Alongside becoming the face of Daniel Lee’s first global campaign for Burberry and walking for Marine Serre at Fashion Week, Hackney-born rapper, producer and poet John Glacier also began to gain notoriety globally, working with in-demand NY production team Surf Gang on a spontaneous collaborative project last year. With her star continuing to full ascent, John Glacier today announces her signing to Young / Remote Control with ‘Money Shows’, the Eartheater-featuring first cut from a brand new EP, Like A Ribbon. Produced by Kwes Darko and inspired by the sounds of...
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Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD return to release a new single ‘Take What’s Given,’ featuring emerging Houston vocalist reggie; out now digitally on XL Recordings / Remote Control with a limited edition 7” available for pre-order. Recorded in Los Angeles at Valentine Studios, across multiple sessions in 2023, ‘Take What’s Given’ is a country inspired track that radiates at the point in which reggie’s soulful vocal performance and BADBADNOTGOOD’s funk inspired, horn-tinged arrangements intersect. Stream / Download ‘Take What’s Given’ here.
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Fabiana Palladino announces full details of her hotly anticipated self-titled debut album. The UK vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer will release Fabiana Palladino on 5th April via XL Recordings / Remote Control. To celebrate the album news, Palladino releases ‘Stay With Me Through The Night’, the second single to be revealed from the album (following 2023’s ‘I Care’ collaboration with Jai Paul). A pivotal track for Palladino, ‘Stay With Me Through The Night’ was the first song to be written for the...
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Burial announces ‘Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above’, released 9th February on 12” vinyl and digitally. The vinyl is available to pre-order now. Earlier this week, a limited edition run of 500 white label 12”s also appeared in select record stores around the world, available in store only. Pre-order Dreamfear / Boy Sent From Above here.
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Dry Cleaning will reissue their first two EPs on 8 March. Remastered to celebrate the release, Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess will be pressed as one single vinyl. The former will be available on cassette for the first time and include an exclusive bonus single, a demo of New Long Leg single, ‘Strong Feelings’, recorded during the sessions for Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks. The band has shared a new visualiser for the song ‘Sit Down Meal’,...
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Adrianne Lenker announces her new solo album, Bright Future, out on 22nd March, and shares the new single ‘Sadness As A Gift’. Bright Future marks Lenker’s first album since 2020’s songs & instrumentals, and features co-production from Philip Weinrobe, alongside contributions from Nick Hakim, Mat Davidson, and Josefin Runsteen. Following the previously released single ‘Ruined,’ ‘Sadness As A Gift’ sees Lenker at her most familiar and warm, a track that is both utterly timeless, yet sounding new and surprising on every listen. The aliveness of Adrianne’s voice...
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Kim Gordon returns with her second solo album The Collective, which will be released March 8th. Its lead track ‘BYE BYE’ is out now, driven by a snaking bassline which guides us through a haunting packing list, accompanied by a video starring Coco Gordon Moore, directed by photographer and filmmaker Clara Balzary, with cinematography by Christopher Blauvelt. Check it out below! Recorded Los Angeles, The Collective follows Gordon’s 2019 full-length debut No Home Record and continues her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen, with...
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Helado Negro (aka Roberto Carlos Lange) releases a new single, ‘Best For You and Me’, from his upcoming album PHASOR, which will be released on the 9th February via 4ad / Remote Control Records. In ‘Best For You and Me’ Lange retains the warmth of a childhood summer night on the Florida peninsular soundtracked by frogs and crickets, Bermuda grass between your toes. With its bright, pastel tones and uplifting melodies and rhythms, ‘Best For You and Me’ feels like an...
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Gruff Rhys shares ‘Bad Friend’ – the third and final track from his new album Sadness Sets Me Free before its release on 26th January. Remarkably, Sadness Sets Me Free is Gruff Rhys’ 25th long playing record in a 35 year recording career. Gruff says on his new track “People always refer to ‘good friends’. This song is toying with the idea of the ‘bad friend’. Maybe a bad friend is still better than not being a friend at all. Some friends...
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Erika de Casier returns to announce her highly-anticipated third album Still, out February 21st via 4AD / Remote Control Records, and shares the first single ‘Lucky.’ The song arrives alongside an accompanying Jesse May Fisher-directed video titled “me walking on the beach” made as homage to viral YouTube videos from the early aughts. The album is classic de Casier, her idiosyncratic mix of luxuriant electronica and moonlit R&B drilled further into that one-of-a-kind sound here. Her songwriting is as masterful...
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The Smile have revealed their brand-new single ‘Friend Of A Friend’, taken from the forthcoming sophomore album Wall Of Eyes. Showcased live during the band’s 2022/2023 touring, the studio version features strings from the London Contemporary Orchestra and saxophone from Robert Stillman. The video for ‘Friend Of A Friend’, by motion picture director Paul Thomas Anderson will be premiered alongside a surround sound album playback of Wall Of Eyes at a series of one-off events hosted at independent cinemas between 18-25th January. The events,...
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Jamie xx returns with new track ‘IT’S SO GOOD’. Released via Young / Remote Control, ‘IT’S SO GOOD’ is the soundtrack to the latest Chanel Coco Crush campaign. Available on all digital services, it’s a subtly euphoric anthem that builds over four and a half minutes of stop-start tension and release. ‘IT’S SO GOOD’ is Jamie’s first new music in over a year and is set to build on the success of 2022’s ‘LET’S DO IT AGAIN’ and ‘KILL DEM’ singles. Stream /...
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At the end of this month, Future Islands will release their highly anticipated new album, People Who Aren’t There Anymore (Jan, 26, 2024). Today, they’ve shared another new song, ‘Say Goodbye,’ an examination of a long distance relationship unravelling. People Who Aren’t There Anymore, the band’s seventh album, heralds a new chapter for Future Islands who, despite having formed nearly two decades ago, continue to challenge themselves and each other. Stream / download ‘Say Goodbye’ here. Pre-order /...
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Car Seat Headrest share their new live album Faces From The Masquerade alongside a video of the band performing the song ‘Sober To Death’. On March 28th-30th 2022, Car Seat Headrest played three consecutive sold out nights at Brooklyn Steel in New York. An air of celebration, community and showmanship was present, made all the more palpable as the shows were far from a certainty – they took place amidst a year which saw the band having to postpone or cancel...
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Following the release of her critically-acclaimed debut album YIAN earlier this year, Lucinda Chua shares her brand new EP Reclaiming The Rose, out now via 4AD / Remote Control. Reclaiming The Rose expands sonically on YIAN, with Chua explaining “Reclaiming The Rose is a bi-lingual meditation exploring ideas of returning, remembering and retracing ancestral roots. I was inspired by the journey of the rose; a plant indigenous to China that made...
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Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief) presents her new single and video, ‘Ruined’. The track is a heart-breaking, remarkable intro to Lenker’s highly anticipated new solo album, which she has announced will be coming in 2024. On ‘Ruined’, Lenker moves to the piano for the first time and the accompanying video was directed by Adrianne’s brother Noah Lenker, collaging gorgeous footage of Lenker in autumnal foliage. Of ‘Ruined,’ Lenker says: “This song has been a quiet beacon for me. It may contain the essence of the gift...
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