Today, Melbourne-based songwriter and producer Katz shares ‘Only You’ – the title track from his newly announced sophomore EP, due August 13 via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. Featuring vocalist Sophia Brown, ‘Only You’ intertwines see-sawing keys, 808s and a boom-bap rhythm with Brown’s mournful vocals. As Katz puts it, “I’m a sucker for sad pop, and always love writing songs that juxtapose melancholy lyrics against hopeful instrumental backdrops. From...
After taking people by surprise last month by releasing ‘Out of Touch,’ the first brand-new song since 2018, Canadian rapper Shad is at it again and today unveils a punchy new track and its video titled ‘Work’, as premiered by Complex. Shad tells us: “Like ‘Out of Touch’, ‘Work’ was another song written pre-pandemic that is (sadly) even more timely now. I knew I wanted to write a song specifically about two aspects of...
GRAMMY-nominated musician Cedric Burnside has shared the cathartic opening track from his new album I Be Trying – out June 25 on Single Lock Records / Remote Control Records – today: an acoustic-driven reflection on recent times aptly titled ‘The World Can Be So Cold’. As only a true Mississippi bluesman can, Burnside channels those acute experiences of pain, anger, frustration and hurt into an intimate, vulnerable and profound look into his inner life. Recorded at Memphis’ hallowed...
Today Welsh producer Lewis Roberts aka Koreless announces his much-anticipated debut album Agor, due for release July 9 via Young / Remote Control Records. An album over five years in the making, Agor is announced with the single ‘Joy Squad’, a track that has a life of its own already. Played by Caribou, Jamie xx and TNGHT in their BBC Radio1 Essential Mixes and with further support from Oli XL and HAAi,...
Sydney-based, Papau New Guinea-born future soul artist Ngaiire is elated to share that her forthcoming album 3 will be released Friday 27 August via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records for AUNZ and Majestic Casual for the rest of the world. She also shares the brand new single ‘Closer’, co-written with Japanese Wallpaper and Jack Grace, as premiered by triple j’s Declan Byrne on Home & Hosed. Described by Ngaiire as her “sweaty 80’s summer love song”, the track is centred around how she observed and understood love, sex and dating as a...
Danish producer and songwriter Erika de Casier releases Sensational, her second studio album, today. Featuring the singles ‘Busy’, ‘Polite’, ‘Drama’ and ‘No Butterflies, No Nothing’, de Casier’s debut for 4AD / Remote Control Records is now available on all digital platforms. Sensational expands the universe of de Casier’s 2019 self-released debut album Essentials. Where Essentials dealt more with the infatuation stages of love, Sensational has more of an attitude, aiming to dismantle the stereotype of single women looking for love, tackling relationship dramas and the toxicity of dating. It was...
Lucy Dacus presents ‘VBS’, a new single/video from her forthcoming album, Home Video, out June 25th on Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Like the previously released ‘Hot & Heavy‘ and ‘Thumbs‘, ‘VBS‘ starts the way a memoir might – “In the summer of ‘07 I was sure I’d go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBS” – and presents the compassion, humour and honesty of the best autobiographical writing. ‘VBS’ features Dacus on vocals, Jacob Blizard on a slew of electric...
Today, black midi reveal a new single/video, ‘Chondromalacia Patella‘, from their forthcoming album, Cavalcade, out next Friday May 28 on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records, with an online Cavalcade listening party held on May 27. The third in a string of fervent singles, ‘Chondromalacia Patella’, is a song about convalescence, aptly named after a band member’s knee injury from running. It features abrasive noise rock chords and circular drumming, which ultimately climax in a sunburst of arpeggiated guitars skyscraping above and beyond power metal....
Mdou Moctar’s sixth album and Matador Records debut, Afrique Victime, finally hits down. Recorded across four studios and two continents, the album has already drawn universal praise as a powerful rallying call – a melding of guitar pyrotechnics and full-blast noise with poetic meditations on love, inequality, and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers. Read Pitchfork’s “Best New Music” review of Afrique Victime HERE and Rolling Stone’s profile of Mdou HERE. Alongside the album release comes the video...
Gruff Rhys releases his new album Seeking New Gods, out now on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. His seventh solo album, Seeking New Gods was recorded following a 2019 US tour with his band and mixed in LA with superstar producer Mario C (Beastie Boys), with beautiful art direction is by long-time Gruff collaborator Mark James. Gruff has a long history of pushing the boundaries of how music can be listened to, and has been working with BBC Research & Development on a special...
From live electronic music trio The Sticks comes new single and video ‘EXMEN‘ via Broken Stone / Remote Control Records – the group’s first release since their acclaimed self titled 2015 debut album. The Sticks‘ sound revolves around the AirSticks, a gestural electronic ‘invisible’ drumkit invented by the band’s drummer/percussionist, Alon Ilsar, who also contributes live drums to the record. Ilsar‘s creeping multi-textural groove, combined with Josh Ahearn‘s grinding bass tones and keyboardist Daniel Pliner‘s otherworldly melodies, create the impression of a slow jam being pulled through...
Melbourne’s Ryan Downey delivers his luminous art-rock album A TON OF COLOURS via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records. In celebration, he’s announced a run of tour dates in July & August in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Castlemaine. Full details and ticket link below. A TON OF COLOURS is about humanness – its beauty, its contradictions, and our desire for connection. It is a love letter to the beauty of emotional expression and communication, with love being the...
Introducing Cavallo Nero – a Melbourne-based three-piece outfit dressed for the occasion. The latest addition to the Pointer Recordings family, Cavallo Nero share their hypnotic debut single and video, ‘Lessons’. Formed in the summer of 2019 by three members of live-show sweat-stalwarts Total Giovanni, this new project delves deeper into clubland and the after hours – all that the strobe light touches and the smoke machine envelopes. Cavallo Nero exists...
Sleater-Kinney return with a new single and video entitled ‘Worry With You’. It marks their first new music since 2019. The accompanying visual, which was shot in Portland, Oregon was directed by Alberta Poon and stars Fabi Reyna and Megan Watson. The song also heralds the arrival of the group’s tenth full-length studio record, Path Of Wellness (via Milk! Records / Remote Control) arriving on June 11th. The album is now available for pre-order at all digital service providers. Pre-order here. In the midst...
Erika de Casier releases a new single ‘Busy’ and presents fierce CEO boardroom realness in its official video. Assuming her alter ego Bianka – a character who has featured in the visuals for previous singles ‘Polite’ and ‘Drama’ – on ‘Busy’, the Danish songwriter and producer is working hard and taking nothing for granted. Connect with Bianka on LinkedIn here. ‘Busy’ is the fourth single to be taken from de Casier’s second full-length studio album Sensational. Featuring the tracks ‘Polite’, ‘Drama’ and ‘No Butterflies, No Nothing’, Sensational will be released on 21 May 2021 via 4AD / Remote Control...
Philly-born, NYC-bred and Berlin-based DJ, producer and performer LSDXOXO releases his much-anticipated debut EP Dedicated 2 Disrespect, out now on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. An illustrious portrait of the intersections between rave, techno, house, gender, sexuality, camp and race, Dedicated 2 Disrespect is a project that oscillates between the politics and the party so effortlessly bold and unapologetic. Following previously released singles ‘Sick Bitch‘ and ‘The Devil‘ today LSDXOXO has shared a new lyric video for the EP’s closing...
