Rough Trade Records’ newest signing, London-based band caroline are sharing a new track and self-directed video today, called ‘Skydiving onto the library roof’. The track will be released as a 12” single, their second for Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records, on June 25th. caroline began in early 2017, evolving out of weekly improvisation sessions. Band members brought together their shared influences, including Midwestern emo, Appalachian folk, minimalist classical and various forms of electronic music,...
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Welsh artist Koreless returns with ‘Black Rainbow’, a pumping, anthropomorphic electronic jam that has blood and guts where the wires should be. Koreless’ first solo material in 5 years, ‘Black Rainbow’ is served with a video originally conceived and shot in a ravine in Rachub, North Wales during lockdown 2020. The video for ‘Black Rainbow’ is inspired in equal parts by cult 70’s coming of age BBC drama Penda’s Fen, soft orthopedic foam and slow-motion bullet time videos of the...
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Melbourne three-piece Telenova are proud to share their brand new single ‘Tranquilize’. Premiered overnight by triple j’s Good Nights with Bridget Hustwaite, ‘Tranquilize’ arrives with a stunning video directed by Telenova frontwoman Angeline Armstrong. Assembled by Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie) at an APRA SongHubs writing camp in early 2020, Telenova combines the alluring vocals of multi-disciplined creative Angeline Armstrong, alongside the refined musicality of Edward Quinn (Slum Sociable) and Joshua Moriarty (Miami Horror). ‘Tranquilize’ was written in its entirety on the first day of the APRA SongHubs where the trio met for the first time. Armstrong shares – “I was actually...
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Lucinda Chua releases her new EP Antidotes 2, out now through 4AD. Like so many, the past year in lockdown was an isolating experience for Chua. “When you don’t get to participate in your culture, it’s like a part of you is being erased, a piece of your spirit is washed away, you become a bit more invisible.” Those feelings were heightened by discussions about racism on social media and within the music industry. Where music was once...
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Liz Stringer releases her sixth studio album—First Time Really Feeling—on Milk! Records, a ten-song collection documenting a recent reckoning and metamorphosis for the acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter. Recorded at Toronto’s Union Sound Company and produced and engineered by Chris Stringer (no relation to Liz, and known for his work with Timber Timbre and the Rheostatics), this will no doubt be regarded as Stringer’s seminal work and her most searingly personal: a musical time-capsule of love, loss and legacy,...
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‘Half Light’ is the thumping, tumbling new art-rock track by Melbourne artist Ryan Downey, exploring the challenges and cathartic rush of personal freedom and expression. Produced by Burke Reid (Courtney Barnett, Julia Jacklin, The Drones), the track heaves and crashes with electrifying heft yet carries a beautiful sensuality at its core, recalling baroque rock anthems of Kate Bush and David Bowie by way of 90s Britpop, but handled with contemporary indie production flair. Downey‘s powerfully...
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black midi present a new single/video, ‘Slow‘, from their forthcoming album, Cavalcade, out May 28th on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. In conjunction, the band completed a new KEXP interview and live performance. A full circle moment for black midi, their first KEXP performance (live from Iceland Airwaves in 2019) is how many first experienced the band. Following lead single ‘John L’, “a zoomed-out optical illusion, making you question what you’re witnessing at every turn,” (Pitchfork, “Best New Track”) ‘Slow’ is one of two Cavalcade songs fronted by bassist Cameron...
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Philly-born, NYC-bred and Berlin-based DJ, producer and performer LSDXOXO returns to share ‘The Devil,’ the first track off his forthcoming EP DEDICATED 2 DISRESPECT out May 14 on XL Recordings. The second offering from LSDXOXO is a world of darkness and opulence. “I make a deal with the devil/sell my soul and my body/but I look fucking good/whipping in my Maserati,” sings LSDXOXO, over a crunchy and addictive pop-infused techno production. ‘The Devil’ is LSDXOXO to the core; a mixture of light and dark and a...
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Psychedelic indie-rock band Crumb release their new album, Ice Melt, via their own label Crumb Records. Convening in Los Angeles to work with producer Jonathan Rado, Crumb tapped into atmosphere-creation like never before, building experimental compositions that are at turns head-nodding and surrealist, energetic and euphoric. Singer and guitarist Lila Ramani characterizes the album as a “return back down to earth,” a deeply felt examination of “real substances and beings that live on this planet.” The cultivation of road-worn musicians exploring brand-new...
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In contradiction to the sea change referenced in ‘Geelong‘, ‘Right Here‘ takes inspiration from the sound associated with Melbourne via Geelong label, Anti Fade. Referencing the paintings of Albert Tucker and the broadway flop Leonardo The Musical, “Right Here” draws upon a patchwork of corruption, greed and loss that lead to Australia’s involvement in Nauru and it’s inhumane treatment of refugees. Partners, Sisters and Friends. Partner Look are a Melbourne-based...
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Austin-based singer and songwriter Molly Burch announces the release of her fourth studio album Romantic Images, out July 23rd via Captured Tracks. The announcement is accompanied by the release of the exhilarating album opener ‘Control‘ that hears Burch make peace with letting go paired with its mesmerising, fashion-forward video directed by Jackie Lee Young and Burch. The track sets the stage for the album’s guiding light: Burch’s radical choice to shed the anxiety and insecurity of her twenties and embark upon a confident embrace of her truest self. The...
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Conceptual multimedia artist Laura Callier, aka Gel Set, releases her news album, Tone Invasion, via 2MR. The LP includes the hypnotic single “It Has Come To Our Attention,” second single “Where The Ocean Meets The Land” praised by Post-Punk and HighClouds, third single “Next Exit,” a cinematic track about escaping reality by, well, escaping, and last single “Feed Me”, about feeding capitalism culture. Something about the crime of a home...
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Juan Wauters releases new album Real Life Situations, featuring collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Homeshake, Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, El David Aguilar, and more, via Captured Tracks. His fifth solo album, Real Life Situations is a delicate interplay between genre-hopping eclecticism and earnest, plain-spoken observation. Mining older songs, phone notes, new material, and snippets from TV and YouTube, he’s crafted an aural document of the year through his eyes. Jubilant choruses and spoken word poetry...
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Pointer Recordings is proud to introduce Canberra artists Ryan Fennis and Voidhood. ‘Tapped‘ is the first release from the duo’s collaborative project and is accompanied by an electrifying video. Morphing together their bass-heavy, sample-driven electronic styles, the pair shape an unstable sound reflecting the increasingly distorted world we find ourselves in. Inspired by their everyday lives and the drive to create something unique and true to self, through ‘Tapped’, Ryan Fennis and Will Klep (Voidhood) upend the preconceived ideas of mediocracy associated with the city they come from....
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Bachelor – the collaborative project of Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner – will release its debut album Doomin’ Sun on May 28th via Milk! Records. The duo share another single off of the record. Of the country-inflected ‘Sick of Spiraling‘ the band says “Sick of Spiraling is one of the last songs we wrote and recorded together in Topanga. Both of us initially tried to play drums on the song but the groove wasn’t right so we enlisted help from James Krivchenia. He came over...
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Toronto-based rapper Shad today releases a brand-new song ‘Out of Touch’, a bright, RnB-spiked track featuring the multi-talented pHoenix Pagliacci. This memorable new offering marks the return of the rhymer and the first taste of forthcoming music coming later this year on Secret City Records. “’Out of Touch’ is basically the thesis statement for this upcoming collection,” explains Shad. “It’s about how our individual sense of wholeness can’t be disentangled from our collective well-being. It’s about the idea that we belong to each...
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