores in the UK controlled by Sir Philip Green, the chairman of Arcadia Group, which also owns Topshop, among others. The chain...
SOHN has kick-started 2017 with a brand new single ‘Hard Liquor’,the opening track from SOHN’s imminent second album Rennen, out Friday 13th January via 4AD / Remote Control Records. It’s a gutsy follow up to previous Rennen singles ‘Signal’, ‘Conrad’ and title track ‘Rennen’. The slick black and white companion video, created by Jovan Todorovic and shot in Belgrade, Serbia can be viewed below. On top of his album release, SOHN has been announced to...
Novella are excited to share their new video for ‘Does The Island Know’ premiered via The Line Of Best Fit. It is their second single following the title track, taken from their forthcoming sophomore album Change Of State out Friday 17th February 2017 via Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records. The London set clip was shot by Yuki Yamamoto and showcases a constantly moving city from many different angles, reflecting the movement of the song. Watch the video...
Goat Girl have shared a new video to ‘Scum’, taken from their debut double a-side single ‘Country Sleaze’ / ‘Scum’, out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control. The video was directed by Holly Whittaker and features many friends and members of bands who are from the same south London scene that Goat Girl emerged. Watch them being force fed below. Goat Girl are: Clottie Cream, Rosy Bones, Naima Jelly and...
The xx have shared their video for ‘On Hold’, the first single from the trio’s highly-anticipated third album I See You, released on 13th January 2017. The video was shot in Marfa, Texas, where the band wrote and recorded some of I See You, and is directed by acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Alasdair McLellan. Watch the video below. Speaking of the collaboration, The xx say: “Today we get to share our new...
Gabriella Cohen has shared a wonderful new video for her track, ‘Downtown’, directed by Sky Richards. The track is taken from the excellent debut album Full Closure and No Details out now via Dot Dash / Captured Tracks in North America and Dot Dash / Remote Control Records for the rest of the world. Gabriella Cohen had this to say about the track and video: “Downtown was written in the summer of 2014 in Highgate Hill, Australia. I remember...
Lost Animal has shared the video for ‘Too Late To Die Young’ via CLRVYNT. The current single is taken from the new album You Yang released last week. ‘Too Late To Die Young’ was director Ryan Kenny’s debut music video. He explains – “Portraying Jarrod as a character rather than the singer or artist was important to me. Using the sound to tell a story rather than take the attention away from it. The title speaks for itself and...
Big Smoke share their new single ‘Wrong’, which is accompanied by a video that is both raw and beautiful, premiered via Stereogum. Watch it below. “In this video, the aim was to get participants to the same place of raw vulnerability you hear in Adrian’s voice on the track by stripping away the familiar—both physically and mentally—and then saving them from it,” says Director Sean Lynch. “We allowed the partners to re-discover each...
