Canadian art rock band Braids release their new single ‘Apple,’ the latest peek at their forthcoming album Euphoric Recall out April 28th. Among the most joyous moments in the Braids discography, ‘Apple’ is a bubbling anthem of symphonic shoegaze, a celebration of seeing new possibilities in the eyes of a lover, acknowledging past loss with a new state of heart that’s been opened and filled. Singer Raphaelle Standell-Preston sings of...
On the follow-up to the Brooklyn duo’s 2021 breakthrough, Structure, Everyone’s Crushed – to be released on May 26th – sees Rachel Brown (they/them) and Nate Amos (he/him) find silliness and fatalism dancing in a frantic lockstep, using heart palpitating rhythms and absurdist, deadpan lyrics to convey stories of personal and societal unease. ‘Barley’ is a dance-rock track sequenced in alien tonality, with Brown speaking garbled transmissions (“One two three/Counter/You’re a cool thing count mountains”) over a bed of...
Xylouris White’s upcoming long player, The Forest In Me, flows freely through sprawling landscapes of discreet harmonics and cathartic bursts of melody. George Xylouris’ Cretan lute and Jim White’s drums track their progressive compositions though a spacious sound-field, rambling today down a well traveled path entitled ‘Red Wine.’ Measures of Greek dance song squeeze through Giorgos’ guitar lines, while Jim’s stolid-yet-spare drum parts play against type, establishing a minimalist framework that eventually draws Giorgos out into a disarmingly open space. The video...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Gruff Rhys is pleased to announce his forthcoming soundtrack to the film The Almond & The Seahorse via Remote Control Records. The double album will be released digitally and on double deluxe LP in February 2023. The 22-track album comprises original songs and instrumental score, all composed by Gruff Rhys. Recorded between 2021-2022 with a host of featured musicians including members of the National Orchestra of Wales, the music features throughout the forthcoming film of the...
Arca has released Kick, a fan-voted ‘best of’ compilation featuring tracks from the previously released five-album KICK series. An additional five track bonus selection includes three brand new songs (‘Alto Voltaje’, ‘Ritual’ and ‘Sentient Savior’) plus two previously released songs (‘Cayó’ and ‘El Alma Que Te Trajo’), all produced during the original KICK cycle recording sessions, with each track representing a different era in the five-album series. ‘El Alma Que TeTrajo’ is a collaboration with Safety Trance a.k.a. Cardopusher, who is a...
Hailing from regional NSW, Wade Jackson is a creative polymath. Songwriter, musician and film director, he knows how to draw the observer and listener into an immersive sensory world of sound and vision. Across five albums he’s covered wide musical ground, from jangly folk-rock to indie guitar and psych-pop sounds. Now comes the next avant garde chapter in Wade’s musical career. ‘Limelight’ emerges twitching, writhing, pulsing and electronically convulsing. Like Bowie and Suicide in...
