black midi have released Cavalcovers, an EP featuring covers of Taylor Swift, King Crimson, and Captain Beefheart, via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. The EP follows Cavalcade, praised as one of the best albums of 2021 by The New York Times, Pitchfork, TheFADER, Stereogum, and more. Last year, black midi recorded five special fan-voted covers for different territories and retailers that were available on bespoke limited flexis for fans that pre-ordered Cavalcade. Now, three of those covers are available for all to hear. Cavalcovers includes a...
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Until recently, it was thought that we had heard all there was to hear from Saâda Bonaire. Though the group had continued working until 1994, founder Ralph “von” Richthoven had firmly stated that all of their post-1986 work was lost: “I threw away most of my work; I didn’t see any reason to hold onto it anymore.” A visit to a relative’s house, however, turned up a pleasant surprise: Richthoven stumbled across a battered cassette tape labeled Saâda...
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JARV IS… have written & performed the original soundtrack for the critically acclaimed BBC TV series This is Going to Hurt based on Adam Kay’s award-winning international multi-million selling memoir of the same name. The soundtrack was recorded at Narcissus Studios, London by Drew Dungate-Smith during various sessions throughout 2021. Most of the performances are live takes featuring the entire band – often recorded whilst they watched the playback of key sequences from the series. Each episode features...
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Today, Fucked Up release Do All Words Can Do – a nine-track compilation gathering David Comes to Life era-appropriate rarities and B-sides, all of which were previously available only on 7”. In December, Matador Records / Remote Control Records honoured the 10th anniversary of Fucked Up’s early ’10s masterwork David Comes to Life with a limited-edition lightbulb-yellow 2xLP reissue. That album – which clocks in at 78-minutes – may be as heavy a dose of genre-bursting progressive-psychedelic-hardcore punk brilliance as anybody can comfortably...
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Manchester rock band Oceansize have announced the reissue of their acclaimed album, Everyone Into Position. Oceansize built a career and reputation of constructing sonic soundscapes from out of nowhere into the most monolithic, dynamic behemoths heard in aeons. Everyone Into Position was Oceansize’s second studio album and Beggars Arkive / Remote Control Records will be reissuing it on June 3. The double album will be pressed on splattered yellow vinyl. Everyone Into Position saw the band scale new heights of...
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Diving into Scritti Politti’s back catalogue, Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records have reissued the 1985 album Cupid & Psyche ‘85 Cupid & Psyche ‘85, released in the summer of 1985, was both a pop masterpiece and landmark in music production. Terrifyingly complex technology, embarrassingly expensive studio time and months of intensive work resulted in a brilliant, immaculate sound, described today by singer Green Gartside as “pyrotechnics of pointillist syncopation”. ...
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Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke has released ‘5.17’ – via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records – a single sitting in stark contrast to his recent outings as frontman for rock three-piece The Smile. ‘5.17’ was written to feature in the final series of much-loved BBC drama Peaky Blinders. Yorke’s latest solo work is melancholy and stripped bare, a mixture of delicate piano, feathery strings and ethereal vocal, reminiscent of his GRAMMY-nominated...
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‘Skrting On The Surface,‘ The Smile‘s new single and video is released today via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. The video was shot in 16mm black and white by BAFTA-winning writer / director Mark Jenkin in the depths of the disused Rosevale Tin Mine in Cornwall UK, and hand-developed in water from the mine. ‘Skrting On The Surface’ is the third single from The Smile, the new group comprising Thom Yorke,...
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New Zealand/Aotearoa eight-piece The Black Seeds have released their exciting new single and video, ‘It’s So Real’, alongside the announcement of their upcoming new album Love & Fire – out Friday 17 June via Remote Control Records. A raw funk masterpiece destined for dancefloors worldwide, ‘It’s So Real’ is The Black Seeds at their party best. Driven by an infectious muted guitar riff and backed by a rock solid bass and drum groove, ‘It’s So Real’ weaves and tantalises. The groove constantly evolves, dropping in...
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On ‘pinky ring‘ – out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records – London artist, producer and DJ Peter O’Grady aka Joy Orbison delivers one of his most dancefloor-focussed tracks in recent times. While his hugely acclaimed 2021 mixtape still slipping vol. 1 (named Album of the Year at the 2021 DJ Mag Awards) brilliantly explored Joy Orbison’s wide-ranging sounds and influences away from the dancefloor, ‘pinky ring’ is inspired by the energy he’s felt since returning to DJing. A companion to 2021’s ‘red...
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Belle and Sebastian have released a new song and video piece ‘If They’re Shooting At You’ – out via Matador Records / Remote Control Records – in support of those affected by the situation in Ukraine. The visual collage is a collaboration with photographers covering the conflict in Ukraine highlighting the situation on the ground whilst offering a message of solidarity and hope. Belle and Sebastian will pledge all artist income from the song, from streaming...
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Pavement have shared a new video to B-side ‘Harness Your Hopes,’ directed by Alex Ross Perry (Her Smell) and starring Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets). The song is drawn from the Spit on a Stranger EP, which Matador Records / Remote Control Records will reissue as a 12” on April 8th alongside the release of Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal. ‘Harness Your Hopes’ was originally released in 1999 on the CD-edition of the Spit on a Stranger EP, which included the titular Terror Twilight single plus four previously unreleased tracks. Needless...
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Oliver Sim – best known for his work as songwriter, bassist and vocalist for The xx – makes his solo debut with first-ever single ‘Romance With A Memory‘ today, via Young / Remote Control Records. The track, produced by Jamie xx, debuts alongside a lyric video starring artists and drag performers Charity Kase, HoSo Terra Toma, Gena Marvin. Sim, born and raised in London, has been a member of The xx since its inception in 2005. After the success of their 2017...
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Aldous Harding has released ‘Fever’, the second single from her forthcoming new album Warm Chris. Accompanying the song’s swaggering piano-driven staccato is an official video created by Harding and Martin Sagadin showcasing the many faces of the New Zealander. For Warm Chris, the New Zealand musician reunited with producer John Parish, continuing a professional partnership that began in 2017 and has forged pivotal bodies of work (2017’s Party and the aforementioned Designer). All ten tracks were recorded at Rockfield Studios and...
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Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval has unveiled her new album Classic Objects, via 4AD / Remote Control. Classic Objects is Hval’s version of a pop album. While there are interchangeable moments of complexity in each song, there’s a feeling of elevation and clarity in the songs’ choruses. This is evident with new single ‘Freedom’, which unfurls with a resonating melody as Hval’s honeyed voice presciently sings: “Out there is the world // where you’re threatening the lives...
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Chicago trio Horsegirl announce their debut record, Versions of Modern Performance, out June 3rd on Matador / Remote Control, and present charged lead single/video, ‘Anti-glory’. Following last year’s one-off ‘Billy’, lead single ‘Anti-glory’ is elastic and propulsive, entrancing listeners with a central call: “Dance / Dance / Dance / Dance / With me”. The accompanying video, directed by Erin Vassilopoulous, exudes confidence, putting Horsegirl front and center, their uncanny ability to layer sound on full display. “We wrote Anti-glory almost by accident, while messing around...
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