Romy releases a brand new single ‘Always Forever’. The song, which was debuted at Mexico City’s Ceremonia Festival and became an instant live favourite during Romy’s recent run of sold-out headline shows, is her first new music since the release of her acclaimed Mid Air debut solo album last year. Built around an interpolation of Donna Lewis’ iconic 1996 hit ‘I Love You Always Forever’ and made with Mid Air co-producer Fred again.., it’s a joyous piece of ecstatic ear...
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Sleaford Mods’ era-capturing, breakthrough album Divide and Exit is set to be reissued on 26 July to celebrate its 10th anniversary. Originally released in May 2014, not only did Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s second ‘proper’ album, capture the ‘death by a million vested interests’ malaise that was engulfing British society as contaminative politics oozed its core, but its union of strong words and minimal electronics saw a fresh voice articulated a much-needed rage, anger, hurt and hope. Fully remastered,...
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Artist, producer, DJ and cultural trailblazer Peggy Gou releases a new single ‘Lobster Telephone’. Taken from her long-awaited debut album I Hear You, ‘Lobster Telephone’ is a perfect distillation of the kind of balmy, technicolour house music that Gou is globally renowned for, evoking career-defining earlier Peggy Gou releases such as ‘Starry Night’ and ‘It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)’. One of the most hotly-anticipated debut records in recent years, I Hear You will be released on 7th June 2024 via XL Recordings / Remote Control....
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Lauded by Paper Mag as “that rare act that melds the sweat of performance with the immediacy of a headphones-on experience,” cumgirl8 further proves their infectious nature with this new track, a throbbing, late night overture to twisted romance. With an unsettling, industrial air, here, the band touch close to Cabaret Voltaire in the style of “gothic pop and scuzzy dance-punk studded with horny prose”. Earlier this year, cumgirl8 shared another stand-alone track entitled ‘glasshour’ praised by the likes...
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After the release of ‘Talk To Me,’ their chart topping collaboration with avant-garde icon FKA twigs and epic and triumphant performance at this year’s Coachella, acclaimed production entity Two Shell today return with a brand new track, ‘gimmi it’. A front-facing example of Two Shell at their most club focused, ‘gimmi it’ hacks into the typical blueprint of the dancefloor and glitches its sonic template for a track that’s heavy...
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Lewis Roberts aka Koreless returns to once again push the boundaries of electronic music with the release of ‘Seven’. The single premiered on BBC Radio 6 Music’s Mary-Anne Hobbs’ show and has now been released globally via Young / Remote Control. ‘Seven’ has been a long time coming. After pouring everything into the intricate process of making his critically acclaimed debut album Agor (“a simply breathtaking debut album” – The Quietus), Koreless moved to the rural countryside in Wales from London and created ‘Seven’ out...
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A year after the release of their critically acclaimed debut album Good Lies, Overmono return with their highly-sought after version of The Streets ‘Turn The Page’. The single premiered on BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record of the Week with Jack Saunders. Overmono (aka Tom and Ed Russell) first performed their version of The Streets’ ‘Turn The Page’ at the 2022 edition of Lost Village Festival to a rapturous response. It has since...
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Fontaines D.C. today announce details of their highly-anticipated fourth album, ROMANCE. Released on 23rd August via XL Recordings / Remote Control, ROMANCE is the band’s first album with producer James Ford and is without doubt their most assured, inventive and sonically adventurous record yet. It’s set to build on the success of the Dublin-made, now London-based band’s acclaimed 2022 album Skinty Fia, which reached #1 in the UK and Irish album charts and saw the band receiving a host of accolades including “International...
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Ahead of the launch of their coast-to-coast North American tour this month, Belle and Sebastian have released a brand new song, ‘What Happened to You, Son?’ Stuart Murdoch says on the song “‘What Happened to You Son’ got pulled rather randomly from the last LP because the LP felt one track too long. Out it came. The song is about my youth, and the funny hole I fell into in my late teens....
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Jamie xx returns with a new single ‘Baddy On The Floor’ featuring GRAMMY Award-winning DJ, producer, and fashion icon Honey Dijon, out now on Young / Remote Control. The single premiered on Radio 1’s Future Artists with Jack Saunders, and features a new interview with Jamie xx. ‘Baddy On The Floor’ originally appeared in Jamie xx’s All Points East set in 2021 and is the first collaboration between the cross-continent based DJs and producers, who were in touch over the pandemic, and started working on the...
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Goat Girl – Lottie Pendlebury (she/her), Rosy Jones (they/them) and Holly Mullineaux (she/her) are excited to announce their second track ‘motorway’ taken from their forthcoming third album Below the Waste which is being released on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records on June 7th. The album was co–produced by the band and John Spud Murphy (Lankum & black midi). The video for ‘motorway’ was directed by world famous choreographer and director Holly Blakey who has worked with Florence & The Machine, Harry Styles and Rosalia amongst others. The dancers are dressed in archival Vivienne Westwood pieces,...
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Kamasi Washington unveils a new song, ‘Dream State’ featuring André 3000, today alongside an official visual. The track is taken from his new album, Fearless Movement, set for release May 3rd via Young / Remote Control. Speaking on the new single, Kamasi Washington said “Dream State is a celebration of life and the opportunity it gives us to explore new possibilities. We created this song together instantaneously as we improvised off the music we made in the moment. It was...
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Artist, producer, DJ and cultural trailblazer Peggy Gou announces details of her long-awaited debut album. One of the most hotly-anticipated debut records in recent years, I Hear You will be released on 7th June via XL Recordings / Remote Control. The ten track album is the culmination of years of work for the Korean-born artist, who’s uniquely revered as both an underground icon and global sensation, sticking by her own unwavering vision to become one of the...
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Canadian electronic music pioneer Peaches has remixed Romy’s ‘Did I’, taken from her universally acclaimed 2023 debut album Mid Air. It sees the pair, who share a longstanding mutual appreciation of each other’s music, collaborating for the very first time on an electro-tinged remix that features an exclusive new verse from Peaches herself. Meanwhile, Peaches joined Romy on stage last week (29th March) to perform the track as part of Romy’s sold-out headline show at New York’s Knockdown Center. It was a full circle...
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When she was just seven-years-old, Jamaica-raised, Kansas City-based singer-songwriter Treanne dreamed that she would one day go to America and become a star. Just over a decade later, her soulful voice and striking lyricism caught the attention of Young, who will release her debut EP 20/20, out May 10th. Last month Treanne subtly released the project’s first single ‘Please,’ to which The FADER noted that “Treanne sings with a world-weariness beyond her years” and WONDERLAND described as a “stripped-back piece of sonic delicacy,...
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SAM MORTON, the musical duo comprised of singer, songwriter and acclaimed actor and director Samantha Morton and music producer and co-songwriter Richard Russell, today announce details of their highly-anticipated debut album. Titled Daffodils & Dirt, the album will be released on 14th June via XL / Remote Control Records. To celebrate the news, SAM MORTON today also release new single, ‘Let’s Walk In The Night,’ from the album. A kind of spectral, otherworldly reimagination of UK street soul, ‘Let’s Walk...
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