Just fourteen months after releasing their debut, Dry Cleaning announce details of a second album Stumpwork and offer a first taste of the new work in the form of single ‘Don’t Press Me’. Watch the animated video, created by Peter Millard below! Clocking in at under 2 minutes, the track is about the pleasure of gaming and the enjoyment of intense and short-lived guilt-free experiences. Vocalist Florence Shaw also says, “The...
Following their appearance at The Great Escape (UK) and sold-out debut London shows, Telenova are thrilled to announce their brand new single ‘Haunted’, lifted off the Stained Glass Love EP to be released Friday 19 August. Listen below! ‘Haunted’ is a hypnotic tale of addiction, with echoes of Northern Soul amidst dark dub, all draped in dramatic synth strings. To celebrate the EP announcement and new single the band has shared a run of EP...
In July of last year, 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 huge acclaim. Koreless returns to announce two Agor remix packages which will be made available digitally and as a limited run of 12” white labels this June. The first, out now via Young, sees techno powerhouse VTSS put a hard-hitting spin...
Rolling off the back of their debut single ‘Summer Lungs’, Mount Monda are pleased to announced they have signed to Part Time Records for the release of their debut EP. The rush of inspiration naturally caught others in its spell. A Dream in Slow Motion, the title track of Mount Monda’s debut EP, features lyrics co-written by US alt-country artist Kim Richey. Drummer Lachlan O’Kane (Angie McMahon) came in to record loops and samples, and replay and restructure rhythms tapped...
It’s not common practice to have an album’s title track released after said album as a standalone single, but Belle and Sebastian aren’t sticklers for ceremony. The band have released a new single and video ‘A Bit Of Previous‘, which shares the title of their critically acclaimed 9th full-length released in May to become their third UK Top Ten charting album. Explained alternately as an allusion to the concept of reincarnation in Buddhism and...
Friday June 3rd, 2022 – Two months after the release of the critically acclaimed SOLO album, Montreal songwriter and producer Jesse Mac Cormack is thrilled to share three filmed live sessions. The videos were filmed at Le Livart in Montreal and are directed by Félix-Antoine Boutin & Thomas Leblanc-Murray. “Watching these songs come alive was a good buzz. It was easy and felt very natural”, reveals Jesse. “Surrounded by such...
Chicago is baked into the core of Versions of Modern Performance out now via Matador. Cheng (she/her), Lowenstein (she/her) and Reece (they/them) learned to play—and met—through the significant network of Chicago youth arts programs, and they have their own mini-rock underground. Across the album, recorded at Chicago’s Electrical Audio with John Agnello, there’s elements of the ‘80s and ‘90s independent music the band love so deeply and sincerely. But as...
Known for making anthemic electronic pop songs that celebrate gender fluidity and embrace the beauty in androgyny, Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist HANDSOME releases her new EP BLAME. Alongside it’s release comes HANDSOME’s self-directed short film of the same name. Watch below! At its deepest root, BLAME dissects the impact society’s shame can have on an individual and the domino effect of deep loneliness it leaves behind. Celebrating butch/masc culture, the film looks closely at the power of camaraderie and attempts...
Montreal-based artist, producer, engineer and remixer Patrick Holland recently announced his self-produced debut album, You’re The Boss, out this summeron Sinderlyn. Following the album’s earworm of a first single ‘Sinister Bell,’ ‘Nice Try‘ is out today. Featuring sunny guitars and velvety vocal harmonies, courtesy of Holland’s bandmate Jane Penny of TOPS, ‘Nice Try’ receives an incredible Erin O’Connor directed video. Holland has been known in the past for his electronic releases under aliases such as Project Pablo and Jump Source, and just as this album showcases another side of his...
Following the release of last year’s album 3, Ngaiire returns with a new single ‘Fuchsia’. A continuation of the art project/experiment that Ngaiire has described as ‘a very expensive therapy session’. ‘Fuchsia’, with it’s subversive beats & Ngaiire’s signature vocals, is an exploration of all that is queer & taboo in post-colonial Papua New Guinea. Listen below! Ngaiire shares, “Fuchsia is about wanting autonomy on your choices, who you love, your body...
Hideous Bastard, the debut album from Oliver Sim is set for release on Friday 9 September. Pre-order here. Produced by bandmate Jamie xx, Hideous Bastard is the culmination of two years of writing and recording, inspired by Sim’s love of horror movies and his own life experience, unpacking themes of shame, fear, and masculinity. These themes are front and centre on new single ‘Hideous’. Enlisting the help of lifelong hero and “guardian angel”...
As Lewis Goldmark, Liam Judson (Belles Will Ring) takes on a new outlook and musical direction that still pays homage to the core influences that have informed his music over the years. Now however, it all comes together with a syringe injection of pop chaos – echoes of 80’s Australian indie, dreamy 70’s Californian rock, and 90’s Britpop amongst other sounds. The new album Cut And Flash is a consummate...
To mark its 20th anniversary, The Libertines’ era-defining debut ‘What A Waster’ is being re-pressed on seven-inch single (backed by original b-side I Get Along), while the new What A Waster Live From The ICA EP will be made available on streaming services. This digital only edition features live versions recorded during the band’s legendary show at the iconic venue just up the road from Buckingham Palace on the original day of release, 3rd June 2002. Part calling...
SOAK, aka singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson, releases their new album If I Never Know You Like This Again. Alongside the release comes the lyric video and an intimate acoustic version for the final single from the record, ‘Swear Jar’. Watch below! ‘Swear Jar’ deals with depression and the breakdown of a relationship. “I felt so disconnected from myself and life that I was starting to question if I’d ever truly been present or if I’d always been...
Interpol release ‘Fables,’ the third single from their forthcoming full-length, The Other Side of Make-Believe, out July 15th – pre-order here. “‘Fables’ features one of Daniel’s hottest licks,” comments Paul. “A breezy vocal with optimistic lyrics and a bouncy drum beat evocative of classic R&B with a nod to the golden age of hip hop. It’s a summer jam and a piece of music we are particularly proud of.” The new track follows the band’s well-received first...
Chicago band Horsegirl – Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums) – unveil a new single/video, ‘Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty),’ from their debut album, Versions of Modern Performance, out June 3rd. Watch below! ‘Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty)’ is a scuffed up, guitar-driven piece of garage-pop. The tracks’ lyrics brim with alliteration and slanted rhymes, and as the instrumentation rises, the song rides out with a chorus of “oohs.” As a band who do everything as a...
