Yo La Tengo’s undeniable classic 1997 album I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is now a quarter of a century old. To celebrate, the record will be made available in a limited 25th anniversary edition reissue on translucent yellow vinyl on July 29 (US/CA) & Aug 12 (ROW). Also available will be a reproduction of the video’s “President McKinley Academy of Rock” sweatshirts. The reissue serves as the latest entry in Matador Records’ Revisionist History series, our ongoing campaign...
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This month celebrates 30 years of Pavement’s debut full-length, Slanted & Enchanted, which was first released in 1992 via Matador Records. It remains a truly monumental album – one that defined/ruined a generation and a genre, depending on who you ask. On August 12th, a limited-edition run of the original LP will be released on red/white/black splatter vinyl, as well as a lovingly detailed replica of the cassette Pavement used to shop Slanted & Enchanted to prospective record labels,...
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Scout Gillett has released one to ten – her debut EP for Captured Tracks. Ahead of it’s release Gillett premiered ‘come on let’s go’ – her lush, faithful cover of Broadcast’s The Noise Made by People single – at The FADER with a self-directed and self-shot video. The new cover is one of four (also including Brenda Lee, Ferrante & Teicher, and Blaze Foley) on Scout’s hypnotic introductory EP, one to ten, and follows its recently released original title track. “The covers here complement the title track. one to ten is a peek...
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After a run of deliriously off-kilter singles, Montreal’s singer-songwriter Gus Englehorn has released his sophomore album Dungeon Master. Dungeon Master, Englehorn’s Secret City Records debut, is an outsider opus that sparkles with Dada spirit — a playful juxtaposition of isolation, alienation and mildish OCD. Surprising, paranoid, and studded with synths and strings, Dungeon Master is deeper than a cellar and blunter than a club — a shivering introduction to an artist who’s finally arrived. “I let my subconscious do...
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Part Time Records have unearthed two new discoveries from regional Australia who will feature on the next instalment of their 7” vinyl subscription service, PTR Singles Club – Mount Monda (VIC) and Manor (SA). A chance encounter at the foot of Mount Monda seemed a bit like a cosmic conspiracy. Producer and multi-instrumentalist Luke Postill worked on Matt Walters’ very first EP back when he was signed to the major label. Luke and Matt hadn’t seen each other since recording that EP. Then they...
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Jess Ribeiro has cemented herself as one of the Australian underground’s most engaging and unpredictable creative forces and her evolution is only just beginning. A shape-shifting musical enigma, the near-untouchable quality of Ribeiro’s recorded output is astonishingly consistent and the wait for new music is always worthwhile. Ribeiro’s new single, ‘In Love With This Place’, is a Synth doom pop song written in the Otways on the Great Ocean Road at the start of...
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Sleaford Mods have released a brand new EP, Live At Nottz. Recorded live at Nottingham Arena in 2021 during their biggest show ever, it features six fiery, transformative tracks and includes guest appearances from Billy Nomates and Amyl and the Sniffers’ Amy Taylor. Additionally, Sleaford Mods are sharing three electrifying live videos from the performance for ‘Nudge It’, ‘Mork n Mindy’ and ‘Tied Up in Nottz’. Watch below! If the legends are true, the first ever Sleaford Mods gig took place at a cafe near Nottingham...
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Patrick Watson releases his seventh full-length studio album. The CD and a limited-edition coloured vinyl will be released later this year and available for pre-order here. Along with the release, Watson has also shared a stop-motion music video for the title track. Watch below! In Patrick’s words, Better in the Shade “is about negotiating a world where you don’t know what’s real anymore.” “I was very inspired by Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson, The Waves by Virginia...
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London based electro-pop artist and harpist, TATYANA has released her highly-anticipated debut album, Treat Me Right via Sinderlyn. The ten-track album features recent acclaimed singles ‘Between The Lines’ – picked as Radio 1’s ‘Next Big Wave’ and which called The Forty Five to ask “is electro-harp pop our new fave genre? Quite possibly” and the irresistible ‘Kiss Me Right Now’. Over ten tracks on Treat Me Right, TATYANA manages to achieve pop excellence, combined with the twinkling, unrivalled sounds of a harp and production by dream collaborator, Joseph Mount (Metronomy). Speaking...
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Helado Negro has released the new single ‘Ya No Estoy Aquí’ alongside a video directed by Neuderts. Watch below! The song is the first release since his album Far In came out late last year. “‘Ya No Estoy Aquí’ is a song about loneliness and alienation,” Roberto Carlos Lange shares. “It’s about being lost within yourself and not knowing who you are. Making this song was catharsis; it was a way to get this all out and feel the texture...
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Bartees Strange announces his new album Farm to Table released digitally on 17 June, with LP and CD following on 7 October, plus a brand-new song, ‘Cosigns’ and a stunning accompanying video directed by Pooneh Ghana. Watch below! An unapologetic and braggadocious indie-trap banger, ‘Cosigns’ celebrates Bartees’ peers, collaborators and friends, through a genre-defying outpouring somewhere between swaggering hip hop and euphoric alt rock. ‘Cosigns’ is also a moment for Bartees to acknowledge himself, giving himself credence and unashamedly basking in that glow. Where...
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The Smile will release their highly anticipated debut album A Light For Attracting Attention on 13 May, 2022 with CD and vinyl formats to follow on June 17. Brand new single ‘Free In The Knowledge’ is out now, with an accompanying video directed by Leo Leigh. Watch below! The track was first performed by Thom Yorke as part of the Letters Live event at London’s Royal Albert Hall, in December 2021, the first time Thom had performed since the pandemic began. Introducing the song, he dedicated it...
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Saâda Bonaire shares the dubbed out time-capsule ‘Extremes’, the second single from their forthcoming collection of unreleased ’90s material, 1992, out 6 May. Until recently, it was thought that we had heard all there was to hear from Saâda Bonaire. The German studio project’s 1980s recordings had been compiled on the now cult-classic double LP Saâda Bonaire, released by Captured Tracks in 2013. Though the group had continued working until 1994, founder Ralph “von” Richthoven had firmly stated that...
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Belle and Sebastian have released a new single, ‘Young and Stupid,’ taken from their forthcoming new album A Bit Of Previous, out May 6th. The song is accompanied by a lyric video which gets unfettered access into the band members respective family photo albums. Watch below! A Bit of Previous was recorded in Belle and Sebastian’s hometown of Glasgow when plans to fly to Los Angeles in spring of 2020 were scrapped due to the pandemic....
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Recently, Interpol premiered ‘Toni‘, the first single from their new album The Other Side Of Make-Believe, released July 15th on Matador. The song was accompanied by the opening instalment of a two-part film directed by Van Alpert (Post Malone, Machine Gun Kelly), which quickly went to garner over a quarter of a million views on YouTube. Interpol have now released the second and concluding part, as well as unveiled new song ‘Something Changed’. Singer Paul Banks says: “In “Something Changed,” part 2 of...
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London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have shared their brand new single and video ‘Concrete Over Water’; another hint at a still-to-come TBA debut full-length record on their new label home Rough Trade / Remote Control. ‘Concrete Over Water’ received its first national airplay from Lauren Laverne on her BBC Radio 6 Music Breakfast show. Watch the video below! Commenting on the new single – which comes complete with hugely inventive and ambitious storytelling visuals, directed by the band themselves...
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