Sleaford Mods are pleased to announce their new album UK GRIM to be released on March 10, 2023. Sleaford Mod’s last three albums have placed top ten in the UK charts, with their last album charting top five. As the Nottingham duo’s most dance-floor friendly release to date, UK GRIM is an urgent and sage-like look at life, living and the gritty reality of our era. The video is directed by British Collage Artist and Satirist Cold War Steve, who has created a...
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Canadian experimental pop band Braids announces their new album Euphoric Recall. Set for release on April 28th. A freer and wholly anew effort, their fifth studio album finds the trio abandoning strategy, burning it down, and realizing their love record. Love, all of it; the unbound bliss, the budding impulses, and the messy imperfections, a supernova swirled up in a suite of bold, melodic, symphonic pop songs surrendered to the present. Braids also releases their new single...
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The National has announced the release of its ninth studio album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, due April 28, 2023. Anchored by evocative melodies and an enthralling lyrical narrative, First Two Pages of Frankenstein signals a new chapter in the band’s beloved discography. The eleven-song album was produced by The National at Long Pond Studios in upstate New York and features guest appearances by Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers and Sufjan Stevens. The band has also shared the first single off the album, the deceptively upbeat ‘Tropic Morning News.’ Partly...
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Overmono announce their debut album Good Lies will be released on Friday, 12th May 2023. The announcement comes in-line with the release of ‘Is U’, the second track to be revealed from the forthcoming album following ‘Walk Thru Water’ (“a display of their impeccable grasp of sound design.” – Clash) which was released in November of last year. Highly anticipated would be an understatement; since their inception Overmono have purposefully cultivated a fanbase that heralds them as one of...
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Taking time out of her stacked summer festival appearances, producer, artist and DJ Memphis LK today reveals her Too Much Fun EP via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. The EP lands in the same month she was named SpotifyAU/NZ’s EQUAL ambassador, following in the footsteps of Meg Mac and KYE taking over billboards and playlists. The title-track is a play on tempos featuring floating, silky vocals atop a bed of energetic, forward-thinking production. It was co-written and co-produced by Pharaoh Vice and Vendr (of multi-platinum collective Internet Money)...
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Back in 2017, Minneapolis-raised artist Jeremy Nutzman emerged with his debut project, NCOD, released under the moniker Velvet Negroni. It was a sprawling and strangely beautiful sound, with vast electronics teeming with an ambitious experimentalism and forthright vocals, all unconfined by any specific genre. This sound was something which, at the time, Nutzman credited to his unusual upbringing: a Black kid adopted by a strict white evangelical Christian family, he’d had no access to secular music...
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Belle and Sebastian hit the ground running in 2023 with the release of their 12th album Late Developers, out now. It came as a surprise announce earlier in the week alongside first single ‘I Don’t Know What You See In Me’. One of the band’s most unabashedly infectious pop offerings to date, it is also their first co-write, featuring young pop composer Pete Ferguson first. Arriving almost back-to-back to 2022’s Top Ten...
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With the release of her second album on the horizon, Gena Rose Bruce shares one final insight in ‘Harsh Light’ before the full record release on Friday, 27th January. Her appearance at Meadow Festival in March will be one of the first chances to hear new album Deep Is The Way live. Centred around Gena Rose Bruce’s distinct vocals, ‘Harsh Light’ is one of the more up-tempo songs in the collection with Bruce confessing “Originally I wrote this song...
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The eighth album by U.S. Girls, the nom de plume of North American multi-disciplinary and experimental pop artist Meg Remy, will be released on 24 February entitled Bless This Mess. To celebrate, U.S. Girls releases the slow jam gem, ‘Futures Bet’ alongside a music video directed by Alex Kingsmill that explores the visual wonder and resiliency of trash. Watch below! A combination of traditional 3D animation and composited live action footage was fed into various Stable Diffusion deep learning models....
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Returning with their first studio album for seven years, Stereo Mind Game is a new chapter for Daughter. To be released on 7 April, the group’s third record follows Not to Disappear (2016) and soundtrack Music from Before the Storm (2017). After more than a decade spent depicting the darkest emotions, the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella present their most optimistic record yet. The album’s lead single ‘Be On Your Way’ is a longing but resilient song...
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On February 10th, Matador will release This Stupid World, the brilliant sixteenth album (and, to be honest, the sixteenth brilliant album) by Yo La Tengo. To help fix this date more firmly, we offer a new single, the gentle and atmospheric ‘Aselestine,’ which features a lead vocal by Georgia Hubley. Listen / purchase ‘Aselestine’ here.Pre-order / pre-save This Stupid World here.
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The Lemon Twigs release poignant, ’60s-tinged rock song and first single ‘Corner Of My Eye’, accompanied by a wistful video set in a cemetery, directed by Hilla Eden and Brian D’Addario. Watch below! The release marks their first new music in two years, following the 2020 album Songs For The General Public. ‘Corner Of My Eye’ is a warm, guitar-led ode to a new love interest, written and produced entirely by The Lemon Twigs. On the release, The Lemon...
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Kate Fagan took the Chicago punk rock scene by storm in the early ‘80s with her self-released single ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool, ‘ which became the best-selling single ever by a local artist at the legendary Wax Trax! Records. In 2016, Manufactured Recordings reissued the coveted 7” with the original B-side ‘Waiting for the Crisis’ and two bonus tracks, which quickly sold out. Captured Tracks / Remote Control are thrilled to announce plans to...
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Kicking off Matador’s Revisionist History Series for 2023, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Bettie Serveert’s debut album, Palomine. Heralded in its original four-star review by Rolling Stone as “untamed and free as pop gets,” this 1993 classic will see its first pressing by Matador since the album’s original release on June 23rd on limited-edition translucent orange vinyl, accompanied by the ‘Brain-Tag’ 7”, which was included with the original pressing. A deluxe digital edition of the album is out now on streaming services, featuring...
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Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Gena Rose Bruce offers further insight to her anticipated sophomore album with the release of ‘Misery And Misfortune’. Her sophomore album Deep Is The Way will be released on 27 January 2023 via Remote Control Records. Following her recent collaboration with iconic singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, ‘Misery And Misfortune’ is a slow tempo, vulnerable cacophony of guitars and synths. Gena Rose Bruce opens up on the subject matter explaining “This song is about feeling grateful and appreciative for when you can actually feel your feelings. Even if some of...
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The Smile have today revealed details of a brand new live release, The Smile At Montreux Jazz Festival July 2022. The seven track, eight song digital-only live release of selected tracks from the band’s debut album A Light For Attracting Attention is available from Wednesday, 14th December. A film of the performed tracks will broadcast from the band’s YouTube channel on Tuesday 13th December. The performance, available for just 48 hours, will also exclusively contain the first ever public outing of new...
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