Overmono return with ‘Gem Lingo (ovr now)’ featuring the Paul Institute-founding artist Ruthven. The single premiered as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record with Jack Saunders. Watch the visualiser below! ‘Gem Lingo (ovr now) (feat. Ruthven)’ needs little introduction. Since the first play during Overmono’s @TheLotRadio set with Fred Again… and Lil Yachty to celebrate the release of the collaborative single ‘stayinit’, ‘Gem Lingo’ captivated fans. The soulful vocal hook, sampled from Ruthven’s acclaimed 2018 single ‘Hypothalamus’, echoes across Overmono’s deft productions...
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Kim Deal shares ‘Coast’, the first single through 4AD under her own name. Premiered by Lauren Laverne on her 6 Music radio show. Written in 2020 after being at her friend Mike Montgomery’s wedding when the house band, The Grape Whizzers, jammed Jimmy Buffett’s 1977 ‘Margaritaville’ with “revelatory levels of low self-esteem”. But the song’s roots reach back as far as 2000, when Kim was staying on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. An unlikely retreat for the Ohio native...
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Bartees Strange returns with new single ‘Lie 95’, paired with a striking video directed by Vincent Martell and Jordan Phelps of VAM STUDIO starring Strange as both himself and his otherworldly companion. Watch below! Kacy Hill and Charlene Gibbs contribute additional vocals on the track, which is co-produced by Strange and notcharles with additional production from longtime creative collaborator Graham Richman. Bartees Strange shares “This song is about searching for love all across the Northeast corridor (I-95) – my universe. I’m...
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Leif Vollebekk reveals ‘Southern Star’ a poignant ballad as second single, including backing vocals by Australian singer-songwriter Angie McMahon and steel guitar by legendary Cindy Cashdollar. Watch the accompanying video, directed by longtime collaborator and award-winning filmmaker Kaveh Nabatian, below! “I think this might be my favourite song I have ever written, and it took a while to reveal itself,” says Leif. “I spent about two years waiting for the last verse to come. It was recorded in one...
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GIFT release new single ‘Later’, which was co-written by the band’s multi-instrumentalists Jessica Gurewitz and vocalist/guitarist TJ Freda. The band’s own Jessica Guerwitz not only co-wrote ‘Later’, but she also co-directed its music video for the first time, working with Sophia Feuer (Director, DP, Editor). Watch below! GIFT’s forthcoming album Illuminator is out on August 23rd. The album is a dynamic fusion of genres, seamlessly blending electronic elements with widescreen pop production techniques. Listen / download ‘Later’ here.Pre-order /...
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Ahead of her tour next month Kim Gordon releases new single ‘ECRP’, with an accompanying video once again featuring, this time as director, her daughter, Coco Gordon Moore. Watch below! In it, quick-cutting shots of a variety of New York street scenes augment the Justin Raisen-produced song’s disorienting sonics, as Gordon intones of “rumors of free speech” and “ashes on the nightstand”. Earlier this year, Gordon released her second solo album, The Collective, and also made her explosive solo late...
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Jen Cloher’s taut, terse brand of rock is charged with the static tension that comes with being an eternal misfit; they have spoken truth to power with the shrewd eye that only an outsider can possess. On their latest single ‘Annabelle’, Cloher paints a harrowing portrait of the protagonist who is undone by her need to win at all costs. On a deeper level the song questions white feminism’s centring in modern discourse...
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Rising up from the waves and primordial mist, Dirty Three emerge once again with the reverie of new single ‘Love Changes Everything II’, arriving ashore ahead of their first album in over a decade Love Changes Everything – released physically on Friday, 14th June and digitally on Friday, 28th June. This news follows that of a just-announced third Melbourne date to their ever-growing national tour this June. ‘Love Changes Everything II’ is Dirty Three at midday: glancing pensively back at the waters of...
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Nearly three years after the release of his critically acclaimed EP Aurora, Brazilian-Canadian singer-songwriter Fernie returns with a new single titled ‘Pain.’ His first official release via Secret City / Remote Control Records, this song was produced in collaboration with Montreal artist Patrick Watson. “Ultimately this song is about the universal feeling of emptiness. From my experience surrounding the idea of pain… it blinds you. Aside from love, pain is one of the most powerful feelings on earth....
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Bibi Club, the duo consisting of Adèle Trottier-Rivard and Nicolas Basque, share their new single ‘Parc de Beauvoir,’ which was written in London during a tour. Premiering on Brooklyn Vegan, this is the first English single from the album Feu de garde, which will be released May 10th. The duo explains what inspired the writing of this song, saying “We were in a contemplative, exhausted state as our kid was playing in the park. Parc de Beauvoir is an ode...
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For their first album in over a decade – yep, it’s been ten years since 2012’s Toward the Low Sun – Dirty Three flew in, got together and started playing. End of story. Music’s their true love; they never stop listening to that. And like the title says, Love Changes Everything. Arriving physically on Friday, 14th June and digitally on Friday, 28th June, Love Changes Everything expands on their rumbling, wide-open instrumentals that pull you in like oil-painted landscapes. There’s...
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The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper returns with the vinyl reissue of two bona fide classic albums on Friday 29th March, and an April tour to celebrate. Black Ticket Day and Law Of Nature are available for pre-order now! The two albums follow the recent reissues of Frontierland, Honey Steels Gold and Electrical Storm and the previously unreleased Mr. MiraKle. For the April tour Kuepper’s band will again feature drummer Mark Dawson, bassist Peter Oxley, pianist Alister Spence and brass arranger Eamon Dilworth. Further tour details below!...
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Jeremy Dutcher – the classically trained Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist, and member of Neqotkuk (Tobique First Nation) in Eastern Canada – shares his new record, Motewolonuwok (Muh-del-wool-en-oo-wug). Motewolonuwok heaves with dynamic orchestration and the inherent drama of grand piano, recalling a long line of artists who have turned the classical establishment on its head to deliver compositions that are doubly ecstatic and modern. Stream / Purchase Motewolonuwok here.
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Emilie Kahn unveils Maybe, her third album that will be available in digital format on October 20. The album is at once laid-back and feverish, with a pop energy that recalls Arlo Parks, Olivia Rodrigo, Lana Del Rey, and Kahn’s viral affection for Taylor Swift. Kahn is also sharing a second single off the new album — ‘Parallel’ — as well as the accompanying video. “I had just met someone with whom I felt a deep connection, and I envisioned...
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Raw and unbridled, Carla Geneve offers further insight into her deeply personal forthcoming LP in the form of downtempo wonder ‘Drive Carefully’. Her second album HERTZ arrives on Friday, 27th October. ‘Drive Carefully’ finds Geneve embracing strength in vulnerability through her raw and honest lyricism. Over gentle strumming, her uniquely emotive vocals engulf before building to a cathartic, guitar-driven crescendo. Listen / Download Carla Geneve – ‘Drive Carefully’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save HERTZ here.
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La Force, the mesmerizing solo project from Ariel Engle, unveils her sophomore full length XO SKELETON out now. XO SKELETON is the supple, steady, uncanny new album by La Force: a mixture of haunted pop and hot-blooded R&B that glistens at the meeting-point between life, death, and love. The album was coproduced by La Force and Warren Spicer (Plants and Animals). “The theme of the album revealed itself in the making,” she explains, recalling how the title track is...
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