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...
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black midi present a new single ‘Talking Heads‘, out now via Rough Trade. “We’ve always tried to make it heavy but danceable, melodic but good rhythms,” says vocalist and guitarist, Geordie Greep. “It is accessible music, there are experimental aspects that we’ve taken from when we went crazy at the beginning, we’ve just reigned it in to make something that is pop music.” Listen here.
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SOAK has released her new album Grim Town – out now via Rough Trade. Listen here. Grim Town is a record about getting lost that you can, also, truly get lost in. It arrives as inspired by the audio-visual environmentalism of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ as the production of Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene or Phoebe Bridgers. Bridie tackles everything from long-distance love, depression, divorce and social anxiety to the...
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black midi have been dubbed by NME as “the best new band in the UK that no one knows anything about” but today you’re about to get to know them. Listen to the caustic new single ‘Crow’s Perch‘ – out now via Rough Trade. The accompanying video, directed and edited by Villi Hijálmarsson reflects the track’s frenetic energy, juxtaposing saturated graphics and peculiar scenes with mundane images. black midi is...
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Meet Jelani Aryeh, a new signing to b4, and listen to new song ‘Union Station.’ It’s an ode to leaving suburbia and finding home, not only in a new place, but in the people you take with you. At 18yrs old Jelani already finds the sweet spot between hip hop, RnB, and pop – Jack Kolbe helping out on production duties. The pair are members of the rising global collective...
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SOAK shares a new video for ‘Déjà Vu‘ – the lead single from her new album Grim Town, out 26 April via Rough Trade. Director Brother Willis calls the video “a looping, nonsensical, Lynchian dream,” and explains further that his goal “was to make a disconnected and confusing performance video, one that recasts Bridie as both performer, then observer, and back and forth in dreamlike messiness. I have a bit...
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SOAK has unveiled beautiful new track ‘Valentine Shmalentine’. Together with new single ‘Knock Me Off My Feet’ and returning track ‘Everybody Loves You’, ‘Valentine Shmalentine’ is taken from Bridie’s second album Grim Town, out on April 26. Grim Town follows SOAK’s debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream, and an extraordinary period of invention and self-discovery for the still-just-22-year-old Derry native. Haunting, atmospheric and brutally honest, Bridie says ‘Valentine Shmalentine’ is “the result...
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Today, Starcrawler debut their video for ‘Hollywood Ending’ directed by Gilbert Trejo. The visual is a love letter to their hometown and marks what will surely be another epic year for them filled with more new music and touring, carrying their envelope pushing vision into the mainstream. Watch below! Director Gilbert Trejo says of the video: “Arrow and I almost started sowing the seeds for this video when we first...
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SOAK announces details of her second album Grim Town, released on Friday 26 April, as well as unveiling new single ‘Knock Me Off My Feet’. Watch the accompanying video below! Grim Town follows SOAK’s debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream, and an extraordinary period of invention and self-discovery for the still-just-22-year-old Derry native. The upcoming album is available for pre-order here. ‘Knock Me Off My Feet’ is a love letter...
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Princess Nokia just re-released a remastered and expanded version of her 2014 debut full length Metallic Butterfly, featuring three bonus tracks from the era. Before the rapper/actor/model/intersectional feminist became the icon she is today, Destiny Frasqueri was a young trip-hop and Bjork-obsessed NYC raver kid. The album showcases all sides of what we’ve now come to know as the definitive multi-faceted artist Princess Nokia: music lover, philosopher, activist and anime...
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After an incredible year, releasing their debut LP and touring the world, Starcrawler return home with a brand-new single entitled ‘Hollywood Ending’ which was mixed by Nick Launay and produced by Ryan Adams. Out digitally and on a 7” including the b-side ‘Tank Top’, produced by Nick Launay. Listen below! Vocalist Arrow de Wilde says “Hollywood Ending is my version of a prayer. In the song I pray for ‘The End’....
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Goat Girl are pleased to announce the release of an exclusive limited edition EP, Udder Sounds, produced by Dan Carey. The band recorded five re-imagined tracks including ‘The Man’ from their self-titled debut album and one interlude. This will be limited to 600 copies exclusively at Rough Trade. Listen to ‘The Man (Udder Sounds Edit)’ below! The band have had a great 2018, they have just won Q Magazine’s joint Breakthrough Artist...
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NYC’s Parquet Courts will perform two Laneway Festival sideshows this summer. Catch Parquet Courts perform in Melbourne on Thursday 31 January at The Croxton and in Sydney on Wednesday 6 Feburary at The Factory Theatre. Supporting the band in Melbourne and Sydney will be Brisbane outfit The Goon Sax who recently released their new album We’re Not Talking. Melbourne’s Primo! will also join both bands at The Croxton. Full tour...
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SOAK is back today with beautiful new single ‘Everybody Loves You’, this is the first sight of new SOAK material since 2015’s critically-acclaimed debut album, Before We Forgot How To Dream. Watch the accompanying visual below! With extensive global touring along the way – and extreme experiences which have taken her far beyond (but often back to) her close-knit hometown of Derry – Bridie has been hard at work on...
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Parquet Courts have released their Wide Awake! Remixes EP, which features an edit by NYC’s Danny Krivit and two remixes by Mikey Young – ‘Wide Awake (Club Mix)’ and ‘Normalization (Collective Witnessing Mix)’. Catch the band tour Australia as part of Laneway Festival 2019. Tour dates and details below! “I like the spirit of the rock song remixed for the dance floor,” says A. Savage. “Some of my favourite versions of rock songs,...
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Gruff Rhys follows a series of sold out gigs played with full orchestras in Cardiff, London and Manchester with a new video for ‘Selfies In The Sunset’, the closing track from his fifth album Babelsberg, out now. Watch below! Directed and animated by Ewan Jones Morris, the video features Gruff and guest singer Lily Cole creating Animojis ahead of the apocalypse. Of the track, Gruff writes: A couple of years ago...
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