Car Seat Headrest today reveal dreamy nigh-on 8-minute epic ‘There Must Be More Than Blood’, ahead of the release of their new album Making A Door Less Open on May 1st. The release is accompanied by a special acoustic performance of the song by front man Will Toledo in character as ‘Trait’. In its mesmeric slow burn, album centerpiece ‘There Must Be More Than Blood’ presents another facet of the...
Meet emerging U.K.-based singer, producer and harpist TATYANA. She shares her stunning debut single and video ‘Wild Card’. Born to Russian and English parents, TATYANA is a new signing to Sinderlyn – sister label to Captured Tracks. Speaking about ‘Wild Card’, TATYANA added “I wrote this song about an imaginary Russian lover I never had. There’s a place in the Russian countryside I used to go to as a kid...
Ever since Steve Gunn released his critically acclaimed fourth studio album Unseen In Between and follow-up Unseen Acoustic in 2019, we’ve been eagerly awaiting a new collection of songs from the prolific songwriter and guitarist. Happy to report that Steve Gunn has a new EP out titled Livin’ In Between featuring three cover songs released last year exclusively as an Amazon Original and ‘Aquarium Drunkard Lagniappe Session’ singles respectively, that...
Don’t Waste Your Anger, the fifth studio album from Melbourne six piece The Smith Street Band is out now through Pool House Records! The album was set in motion a little over two years ago when the band, with the help of a handful of family and friends, set about building their own solar powered recording studio on the edge of the Wombat State Forest in regional Victoria. Over a couple...
Ending months of speculation about exactly who’s behind one of the year’s most talked-about and sought after club tracks, Jamie xx has released ‘Idontknow‘. It is Jamie’s first solo artist release since his highly acclaimed BRIT and GRAMMY® nominated 2015 debut album In Colour. Without knowing the artist behind it, people have been raving to ‘Idontknow’ since late autumn 2019 when Jamie first debuted the track. Since then, the track has...
Car Seat Headrest has released ‘Hollywood’, the latest single taken from his hotly anticipated album Making A Door Less Open, released May 1st. Accompanied by an animated video by Sabrina Nichols featuring Toledo’s alternate persona ‘Trait’, ‘Hollywood’ is an a simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying haunted ride through Tinseltown that sees Car Seat Headrest embarking on adventurous new roads. Speaking to SiriusXM, Toledo said: “This song is about Hollywood as a...
“For the woman who gave me everything I needed to be strong…” 1010 Benja SL New single out called ‘Dobby’ via Young. A love song, a ride or die anthem written for his partner and the first track from a new body of work, ‘Dobby’ perfectly showcases 1010 Benja SL’s modern soulful sound. Having seemingly come out of nowhere to release his delightfully perplexing single ‘Boofiness’ in 2017, 1010 Benja...
Bing & Ruth, the ever-evolving project helmed by New York composer David Moore, has announced details of a new album. Entitled Species, the 7-track, 49-min record will be released on Friday 17 July via 4AD. While on a surface level, Species is an exploration of the sonic possibilities of the Farfisa organ, aided only by a clarinet and double bass (played respectively by founding members Jeremy Viner and Jeff Ratner),...
Remote Control and Boss Battle Records are pleased to announce the release of video game soundtrack AER: Memories Of Old by Cajsa Larsson. AER: Memories of Old’ is an open world exploration adventure game with focus on narrative and atmosphere. You play as a shapeshifter called Auk who has the ability to turn into a bird, and you explore the world to save it from destruction. Since it’s release it...
Hurts To Laugh marks the ongoing output of Methyl Ethel producer and multi-instrumentalist Jake Webb’s restless mind. The new EP is out now! Time and again he’s proven that while there’s no distinction between music and art, psychologically speaking there is a difference between feeling and emotion. One is a conscious response to a set of circumstances, the other is the unconscious conditions of our very being that only occasionally...
Check out The Smith Street Band‘s new single ‘I Still Dream About You’, as premiered on triple j Good Nights. ‘I Still Dream About You’ is the second single from the band’s forthcoming, fifth studio album Don’t Waste Your Anger. Originally due for a June release, The Smith Street Band have moved forward the album which will now be available digitally on Friday April 17th (next week!) via the band’s own...
Car Seat Headrest share a new song, ‘Martin.’ Listen and watch the lyric video, with bandleader Will Toledo in the character of ‘Trait’ below. The track is taken from the band’s forthcoming new album Making A Door Less Open, set for release May 1. Described by Toledo as “one of the favorite songs that he’s ever written”, ‘Martin’ is a soaring and majestic ode of life-affirming pop. Created over the...
In this time of physical distancing, let’s show some social solidarity. Measures put in place to combat the spread of COVID-19 mean artists can’t normally, and essentially, receive their income from touring. Bandcamp have stepped in to streamline your support direct to artists: waiving their revenue share on sales. From 6pm AEDT tonight and for 24 hours, buy your music from Bandcamp and direct much needed money straight to artists’ pockets. Read...
After humble lo-fi beginnings in the Australian art-pop underground, Donny Benét has expanded his cult-like following across the globe with a resonant array of danceable repertoire dealing with love and affection. His next album marks a new chapter informed by a wealth of musical and personal development. Enter Mr Experience, the new album from Donny Benét released Friday 22nd May. To celebrate Mr Experience, Donny Benét will play a run...
Perth artist Carla Geneve is back with another belter. Check out the new single and accompanying video titled ‘Don’t Wanna Be Your Lover‘. The track is the first taste of her debut full-length due later this year. The track is an exploration of the grey areas between platonic and romantic relationships and “how two people might want different things but knowing that that doesn’t undermine the connection you have,” says...
Heavy Light, the seventh album by U.S. Girls is out now. The protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist Meg Remy, Heavy Light recounts personal narratives to create a deeply introspective about-face. The songs are an inquest into the melancholy flavour of hindsight, both personal and cultural. Remy makes this notion formally explicit with the inclusion of three re-worked, previously released songs: ‘Statehouse (It’s A Man’s World)’, ‘Red Ford Radio’, and ‘Overtime’. Remy casts herself as lead voice among a...
