Sleaford Mods and Hot Chip have united for a collaborative joint single featuring new tracks ‘Nom Nom Nom’ and ‘Cat Burglar’. The songs have been released as part of Friendly Records ongoing series of seven-inches in aid of charity War Child, and feature artwork from influential and acclaimed British artist David Shrigley. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios as part of one of Abbey Road’s innovative and groundbreaking Lock In Sessions, which...
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Jamie xx releases the first remix of his In Waves album campaign. It comes from the unstoppable Bradford-born, Leeds-raised new-gen junglist Nia Archives, who steps up to remix one of the album’s standout tracks, ‘Waited All Night’, Jamie’s collaboration with his The xx bandmates Romy and Oliver Sim. Played out by both artists to a huge live response recently, it sees Nia Archives taking the original’s 2-step pop perfection into...
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Montreal’s own Jesse Mac Cormack unveils GRIP, his latest EP, blending indie electronic exploration with rich, emotional landscapes. This project captures the highs and lows of growth, vulnerability, and the thrill of reinvention. Jesse teased the EP with ‘La Vérité’ in October, a collaborative single featuring Toronto’s Charlie Houston and French artist BRÖ. With its infectious, up-tempo energy, setting the stage for GRIP’s complex themes of memory, nostalgia, and the...
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Kim Deal today shares her debut solo album Nobody Loves You More, out now. In keeping with Deal’s meticulous approach to her art, the album was refined over several years; its oldest songs were written and originally recorded in 2011 shortly after Deal came off the Pixies’ Lost Cities Tour and relocated to Los Angeles. Deal enlisted a variety of collaborators from Breeders past and present (Mando Lopez, twin sister Kelley Deal, Jim Macpherson, Britt...
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Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, announces his third studio album. Temporary will be released on 28th February 2025 and features an incredible roll call of collaborators that have been sourced over four years from 2020 to 2024. Everything Is Recorded also releases ‘Losing You’, the second single to be taken from the album. It features the redemptive vocals of longtime collaborators Sampha and Laura Groves alongside musical...
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Horsegirl — the New York-via-Chicago trio of best friends Nora Cheng, Penelope Lowenstein, and Gigi Reece — announce their second album Phonetics On and On, out February 14th, and release lead single ‘2468’ alongside a video, directed by writer and filmmaker Eliza Callahan and choreographed by Alexa West. Watch below! Produced by Cate Le Bon and recorded at The Loft in Chicago, the band’s original and sonic home, Phonetics On...
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Goat Girl share their mesmerising new single ‘gossip’, embracing the electronic side of their music, the band took inspiration from Aphex Twin, Koreless, Tirzah and Gilla Band. Accompanied by a video, directed and edited by singer/guitarist Lottie Pendlebury. Watch below! Recently expanded to a four piece with the addition of Ruby Kyriakides (they/him) as a permanent member, Goat Girl explain how the track came about and developed its own identity...
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Leif Vollebekk reveals an acoustic version of ‘Peace of Mind’ off his critically acclaimed new record Revelation. ‘Peace of Mind (Morning)’ is a captivating acoustic take. “‘Peace of Mind (Morning)’ felt like it wanted its own space, separate from the album version,” says Vollebekk. ‘Peace of Mind (Morning)’ arrives alongside an official visualiser directed by Andy Mann, offering fans a sensory journey that pairs perfectly with the song’s immersive tones....
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Blawan returns with ‘Fires’, the first single revealed from his freshly-announced upcoming EP BouQ, released on 6th December. ‘Fires’ sees Blawan push his distorted, syncopated productions into a new broken-pop lane, his own vocal creating an intense, visceral hook that rips through the track’s multilayered, pulsing beats. BouQ is the follow-up to his acclaimed 2023 Dismantled Into Juice EP. Fans may have heard Blawan previewing tracks from the EP during recent...
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Thea Gustafsson – who writes, records, and produces under the moniker Becky and the Birds – turns a new leaf, entering an era of creative freedom and emotional release with her self-produced debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now, out today. Her new single ‘To trust you’ contributes an air of vulnerability to the LP’s emotively hard-hitting and sonically diverse soundscape through hypnotic looped vocals, stomping 808s, and transportive electric...
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After years of garnering intrigue across the mainstream and underground, London-based rapper, poet and producer John Glacier will finally release her debut album, Like A Ribbon on 14 February 2025. To celebrate, Glacier unveils the album’s lead single, ‘Found’. ‘Found’ is the perfect example of Like A Ribbon’s deft, quietly emotive atmospheres. Produced by Kwes Darko, ‘Found’ is an uplifting mantra that provides a light at the end of the...
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Basia Bulat shares ‘My Angel’, the opening track from her forthcoming album Basia’s Palace, out 21 February 2025. The new single arrives with a Nora Rosenthal-directed video, watch below! “This is a song about love at first sight–a rush of overwhelming emotion that feels definite, unmistakeable, and mysterious all at the same time. I wanted my singing on this song to reflect the way that I wrote the music: sneaking...
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BADBADNOTGOOD release ‘Poeira Cosmia’, a new single featuring Brazilian singer-songwriter, composer and producer Tim Bernardes, with additional contributions from the legendary composer Arthur Verocai. The song premiered live at BADBADNOTGOOD’s sold-out, eight-night Blue Note residency in September, when Bernardes joined the ensemble for a series of songs including ‘Poeira Cosmia’, and a cover of Milton Nascimento’s ‘Tudo O Que Vocé Podia Ser’. The trio struck up a friendship with Bernardes...
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Liz Stringer returns with triumphant new single ‘Coming Home’, following a premiere on Double J Mornings. The single is a driving, indie-pop satirisation of the so-called perfect relationship. “I wrote ‘Coming Home’ about the ludicrous idea that we’re fed since we’re small children; that a romantic relationship will be the salve for all that ails in a lifetime. And that, without a romantic partner, we will forever be adrift, unfulfilled...
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Best-selling, prizewinning novelist and member of legendary sadcore band Art of Fighting, Peggy Frew shares her debut album Dial-Up. It drops just ahead of her launch show in Melbourne at the Bergy Bandroom on 9th November. Dial-Up is Frew’s first solo album. Luminous and ominous, the songs on Dial-Up are full of both vulnerability and bravado. Silver days, thunderstorms, broken-down cars and lonely winter train rides. The fraught sweetness of...
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SAM MORTON, the musical duo comprised of singer, songwriter and acclaimed actor and director Samantha Morton and music producer and co-songwriter Richard Russell, reveal their first new music since the release of their acclaimed debut album Daffodils & Dirt earlier this year. New single ‘Never Understand’ sees the pair putting their own unique twist on Ibrahim Hesnawi’s 1980’s cult classic; a drum-heavy, melancholic dub-inspired rendition that acts as an experimental...
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