Conceptual multimedia artist Laura Callier, aka Gel Set, releases her fourth single ‘Feed Me’ off forthcoming album, Tone Invasion, out April 30 via 2MR. The video for ‘Feed Me,’ directed by Sean KcGuirk, is a retro 1-800 ad playing on addiction to consumerism and the balance of satisfaction. One thing is clear, we are sold on Gel Set. This track follows the first hypnotic single ‘It Has Come To Our Attention’, second single ‘Where The Ocean Meets The Land’, and third single ‘Next Exit’, a cinematic track about escaping reality...
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‘Rotsler’s Rules’ is Black Cab’s first single for 2021 and is dedicated to noted sci-fi author and illustrator, early pornographer and seminal LA cosplayer, William ‘Bill’ Rotsler. ‘Rotsler’s Rules’ was recorded with help from Graeme Pogson (GL, Harvey Sutherland) on drums and Ev Tweedie (Husky, Dub FX) on bass and was mixed by long time Black Cab producer Woody Annison and mastered by Andrei Eremin. Black Cab became intrigued by the costume play (or...
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Mdou Moctar returns with the tour-de-force title track from his new album Afrique Victime, out May 21st on Matador Records / Remote Control Records. “The wind born in Tunisia spread all over Arabia / Africa is a victim of so many crimes / If we stay silent it will be the end of us / Why is this happening?” sings Moctar on the heartfelt yet defiantly incandescent seven-and-a-half-minute rallying cry as...
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Dry Cleaning is Nick Buxton (drums), Tom Dowse (guitar), Lewis Maynard (bass) and Florence Shaw (vocals). Buoyed by the universal acclaim they received for 2019 EPs Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess, the south London foursome spent more and more of their lives on tour, refining their craft even further and developing a near-psychic knowledge of how to leave the right amount of space for each other in their songs. Their debut album New Long Leg, produced by John Parish, and featuring the...
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‘Contact’ is the second single to be taken from Ryan Downey’s forthcoming Burke Reid (Julia Jacklin, Courtney Barnett) produced album A TON OF COLOURS, out 14 May via Dot Dash Recordings. Whilst first single ‘Heart Is An Onion’ was a luminous and anthemic art-rock affair, described as “the Cars fronted by Bryan Ferry” (Sunday Times Culture UK – Hottest Tracks), ‘Contact’ shows a more atmospheric and vulnerable side of Downey’s new record. ‘Contact’ balances the stylistic grandeur and deep humanness in Downey‘s raw sophisticated sound, with both these elements...
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Bills & Aches & Blues features 18 of the label’s current artists covering a song of their choosing from 4AD’s past: a creative experiment rooted in the spirit of collaboration and a snapshot of 4AD, 41 years after its inception. Bills & Aches & Blues will be released with standard vinyl and CD editions following on 23 July and a deluxe vinyl boxset later this year. To pre-order head to 4AD.ffm.to/billsandachesandblues. The first 12 months’ profits...
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Winnipeg songwriter JayWood (aka Jeremy Haywood-Smith), announces his debut EP, Some Days, out April 23 and signing to Captured Tracks. Along with the announcement, Jaywood shares the first single/video ‘Some Days’ via KEXP. Read KEXP’s interview + ‘Some Days’ premiere here. JayWood on Some Days: “It’s been really nice reconnecting with a younger version of myself through this EP, I hope he’s stoked.” JayWood is the pseudonymous indie-alternative project of Jeremy Haywood-Smith from Winnipeg, Manitoba. What started as a bedroom recording project of sad jangle-pop songs, evolved into the psych-funk approach present on JayWood’s latest...
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Juan Wauters shares ‘Estás Escuchando’, featuring five-time Latin GRAMMY nominated artist El David Aguilar. ‘Estás Escuchando‘ is the fourth single from Juan’s forthcoming album Real Life Situations, out April 30, which also features collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Peter Sagar (AKA Homeshake), Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, and more. Directed by Juan Molinet, the ‘Estás Escuchando’ video is a colourful expression of playful animations. Juan Wauters on ‘Estás Escuchando’: “I had heard of David when I was in Mexico recording ‘La Onda de Juan Pablo’. People there regarded him as one of the most...
