Float away with the Dunedin four-piece’s blissful new chiller ‘Something’ – the second from their upcoming debut LP Working Title out November 18th. Watch the music video to ‘Something’ directed by Martin Sagadin below! A change in pace from first single ‘The Way It Works’, the dreamy downtempo track is yet another shining example of Soaked Oats thoughtful lyricism and guitar-driven indie-pop sound. Drummer Conor Feehly recalls the recording sessions, saying “‘Something’ was...
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Gena Rose Bruce returns with whirling new single ‘Foolishly In Love’, accompanied by an equally hazy film clip which see’s Bruce reflect while standing on vast seaside cliffs alongside some fluorescent-ly decorated drums. Watch below! During Melbourne’s extended lockdowns, Bruce began turning inward and shutting down around friends and family. Her close relationships felt laboured and social interaction responses insincere. She even began questioning her commitment to her partner. These anxieties bubbled over into fantasies...
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Lucy Dacus returns to honour one of the best songwriters of generations past: Carole King. As told to The Guardian, Dacus recounts, “When I listened to Tapestry from my mom’s CD collection, I was young enough that it didn’t register as good or bad – it just defined what music sounded like to me, and it’s still a foundation of how I understand songwriting. She’s clever in the good way – queen of internal rhyme...
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More than a quarter century since its primal emergence from the Desert, Queens Of The Stone Age has elected to give three of its landmark albums the upscale re-release treatment, including limited edition colour vinyl pressings, exclusive new and restored artwork, and more. First up is the one that started it all: Back in print after a long, long decade, Queens Of The Stone Age’s self-titled 1998 debut album has been resurrected digitally, with a vinyl release...
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Brooklyn-via-Kansas City artist Scout Gillett today shares her sultry, hypnotic new single ‘444 marcy ave‘ from her forthcoming debut album no roof no floor, due out on October 28th via Captured Tracks/Remote Control Records. It arrives alongside a self-directed video that feels like a sci-fi fever dream, finding Scout at the ‘Space Odyssey’ room in a New Jersey motel wearing a disco ball helmet handmade by her fashion designer friend Katy...
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Two of the UK’s most highly respected forces in electronic music, Joy Orbison and Overmono, come together once again to release brand-new single ‘Blind Date’, out today, Friday 23 September. Their debut collaboration ‘Bromley‘ was released to huge acclaim in 2019 (“it’s precisely their ability to conjure a roomful of wonder that makes [Bromley] the tentpole tune the season needed” – Pitchfork) and is one of the most celebrated dance tracks in recent times. ‘Blind Date’ – Joy...
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Today Chicago-based percussionist, composer and producer Makaya McCraven has released his new album In These Times via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Also released today is a music visualizer for ‘So Ubuji,’ the third in a series (‘Seventh String,’ ‘Dream Another’) directed by Nik Arthur, featuring hand-drawn, digital and photographic animations composed and laser-etched into stone in the style of a “zoopraxiscope.” In These Times is a collection of polytemporal compositions...
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Lucifer on the Moon is the anti-gravity companion to Spoon’s Lucifer on the Sofa. A top-to-bottom rework of the Austin band’s tenth album, it was created by On-U Sound founder and UK dub icon, Adrian Sherwood. The album will be released November 4th on LP and digital. Moon first took shape as a few heady remixes for the singles from Lucifer on the Sofa. Frontman Britt Daniel offered Sherwood two suggestions: “Avoid things that would not be possible on tape” and “Add whatever you...
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Having made a long-awaited return in the middle of this year, Sunbeam Sound Machine offers another slice of his forthcoming third album with the reveal of his breezy ‘Two Summers‘. The globally recognised multi-instrumentalist also announces Melbourne and Sydney launch shows for the release of Possum on Friday, 7th October via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. ‘Two Summers‘ is reminiscent of ‘In Your Arms’ (20M+ single streams) and showcases the heavily layered signature sound that Nick Sowersby has been known for. Dreamy, yet melancholic;...
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Building on the success of April’s acclaimed ‘LET’S DO IT AGAIN‘ single – his first new music in over two years – Jamie xx quickly returns with a brand new single. Premiered as BBC Radio 1’s Clara Amfo’s “Hottest Record In The World”, ‘KILL DEM‘ was created with Notting Hill Carnival in mind, inspired by the energy of the parties and sound systems Jamie experienced there since first attending as a teenager. This August, he...
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Genre-bending singer/rapper/producer HAWA announces her debut album HADJA BANGOURA. HADJA BANGOURA is named for HAWA’s great-grandmother who passed away last year. Hadja’s spiritual presence on the album forms a vessel for healing as HAWA crafts a letter to herself through which to work past her toxic relationships. The announcement of the album is accompanied by lead single ‘GEMINI‘ which was produced by Tony Seltzer and Inef Coupe with a sole feature from ascendant experimental artist Eartheater. The song highlights HAWA’s silky smooth-yet-versatile...
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Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) release their hotly-anticipated debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B. Last week, Jockstrap released a documentary by Rosie Marks on the orchestral recording session they did for the new record. Watch below! Featuring amazing behind the scenes content, the four-minute piece demonstrates the musical prowess and dedication to detail and complexity that have earned the duo well-deserved worldwide hype as the next big thing. Additionally, last Friday they released a sample...
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As Mess Esque continue on their tour of the UK and Europe, they now reveal ANOTHER new single! Scraped delicately from the embers of internal passions and rendered as music in their separate studios. Mess Esque clearly desire to share some space in our souls: ‘Liminal Space’! Helen’s plaintive and private vocal delivery – accentuating Mick Turner’s guitaristic accents and nuances – draws focus into the unique cocktail of feels...
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Following her first BIGSOUND performance last night on the triple j Unearthed stage, and a first play on triple j’s Good Nights, today Melbourne DnB purveyor Memphis LK reveals the pop-tinged, energy fuelled ‘Whip’. Opening with sparse synths, ‘Whip’ quickly picks up the pace with high intensity beats underpinning Memphis LK’s euphoric vocals. On the dynamics, Memphis LK shares “Making dance music, I’m drawn to sounds that have conflicting moods, contrasting...
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Sunbeam Sound Machine reveals ‘Paradise’, the second sonic dreamscape lifted from his third album Possum out on Friday, 7th October. The single is accompanied by an exquisitely shot film clip, watch below! Multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick Sowersby explains “This song is about the transience of true love, and there’s no better way to express that than by dancing in front of a 1985 Toyota Corolla out by the airport.” The bright new track plays between sparse,...
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Kenny Beats releases his debut solo album, LOUIE. Though best known for producing seminal full-length albums for some of the world’s most exciting artists (including Vince Staples, IDLES, Rico Nasty and Denzel Curry), on LOUIE, Kenny subverts expectations with an almost entirely instrumental artist record that acts as a deeply personal tribute to his ailing father. Set for release on XL Recordings next week, the first solo album from Kenny Beats is a spontaneous burst of creativity spurred by an avalanche of despair...
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