Two Shell surprise with the release of a brand new EP titled lil spirits. The new project takes the listener directly into the core of shell.tech, the cyber-world first explored on Icons. Taking elements of hyper-pop, nu-grunge, and UK garage, Two Shell present a new form of cyber-pop that will propel you to another dimension. Download/Stream lil spirits: https://twoshell.ffm.to/lilspirits
Ireland’s Gilla Band today share a new single and video, ‘Sports Day’. Their ground breaking new album Most Normal, which featured highly in Albums of The Year lists at Fader, The Guardian, Pitchfork and Irish Times is out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. The video for ‘Sports Day’ was directed by Michael Speed who also directed their previous video ‘Post Ryan’ and follows previous singles ‘Backwash’ and ‘Eight Fivers’ which had videos directed and animated by Mortis Studios. Frontman Dara Kiely explains...
Daughter share new single ‘Party’ from their upcoming album Stereo Mind Game, out on 7 April. The release is the second outing from the new record, following the recently released single ‘Be On Your Way’. Returning with their first studio album for seven years, Stereo Mind Game is a new chapter for Daughter, the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella. The longing to close physical distances has seeped into many of the tracks on the album, yet ‘Party’ recognises that...
Sleaford Mods have released their sinister new single ‘Force 10 From Navarone’, featuring guest vocals from Dry Cleaning frontwoman Florence Shaw. Accompanied by a brand new video, the song is taken from the Nottingham duo’s forthcoming album UK GRIM, which will be released on 10 March 2023. Reflecting the depth of the new record, this emotional commentary explores the inner life anxieties of 21st century living, with a wry examination of social conventions. Driven by urgent...
On February 24th, Algiers will release their fourth album, SHOOK. It’s a record that’s deeply informed by collaboration and community, with almost every track including a guest or feature. You can now listen to ‘73%,’ one of the album’s most raw and explosive moments and also one of a handful of songs that highlights Algiers’ core lineup. ‘73%’ follows previous singles, ‘I Can’t Stand It,’ ‘Bite Back’ featuring billywoods and Backxwash, and ‘Irreversible Damage’ featuring Zack de la Rocha. Stereogum called ‘Bite Back,’ “An essential posse cut for...
2023 is set to be a transformative year for 18-year-old Dillon Van Rensburg aka singer-songwriter and producer not dvr. Following an update to his artist moniker and on the verge of a move to London from his North Berwick hometown, not dvr returns to release his first new music in over a year. Recorded in his bedroom studio, ’emptyhouse’ is a pitch-perfect example of the kind of raw, intimate song-writing and production that’s seen not dvr build a...
Songs For Freedom, an uplifting collection of original songs created by Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi artists in the Pilbara town of Roebourne, together with guests. The album is the work of numerous songwriters, musicians and other creatives, coming together under the name The Freedom Collective. Produced by Grammy Award-winning musician Lucky Oceans, Songs for Freedom features lead vocal contributions from Naomi Pigram, Patrick Churnside, Fred Ryan, Vikki Thorn (The Waifs), Kendall Smith, Kankawa Nagarra (Olive Knight), Jay Jarome and John Bennett. The February 17 release of Songs for Freedom is...
Romy’s 2022 single ‘Strong’ is undoubtedly one of the year’s biggest anthems. It’s the latest in a run of collaborations with UK producer Fred again.. (including their ‘Lights Out’ single with HAAi, and Romy’s Fred-produced debut solo single ‘Lifetime’) and was first teased by the pair in summer 2022; Romy via a run of club and festival DJ appearances and Fred via his much talked about Boiler Room performance back in July. The pair would round off the year on stage together, performing the...
More in tune now with the rhythm of the sun and moon, Xylouris White (Dirty Jim White and George Xylouris) speak to each other across great distances with the intuition and fellowship that can only be found over years in each other’s company. With fewer distractions, appreciative of the freedom to play with new sounds and spaces, they carve The Forest In Me from unbelievably thin air. The album will be released on Friday, 14th April via Remote...
Changing gears, Jen Cloher releases their most unruly single yet in ‘My Witch’, from their forthcoming fifth album I Am The River, The River Is Me which will be released on Friday, 3rd March 2023 via Remote Control Records. The single is accompanied by an equally unbridled clip featuring a top-tier cast of Georgia Maq, Mo’Ju,Kira Puru, Alice Skye and Lay the Mystic. On the new single, Cloher says: “I went to a party in 2022 where a friend had hired a portable cedar spa....
Critically acclaimed Irish quartet Lankum announced a new record, False Lankum, out March 24, 2023 on Remote Control Records. They are sharing the first single ‘Go Dig My Grave’ today with a video by Peadar Gill. False Lankum follows their 2019 breakthrough album The Livelong Day, which paved the way for critical and commercial success, earning them that year’s RTE Choice Music Prize (the Irish equivalent of the Album of the Year Grammy) and the #8 spot on NPR Music’s Best Albums...
The DIY post-punk, new wave, and ska pioneer Kate Fagan shares ‘Say It,’ the second previously unreleased song made available from the forthcoming I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool (Expanded Edition). Originally a coveted self-released single put out in 1980, this version of ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool’ has been re-mastered and made into a full-length vinyl album featuring four additional, previously unreleased, ahead-of-their-time tracks, due out February 24th, 2023 via Remote Control. The release of...
London-based artist Lucinda Chua has shared the new song and accompanying short film, ‘Echo‘ announcing her debut solo album YIAN, out March 24th via 4AD. If Chua’s 2022 release ‘Golden,’ written from the perspective of her younger self, was the meditative prelude to the world of YIAN, then her new single ‘Echo’ places us firmly in its first chapter. A pop song about ancestral trauma, ‘Echo’ is the antihero’s journey, walking the line between respect for the past and the freedom to carve out a new...
Algiers release new single “I Can’t Stand It!”, taken from their forthcoming new album ’SHOOK’, released February 24th. The song features Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands) and Jae Matthews (Boy Harsher). It samples fellow Atlanta artist Lee Moses’ 1971 song, “What You Don’t Want Me To Be”. “I Can’t Stand It!” was written and produced by frontman Franklin James Fisher, who says: “It’s a very personal song about a devastating...
Kosaya Gora (English translation; Oblique Mountain), a new indie project from acclaimed electronic producer/singer Kedr Livanskiy and experimental producer/visual artist Flaty, have announced their first full-length album Kosogor today. Kosaya Gora is an entirely new sonic direction for them both. The debut is a multilingual foray into guitar-based folk, haunting dream pop, and moody synth, underpinned by Livanskiy’s signature hypnotic vocals. Kosogor’s album centerpiece ‘Motorcyclists Die’ features several lines from...
NYC-via-Seoul artist Yaeji, whose introspective, genre-pushing tracks have made her a global icon occupying a space all her own, announces the details of her debut album With A Hammer, out April 7th. The album’s first single ‘For Granted’ arrives with a music video directed by and starring Yaeji. The bouncy electronica single slowly descends into a hardstyle fury, prompting Yaeji to take her hammer and smash all of the things around her, embracing the expression of anger as...
