In July of 2021, Welsh Producer Lewis Roberts aka Koreless released his highly-anticipated debut album Agor. An album over five years in the making, Agor was released to critical acclaim, and to this day is widely regarded as one of the best electronic records of 2021. Unlike any other record you’ll hear, Agor straddles the worlds of ambient and contemporary classical while not sounding like an example of either. The album was regarded as one of the best electronic...
New York-based, Peruvian-born artist Daniela Lalita releases her debut single and music video ‘Tenía Razón’. Written, produced (with co-production from Sega Bodega) and directed by Lalita, it’s a bold debut for the multi-hyphenated artist whose practice spans music, costume design, film, performance and fine art. Lalita shares: “This music video is a form of self exploration about one’s relationship with past and future selves with the intention of trying to...
Oliver Sim unveils new single ‘GMT’, from his debut album Hideous Bastard, set for release on 9th September. Watch the accompanying video by longtime friend and collaborator Laura Jane Coulson below! ‘GMT’ was one of the first songs made for the record,” says Sim. “I’d chased Jamie to Australia to escape British winter. We worked in Sydney and road tripped down to Byron Bay, stopping at secluded beaches and listening to a lot...
Last month Two Shell released ‘Pods’, a serious digital-rocker and another example of the big city rollers they make. Following their Boileroom set and ahead of their sold out Glastonbury debut, Two Shell return with ‘Dust’; a cruise-ship jet-engine and the second single on a new five track EP Icons! Danger! Out 30 June, Icons was designed in the nightclub but made for the airPods. From shell.tech to the real world these tracks started life in the mainframe and...
In July of last year, Welsh producer Lewis Roberts aka Koreless released his highly-anticipated debut album Agor. An album over five years in the making, Agor was released to huge acclaim. Koreless returns to announce two Agor remix packages which will be made available digitally and as a limited run of 12” white labels this June. The first, out now via Young, sees techno powerhouse VTSS put a hard-hitting spin...
Hideous Bastard, the debut album from Oliver Sim is set for release on Friday 9 September. Pre-order here. Produced by bandmate Jamie xx, Hideous Bastard is the culmination of two years of writing and recording, inspired by Sim’s love of horror movies and his own life experience, unpacking themes of shame, fear, and masculinity. These themes are front and centre on new single ‘Hideous’. Enlisting the help of lifelong hero and “guardian angel”...
Hideous, a new short film from Oliver Sim, has been selected for a special screening during the Semaine de la Critique at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film will make its global premiere with the screening. Watch the trailer and see the film poster below! “‘Hideous’—a horror film from the big heart and perverted imagination of Mr. Yann Gonzalez,” says Sim. “Starring yours truly, Fehinti Balogun, Jimmy Somerville, Jamie xx, Bimini and more. I’m trying to find a creative way to say what a dream...
Jamie xx releases his first new music in two years. Having spent the time since 2020’s ‘Idontknow’ concentrating on new music, ‘LET’S DO IT AGAIN’ is a triumphant return and the first glimpse of what’s to come over the next year from the London artist and DJ. It’s a track that’s all about tension, drama and catharsis; an anthemic, joyous call to arms built around an unrelenting “I get higher and higher… Let’s do it...
Oliver Sim unveils a new Jamie xx-produced single, ‘Fruit’, a joyful celebration of queer identity and self-acceptance penned to his younger self. Watch the accompanying video directed by French director Yann Gonzalez (Knife + Heart) below! ‘Fruit’ follows Sim’s solo debut single, ‘Romance With A Memory,’ which debuted last month with a lyric video starring artists and drag performers Charity Kase, HoSo Terra Toma, Gena Marvin and more. Both tracks will feature on a forthcoming limited edition vinyl 12” available only...
Oliver Sim – best known for his work as songwriter, bassist and vocalist for The xx – makes his solo debut with first-ever single ‘Romance With A Memory‘ today, via Young / Remote Control Records. The track, produced by Jamie xx, debuts alongside a lyric video starring artists and drag performers Charity Kase, HoSo Terra Toma, Gena Marvin. Sim, born and raised in London, has been a member of The xx since its inception in 2005. After the success of their 2017...
London-based Ethan P. Flynn has released Universal Deluge; a purposefully curated seven-track EP, out via Young / Remote Control Records. Alongside the release of the EP, Flynn shares a visualiser for third single ‘Distraught‘. ‘Distraught’ sees the young songwriter, beatmaker and multi-instrumentalist utilise the sound of waves to crash through an infectious alt-pop melody made up of electronics, fluttering rhythms with stripped-back acoustics, all underpinned by Flynn’s idiosyncratic voice. Universal Deluge marks a significant shift for Ethan P....
Kamasi Washington debuts a new song, ‘The Garden Path‘, and performed it for the first time ever, making his late night television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “The world feels turned upside down,” says Washington of the song. “There’s so much push and pull in every direction, from everyone you meet—no one knows what to think, who to believe, or how to approach life right now. No matter how smart you are, it’s hard not to...
Five years ago Sampha released his debut album Process via Young / Remote Control Records. The seminal album was met with widespread critical-acclaim and went on to be named the 2017 Mercury-Prize winner. Celebrating the project’s five-year anniversary, Sampha releases a special 12-track bonus edition of Process which includes two newly available songs ‘Inbetween and Overseas’ and ‘Answer’. Process, which features singles ‘(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano’, ‘Timmy’s Prayer’ and ‘Blood On Me’, is an emotionally raw and achingly...
Songwriter, beatmaker, and multi-instrumentalist-maverick Ethan P. Flynn announces the release of his first “finished” project Universal Deluge; a purposefully curated seven-track EP set to be released digitally and as a 12” vinyl on Friday 11 March 2022 via Young / Remote Control Records. The announcement is made in line with the release of the visual for the lead single ‘Father of Nine’, a striking music video shot by Aliyah Otchere and directed by London-based visionaries ethan&tom. Speaking on the...
Songwriter, beatmaker and multi-instrumentalist Ethan P. Flynn releases his new single ‘The Universal Deluge’ – out now via Young / Remote Control Records. Accompanied by a pensive new visual directed and shot by Aliyah Otchere which places Ethan at the centre of a vastly desolate and unworldly landscape; reflective of the emotive new single. Ethan says of its creation, “The film of me walking was taken just after a sandstorm, I still feel like I have sand in my ears...
Following the release of singles ‘White Picket Fence’, ‘Joy Squad’ & ‘Black Rainbow’ Welsh producer Lewis Roberts aka Koreless releases his much-anticipated debut album Agor via Young / Remote Control Records, an album over five years in the making. There is an idea of hidden depths suggested by the title of Koreless’ debut album. Agor is the Welsh word for open and it’s an apt name for a recording which exists at sensory thresholds, helping guide the listener from one realm to another less visited. Agor is unlike any...
