“‘Love’ is a word I was unable to say until I was approaching 40,” explains Jarvis Cocker. “I listened to love songs all the time but couldn’t use the word in real life. The words to this song are me having a word with myself about this state of affairs. I gave myself a real talking-to. I have now learnt how to say it whilst keeping a straight face. ‘You’ve...
Rough Trade Records is celebrating its formative years with the release of a limited boxset on June 20, featuring several of its key, early seven-inch singles. Boasting eight classic 45s that followed the label’s formation out the original Rough Trade shop in West London in 1978, Rough Trade 45s: Volume 1 features the likes of Augustus Pablo, The Raincoats and Young Marble Giants. The eight singles, which have been recreated...
A. Savage will return to Australia’s East Coast for a run of tour dates in November. The Parquet Courts frontman will tour in support of his record Several Songs About Fire. Produced by John Parish in Bristol, Several Songs About Fire is bolstered by the support of Jack Cooper and Cate Le Bon, as well as members of Kamikaze Palm Tree & caroline. The end result is tantamount to psychic odyssey, containing a singular irreverence which is stitched together by Savage’s outsize...
Following the announcement of their upcoming Australian tour this July 2022 and hotly-anticipated festival appearance at Splendour in the Grass, today Parquet Courts share two remixes of ‘Plant Life’, a standout track from last year’s acclaimed album Sympathy For Life – out via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Previously available as a physical 12” exclusive, today marks the first widespread release of Yu Su’s Transient Version and the Peak Wifi (a.k.a. Austin Brown and Bryce Hackford) Vibes Mix. Of her remix, Yu Su explains, “I knew...
black midi have released Cavalcovers, an EP featuring covers of Taylor Swift, King Crimson, and Captain Beefheart, via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. The EP follows Cavalcade, praised as one of the best albums of 2021 by The New York Times, Pitchfork, TheFADER, Stereogum, and more. Last year, black midi recorded five special fan-voted covers for different territories and retailers that were available on bespoke limited flexis for fans that pre-ordered Cavalcade. Now, three of those covers are available for all to hear. Cavalcovers includes a...
JARV IS… have written & performed the original soundtrack for the critically acclaimed BBC TV series This is Going to Hurt based on Adam Kay’s award-winning international multi-million selling memoir of the same name. The soundtrack was recorded at Narcissus Studios, London by Drew Dungate-Smith during various sessions throughout 2021. Most of the performances are live takes featuring the entire band – often recorded whilst they watched the playback of key sequences from the series. Each episode features...
Diving into Scritti Politti’s back catalogue, Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records have reissued the 1985 album Cupid & Psyche ‘85 Cupid & Psyche ‘85, released in the summer of 1985, was both a pop masterpiece and landmark in music production. Terrifyingly complex technology, embarrassingly expensive studio time and months of intensive work resulted in a brilliant, immaculate sound, described today by singer Green Gartside as “pyrotechnics of pointillist syncopation”. ...
Gruff Rhys is pleased to announce a new two track single called People are Pissed via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. The tracks are available digitally now and also for pre-order in special Limited Edition cassette format, designed by regular collaborator Mark James. Gruff says: “The lyrics were basically inspired by the widespread anger I – and many other people felt towards the incompetence and arrogance of the Johnson regime during the lockdowns – not that...
Parquet Courts have debuted a brand new single, ‘Watching Strangers Smile,’ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. This follows the release of Sympathy For Life, their new album available now on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. ‘Watching Strangers Smile’ came out of the same sessions the band did with Rodaidh McDonald for Sympathy for Life. The Ellen performance puts A. Savage’s fiery vocal performance at the forefront, once again cementing them as one of the most lauded indie bands of the last decade...
Parquet Courts present the music video for ‘Marathon of Anger’, off their new album, Sympathy For Life, out now on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. The video, directed by Mara Palena, was originally part of Sympathy For Life, Visualised, a live-streamed Noonchorus film event broadcast earlier this year that featured videos for all 11 songs from the album, and features guest appearances from Bill Walton and Joe Pera. ‘Marathon of Anger‘ is the first of the previously unreleased videos to be...
New Jersey-based group Pinegrove have announced their new album 11:11 will come out on January 28 through Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Self-produced, with mixing by Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Tegan & Sara), 11:11 is the band’s fifth studio album following 2020’s Marigold. They also share their lead single ‘Alaska,’ a gallop of dense, bracing guitar-fuelled rock that lurches out of the gate with...
Parquet Courts have released their much-anticipated new album, Sympathy For Life, via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records, alongside a scorching new single & video,‘Homo Sapien’. Sympathy For Life is Parquet Courts at their most instinctive and electronic, spinning their bewitching, psychedelic storytelling into fresh territory, yet maintaining their unique identity. Although new track ‘Homo Sapien’ is guitar heavy, it still has a grooving edge as A Savage’s vocals ruminate: “The erotic quality of not feeling meaningless //...
black midi present a new single/video, ‘Slow‘, from their forthcoming album, Cavalcade, out May 28th on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. In conjunction, the band completed a new KEXP interview and live performance. A full circle moment for black midi, their first KEXP performance (live from Iceland Airwaves in 2019) is how many first experienced the band. Following lead single ‘John L’, “a zoomed-out optical illusion, making you question what you’re witnessing at every turn,” (Pitchfork, “Best New Track”) ‘Slow’ is one of two Cavalcade songs fronted by bassist Cameron...
South London quartet Goat Girl are delighted to share their anticipated second album On All Fours, out today via Rough Trade Records. To celebrate it’s release, Goat Girl will host a live album listening party and Q&A with fans on their YouTube channel on Saturday 30 January from 6AM AEDT – tune in here. On All Fours sees the band veer away from the confrontational lyricism of their breakthrough self-titled...
Parquet Courts announce ‘On Time,’ a concert livestream and retrospective in celebration of the 10th anniversary of their first show. The show, filmed live at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works, will air on December 10th at 8pm AEDT, commemorating their first show ever, which took place at Monster Island on December 17th, 2010. It will feature rare archival footage, new interviews, exclusive merch available only to ticket buyers, and much more. The...
Californian group Hello Forever have released a new single and live video for ‘I’m Feeling It’ ahead of their album release on October 2nd. Based in Topanga, California, on a piece of land once used by a free-love nudist commune, the art-pop collective Hello Forever are led by the eccentric, magnetic figure of Samuel Joseph. They live together, in this pastoral setting high above the Pacific Ocean – not far...
