Snail Mail (Lindsey Jordan) has released ‘Madonna’, the third preview from her forthcoming new album Valentine – out November 5 via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Alongside the single’s release, Jordan shares a live performance of ‘Madonna’ filmed at the Armour-Stiner Octagon House in New York. Lindsey says, “I am excited to share this one! In summation it’s about why love can’t exist between a person and a concept of a person. Remove the pedestal and you might...
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Following the release of their acclaimed debut EP Tranquilize in July and their standout performance for triple j’s Like A Version in August, today, Melbourne three-piece Telenova share their Tranquilize Remixes EP via Pointer Recordings / Remote Control Records. Preceded by the release of LA-producer Meija‘s remix, the EP also features contributions from UNO Stereo, Joe Smallwood & Tim Zen. Of the remix EP, frontwoman Angeline Armstrong shares, “We wanted to see what happened when you put our first ever written song, ‘Tranquilize’, through the sonic prism of artist/producers from...
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NYC-based producer and artist Yaeji, in collaboration with OHHYUK, founder of the Seoul based indie band HYUKOH, has announced two new singles and music videos: ‘29′ and ‘Year to Year‘ (out now on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records). Starting as sketches exchanged between the two artists, the songs took full shape when they connected for studio sessions in Seoul earlier this year. Written, recorded and produced by Yaeji and OHHYUK, the singles premiered with two new music videos: ‘Year to Year’ directed by Seoul-based...
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Los Angeles-based artist and songwriter Hana Vu shares ‘Gutter’, the latest single off of Public Storage, her debut record on Ghostly International, due out next Friday, November 5th. In conjunction, she shares a live performance of ‘Gutter’. Following the “ethereal” (NYLON) ‘Maker’, and the “quasi-darkgaze banger” (MTV) ‘Everybody’s Birthday’, ‘Gutter’ is the heaviest song on the album. It thrives in grungy lowlight, with muscular guitar riffs striating above a bed of feedback, swelling alongside orchestral strings to a roaring finish. ‘Gutter’ sees Vu leaning into the alternative media she consumed...
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Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records have released the deluxe edition of Sound & Color – Alabama Shakes’ groundbreaking GRAMMY-winning 2015 album. The repackaged set – available in digital, CD and limited 2-disc vinyl formats – features seven bonus tracks pulled from unreleased studio material, B-sides and live recordings, plus reimagined artwork by GRAMMY-winning art director Frank Harkins and new photos. Originally released in April 2015, Sound & Color debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The album also went Top...
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Sydney-based, Papau New Guinean future-soul artist Ngaiire has been nominated for four ARIA Awards. Announced this morning, Ngaiire and her album 3 are nominated for Best Artist, Best Soul and R&B Release, Michael Gudinski Breakthrough Artist Award and also Best Cover Art, which is centered around an artwork that Ngaiire painted. Of the nominations Ngaiire shares – “Look I wasn’t expecting anything but FOUR!? Holy crap! I’m absolutely beside myself. Me and my team worked so hard on this release and this is already a win for us regardless...
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Courtney Barnett, the unstoppable singer-songwriter, has released her song entitled, ‘Smile Real Nice’, which serves as the theme song for Harriet the Spy, new Apple Original series for kids and families that will premiere November 19, and marks the first animated adaptation of the iconic children’s novel chronicling the coming-of-age adventures of the irrepressible Harriet M. Welsch. The single was released via Mom + Pop and is now available on Apple Music. Courtney Barnett will be releasing her highly anticipated new...
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Parquet Courts have released their much-anticipated new album, Sympathy For Life, via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records, alongside a scorching new single & video,‘Homo Sapien’. Sympathy For Life is Parquet Courts at their most instinctive and electronic, spinning their bewitching, psychedelic storytelling into fresh territory, yet maintaining their unique identity. Although new track ‘Homo Sapien’ is guitar heavy, it still has a grooving edge as A Savage’s vocals ruminate: “The erotic quality of not feeling meaningless //...
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Today, Helado Negro releases new album Far In, via 4AD / Remote Control Records, alongside the video for the album’s fourth single ‘There Must Be A Song Like You’. Commenting on the song, Roberto Lange writes, “who are you? All of our songs are so different. All of the experiences that we are, can there be a song like you? This song is a map of this exploration. Looking for melodies and rhythms that are you, day to day moment to moment, we are...
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Stabbing synths rising over lofi house-influenced percussion intertwine with June Jones’ vocals on the Melbourne-based singer-producer’s take on Minogue’s 2001 track – out via Emotion Punk Records / Remote Control Records. Speaking to the release, Jones shares: “I was so excited when Music Victoria asked me to do a Kylie cover as part of their announcement that she would be inducted into their Hall of Fame. It was always going...
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Circuit des Yeux (Haley Fohr) today releases her Matador Records / Remote Control Records debut album, -io, following singles ‘Vanishing‘, ‘Dogma‘ and ‘Sculpting the Exodus‘. –io is the sixth album by vocalist and composer by Circuit des Yeux. A celebrated figure in Chicago’s music community, she has released acclaimed albums via De Stijl, Thrill Jockey, and Drag City and toured throughout the world. However, -io is Circuit des Yeux’s most ornate and elaborate work to date – a set of compositions...
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LA-based Hand Habits – the moniker of Meg Duffy (they/them) – has released their new album Fun House via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. There is a moment halfway through Fun House where Duffy asks the question, “How many times must I rewind the tape?” It’s a fitting question planted squarely in the middle of a sonically adventurous record concerned largely with making sense and taking stock. How much time must we spend examining our own past in order to fully...
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Today, bewitching new duo Mess Esque release their self-titled full-length album alongside feature track ‘Wake up to yesterday‘, via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Featuring music and instruments by Mick Turner and words and voice by Helen Franzmann, Mess Esque coalesce from ripples of guitar and shudders of emotion into the bumps and grooves of songs with biological inevitability. Mick Turner’s aquatic guitar moods are met where they live and breathe by the vocals and dream imagery of Helen Franzmann aka McKisko,...
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Today Dinner, aka Danish multi-instrumentalist Anders Rhedin, is pleased to release the new album Dream Work, a lush collection of synth and guitar-laden indie pop that expertly channels Ryuichi Sakamoto, early British indie, and the sound of water, available now via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. Dream Work features vocal contributions from labelmates Molly Burch and Charlie Hilton as well as Lina Tullgren and Nicolai Koch. The album follows the release of videos for lead single ‘Midnight In My Head (ft. Charlie Hilton)‘ directed by Anne...
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Musician, vocalist, and electronic composer Tama Gucci forges his own sound that uniquely reimagines the intersection of pop and R&B. Today, he has announced details of his third EP, Almost Blue, due November 9th via Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records. The EP will be his first music released via Sinderlyn, the sister label to Captured Tracks and part of the Omnian Music Group. Tama Gucci has also shared the lead single from the EP, ‘Challenge‘, which was produced by Nick León and is...
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Anjimile Chithambo, known artistically as Anjimile, has joined the 4AD family and today he releases his debut for the label, a one-off single entitled ‘Stranger’ – out now via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Of the single, Anjimile shares: “‘Stranger’ is something of a confrontation between my past and present selves in relationship to my trans identity. I started testosterone about 3 or 4 years ago, and It’s been simultaneously liberating and alarming to note the changes...
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