To celebrate its 25th anniversary, XL Recordings announce a special, expanded version of Leila’s acclaimed second album Courtesy Of Choice. Originally released on 11th September 2000, the album followed the success of her Rephlex Records debut Like Weather and felt like a broadcast from a futuristic radio station no one else could tune into. Twenty-five years on, alongside collaborations with the likes of Bjork, Aphex Twin and Terry Hall and...
Read More
The Maple Trail is the expansive musical project of Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer Aidan Roberts. Beginning in the early 2000s in the Blue Mountains, the project was born out of a need to explore a quieter, more introspective counterpoint to his rock beginnings. His debut solo album Sounds of Planes introduced a raw acoustic palette, but it was only the first step in what would become an evolving body of...
Read More
Big Thief release their highly anticipated new album Double Infinity, alongside tour details of the UK and European leg of their Somersault Slide 360 Tour. Taking place in the Autumn of 2026, Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek and James Krivchenia will play some of the biggest headline shows of their career thus far including a 3-night residency at London’s O2 Brixton Academy, 2 nights at Oslo’s Sentrum Scene and the Olympia,...
Read More
David Byrne releases his highly anticipated new album Who Is The Sky?, out now alongside new single ‘What Is The Reason For It? (feat. Hayley Williams)’. Marked by the inviting vocal interplay between Byrne and Paramore’s Williams, ‘What Is the Reason for It?’ aims to understand love in a way logic can rarely accomplish (“does it do something useful? / nobody understands it”). Born from a creative collaboration between David...
Read More
John Maus returns to share ‘Pick It Up’, the latest single from his long-awaited seventh album Later Than You Think, out September 26. A meditation on endurance and transformation, ‘Pick It Up’ arrives alongside the announcement of a forthcoming music video, directed by Blake James Reid, set to premiere on Tuesday, September 9th at 10AM ET. ‘Pick It Up’ follows singles ‘Came & Got’, ‘Because We Built It’,and ‘I Hate...
Read More
Blawan – aka Jamie Roberts – will release his long-awaited debut XL Recordings album, SickElixir, out Friday 10 October. Crafted between Berlin, Leeds, Paris, and Lisbon, the 14-track record is his most personal work to date; a manifesto for the way he sees music and himself. Channeling grief, family trauma, and seismic life shifts, SickElixir expands on the sounds of his recent EPs – BouQ, Dismantled Into Juice, and Woke...
Read More
Overmono – aka brothers Tom and Ed Russell – are deep into their biggest summer yet. From headline festival appearances at Glastonbury (West Holts) – featuring special live guests Kwengface and For Those I Love – to All Points East, Boomtown, and Love Saves The Day, the duo have further cemented themselves as one of the UK’s most vital live electronic acts. Their reimagining of High Contrast’s legendary drum &...
Read More
Following their signing to Rough Trade Records in May and release of debut single ‘SWEAT’, and latest single, ‘DEATH IN THE FAMILY’. LA six-piece The Sophs now return with a cover of Mac Demarco’s ‘For the First Time’. Ethan of The Sophs explains their thinking behind the cover, “When I first heard “For the First Time” by Mac DeMarco, it felt fragile in the best way. My band, The Sophs, loves that kind of emotional rawness, but we usually...
Read More
Oliver Sim makes his long-awaited return with brand new single ‘Obsession‘, his first new music since 2022’s acclaimed debut solo album Hideous Bastard. Produced by Bullion and Taylor Skye and recorded between London and Los Angeles, the track ushers in a fresh era of experimentation, collaboration, and invention for the London-based musician who’s best known as one third of The xx.Where Hideous Bastard explored themes of shame, fear, and masculinity...
Read More
Singer-songwriter, film composer and pianist Patrick Watson has released his new single ‘Ça va‘, a duet featuring Victoires de la Musique-winning French sensation Solann, a french-language song following the billion-streamed ‘Je te laisserai des mots’. This new song celebrates the unique charm of the Parisian lifestyle. Watson also releases, ‘House on Fire‘, a new collaboration with beloved singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright. The gorgeous track is another preview of Watson’s forthcoming LP Uh Oh,...
Read More
Multi-award-winning songwriter Carla Geneve releases her new single ‘Here, Look’, the second track lifted from her forthcoming third studio album Don’t Be Afraid, out Friday 17 October via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control. Following on from previous single, ‘Better Believe It’, the new single shows Geneve at her most reflective, with piano-led instrumentation framing her direct, intimate lyrics. Speaking on ‘Here, Look’, Carla shares, “This is a song about reflection and admitting that there are so many layers...
Read More
Spoon spent the summer in the studio honing brand new songs. The band are so charged about the results that they’ve decided to let it rip with this brand new double A-side single. Hot off the press comes the jolt-of-raw-power rocker ‘Chateau Blues‘ and the simmering banger ‘Guess I’m Fallin In Love.’ Produced by Justin Meldal-Johnsen (Beck, Nine Inch Nails, St. Vincent) and Spoon, this two-pronged attack marks the first recordings the band...
Read More
Electronic visionary Mechatok, aka Emir Timur Tokdemir, is heading to Australia for his first headline tour in March, to celebrate the release of his kaleidoscopic debut solo album Wide Awake – out now via Young/Remote Control Records. Inspired by artists like Daft Punk and Gorillaz, Mechatok made his name touring around the world, while releasing a series of records and collaborations with some of the most forward-thinking artists of the...
Read More
Baltimore singer-songwriter and producer Nourished By Time releases his highly anticipated new album The Passionate Ones via XL Recordings. Crafted between Baltimore, London, and NYC, The Passionate Ones is a sermon, a twelve-track catharsis, howled from the underbelly of late-stage capitalism, a blueprint for building your own altar in the ruins of the American Dream. Initially created in Los Angeles’ in late 2019, Nourished By Time emerged as Marcus Brown’s escape from the monotony of his day jobs and a continuously crushed...
Read More
Dance music titan Solomun today releases two highly-anticipated remixes of Jamie xx’s ‘Waited All Night’ – a standout track from his acclaimed 2024 album In Waves. The song marked the first time Jamie had reunited with his The xx bandmates Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim on record since the group’s 2017 album I See You, and has since become a live highlight at Glastonbury, Jamie’s own LIDO festival and...
Read More
Water From Your Eyes release It’s a Beautiful Place. The album is the duo’s dizzying, chrome-tinted masterpiece, which Rolling Stone has christened “their most joyously out there achievement yet.” The duo finished It’s a Beautiful Place last summer, just as they have every other WFYE release, in Amos’s bedroom, under the watchful eye of a tattered Robin Williams poster from the Mork & Mindy era.“Basically,” jokes Amos, “Robin is like a silent...
Read More
