Anjimile releases his new album, The King – his debut release for 4AD / Remote Control and first full-length since 2020’s breakthrough Giver Taker. The record includes recently released singles: powerful title track ‘The King’, the gently emotive ‘Father’, protest song ‘Animal’, and the haunting new single ‘Black Hole’. The songs of The King document the range of complicated emotions of Anjimile’s lived experience – from the deep appreciation of parental support in ‘Father’, to the grief (‘Genesis’),...
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Nashville-based musician Becca Mancari (they/them) releases their remarkable third album Left Hand today via Captured Tracks / Remote Control. Following the release of their last record, Mancari was in despair, despite the undeniable success of The Greatest Part. Illness in their family, coupled with a disheartening studio session with a producer, led Mancari to begin the hard work of taking ownership of their existence by mending broken relationships and investing in their mental health. The transformative period of self-reckoning was...
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Marking the release of Crowd Can Talk / Dressed in Trenches, a composite of two EPs, rising Chicago trio Lifeguard have released a video performing lead single ‘17-18 Lovesong’ live at Electrical Audio studio in Chicago. At its core, Lifeguard is a punk band. Their music is loud and energetic. It’s also, at its core, visceral and hypnotic. For the Chicago-based trio that can include repetition and blasts of speaker-shredding feedback. Their songs adeptly balance melody and...
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British-born, New York-based ANOHNI, “one of our generation’s greatest protest singers, or protest songwriters” (NPR’s All Songs Considered), presents My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, the new album from ANOHNI and the Johnsons’ out now on Rough Trade / Remote Control. My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross expresses a world view by shape-shifting through a broad range of subject matter. Through a personal lens, ANOHNI addresses loss of loved ones, inequality, alienation, acceptance, cruelty, ecocide, devastation wrought by...
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Combining forces with a multitude of queer artists and friends, HANDSOME today releases her collaborative project HANDSOME GANG: Every Second We Try, via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. Named in Rolling Stone’s ‘Ones To Watch’, HANDSOME melds electronic beats with her co-conspirators indie-pop and singer songwriter tendencies to form a collection of dance floor anthems. Each unique track sees HANDSOME pair up with at least one other artist, from ‘Dumb it Down’ with EGOISM and Chloe Dadd, to ‘Running Out of Time’ with flowerkid and St South, ‘Delirium’ with Hope D, and most...
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Kedr Livanskiy has released her new EP, K-Notes. It’s an expert fusion of drum and bass, trance, and alt-pop anchored by Kedrina’s signature crystalline vocals. K-Notes feels at once nostalgic and remarkably current: Livanskiy filters today’s UK revivalism through her own unique lens, shaped by her upbringing in the underground music scene and her personal love of early electronic and alternative music. The EP comes alongside her self-directed, Twin Peaks inspired video for its title track, ‘K-Notes’. Livanskiy explains, “This...
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King Krule has released his fourth studio album Space Heavy. The 15-track full-length inhabits the deepest reaches of the subterranean sonic world that Archy Marshall has constructed over the course of his career as King Krule. Written over the course of commutes between London and Liverpool, where Archy was splitting his time, he found himself fascinated by the notion of “the space between”; the space haunted by dreams of love, lost connection, losing people and situations to the guillotine of the...
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Beloved Uruguay-born songwriter Juan Wauters, shares his new album, Wandering Rebel, via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. There’s freedom to be found in consistency. Until recently, Juan Wauters may not have agreed with this statement. As a touring musician and multinational citizen, transience had always come naturally to him. Circumstance, however, recently prompted him to reconsider the benefits of staying in one place: “During COVID I discovered / that I like stability,” he muses...
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British electronic duo Overmono are proud to release their highly anticipated debut album, Good Lies out now via Remote Control Records. Good Lies is a comprehensive realisation of the innovative sound the duo have cultivated over the last few years. Vocal samples that were once directly about love are remoulded into a series of multi-genre electronic sounds that are as powerfully euphoric as they are melancholic depending on the listener’s mood that day. Purchase / Download Good Lies here.
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Blawan releases Dismantled into Juice, the highly anticipated follow-up EP to Woke Up Right Handed. Out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control, Dismantled into Juice started with captivating original vocal cuts from rising singer Monstera Black and evolved into five tracks that are Blawan’s most riveting and genre-bending to date. Last month, Blawan released the first single ‘Toast’ which sparked a wave of excitement for the new project, going on to be named one of the best new tracks by the likes of The Quietus and The...
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bar italia, the London trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, have released their new album Tracey Denim digitally and on CD via Remote Control. The album will be available on vinyl September 8. Tracey Denim was recorded and produced by bar italia with mixing from Marta Salogni. It features the single ‘Nurse!’ which was released in March to acclaim, and described as “a hypnotic post-punk ballad” (The Guardian) and “narcotically arresting” (Pitchfork). Stream / Purchase Tracey Denim here.
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The National has released its ninth studio album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, on 4AD / Remote Control. The project has already garnered rave reviews, with Rolling Stone saying, “Nine albums deep, the National find new energy by conjuring not just a great, suffocating fog but also the far light that guides the way out.” Also out today is a lyric video for the new album’s song ‘The Alcott,’ a pensive yet luminous duet between The National’s Matt Berninger and Taylor...
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New York based brother duo The Lemon Twigs release their fourth studio album Everything Harmony via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. It follows singles ‘Corner Of My Eye,’ ‘Any Time Of Day,’ ‘In My Head’ and ‘Every Day Is The Worst Day Of My Life,’ all of which earned critical praise from The Guardian, The Sunday Times, Stereogum and many more. Everything Harmony was written, recorded, produced and engineered entirely by the band...
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A freer and wholly anew effort, Euphoric Recall finds Braids abandoning strategy, burning it down, and realizing their love. Love, all of it; the unbound bliss, the budding impulses, and the messy imperfections, a supernova swirled up in a suite of bold, melodic, symphonic pop songs surrendered to the present. Standell-Preston’s lyrics draw generously from her heart space, often writing on the spot, in just a few takes. Lines are vivid, exhilarating, and evocative, a...
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Daughter release Stereo Mind Game, the new album from the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella. Their first studio album for seven years, the release features singles ‘Swim Back’, accompanied by London string orchestra 12 Ensemble, ‘Party’, a track that recounts the place that Elena Tonra got to before deciding to give up alcohol, and ‘Be On Your Way’, a longing but resilient song about an enduring...
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London-based artist Lucinda Chua releases her debut album YIAN alongside feature track ‘Something Other Than Years.’ The track finds Chua enlisting friend and fellow genre-defying, post-classical artist Yeule for the album’s closing track, a gentle song about searching for guidance. Building on the warm, elemental soundscape of 2021’s Antidotes EPs and the moody, elegant timbre of her cello, Chua self-produced and engineered eight of YIAN’s ten tracks, spurred on by a call to true artistic integrity...
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