Conrad Greenleaf is a Sydney born and bred musician. He’s probably better known as a member of Stressless and Richard In Your Mind, but also makes his own charmingly unconventional solo music. The new single ‘Mount Analogue’ is a striking introduction to his new forthcoming album Dreamtape, with its opening palette of aquatic bleeps setting the scene before a loping trip-hop breakbeat arrives to anchor the abstraction and carry it forward into the psychedelic mist. Guest vocalist Brent Griffin (aka SPOD)...
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In July of 2021, Welsh Producer Lewis Roberts aka Koreless released his highly-anticipated debut album Agor. An album over five years in the making, Agor was released to critical acclaim, and to this day is widely regarded as one of the best electronic records of 2021. Unlike any other record you’ll hear, Agor straddles the worlds of ambient and contemporary classical while not sounding like an example of either. The album was regarded as one of the best electronic...
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In honor of Shrines’ ten-year anniversary, Purity Ring return with a reissue of their breakthrough debut record. Titled shrines X, the album features three previously unreleased songs from the Shrines sessions, with the lead track “inovein” perfectly capturing their unique magic – bewitching, eerie vocals dancing uneasily across shimmering electronic haze. A surprise for fans and perfect intro to new listeners, their influence through 2010’s alt and commercial pop is undeniable. Stream / purchase...
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Using inspiration from the past mixed with influences of today, John Rocca blends new original works with various elements of the original 1980s ground-breaking dance staple, IOU. “It had to be fun, simply enjoyable, with the freedom to mess with any ideas. Not a piece of work”, said John Rocca on his experimenting with the idea of old vs new. The result, being eclectic: London House meets Pop; orBrit Funk...
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In 2020, the New York duo of Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion, aka Cults, shared their critically acclaimed album, Host, praised for being “remarkably atmospheric” (Variety) and it’s “solipsistic charming” (Pitchfork). The duo now announce their forthcoming EP Host B-Sides & Remixes out September 9 featuring remixes from Johnny Jewel, Small Black, Tama Gucci, and more. The first b-side ‘Poodles Dancing’ is out now. Stream / Purchase Cults – ‘Poodles...
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Patrick Holland releases his self-produced debut album, You’re The Boss, his first foray into guitar-driven indie pop, full of upbeat reflections on relinquishing control. Written and recorded in tandem, You’re The Boss finds Holland self-producing, playing almost every instrument on the record, as well as singing and writing his own lyrics for the first time. The album also features vocals from Holland’s bandmates in TOPS. Though it’s full of firsts, You’re The Boss sounds like the work of an...
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Last month, Chicago-based percussionist, composer, and producer Makaya McCraven announced the details of his new album In These Times, out September 23rd via International Anthem / Nonesuch / XL Recordings. The second offering from the new album is out now: ‘Dream Another,’ which McCraven wrote and recorded in his home studio in Chicago. The track features Brandee Younger on harp, Junius Paul on bass, Matt Gold on guitar/sitar, and De’Sean Jones on flute. An accompanying music visualizer, directed by Nik Arthur, features hand-drawn, digital, and photographic animations composed...
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Interpol release their seventh album The Other Side Of Make-Believe, including a new single and video ‘Gran Hotel’. Watch the Malia James-directed video below! Paul Banks says: “The lyrics to Gran Hotel tell a story of grief and heartbreak, of a character processing loss. Working with a fantastic camera crew and with the help of two very talented actors, Malia created a powerful video that conveys the events that lead to that loss. It’s a...
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black midi’s long anticipated album Hellfire is out now! The album includes their new single ‘Sugar/tzu’ released alongside a music video directed by Noel Paul, watch below! ‘Sugar/Tzu’ centres on a futuristic boxing match wherein one of the contenders is assassinated by a young boy. It features the core band plus horns by Kaidi Akinnibi (sax), Joe Bristow (trombone) and Ife Ogunjobi (trumpet), and the voice of boxing announcer Hus...
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JayWood releases his new album Slingshot, a self-portrait of JayWood at his surface and his depths, merging fantasy scenarios, personal anecdotes, and infectious pop and dance instrumentals. From the first track to the last track, JayWood takes you on a journey that touches on themes of childhood, religion, and identity. While writing and recording the album, Haywood-Smith put together a complex “script” mapping out all of the plot points, environments, characters that make up this...
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Gilla band announce their new album Most Normal, to be released on October 7th. It will be available on limited edition blue vinyl and an exclusive alt cover white vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies. Pre-order here. First single ‘Eight Fivers’ announces itself in that typical Gilla Band way where the lyrics often feel abstracted from the music. Dara Kiely’s voice is two opposing forces at once. In some ways it’s...
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Four years after his last original music, British producer and songwriter SOHN will return on his new record Trust, out digitally on September 2nd with vinyl to follow on November 4th. Pre-order available here. The album finds him further exploring a sound that first found success in the electronic and noir-pop spaces, and now explores deeper roots in folk structures and an aching, emotive balladry. New single ‘Segre’ is direct, anthemic electro-pop – a perfect summation...
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Jennifer Vanilla shares their new single ‘Humility’s Disease’ off their forthcoming album Castle In The Sky out August 5. ‘Humility’s Disease’ is a campy adventure where Jennifer Vanilla, aka Becca Kauffman, portrays a pseudomasculine devil-like figure with two angels surrounding them. Watch the video directed by Luca Venter below! Jennifer Vanilla’s forthcoming full length is a deft and mercurial “jennifreaky” journey, traversing 90s dance music, no wave, post-punk, art pop,...
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CASISDEAD returns with his new single ‘Traction Control’, out now. It’s the third single to be revealed from the rap icon’s highly anticipated debut album -a record CASISDEAD is currently masterminding in the DEADCORP® headquarters -and the latest chapter in his transition from cult, underground hero to future global star. No one else out there is doing it like CASISDEAD right now as he takes UK rap into unchartered audio...
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New York-based, Peruvian-born artist Daniela Lalita releases her debut single and music video ‘Tenía Razón’. Written, produced (with co-production from Sega Bodega) and directed by Lalita, it’s a bold debut for the multi-hyphenated artist whose practice spans music, costume design, film, performance and fine art. Lalita shares: “This music video is a form of self exploration about one’s relationship with past and future selves with the intention of trying to...
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Oliver Sim unveils new single ‘GMT’, from his debut album Hideous Bastard, set for release on 9th September. Watch the accompanying video by longtime friend and collaborator Laura Jane Coulson below! ‘GMT’ was one of the first songs made for the record,” says Sim. “I’d chased Jamie to Australia to escape British winter. We worked in Sydney and road tripped down to Byron Bay, stopping at secluded beaches and listening to a lot...
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