On August 20th, Interpol’s canonical debut album Turn On The Bright Lights turns 20. Commemorating this landmark, the band have made the cherished, fan-favorite 2003 TOTBL companion The Black EP available on digital platforms. Originally released on August 26th, 2003, as a limited-edition CD, the long out of print The Black EP features the studio version of ‘Say Hello To The Angels’, a demo of ‘NYC’ and four TOTBL-era songs recorded live in session for Radio France in 2002, including...
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Ireland’s Gilla Band release new single ‘Backwash’, taken off their upcoming album Most Normal, out October 7. Watch the video directed and animated by Mortis Studios below! Singer Dara Kiely shares “We didn’t really stick to the brief but it lead us down different sonic avenues. ‘Backwash’ is one of the few tracks where the words represent a dream-like circumstance. The track is about attraction – fancying someone and not knowing what to say exactly. It’s an indirect love...
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SOHN releases ‘M.I.A.’ from his upcoming album Trust, released digitally on September 2nd, with vinyl to follow on November 4th. It is propulsive and ominous from its first chords and accompanied by a striking video from Brazilian director duo Vira-Lata. Watch below! “’M.I.A.’ is dedicated to the partners of those with depression – the ones who hold it down while their loved ones may be missing-in-action whilst suffering,” SOHN explains. “I speak from experience of having...
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‘Everyone Is Lying To You For Money’ is the second single from The Smith Street Band’s forthcoming sixth album. It is a short, loud, angry song about misinformation. This is The Smithies at their most creative yet, blending their finely honed pub rock sound with samples and robot voices all wrapped around lead singer Wil Wagner’s frustrated and vulnerable lyrics. The chaotic film clip accompanying the new single was animated...
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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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Today, NYC pop performance artist, Jennifer Vanilla (they/them), shares their new album Castle In The Sky via Sinderlyn. The release includes singles, ‘Humility’s Disease’ that Stereogum called an “enticing, svelte, sinister earworm,” ‘Take Me For A Ride’ that NYLON called a “maximalist fever dream,” and ‘Body Music’ which Them. featured in their “Favourite Songs Of The Month.” Collaboratively crafted by Kauffman and co-writer/co-producer Brian Abelson, whose credits include releases on...
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Melbourne three-piece jade imagine return with dreamy title-rack from their sophomore album Cold Memory due October21st via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. The single offers a peek into life’s most visceral moments, perfectly moving between rhythmic, slightly uneasy verses before it explodes into a synth heavy, pop-y chorus – lush and evocative. It was written by front-person and key songwriter Jade McInally following a frigid mid-winter swim with friends in the salty waters of Victorian coastal town Killarney. Speaking on the track’s...
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Following the success of their recent singles, hypnotic Melbourne trio Telenova further tease their forthcoming EP with latest track ‘Scarlet’. In celebration of the extended release Stained Glass Love – due out Friday 19 August via Pointer Recordings / Remote Control Records – Telenova will take to the road travelling around Australia and New Zealand this August, September and October. Buoyed by recent success with ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ and ‘Haunted’, the laconic ‘Scarlet’ is all raindrop pianos, and FM...
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Julien Baker releases a new EP B-Sides. Intimate and emotional, the 3 never-before-heard songs were taken from the recording sessions for her critically heralded third full-length Little Oblivions. Baker has collaborated on studio recordings with Frightened Rabbit, Matt Berninger, Hayley Williams, Becca Mancari, Mary Lambert, and on stage with Justin Vernon, The National, Sharon Van Etten, Ben Gibbard, and others. Stream / download B-Sides here.
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On previous singles ‘A Dream in Slow Motion’ and ‘Summer Lungs’, Mount Monda demonstrated they’re no strangers to exploring deeply personal experiences within their beautifully crafted songs. New single, ‘Death in a Retirement Home’, heads a notch deeper again. Introspectively focussed, the song examines the grief that comes with losing a parent. In 2014, singer Matt Walters’ mother was diagnosed with a rare, neurodegenerative disease. “I was close with my mum. She was a...
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It is with great pride to announce THUS LOVE’s debut album Memorial, out on Captured Tracks October 7th. With the release of their first single, ‘Inamorato’, and early critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, THUS LOVE hits us with a pugnacious rhythmic punch on lead single ‘In Tandem,’ out now via Remote Control Records. The band explains, “Written in 12 hours of digestion of emotional turmoil, “In Tandem” is a sonic promise to hold awareness of a fundamental truth: we are nothing...
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U.S. Girls – the nom de plume of North American multi-disciplinary and experimental pop artist Meg Remy – has shared a brand new song ‘So Typically Now’ and a self-directed official companion video. A sleek widescreen synth anthem that punctures the real estate bubble, ‘So Typically Now’ features powerhouse backing vocalist Kyle Kidd and is the first taste of new U.S. Girls music since the release of Christmas song ‘Santa Stay Home’ and the Polaris Prize-shortlisted album Heavy Light....
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Dry Cleaning release new single ‘Anna Calls From The Arctic’ off their forthcoming album Stumpwork, out 21 October, alongside a visualiser featuring the band’s drummer, Nick Buxton, displaying perfect form while skating backwards. Watch below! On ‘Anna Calls From The Arctic’, Florence Shaw narrates an off-kilter conversation with a distant friend. The track is whacked-out and otherworldly. “The lyrics were partly inspired by phone calls with a friend who was living and working in the...
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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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Pointer Recordings is thrilled to release the new single from Jamaica Moana called ‘HERMIONE’ featuring Temgazi. The Sydney-based artist, rapper, creative director & songwriter of Māori (Ngāpuhi/Tainui) and Samoan descent made her Pointer Recordings debut with fiery new single ‘CYA’ earlier this year. Speaking on ‘HERMIONE‘ Jamaica shares – “Firstly, Temgazi has been my boo for a decade! We’ve been close friends tied to the hip since we met each other in 2013. Amongst so many people who blend in, Temgazi’s personality drew me to her...
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After traversing North America on tour with Mono this Spring, Bing & Ruth has shared a new EP Species (Solo Piano). The two-track digital release finds the group’s leader David Moore transpose to piano songs from their 2020 album, Species. Moore says, “While I wrote and recorded the songs on Species with an organ I had always felt, in the back of my mind, that they would also be interesting ...
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