It’s a Beautiful Place, the new full-length from Water From Your Eyes out August 22, opens with zero-gravity instrumental ‘One Small Step’ – a fitting prelude for what is one giant leap for the New York duo. The album is a gleaming megalopolis: a satellite view of eras and musical forms, a reframing of the y2k songbook that is at once awe-struck and mindful of its place in the vastness....
caroline release their new album caroline 2. The group spent 18 months working across various writing sessions in the UK, with recording primarily taking place at Big Jelly Studios in Ramsgate. The album was produced by the band’s own Jasper Llewellyn, Casper Hughes and Mike O’Malley, engineered by Syd Kemp, mixed by Jason Agel and mastered by Heba Kadry. In one way, caroline’s second album picks up where its predecessor left off...
“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...
Rough Trade Records is thrilled to announce their newest signing, LA via Rhode Island crooner Tyler Ballgame. Renowned for his live shows, Tyler’s music is built on strong melodic hooks and draws subtle inspiration from the 60s and 70s, blending nostalgia and undeniable songcraft. His voice truly sets him apart – Rough Trade Records’ co-managing directors Geoff Travis and Jeannette Lee say “Hearing Tyler Ballgame sing just reminds us of...
Lifeguard release a new single ‘Under Your Reach.’ It’s among the band’s hardest-hitting tracks to date, expertly blending their experimental and pop-leaning impulses. Gritty drones and dub-inflected bass give way to a laser beam riff, with guitarists Kai Slater and Asher Case delivering the vocal in loose harmony. The song is drawn from the Chicago-based trio’s forthcoming debut album, Ripped and Torn, out June 6th. Watch the video below! Recorded...
Isaiah Hull, the self-proclaimed “stand up tragedian” from Old Trafford, Manchester, releases ‘A IS FOR AFRICA’. A collaboration with producer Kwes Darko, ‘A IS FOR AFRICA’ is a powerful lyrical and sonic statement that defines the politics Isaiah stands for and stands on, adding to the rich lineage of alphabetic play in hip hop. The track is released today to mark the 60th anniversary of the death of Una Marson,...
Swedish experimental pop musician and producer Thea Gustafsson (aka Becky and the Birds) shared her self-produced debut album, Only music makes me cry now, in November 2024. After recently being named Producer of the Year at the 2025 Swedish Grammis, she now returns a new track entitled ‘Should’ve known better (choices)’ — a thematic companion to the Only music makes me cry now track ‘I look at the choices i made’, the new single highlights Gustafsson’s unique, current, and...
Bandcamp Friday is back! May 2nd (at 7pm AEDT for 24hrs – check your local timezone), and will continue on August 1st, September 5th, October 3rd, and December 5th. As always is it Bandcamp Friday? has the details. On the first Friday of the month since March 2020, Bandcamp waived their revenue share to help support artists. Since then, fans have paid artists and labels more than $200 million AUD....
Fontaines D.C. release a deluxe edition of their acclaimed fourth album ROMANCE. Available on all digital services, ROMANCE (Deluxe Edition) adds three songs to the original 11 track album. In addition to recent new single ‘It’s Amazing To Be Young’ and its stunning, Luna Carmoon-directed music video, the deluxe album also features the brand new, James Ford-produced song ‘Before You I Just Forget’. Completing the trio is a live, stripped-back...
Adrianne Lenker follows her astonishing Grammy- and BRIT-nominated solo album, Bright Future, with a 120-minute immersive album Live at Revolution Hall. This sonic documentary combines audio from 3 days of the 2024 Bright Future tour and features live performances of fan favourites, deep cuts and unreleased gems, including ‘happiness’, out now. A collection of performances and moments captured from Lenker’s 2024 headline tour, the 43 tracks have a delicate fidelity...
Three years on from the release of debut album caroline, London-based eight-piece caroline announce new album caroline 2, to be released on May 30th. The group spent 18 months working across various writing sessions in the UK, with recording primarily taking place at Big Jelly Studios in Ramsgate. The album was produced by the band’s own Jasper Llewellyn, Casper Hughes and Mike O’Malley, it was engineered by Syd Kemp, mixed by Jason Agel and mastered by Heba Kadry in NYC. Launch single, ‘Tell me...
Pulp have announced their new album More, their first in almost twenty-four years which will be released on June 6th, 2025. The album was recorded and mixed at Orbb Studio in Walthamstow E17. Limited editions of the album will be available on vinyl. Along with a double LP cut at 45 rpm, which will be exclusive to Pulp’s online shop and Rough Trade Records’ webstore, there will also be four single-disc colour vinyl pressings that have...
Tune-Yards, the dynamic duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, release new single ‘Heartbreak’, the second offering from their upcoming album Better Dreaming, out 16 May, showcasing some of their most effortlessly groove-filled music to date. ‘Heartbreak’ is the album’s opening track, building huge chords of Garbus’ vocal harmony around a fat slow-jam beat full of clicks, pops, samples, and dubbed snares. Garbus, soulful as ever, sings of heartbreak as fuel, as a challenge. In the...
On June 6th, Chicago’s Lifeguard will release their debut album Ripped and Torn. The youthful trio of Asher Case (bass, baritone guitar, vocals), Isaac Lowenstein (drums, synth), and Kai Slater (guitar, vocals) have been making music together since they were in high school, nearly a quarter of their lives. Noisy and immediate, cryptic but heartfelt, they draw inspiration from punk, dub, power-pop and experimental sounds, and bring them all together in explosive cacophony. Watch the blistering...
Jenny Hval releases ‘The artist is absent’, the second single from her new album Iris Silver Mist, out May 2nd. The new single comes in two versions — an extended mix ’89 seconds rewrite’ and the original album version. Following the “highly specific and alluringly strange” lead single, ‘To be a rose’, ‘The artist is absent’ encapsulates this feeling. Hval sings: “A stage without a show / A hazy silhouette around an empty space...
Leif Vollebekk and Angie McMahon, unveil a captivating new cover of The Eagles’ iconic hit ‘Take It To The Limit.’ With emotive vocals and haunting lap steel arrangements from Cindy Cashdollar, Vollebekk and McMahon reimagine ‘Take It To The Limit’, offering a fresh yet reverent interpretation to this timeless anthem. Vollebekk honors a major musical influence, “My good friend Angie McMahon and I spontaneously recorded ‘Take It To The Limit’, my favourite Eagles song, when I...
