Gruff Rhys is pleased to share the second track from his new album ‘Silver Lining (Lead Balloons)’ taken from his 25th Album Sadness Sets Me Free out 26 January 2023. Another elegiacally beautiful track by Rhys, the track is accompanied by a shimmering visual thatcompliments the care-worn wonderment of the music. Stream / Download ‘Silver Lining (Lead Balloons)’ herePre-order / Pre-save Sadness Sets Me Free here.
Following the release of her much anticipated and critically acclaimed debut album With A Hammer earlier this year, Yaeji returns with a brand new single and music video for ‘easy breezy’. ‘easy breezy’ sees Yaeji draw inspiration from a lot of the Japanese and Korean music she grew up listening to (and still does), which itself is heavily influenced by UKG, House and Brazilian music; Yaeji combines a Bossa nova style guitar sample with her unique beats and vocals...
Fabiana Palladino and Jai Paul come together to release ‘I Care’. The single, which the pair co-wrote and produced – is the first track to be released from Palladino’s highly-anticipated debut album and the first piece of new music from either musician in over three years. Fabiana Palladino first broke out in 2017 as one of Paul Institute’s founding artists after her shadowy R&B-influenced spectral pop reached Jai Paul, who founded the label alongside his brother A.K. Paul. Stream / Download ‘I...
Jockstrap & Taylor Skye have today released their remix album I<3UQTINVU, a fully reworked version of the Mercury Prize shortlisted 2022 album I Love You Jennifer B. I<3UQTINVU – I Love You Cutie, I Envy You – is the brainchild of Taylor Skye, who was making multiple versions of the album’s original tracklisting to stay inspired during the writing of I Love You Jennifer B. Stream / Download I<3UQTINVU here.
U.S. Girls, the experimental pop project of North American multidisciplinary artist Meg Remy, releases its first-ever live album entitled Lives digitally. The album showcases the last five years on stage non-chronologically. The musicians on this 15-song album represent three distinct versions of the U.S. Girls live band; the “Poem Band,” a jam-oriented outsider jazz-funk unit that often stretched Remy’s deep-pocketed groovers and plastic soul ballads out the nether-regions of abstraction, the “Heavy Light Band,” which reigned in...
5-piece outfit 15 15 (FKA QuinzeQuinze) make music like no one else, conjuring up epic soundscapes coated in Moombahton and club-ready jaunts of the underground that’s been lauded by Crack, Dazed, Pitchfork, Resident Advisor, and NPR. Today, they share their new shapeshifting 7-track EP ATAHEVA. “The overall theme of the EP is centred around the concept of death,” says the Parisian outfit of their latest release, ATAHEVA. “But not presented as a sad or dark subject – more as an invitation to...
bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. Today they release their second full length of 2023, The Twits, via Matador / Remote Control, less than six months after their acclaimed Matador debut, Tracey Denim. Songs like ‘my little tony’, with its in-the-red riff and excitable hooks, the cathartic four-on-the-floor of ‘world’s greatest emoter’ and the festival tent psychedelia of ‘Hi-fiver’ need little in the way of exposition – these are exhilarating rock songs, if...
Wild Nothing shares new album Hold. Wild Nothing’s first LP in five years, and Tatum’s first self- produced record since his 2010 debut Gemini. A glorious capture of finding the space to grow during quieter moments, Hold melds the 80’s influences of Wild Nothing past with a spread of new electronica influences, reshaping the LP’s undercurrent of anxiety into a package that encourages meditation, levity, and moments of exhilaration. Deemed an “excellent comeback cut” by KCRW, and an “exciting...
bar italia have released new single and video ‘worlds greatest emoter’, a driving and ascending standout from their forthcoming second full length of 2023, The Twits, out November 3rd. ‘worlds greatest emoter’ follows singles ‘my little tony’ which is currently on the BBC 6 Music playlist and ‘Jelsy’, which The Times described as “slow-burning eerie bluesy rock with a hint of bossa nova from the celebrated trio”. Pre-order / Pre-save The Twits here.Stream / Purchase ‘worlds greatest emoter’ here.
Celebrated for her powerhouse vocals, raw vulnerability and storytelling prowess, multi-award-winning artist Carla Geneve releases her deeply personal second LP Hertz via Dot Dash / Remote Control. Hertz marks a change in perspective for Geneve, informed by major life changes and intense growth brought to life with her signature brutally honest lyricism. Its lead by focus track ‘Jesus Take The Wheel’ which pairs an optimistic tone with the struggle of steering one’s life, and follows the downtempo wonder ‘Drive Carefully’, “dreamy” (Pilerats) ‘Euthymia’, and “earworm” (Happy Mag) ‘Bills’. Listen...
Special Interest have announced Endure Remixed, six remixes from their critically acclaimed 2022 album Endure, out Friday, November 10th. They’ve also shared electronic cyber-punk duo Machine Girl’s remix of ‘Concerning Peace’ – Special Interest’s incendiary screed against authority. Straddling the line between club banger and punk anthem, the remix feels especially timely. Endure Remixed contains remixes of Endure favorites by artists such as Marie Davidson – and in a nod to their New Orleans roots, a bounce remix of their single ‘Midnight...
After letting the dust settle on their widely supported 2020 double EP Siren, Sean Conran, Tamara Issa, and Kaelan Emond of Obscura Hail, mark their return with new album Playing Dead out Friday, 1st March. Helmed by musician Sean Conran, the indie rock trio’s second album is mature in content and playful in delivery and took two years to create with foundations of sounds and ideas laid some eight or nine years earlier. Not losing sight of Obscura Hails’ purpose to externalise memory for the sake...
Future Islands announce the details of their new album People Who Aren’t There Anymore which will be released 26 January. The seventh album from the band – Samuel T. Herring (vocals, lyrics), William Cashion (bass, guitars), Gerrit Welmers (keyboards, programming), and Michael Lowry(drums) – follows 2020’s As Long As You Are. Along with the announcement, the band share a new single from the album, ‘The Tower’, alongside a video directed by Jonathan van Tulleken. Pre-order / Pre-save People Who Aren’t There Anymore here.Stream / Download ‘The Tower’ here.
On November 17, Water From Your Eyes will release Crushed By Everyone, a song-by-song rework of the duo’s critically-adored Matador / Remote Control debut, Everyone’s Crushed. Curated by band members Rachel Brown and Nate Amos, the album dips heavily into WFYE’s personal rolodex with contributions that map the group’s rapidly expanding community – friends, tourmates, and peers. It’s the rare “remix” record where everybody has met in person (or at least shared some DMs). Pre-order / Stream Crushed By Everyone here.
Helado Negro has announced his new album PHASOR scheduled to be released on 9 February 2024. The eighth full-length album in Helado’s catalogue follows his critically acclaimed 2021 album Far In. The announce comes with the release of the album’s first single, ‘LFO’, which is accompanied by a hallucinatory self-directed official video. ‘LFO’ (which stands for Lupe Finds Oliveros), sung in Spanish, brings together inspiration from Lupe Lopez and the minimalist composer and sonic meditation practitioner Pauline Oliveros for a song...
Jockstrap & Taylor Skye have today shared ‘Good Girl’, the latest track taken from their upcoming remix album I<3UQTINVU, a fully reworked version of the Mercury Prize shortlisted 2022 album I Love You Jennifer B. I<3UQTINVU – I Love You Cutie, I Envy You – is set for release on 3 November via Rough Trade Records. ‘Good Girl’ was inspired by some of Skye’s favourite dance acts growing up such...
