Richard Russell’s collaborative music project Everything Is Recorded announce and release Solstice Equinox – a new album comprising forty pieces recorded in four days between 2023 and 2024 at The Copper House, Russell’s West London studio. Solstice Equinox is the fourth Everything Is Recorded album and comes four months after the third, Temporary. Each session took place on a solstice or equinox — the Summer and Winter Solstices, and the...
Joy Orbison and Overmono come together once again. This time, they’re stepping into fresh territory with ‘Lippy’, a collaborative new single featuring original vocals from rising Montreal rapper Skiifall. The single premiered as the Hottest Record on BBC Radio 1 with Jack Saunders. ‘Lippy’ started during a session at the XL Recordings studio, where Joy Orbison and Overmono began exploring more melodic ideas beyond their previous club-focused collaborations ‘Blind Date’...
Giggs and XL Recordings are proud to announce the 15th anniversary reissue of Let Em Ave It, the British rap icon’s seminal second album, which will be available on vinyl for the very first time. Originally released on 21st June 2010, Let Em Ave It marked Giggs’ bold introduction to a wider audience and laid the foundation for one of UK rap’s most uncompromising and influential careers. Emerging from South...
XL Recordings releases a new single by Four Tet ‘Into Dust (Still Falling)’ which features a sample of Mazzy Star’s ‘Into Dust’. One of his most sought-after gems from the last few years, ‘Into Dust (Still Falling)’ is released globally alongside a limited edition 12” vinyl – available exclusively via the XL webstore – and an exclusive screen printed t-shirt. Four Tet was also announced to play Mode Festival on...
Nourished By Time returns to share ‘9 2 5,’ the next single from his forthcoming album The Passionate Ones, out August 22nd. ‘9 2 5’ chronicles the emotional toll of a working-class artist stuck between the grind of a meaningless day job and the relentless pursuit of his artistic dreams after dark, driven by a beat echoing the syncopated spirit of Baltimore club music. This latest single from Nourished By Time’s highly-anticipated new album...
Verraco – aka JP López – releases his new EP, Basic Maneuvers, his debut on XL’s iconic house bag series, out now. Arriving one year on from his critically acclaimed breakthrough EP Breathe…Godspeed, Basic Maneuvers signals the next step in Verraco’s cross-cultural sonic evolution; a sound where South American dembow rhythms collide with the maximalist basslines of UK soundsystem culture, meticulous IDM sound design, and the intensity and precision of techno....
Arca returns with a new double-sided single, ‘Puta / Sola’. While each track exists in its own distinct sonic world, they are released together to symbolise the complementary force of the liminal, the beauty in androgyny, and integration of both masculine and feminine energies that can harmonise in each person. It is a gesture in response to dualistic thinking – spanning the spectrum between binaries – a quantum entanglement between...
Standing On The Corner returns to give birth to a new single ‘Baby’, along with accompanying B-Side ‘Friends 2day Enemies 2morrow’ and one piece of poetry entitled ‘R U Scared?’. A limited edition 7” vinyl is available via standingonthecorner.com and the XL Recordings webstore. Hand-drawn white label 7” with risograph artwork print in clear plastic sleeve. Standing On The Corner is an Earth-based Art Ensemble founded in 2016 by Shamel Cee Mystery,...
On August 22nd 2025, Baltimore singer-songwriter and producer Nourished By Time will release his highly anticipated new album The Passionate Ones. Crafted between Baltimore, London, and NYC, The Passionate Ones is a sermon, a twelve-track catharsis, howled from the underbelly of late-stage capitalism, a blueprint for building your own altar in the ruins of the American Dream. The project launches today with ‘Max Potential,’ a track revealing a soul unready...
One year on from the release of his breakthrough EP Breathe…Godspeed, Verraco – aka JP López – returns to announce Basic Maneuvers, his debut for XL Recordings that is set to be released on Thursday, 29 May 2025 via the label’s iconic house bag series. Basic Maneuvers began in his birthplace of Medellín with the project’s title track and evolved over several months as the TraTraTrax label-head relocated to Bogotá, where...
Richard Russell steps up under his rLr alias to remix his own Everything Is Recorded project. The rLr remix of ‘Never Felt Better’ sees Russell breaking apart the original into a bass-heavy audio collage that warps and chops Sampha and Florence Welch’s original vocals while beaming in legendary mixtape pioneer Kid Capri from somewhere in 1990’s New York City. It’s the first rLr remix in over five years, following previous...
Mechatok – aka Timur Tokdemir – has subtly become a defining architect of today’s underground experimental pop and rap. While touring globally, he’s released a steady run of solo EPs and albums that have shaped a sound where emotional immediacy meets sleek, digital-age aesthetics, leaving a mark on a new generation of genre-defining artists like Drain Gang, Ecco2k, Yung Lean, Charli XCX, and Bala Club. 2025 is set to be...
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...
Riding high off the universal love for his latest single ‘father’, Jim Legxacy keeps things moving with new track ‘stick’. Dropping alongside another slick video from Rohan Dil shot partly on a Blackberry, ‘stick’ sees Jim at the peak of his powers offering another snapshot of his journey and cements his advancing cultural significance as a young writer and producer. Jim’s prolific output forever tells an important story. Always ahead...
Florence Sinclair is a name that has been swirling through the UK underground; a music-maverick who has been quietly unravelling their liminal world since 2021 debut Gentle Decay (a sparsely cinematic exploration of memories and dreams – Document Journal). Through subsequent releases – It’s a Big Man Ting and departures, wonders & tears – Florence Sinclair has captivated a devoted following that includes Sega Bodega who invited them to remix...
Yaeji returns with a new single and music video for ‘Pondeggi.’ The title is an homage to Beondegi, a traditional intergenerational Korean street food made of silkworms, and schoolyard hand-clap game that serves as the foundation for the track’s beat. ‘Pondeggi’ is a striking evaluation of the toil within humanity, nature, and technology. Utilizing storytelling, humanity’s oldest technology and most radical form of expression, Yaeji uses innovation with the aim to invoke deeper examination. Directed by...