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Afterlife Remixed is a fresh take on Ex–Olympian’s 2020 debut Afterlife, calling on some friends, favourite musicians & DJs to rework some of their favourite songs on the record – giving them an Afterlife of their own. Afterlife Remixed is out Friday 9 April via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. The original record itself was influenced by themes of starting again, trial & error, renewal and dialogue. Liam McGorry aka Ex–Olympian says: “In this way, I thought it would be interesting to extend that...
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Liz Stringer shares the second single ‘Dangerous’ lifted from her forthcoming sixth studio album First Time Really Feeling out Friday 30 April on Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. The track sees Stringer flex her 80’s rock muscles with hair-metal guitar solos and the driving urgency of early Tom Petty or Divinyls. Stringer has collaborated with director Dyllan Corbett again for the ‘Dangerous’ video. Corbett says, “
I love how Dangerous throws you straight into a family’s history with little context. Untangling threads across time, we delve...
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Tune-Yards release their fifth studio album, sketchy., and share a new video for third single ‘hypnotized’. A soulful plea to stay awake and present in this time of pandemic and oligarchy, the video is directed by Tee Ken Ng posits the viewer on a never-ending looping train track. Last week, Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus channelled her puppeteering past for a unique rendition of ‘hypnotized’ on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Watch the performance here. sketchy., which includes the singles ‘hold yourself.’, ‘nowhere, man’ and ‘hypnotized’ is ut now. Unlike the lyrical...
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Palehound’s Ellen Kempner and Jay Som’s Melina Duterte recently announced their new collaborative project Bachelor and shared acclaimed first single ‘Anything At All’. Today, the duo announces their debut album — Doomin’ Sun due out May 28 on Milk! Records / Remote Control Records — alongside brand new ‘Stay in the Car’ track and music video directed & edited by Haoyan of America. On the bass-heavy rock song, the duo paint a yearning portrait of a woman in a supermarket parking lot, a barely-contained...
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London band black midi announce Cavalcade, their new album out May 28th on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records, and also offer its lead single/video, ‘John L.‘ Cavalcade is a dynamic, hellacious, and inventive follow-up to 2019’s widely-praised Schlagenheim, “a labyrinth with hairpin-turn episodes and lyrics full of dourly corrosive observations” (New York Times, Best Albums of 2019). It scales beautiful new heights, pulling widely from a plethora of genres and influences, reaching ever upwards from an already lofty base of early...
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The third chapter of the Bills & Aches & Blues compilation is released today. The four tracks that comprise ‘Side 3’ see Future Islands, Dry Cleaning, Bradford Cox (Deerhunter, Atlas Sound) and new signing Jenny Hval cover Colourbox, Lush, Grimes and Breeders respectively. Bills & Aches & Blues – Side 3 11 Future Islands The Moon Is Blue ( Colourbox ) 12 Jenny Hval Sunbathing ( Lush ) 13 Dry Cleaning Oblivion ( Grimes ) 14 Bradford Cox Mountain Battles ( Breeders ) Bills & Aches & Blues features 18 of the...
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Pointer Recordings is proud to introduce Melbourne three-piece Telenova. Their debut single ‘Bones’ was premiered overnight by triple j’s Declan Byrne on Home & Hosed and is released today alongside a video of the band performing live at The Night Cat in Melbourne. Watch via the image below. Telenova will launch ‘Bones’ at two sold-out single shows tomorrow night at Melbourne’s Colour Club, with a third Melbourne show just announced for Thursday 8th April at Northcote Social Club. Final tickets to Sydney’s launch at Lansdowne Hotel on Wednesday 24th March are...
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Broken Stone Records are pleased to announce Sydney three-piece Imperial Broads have joined their roster and today release their single ‘Unromantic‘. With lyrics that will set you straight on modern romance, the harmony-laden, surf-rock single is accompanied by a clip featuring the band, filmed and edited by Jonathan Sequeira. Band member Eve Lande says of the single “This is a cheeky clear-eyed take on a love song. Let’s be honest about the aspects of a long term partnership that are necessity and fantasies about something/someone...
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