A defining album of the 90s, Last Splash by The Breeders turns 30 this year. Recorded by the ‘classic’ Breeders line-up of Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson, and featuring the infectiously appealing ‘Cannonball’, Last Splash immediately became an alt-rock classic, achieving platinum status in the UK and US, and is ranked in Pitchfork’s Top 100 Records of the 1990s. To celebrate this anniversary, the album has been remastered from the original analog tapes – previously thought to be lost – a process which also...
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Buck Meek – Texas-bred singer/songwriter and Big Thief guitarist – presents his new single, ‘Paradise’, from his first album for 4AD / Remote Control, Haunted Mountain, out 25 August. The band is always finding their sound, every time they pick up their instruments, and you can hear them forming anew on ‘Paradise’, where attention is thick in the form of spaciousness and the supportive listening becomes atmospheric. Stream / Download ‘Paradise’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save Haunted Mountain here
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New York City four-piece c*mgirl8 (aka cg8) announce their new EP phantasea pharm, out 18th August, and share a new song from the project ‘gothgirl1.’ The new single ‘gothgirl1’ opens another chapter. Written with Nick Launay (Kate Bush, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Slits), during the band’s stay at Barbizon, “a magical artist hotel nestled on the edge of a mushroom forest,” the result is a four-minute cut of hypnotising eroticism that perfectly captures the dark mysticism of its genesis. Stream / Download ‘gothgirl1’ here.Pre-order...
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Almost three decades after its release, Air Miami’s first and only studio album, Me. Me. Me., is finally being reissued on 28 July. Made up of UNREST’s Mark Robinson and Bridget Cross, Air Miami formed shortly after the D.C. indie rock mainstay’s demise in 1995, and together with drummer Gabriel Stout and producer Guy Fixsen (The Breeders, My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab), they travelled to their namesake land of Miami to record the entirety of Me. Me. Me. over the month of May at the famed Criteria Studios; a place where James Brown, Aretha Franklin, the...
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Texas-bred singer/songwriter and Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek announces his new album, Haunted Mountain, out Friday, 25th August. His first release for 4AD / Remote Control, Meek also shares the lead single and title track, ‘Haunted Mountain’, a song co-written alongside his friend and long-time hero Jolie Holland. Following his beloved 2021 album, Two Saviors, Haunted Mountain marks Meek’s third solo album. Haunted Mountain is about love and… something other. Something bigger than love, something that doesn’t challenge love exactly but stands in contrast to it. Lead single...
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Anjimile Chithambo, better known as Anjimile, announces his new album, The King, out September 8th, his first full-length since 2020’s breakthrough Giver Taker. To herald the announcement, he shares lead single, ‘The King.’ Highlighting the artistic shift from Giver Taker to now, ‘The King’ opens with a lofty, melodic choir, an intro that belies the song’s motives. Suddenly, sinister arpeggios interrupt the reverie, and the voices grow darkly serious. Deeply steeped in the confusion, grief, and rage...
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The National has released its ninth studio album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, on 4AD / Remote Control. The project has already garnered rave reviews, with Rolling Stone saying, “Nine albums deep, the National find new energy by conjuring not just a great, suffocating fog but also the far light that guides the way out.” Also out today is a lyric video for the new album’s song ‘The Alcott,’ a pensive yet luminous duet between The National’s Matt Berninger and Taylor...
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New York four-piece cumgirl8 (aka cg8) share the new song and video ‘cicciolina’, their debut release on their new label 4AD / Remote Control. Made up of Lida Fox (bass), Veronika Vilim (guitar), Chase Lombardo (drums) and Avishag Rodrigues (guitar), the quartet come together to make boundary-less, brilliantly chaotic music that pulls from the likes of CocteauTwins, ESG, Suicide, B-52s, Madonna and more. ‘cicciolina’ is a perfect introduction, a four-minute cut that encapsulates the raw and daring energy of its namesake, Hungarian-Italian pornstar turned politician Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina. The video directed by Emmie America is...
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Daughter release Stereo Mind Game, the new album from the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella. Their first studio album for seven years, the release features singles ‘Swim Back’, accompanied by London string orchestra 12 Ensemble, ‘Party’, a track that recounts the place that Elena Tonra got to before deciding to give up alcohol, and ‘Be On Your Way’, a longing but resilient song about an enduring...
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The National has released the fourth and final offering ahead of its upcoming album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein (out April 28th), the idyllic ‘Your Mind Is Not Your Friend’ featuring Phoebe Bridgers. The track confronts the entanglements of the habitual mind and the overwhelming nature of scrutiny. “Don’t you understand? / Your mind is not your friend again / It takes you by the hand/ And leaves you nowhere,” frontman Matt Berninger croons in tandem with the distinct grace...
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London-based artist Lucinda Chua releases her debut album YIAN alongside feature track ‘Something Other Than Years.’ The track finds Chua enlisting friend and fellow genre-defying, post-classical artist Yeule for the album’s closing track, a gentle song about searching for guidance. Building on the warm, elemental soundscape of 2021’s Antidotes EPs and the moody, elegant timbre of her cello, Chua self-produced and engineered eight of YIAN’s ten tracks, spurred on by a call to true artistic integrity...
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The National has released a third new track ahead of its upcoming album First Two Pages of Frankenstein. ‘Eucalyptus’ is taut and punchy, having come together in a charmed burst of spontaneity surrounding a visit to the historic Capitol Theatre just north of New York City in Port Chester. Group member Bryce Dessner had sent the song to frontman Matt Berninger so long ago that he’d forgotten about it, but Berninger came up with lyrics and asked to play...
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Bartees Strange releases ‘Daily News’ to streaming services for the first time. The song was previously available as a bonus track on the physical formats of his 2022 album Farm To Table. Released digitally in June 2022, Farm to Table is the second album from Washington D.C. resident Bartees Leon Cox Jr. Where his 2020 debut record Live Forever introduced the experiences and places that shaped Bartees (Flagey Brussels, Mustang Oklahoma), Farm to Table zeros in on the people — specifically his family...
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Swampy, the new EP from Dry Cleaning, is out now. Serving as a companion release to last year’s critically acclaimed second LP, Stumpwork, the five-track EP includes recent singles ‘Swampy’ and ‘Sombre Two’, a demo of song ‘Peanuts’ and remixes from Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul and Nourished By Time (who supported Dry Cleaning on their recent North American tour). Of the remixes and remixers, Dry Cleaning said: “We asked Marcus (aka Nourished by Time) to remix his choice of song from Stumpwork as we are big fans of his...
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Daughter share another single ‘Swim Back’ from their upcoming album Stereo Mind Game, out on 7 April. Elena Tonra isn’t a keen swimmer, but oceans pervade Stereo Mind Game. On ‘Swim Back’, deep feeling comes from the bows of the 12 Ensemble, the London-based string orchestra, arranged by Haefeli, and orchestrated by Josephine Stephenson. The track is accompanied by another Tiff Pritchett-directed video. Stream / Purchase ‘Swim Back’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save Stereo Mind Game here.
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London-based artist Lucinda Chua returns to share the new song and accompanying self-directed short film, ‘An Ocean’ , from her upcoming debut solo album YIAN, out March 24th. ‘An Ocean’ marks the starting point for the next chapter of YIAN, seeing Chua reconcile with the past and move their attention to the present in this emotionally raw and vulnerable track and short film. The ocean represents a simultaneous state of pressure and...
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