Today, black midi reveal a new single/video, ‘Chondromalacia Patella‘, from their forthcoming album, Cavalcade, out next Friday May 28 on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records, with an online Cavalcade listening party held on May 27. The third in a string of fervent singles, ‘Chondromalacia Patella’, is a song about convalescence, aptly named after a band member’s knee injury from running. It features abrasive noise rock chords and circular drumming, which ultimately climax in a sunburst of arpeggiated guitars skyscraping above and beyond power metal....
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Gruff Rhys releases his new album Seeking New Gods, out now on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. His seventh solo album, Seeking New Gods was recorded following a 2019 US tour with his band and mixed in LA with superstar producer Mario C (Beastie Boys), with beautiful art direction is by long-time Gruff collaborator Mark James. Gruff has a long history of pushing the boundaries of how music can be listened to, and has been working with BBC Research & Development on a special...
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Rough Trade Records’ newest signing, London-based band caroline are sharing a new track and self-directed video today, called ‘Skydiving onto the library roof’. The track will be released as a 12” single, their second for Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records, on June 25th. caroline began in early 2017, evolving out of weekly improvisation sessions. Band members brought together their shared influences, including Midwestern emo, Appalachian folk, minimalist classical and various forms of electronic music,...
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Gruff Rhys has released a new track ‘Can’t Carry On’ and its accompanying video, from his forthcoming album, Seeking New Gods, out May 21, 2021 via Rough Trade Records. His seventh solo album, Seeking New Gods was recorded in the Mojave Desert, following a US tour and mixed in LA with superstar producer Mario C (Beastie Boys), with beautiful art direction by long-time Gruff collaborator Mark James, who also produced the inimitably Gruff Rhys-styled video for ‘Can’t Carry On’. The video, which features Gruff climbing both the literal and...
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London band black midi announce Cavalcade, their new album out May 28th on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records, and also offer its lead single/video, ‘John L.‘ Cavalcade is a dynamic, hellacious, and inventive follow-up to 2019’s widely-praised Schlagenheim, “a labyrinth with hairpin-turn episodes and lyrics full of dourly corrosive observations” (New York Times, Best Albums of 2019). It scales beautiful new heights, pulling widely from a plethora of genres and influences, reaching ever upwards from an already lofty base of early...
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Gruff Rhys is releasing his new album Seeking New Gods through Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records on Friday 21 May. This will be Gruff’s seventh solo album. Seeking New Gods was recorded following a US tour with his band and mixed in LA with superstar producer Mario C (Beastie Boys). The album concept was originally driven to be the biography of a mountain, Mount Paektu (an East Asian active volcano). However, as Gruff’s writing began to reflect on the inhuman timescale of a...
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South London quartet Goat Girl are delighted to share a new track, ‘Badibaba‘, and its video today from their upcoming album On All Fours, which will be released via Rough Trade Records on January 29, 2021. Guitarist/vocalist L.E.D. says “Badibaba is a song about environmental catastrophe and the pessimism and self-destruction that this causes to the human spirit.” Lottie Cream adds, “it touches on how the earth’s existence is controlled...
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This is it. Sleaford Mods have released Spare Ribs. It comes following their latest single ‘Nudge It (ft Amy Taylor from Amyl and the Sniffers)’. It’s all out now through Rough Trade. Of new single, the band’s Jason Williamson says “Imagine you’ve got limited options, unsure how you’re getting by that week, looking out the window of the damp flat you don’t want to live in, and seeing a bunch...
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Pinegrove have revealed details of a new feature length film, Amperland, NY, and accompanying soundtrack album to be released on Rough Trade on January 15th. The film, scripted from a short story by Pinegrove’s Evan Stephens Hall and directed by Kenna Hynes, was filmed at the band’s long time home in upstate New York, known as “Amperland” to Pinegrove and their fans, prior to the house being sold by the...
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Following the release of ‘Sad Cowboy‘, South London quartet Goat Girl release their new single ‘The Crack‘ via Rough Trade. The second single taken from their forthcoming album On All Fours (out Friday 29 January, 2021), ‘The Crack’ is accompanied by a timely and surreal video, directed by Molly Ann Pendlebury and premiered via The FADER. Goat Girl say of the track, “‘The Crack’ emerged from an imagined post-apocalyptic world...
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Following ‘Mork n Mindy‘ their latest single featuring Billy Nomates, Nottingham-based duo Sleaford Mods today release their politically-charged, no holds barred single ‘Shortcummings’ with a premiere from Matt Wilkinson on Apple 1 Music. The song is taken from the upcoming album Spare Ribs out via Rough Trade January 15th 2021. The band’s Jason Williamson says “I wrote the lyrics to Shortcummings in late 2019 after becoming annoyed by Dominic Cummings...
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Poised to blow the cobwebs off life and unleash some much-needed wit and charm upon us, Nottingham-based duo Sleaford Mods announce the release of their astonishing sixth studio album, entitled Spare Ribs, out via Rough Trade January 15th 2021. New single, ‘Mork n Mindy’ featuring Billy Nomates is out now. The official video, which was directed by Ben Wheatley (whose latest body of work, Rebecca, is currently showing on Netflix and...
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This is The Kit – the musical project helmed by UK singer-songwriter Kate Stables – are pleased to release their new album Off Off On through Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. This is the fifth album by the band and is the follow up to 2017 critically acclaimed album Moonshine Freeze. Kate Stables decided to work on the new record with producer Josh Kaufman, New York-based musician, Hold Steady collaborator...
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This is The Kit have shared new single ‘Was Magician‘ alongside a live performance video. The single comes from her upcoming album Off Off On, out on Rough Trade Recordson October 23rd, 2020. The video was recorded and filmed by Lyon Sound and Vision at L’Epicerie Morderne in France and remotely directed from NYC by Marisa Gesualdi. ‘Was Magician’ is both a wander through the books of author Ursula K....
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UK quartet Goat Girl are delighted to announce their new album On All Fours out Friday 29 January, 2021 via Rough Trade. The new album was produced by Dan Carey (Kae Tempest, black midi & Franz Ferdinand) in South London in early 2020. The album will be available on black double LP, transparent pink double LP & CD. This new record sees the band veer away from the confrontational lyricism...
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Rough Trade Records have physically released the debut album Whatever It Is by Californian group Hello Forever. Frontman Sam Joseph explains a little about lead track ‘Im Feeling It‘, “Songs have a way of writing themselves. ‘I’m feeling it’ came out all at once in a moment when I was unhinged and disconnected — it lifted me up out of that trance and reminded me of what’s underneath. It’s an anthem...
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