Circuit des Yeux has released new song and video, ‘The Manatee (A Story of This World Pt. III)’, via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Recorded during the sessions for last year’s masterful and multi-layered full-length -io, ‘The Manatee’ is a shift in mood – serene astral folk sewn up with whirring aquatic interludes. Circuit des Yeux’s Haley Fohr says: “At 4:30 A.M. on February 4th, 2020 a manatee popped out of the sea and stared...
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New York-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist JOHN TSUNG has shared his debut single ‘Eastern Standard‘ via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. The lead single of forthcoming album Empire Postcards, the influence of alternative greats like PJ Harvey seeps into ‘Eastern Standard,’ where TSUNG points to the perplexity of Asian Americanness (“Fraud or faker, native liar/Alien or traitor/Skin loyalty, what lies beneath/Gets paler day by day”). JOHN TSUNG’s Empire Postcards...
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Leif Vollebekk shares a brand-new EP of live recordings titled New Waves, via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records – in this enduring worldwide pandemic, Leif’s EP is a beaming ode to the unique connection live music brings, an amalgam of feelings that can only be shared with an audience. “Last year I had a chance to revisit these songs and I realised they had something my records didn’t have,” says Leif. “They resonate with that incalculable energy of...
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The Smile, the new group comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, have revealed a new track ‘The Smoke‘ and its accompanying lyric video, created by the BAFTA winning writer and director Mark Jenkin. ‘The Smoke‘ is the follow up to the band’s debut single ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again‘. The Smile will play three consecutive live shows across sixteen hours and three timezones at Magazine London this weekend, on January 30th (AEDT). Performing in the round...
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Pointer Recordings is thrilled to announce the signing of Jamaica Moana to their growing roster. The Sydney-based artist, rapper, creative director & songwriter of Māori (Ngāpuhi/Tainui) and Samoan descent makes her Pointer Recordings debut with fiery new single ‘CYA‘. Punctuated with booming basslines and industrial percussion reminiscent of smoky, dimly-lit ballrooms, Jamaica takes command on ‘CYA’ with an unapologetic swagger and self-assured confidence. Speaking to the Dad’s Mayo-produced release, Jamaica shares: “’CYA’ explains the message of me staying firm to my...
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Today, New Jersey-based group Pinegrove share their new album 11:11, alongside a new video for the mini-epic lead track ‘Habitat.’ A robust, textural masterpiece, ‘Habitat‘ was inspired by long drives around upstate New York with dilapidated houses covered in plantlife spotting the landscape along the way. Of the song, singer/guitarist Evan Stephens Hall stated, “‘Habitat’ collages imagery from across the 2020’s – monuments to the past torn down, vandalised, and thrown to the waves, making much needed room for...
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Songwriter, beatmaker, and multi-instrumentalist-maverick Ethan P. Flynn announces the release of his first “finished” project Universal Deluge; a purposefully curated seven-track EP set to be released digitally and as a 12” vinyl on Friday 11 March 2022 via Young / Remote Control Records. The announcement is made in line with the release of the visual for the lead single ‘Father of Nine’, a striking music video shot by Aliyah Otchere and directed by London-based visionaries ethan&tom. Speaking on the...
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Now out digitally via Matador Records / Remote Control Records, Steve Gunn’s Nakama EP features reinterpretations of six songs from the guitarist’s recent full-length, Other You, created with close friends. This includes new studio recordings made alongside Mikey Coltun and Ahmoudou Madassane of Mdou Moctar, and Natural Information Society, as well as remixes by Circuit des Yeux and Bing & Ruth. The artwork was shot and sequenced by American photographer Duane Michals. These are not covers, exactly. Nor are they full-blown from-the-ground-up collaborations. It’s a third path...
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Montreal songwriter and producer Jesse Mac Cormack has announced his upcoming album SOLO, to be released on April 8th via Secret City Records / Remote Control. Alongside the announcement, he has also shared his new song ‘Blue World’, for which he has released a dynamic live studio performance video, available to stream now. “Betrayal leads to more betrayal. As sheep, we follow and copy/paste behaviors,” writes Mac Cormack of the themes embedded in ‘Blue World’. This prophetic warning is a fitting starting...
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Widowspeak share ‘While You Wait‘, the second single off their forthcoming sixth studio album The Jacket, to be released March 11 via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. The track features Mellotron plug-in flutes drifting over a hypnotic and buoyant motif, and an angular chorus that repeats the phrase “while you wait, we’ll have it done today.” The duo (Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas) say, “the song itself is maybe one of the more narrative remnants from when the...
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Part Time Records / Remote Control Records announce their latest signing, EWAH & The Vision of Paradise, with a sneak peak of their upcoming sophomore album The Warning Birds. Hailing from Tasmania, EWAH & The Vision of Paradise’s moody sound has been described as “epic post punk with a scope as wide as the Australian skyline.” For this first release from Vol. 2 of PTR Singles Club, Part Time Records offers a sneak peak of EWAH & The Vision of Paradise’s sophomore album The...
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Cyber duo, Two Shell, initiate ‘22 with the release of home EP – a single that secretly lit up the festival main-stages > forums + underground clubs @ the end of last year. Out now via the duo’s Mainframe Audio imprint / Remote Control Records, A-side ‘home’ is a fast-paced t-pop track that stands at the front of a new sound taking shape in ‘22. Heard in sets across the world this is groove, soul and satisfaction for the...
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Brad Barr, the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of The Barr Brothers and The Slip, shares new singles ‘Two Hundred and Sixteen‘ and ‘THE COLOR OF NINE’ alongside the release of The Winter Mission – Barr‘s brand new instrumental solo guitar album out now via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. “For me, the song ‘Two Hundred and Sixteen’ is the centerpiece of the album,” shares Barr. “It contains all the themes and tenor that I set out...
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Next month, Big Thief will release Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, the group’s new 20-track double album. Ahead of its release, they’ve set the bar high with a string of singles, and newest single ‘Simulation Swarm’ is another powerhouse track. This previously unreleased track has been a staple and fan favourite of the band’s live shows. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is a sprawling double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities...
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DARKSIDE have made new song ‘Ecdysis!‘ available online. The propulsive six and a half-minute track, led by Nicolas Jaar’s coasting vocal and Dave Harrington’s volatile guitar work, was recorded in the same sessions that yielded their long-awaited second full-length, Spiral – out now via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. DARKSIDE is an American rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2011. The group consists of Chilean electronic musician & vocalist Nicolás Jaar and American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington. Jaar and Harrington first met while...
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Montreal singer-songwriter Gus Englehorn announces his sophomore album Dungeon Master, the cutest, heaviest, strangest rock’n’roll record you will hear this year. Set for release on April 29 via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records, the news is accompanied with a new single + video directed by Englehorn and Estée Preda; the stomping, paranoid ‘Tarantula‘. Englehorn says, “This song is about uninvited recurring irrational thoughts and fears. I decided to make a little fable where a tarantula is whispering bad things...
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