Jeremy Dutcher – the classically trained Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist, and member of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation) in Eastern Canada – shares his new record, Motewolonuwok (Muh-del-wool-en-oo-wug). Motewolonuwok heaves with dynamic orchestration and the inherent drama of grand piano, recalling a long line of artists who have turned the classical establishment on its head to deliver compositions that are doubly ecstatic and modern. Stream / Purchase Motewolonuwok here.
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Yorkshire-born, London-based singer, songwriter, and. producer Ethan P. Flynn releases his debut album, Abandon All Hope out now via Young / Remote Control Records. Abandon All Hope pours twenty-four years’ worth of experience into eight eclectic tracks. Featuring backup vocals from rising singer, Ava Gore, Abandon All Hope is a bold statement to mark Ethan P. Flynn’s arrival as a true artist in his own right. Stream / Download Abandon All Hope here.
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Emilie Kahn unveils Maybe, her third album that will be available in digital format on October 20. The album is at once laid-back and feverish, with a pop energy that recalls Arlo Parks, Olivia Rodrigo, Lana Del Rey, and Kahn’s viral affection for Taylor Swift. Kahn is also sharing a second single off the new album — ‘Parallel’ — as well as the accompanying video. “I had just met someone with whom I felt a deep connection, and I envisioned...
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Raw and unbridled, Carla Geneve offers further insight into her deeply personal forthcoming LP in the form of downtempo wonder ‘Drive Carefully’. Her second album HERTZ arrives on Friday, 27th October. ‘Drive Carefully’ finds Geneve embracing strength in vulnerability through her raw and honest lyricism. Over gentle strumming, her uniquely emotive vocals engulf before building to a cathartic, guitar-driven crescendo. Listen / Download Carla Geneve – ‘Drive Carefully’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save HERTZ here.
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La Force, the mesmerizing solo project from Ariel Engle, unveils her sophomore full length XO SKELETON out now. XO SKELETON is the supple, steady, uncanny new album by La Force: a mixture of haunted pop and hot-blooded R&B that glistens at the meeting-point between life, death, and love. The album was coproduced by La Force and Warren Spicer (Plants and Animals). “The theme of the album revealed itself in the making,” she explains, recalling how the title track is...
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Florentino announces Kilometro Quinze, a brand-new EP out 20 October. It includes the celebrated single ‘Constrictor (feat. BAMBII and KD One)’ and a newly released single ‘Pressure’ featuring the Mercury Prize-shortlisted multi-hyphenate, Shygirl. Premiering today, ‘Pressure’ sees Shygirl’s irresistible vocals fused with Florentino’s idiosyncratic production that combines the bass-heavy textures of UK soundsystem culture with the energy of the Bogotá club music. Stream / Download ‘Pressure (Feat. Shygirl)’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save Kilometro Quinze here.
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Peggy Gou releases the hotly-anticipated video for her global, chart-topping hit single ‘(It Goes Like) Nanana’. Directed by Thomas Hardiman and featuring Gou herself as creative director, the ‘(It Goes Like) Nanana’ video is a pitch-perfect accompaniment to the song, a celebration of summer that features Peggy and friends enjoying all the charms of the video’s Ibizan backdrop. Meanwhile, “(It Goes Like) Nanana” has been released on 12” vinyl. Featuring the original version alongside a brand new...
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A defining album of the 90s, Last Splash by The Breeders turns 30. Recorded by the ‘classic’ Breeders line-up of Kim Deal, Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson, and featuring the infectiously appealing ‘Cannonball’, Last Splash immediately became an alt-rock classic, achieving platinum status in the UK and US, and is ranked in Pitchfork’s Top 100 Records of the 1990s. To celebrate the 30th anniversary, the album has been remastered from the original analog tapes...
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Sleaford Mods announce the release of a new six track EP, MORE UK GRIM, out on 20 October. Recorded at the same time as their 2023 album, UK GRIM, the freshly released songs not only continue Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s current dancefloor dominance, but with a mix of insight and wit, outrage and compassion, they critique and celebrate our turbulent times. Lead single ‘Big Pharma,’ shares a ‘take no prisoners‘ lyrical approach with the band’s...
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bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. They will release their second full length of 2023, The Twits, on November 3rd via Remote Control, less than six months after their acclaimed album, Tracey Denim. The Twits was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia’s economical yet evocative songcraft taking raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally...
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The National release a surprise second album of 2023, Laugh Track, out now! The album is a companion to and features material originally started in the same sessions as First Two Pages of Frankenstein. The National also confirmed Australian shows next spring with support from longtime friends Fleet Foxes. Full tour dates below. Laugh Track is the band’s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+...
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Memphis LK returns with the instantly hooky, new dance-pop single ‘Closer To You’, alongside the deep instrumental track ‘Make Yourself At Home’. Both tracks will feature on a brand new EP True Love And Its Consequences, out Friday 27 October. Beginning as a dreamy soundscape punctuated only by Memphis LK’s sweet vocals, ‘Closer To You’ suddenly drops with an unflinching beat. Its hook-laden chorus gives way to Memphis’ sax solo, the highlight of the hyperthermia-inducing video clip. Watch below! Pre-order...
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Big Thief have shared a captivating new single, ‘Born For Loving You’. Recorded and produced by Dom Monks at Guissona, Spain’s Teatre de cal Eril Studio on a recent tour, ‘Born For Loving You’ finds Adrianne Lenker, Buck Meek, James Krivchenia and Max Oleartchik at their most earnest and unashamedly romantic – “I was born for loving you / Just something I was made to do” It follows the release of live fan favourite and viral anthem, ‘Vampire Empire’,...
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CASISDEAD announces his debut studio album, Famous Last Words, the London-based rapper, producer and director’s most ambitious statement yet will be released on 27th October. For a taste, brand new single ‘Matte Grey Wrap’ is out now. Featuring Megan Louise and Johnny Jewel’s Desire project, it’s accompanied by a video directed by CASISDEAD himself. Watch below! Famous Last Words is a fully realised expansion of the dystopian futurism that has captivated audiences since CASISDEAD first announced himself in...
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Tahitian/Parisian 5-piece outfit 15 15 (FKA QuinzeQuinze) have announced their new EP ATAHEVA, out November 3rd via Remote Control. The monstrous shapeshifters keep pushing the boundaries of their expansive electronic-tinged music with new single ‘Perfect Heaven’ – which delicately merges sweet melodies with dark, grumbling basslines and sputtering r&b beats – the song depicts what the band calls “the landscape of a marvellous nightmare”. Pre-order / pre-save ATAHEVA here.Stream / download ‘Perfect Heaven’ here.
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Wild Nothing shares new single ‘Suburban Solutions’ from his forthcoming LP Hold, out October 27th. Featuring his wife Dana and Molly Burch in a faux choir, Tatum sells a plea for self-improvement: an anti-jingle atop unabashed 80’s throwback synthpop. Watch the accompanied video below! The video, directed by Tatum and Josh Burgess of Yumi Zouma, was filmed partially in the suburbs of Tatum’s very own Virginia upbringing, and satirises the incessant advertising Tatum experienced after having a child: imploring...
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