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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Mdou Moctar have released new single and video ‘Imouhar’, taken from the group’s forthcoming album, Funeral For Justice, out May 3rd on Matador / Remote Control. A hypnotic rock song building to a feverish crescendo, ‘Imouhar’ calls on the Tuareg people to which the band belong to preserve their Tamasheq language – it’s at risk of dying out, and Moctar is one of the few in his community who knows how to write it. “People here are...
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Following a run of dates supporting Sampha across Australia, the four-time ARIA award-nominated future-soul powerhouse that is Ngaiire shares another cut from her live album with The Sydney Symphony Orchestra in the cover of Tame Impala’s ‘The Less I Know The Better’. Live At The Sydney Opera House – a recording taken from their sold out 2022 Forecourt performance for the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House – will be released on Friday, 26th April. The album also consists of orchestral arrangements of tracks from across her career, including...
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The Toronto-born-and-raised singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Day Wilson releases ‘Canopy’, the third single from her highly-anticipated sophomore album, Cyan Blue out May 3rd. Premiering on Apple Music’s New Music Daily with Zane Lowe, ‘Canopy’ is stripped and poignant, addressing the shadowy burden of animosity. The piercing single comes alongside an equally sleek and monochrome video, filmed by cinematographer Sylvain Chaussée and styled by Mellany Sanchez. The video features Wilson, a star hockey player in her own right, skating with a hockey stick in hand...
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Five-piece club shapeshifters (formerly known as QuinzeQuinze), 15 15 tee off a new era of super-charged Tahitian dance tracks (two of its five members are from the South Pacific island) with dem bow off-beats and party-ready synth stabs – air horns at the ready. Today, they announce their newest interpretation to the island’s most celebrated club cultures, Ori Deck, SAPLIN. The 6-track project of ground-shaking bass and expressive beats is a zeitgeist of Tahatian...
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After leaving a digital breadcrumb trail in the lead up to the track’s release in its newest form, Two Shell unveil an enhanced version of ‘Talk To Me’, a vibrant, hi-octane collaboration with avant-garde icon FKA twigs. A saccharine blast of dance music drums, very cool sounds and very nice vibes, ‘Talk To Me’ is Two Shell at its most ecstatic. Marking her first musical appearance since 2022, FKA twigs is electric on the track, providing...
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The Lemon Twigs release theatrical epic ‘A Dream Is All I Know,’ the titular track and latest taste of their forthcoming album, A Dream Is All We Know, out May 3rd. Meshing ripping guitars, zig-zagging harmonies, and bittersweet nods to love and loss, the single captures those sort of spacey, fleeting moments in our everyday experience. “This song is about impermanence and the dreamlike nature of our day to day lives. It was written when...
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Leeds-based art-rock experimentalists Drahla share ‘Grief In Phantasia,’ the latest single from angeltape, their long-awaited second full-length album due out April 5th. ‘Grief In Phantasia’ is the expressionistic closer of angeltape and encapsulates Drahla’s often elliptical creative process and the tumultuous nature of the album itself. According to the band: “This song was informed by others on the record and those we’d written in the past. It felt like the closing track when we wrote it, as though it...
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Fabiana Palladino releases ‘I Can’t Dream Anymore’ the latest single taken from her highly anticipated self-titled debut album which is out on 5th April. Premiered during the Radio Fabiana show on NTS, ‘I Can’t Dream Anymore’ is released alongside a music video conceptualised by Fabiana and directed by Josh Renaut and Caroline Waxse. It places Fabiana aboard Radio Caroline ship – the world’s most famous pirate radio station during the 60s and 70s – where her sense of longing exists in her isolation as she broadcasts out to...
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Ahead of her SXSW showcases, alternative pop enigma Sui Zhen returns with her latest single ‘Sleepless’. At a sprawling 13 minutes, ‘Sleepless’ defies the traditional confines of a pop song, inviting listeners on a haunting journey through grief’s depths. Drawing inspiration from influences ranging from post-punk to krautrock, the track blends spoken-word incantations and melodic hooks with pulsing synths, distorted guitars, and a mix of electronic and live percussion. Emerging as a testament...
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Kamasi Washington today confirms his new album, Fearless Movement, is set for release May 3rd via Young / Remote Control. A new song, ‘Prologue,’ debuts today alongside a video directed by longtime collaborator AG Rojas. Washington calls Fearless Movement his dance album. “It’s not literal,”Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music—expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.” Pre-order / Pre-save Fearless Movement here. Stream / Download ‘Prologue’ here.
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Kicking off 2024 with a bang, Manhattan four-piece cumgirl8 (aka cg8) return with a brand new single entitled ‘glasshour’. It’s a spiky post-punk haze, showcasing all that’s exciting and unique about cumgirl8 via jarring electro-punk flourishes, industrial sludge, and an irrepressible hook tying it all together. A live highlight of their incendiary underground shows, the new track also previews the group’s upcoming debut 4AD / Remote Control record (due later this year). The release additionally marks the...
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Out May 3rd, Funeral For Justice is the new album by Mdou Moctar. Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, it captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are passionately political. Nothing is held back or toned down. The songs on Funeral For Justice speak unflinchingly to the plight of...
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Emotive storyteller Jess Locke follows up the announcement of her forthcoming album with another new single in ‘The Place’. Locke’s fourth omnibus Real Life will be released on Friday, 3rd May through Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. Unhurried in pace, ‘The Place’ is buoyed by acoustic guitars and a metronomic bass line, while Locke’s yearning vocals drive home the themes of adulthood and nostalgia. It follows her “punchy” (Rolling Stone) lead single ‘Uncomfortably Happy’ which was added to heavy rotation at KEXP, and received love from Double...
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The Toronto-born-and-raised singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Day Wilson announces her sophomore album Cyan Blue out May 3rd. First single ‘I Don’t Love You’ is a stark and devastatingly beautiful confessional, highlighting Wilson’s immaculate production skills and chill inducing vocals laid atop smooth groove piano chords and soft drums. The track also arrives with a visual directed by Dani Aphrodite featuring layered low-fi footage of the artist and producer performing at home, living every day...
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