Jamaica Moana releases ‘KEEP IT REAL’ ft. Prinnie Stevens, a vulnerable R&B track about the loss of her father, out now. The Sydney-based queer rap artist is once again proving she can’t be pigeonholed. ‘KEEP IT REAL’ is a reflective slow jam about losing her father at the tender age of 20. Produced by alt-rnb artist and producer Milan Ring, the song takes flight with the crystalline vocals of soul...
Norwegian musician, artist and novelist Jenny Hval releases her new album, Iris Silver Mist. Earlier in the week, Jenny Hval unveiled the final preview, album opener ‘Lay down’, which followed ‘To be a rose’ and ‘The artist is absent’. Just as the scent of iris comes from the roots and not the flower, the album, too, begins underground with ‘Lay down’. “Lay down, down in the deep where your love...
The Scholars is the first new Car Seat Headrest album in five years – an expansive suite of songs that sweeps seamlessly from majestic glam to The Who-worthy bombast. Earlier this month, Will Toledo appeared on the podcast How Long Gone and Paste published a cover story featuring the full group. Writing in Mojo, critic David Fricke blessed The Scholars with a four star review, praising the record as an...
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...
BADBADNOTGOOD return with a new single and studio video for ‘Found A Light (Beale Street)’ which features the three-time Grammy-nominated LA-based, Memphis-raised singer-songwriter and composer V.C.R. The song sees BADBADNOTGOOD and V.C.R. blend to create a funky & energetic jazz masterpiece, spotlighting both the soulful vocals of V.C.R. and, as ever impressive instrumentation from the trio. This latest single follows a series of vocal-led collaborations – ‘Poeira Cosmica’ with Tim...
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...
Adrianne Lenker follows her astonishing Grammy-and BRIT-nominated solo album, Bright Future, with a 120-minute immersive album Live at Revolution Hall. This sonic documentary combines audio from 3 days of the 2024 Bright Future tour and features live performances of fan favourites, deep cuts and unreleased gems, including ‘happiness’ and latest single ‘i do love you’. A collection of performances and moments captured from Lenker’s 2024 headline tour, the 43 tracks...
Irish musician Maria Somerville will release her second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, this Friday. Ahead of it, Somerville shares the record’s final single, ‘Spring’ – a whirring and atmospheric dreamgaze track, full yet fleeting with distorted acoustic strumming, ghostly siren calls, commanding percussion, and a surprising auto-tuned outro. Over the last few months, Somerville introduced Luster’s haunting tranquility and lush sonic backdrop with three other singles from...
The Smith Street Band return with ‘This Is It’ – the first single from their forthcoming seventh album. Dripping in the emotional honesty the band have come to be known for, the new track might just be their most vulnerable release to date. The new release comes with accompanying video clip, shot and edited by long time collaborator Nick Manuell, with Greg Rietwyk. ‘This Is It’ is a song about...
This Friday, April 18, two of music’s most iconic young songwriters Julien Baker (boygenius) & TORRES will release their highly anticipated debut collaborative album, Send a Prayer My Way. Send A Prayer My Way has been taking shape since Baker and TORRES shared a stage for the first time in 2016. After the show, one turned to the other and said, “You know, we should make a country album.” That...
Arca is a singularity, a point where our preconceptions and prior knowledge break down, an entrance into a new realm of being. Her transcendent, transgressive body of work has collapsed long-standing barriers that once seemed impermeable: between artist and art, between human and technology, between avant-garde and pop, and between the many disciplines—from music to visual art to fashion and beyond—where she’s made her indelible mark. To complete the KICK series,...
Courtney Barnett has again taken the music world by storm, this time with her most thoughtful and meditative album yet. Things Take Time, Take Time is the third album from Barnett and is again receiving rave reviews from critics and fans alike. This week she stopped by the Ellen studios and performed her single ‘Write A List of Things to Look Forward to’. To celebrate the album’s release, the 4x ARIA winner and Grammy and Brit Award nominee will be hitting the road in...
XL Recordings & Remote Control Records are pleased to announce the release of Blawan’s Woke Up Right Handed EP. Scheduled for release on 12th November 2021, you can stream his new single ‘Under Belly’ now. Presented in XL’s iconic house bag, this release sees the mercurial producer arguably at the height of his powers and release some of his most riveting, genre-bending music to date. Having released music for over...
With the release date for Mess Esque’s debut album nearing, the collaborative new duo of Mick Turner (The Dirty Three) and Helen Franzman (McKisko) have dropped a new video for their latest single ‘Sweetspot’. The video, directed by Charlie Hillhouse, is equally hypnotizing with a dreamlike quality that gently rouses the viewer from induced inertia only to be thrust further down the rabbit hole. A story told in multiple parts, it demands your divided attention. Helen‘s words on the song: “The song was about...
