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...
This Is The Kit are pleased to announce their new single ‘Coming to Get You Nowhere‘. This is the second track taken from her forthcoming fifth album Off Off On which will be released by Rough Trade Records Friday 23 October. The single was premiered yesterday via Triple R’s Breaking and Entering program. Kate Stables of This Is The Kit explains the meaning behind the video and the song: “We...
JARV IS… are pleased to announce their debut album Beyond the Pale which will be released on Friday 1 May via Rough Trade Records. The album is available on LP/CD/Cassette. This is the first original music from Jarvis Cocker since the Further Complications album in 2009. JARV IS… a band featuring Jarvis Cocker (vocals, guitar, percussion), Serafina Steer (harp, keyboards, vocals), Emma Smith (violin, guitar vocals), Andrew McKinney (bass, vocals),...
On March 10th, 2020, 23-year-old Muslim poet Mustafa (pictured) released his stunning debut single ‘Stay Alive‘. Mustafa follows the track with a beautiful performance of new song ‘Come Back‘ alongside James Blake. Directed by Nabil, the minimalist performance highlights Mustafa’s elegant, understated songwriting. Speaking on the meaning behind song and Blake’s hand in it, Mustafa says: “Perpetually grateful for James who helped free me of my own emotional burdens when I...
‘Second‘ is from the Sleaford Mods‘ upcoming retrospective, All That Glue, out Friday 15 May. The video was directed by Robin Lee and features Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones) and Emma Stansfield (Skins, The Tudors). As described by Rolling Stone “In the Robin Lee-directed clip, two actresses (Kate Dickie and Emma Stansfield) portray Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn in the Mods’ early days when they frequently played pubs. The women are pitch-perfect,...
Stephen Malkmus releases his new album Traditional Techniques. Watch a video for his latest single ‘Shadowbanned. Following lead single ‘Xian Man,’ ‘Shadowbanned’ bursts with flute-laced swagger and Malkmus as attuned as ever to the rhythms of the ever-evolving lingual slipstream as he sings of “Amazon wheatfields and rivers of Red Bull//drip gush drip//data driven skip//to the part where the left bros parody TED talks.” Its video, directed by Jan Lankisch, features friends and fans of Malkmus, such as Kim Gordon, Mac DeMarco, Sharon Van...
Josienne Clarke has released her debut solo album In All Weather via Rough Trade. The album In All Weather is a new collection of songs by writer, singer and musician Josienne Clarke, it’s a record with which she goes it alone; both musically, as this is her first solo record, and in her own life, laid bare and played out in the leave-it-all-behind-and-start-anew nature of the lyrics. “Learning to sail in all weather, the line from which...
Pinegrove have revealed plans for their new album, Marigold, to be released on Rough Trade Records on January 17, 2020. Check out the video for the second track to be released from the album, ‘Phase‘, directed by Colin Read. Marigold marks their debut album for Rough Trade Records and offers what Evan calls a “heart-first” perspective. The album begins with a breath and ends with a shimmering exhalation. In between is an urgent, multivalent meditation – and an expanded take on the blend...
Algiers will return in 2020 with a new album, There Is No Year (Matador), and have shared a new single ‘Dispossession.’ Those aware of the ideals of this outspoken four-piece will find their latest direction on There Is No Year traversing unprecedented ground. The album solidifies and expands upon the doom-laden soul of their foundation, toward an even vaster, genre-reformatting sound, one somehow suspended in the amber of “a different era,” as...
Dublin four-piece Lankum’s majestic new album The Livelong Day is out now on Rough Trade / Remote Control. Made up of brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat, Lankum have gained worldwide acclaim for their first two albums and captivating, often euphoric live performances. Lankum honour the sacredness of traditional Irish tunes, but allow them to metamorphose, to grow and breathe like the heavy, ancient breath of the Uilleann pipes which seethe beneath the tracks of their third studio album...
Rough Trade and Remote Control are very excited to announce the exquisite debut solo album by award winning writer, singer and musician Josienne Clarke. Watch the video for ‘If I Didn’t Mind’ from the forthcoming album below. In All Weather is a new collection of songs, in which she goes it alone; musically, as this is her first solo record, and in her own life, laid bare and played out in...
Excited to announce Pinegrove‘s signing to Rough Trade Records. The band share their first new music under the label – ‘Moment.’ Pinegrove’s singer/songwriter/guitarist Evan Stephens Hall says of this new song, “‘Moment’ for me was a way of thinking about gratitude in the context of chaos or tedium. This last stanza says directly what i say more obliquely in the verses, zeroing in after a meandering route”: I’m in this moment & i...
Girl Band have shared ‘Going Norway,’ the second single from their new album The Talkies, out on Rough Trade 27 September. In ‘Going Norway’, we hear the mimicry of Dara’s vocal to Alan’s guitar coming close to a moan, both simultaneously reaching outside of the confines of Adam’s steady, flitting snare sound: ‘And Why/ Is the Death/ So Alive?’ The track pushes and pulls against itself, and the emotion is felt within this combative...
Just announced as FBi Radio’s Album of the Week, black midi have released their debut album Schlagenheim (Rough Trade Records). Watch the surreal visual for new single ‘Ducter‘ below. Over the past many months, black midi – Geordie Greep (vocals/guitar), Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin(vocals/guitar), Cameron Picton (vocals/bass), and Morgan Simpson (drums) – have built a reputation for their dynamic, collaborative energy and uncompromising live shows. Their songs are slippery creatures and they play them as a musical unit that’s constantly in a state...
PicaPica are the lush vocal interplays of dual front women Josienne Clarke and Samantha Whates, atop the textural arrangements of Adam Beattie and Sonny Johns. Today, they have shared Together & Apart, their new album out now via Rough Trade. The album is about health and heartache, spring and shade, love and loss and life – beautifully balanced through their expert songwriting. Stream / download it here.
black midi have announced their debut full length, Schlagenheim, to be released Friday 21 June via Rough Trade. black midi are Georgie Greep(vocals/guitar), Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin (vocals/guitar), Cameron Picton (vocals/bass), and Morgan Simpson (drums). The band laid down eight of the record’s nine tracks in just five days. The process was one of refining and rebuilding tracks around the initial structures. Five hour jams would sometimes yield a riff that then...
