Sleaford Mods are pleased to announce their new album UK GRIM to be released on March 10, 2023. Sleaford Mod’s last three albums have placed top ten in the UK charts, with their last album charting top five. As the Nottingham duo’s most dance-floor friendly release to date, UK GRIM is an urgent and sage-like look at life, living and the gritty reality of our era. The video is directed by British Collage Artist and Satirist Cold War Steve, who has created a...
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Lisa O’Neill, one of the most evocative songwriters in contemporary Irish music today, is sharing a new track with accompanying video, ‘Silver Seed’ from her upcoming album, the beautiful, resonant All of This Is Chance, out February 10th, 2023. ‘Silver Seed’ follows earlier album singles ‘Old Note’ and ‘Goodnight World’. A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, O’Neill is a five time BBC Folk Award nominee and her previous album Heard a Long Gone Song was...
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Gruff Rhys is pleased to announce his forthcoming soundtrack to the film The Almond & The Seahorse via Remote Control Records. The double album will be released digitally and on double deluxe LP in February 2023. The 22-track album comprises original songs and instrumental score, all composed by Gruff Rhys. Recorded between 2021-2022 with a host of featured musicians including members of the National Orchestra of Wales, the music features throughout the forthcoming film of the...
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Delays are reissuing their acclaimed debut album Faded Seaside Glamour – which went in to the Top 20 on its original release in 2004 – on 27 January, 2023. This will be the first time the Southampton band’s first record will be available on vinyl. The new edition comes on a limited-edition orange LP, accompanied by deluxe packaging, a print of singer Greg Gilbert’s original artwork and new sleeve notes written by keyboard player Aaron Gilbert. A...
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Lisa O’Neill, one of the most evocative songwriters in contemporary Irish music today, returns with this new album, and her first for the Rough Trade label, the beautiful, resonant All Of This Is Chance, to be released on 10th February and available on exclusive silver vinyl at indie retail and the webstore. The album follows five BBC Folk Awards nominations and a Folk Album of the Year accolade in The Guardian in 2019 for her recent album Heard a Long Gone Song on Rough Trade’s...
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London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have today shared the video for ‘Greatest Hits’, taken from their critically acclaimed debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B – out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. The video, directed by FKA Twigs’ Caprisongs visual collaborator Aiden Zamiri, charts a fictitious show trial between two eccentric pop icons and features a cast of cameos close to the Jockstrap project. Jockstrap have also announced their first shows in Australia for February and March...
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Dance-punks Special Interest today reveal their new album Endure out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. Endure was self-produced and recorded at HighTower in New Orleans with engineering by James Whitten, mixed by Collin Dupuis (Angel Olsen, Yves Tumor, Lana Del Rey) and mastered by Matt Colton in London at Metropolis. Special Interest describes the experience of recording Endure as “inverted,” since the pandemic obviously stunted the possibilities of live performance, resulting in a new period of experimentation and sonic exploration in which...
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After a four year pause, Victoria Bergsman’s Taken By Trees returns with a mini album of Colin Blunstone covers entitled Another Year, which will be released on December 9th. ‘Say You Don’t Mind’ is the first track from the mini album, , a song written and originally recorded by The Moody Blues’ Denny Laine in 1967, which was then a solo hit for Colin Blunstone in 1972. This mini album...
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New Orleans no-wave punks Special Interest are sharing ‘Foul’ a new track from their upcoming album Endure, out Friday, November 4th, 2022. “This call and response tune is a working class anthem,” Special Interest’s guitarist Maria Elena explains of ‘Foul’. “Alli and I co-wrote the lyrics and sing it together with Ruth adding a classic line – foul! Ever so foul. It’s a dispatch from the dish pit! An ode to all beleaguered workers! Minimum balance savings account blues!” Purchase / Stream...
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Ireland’s Gilla Band are sharing a new track and video, ‘Post Ryan’ today off their upcoming album Most Normal, out October 7, 2022 on Rough Trade Records. ‘Post Ryan’ was directed by Michael Speed and follows earlier singles ‘Backwash’ and ‘Eight Fivers’, which were accompanied by videos directed and animated by Mortis Studios. ‘Post Ryan’ is the album’s electrifying closer, in which the beat has been taken from ‘I Ran’ by Flock of Seagulls, the band quote saying “We thought, that’s a really great, immediate pop-sounding beat, let’s start there and go somewhere else’ –to have that immediacy, and then abstract...
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New Orleans no-wave punks Special Interest announced that they will release Endure, their third album and Rough Trade Records debut, on Friday, November 4th, 2022. The announcement was accompanied by lead single ‘Midnight Legend’ featuring iconic rapper, performance artist, poet and activist Mykki Blanco, and complete with a stunning music video directed by Special Interest vocalist Alli Logout. ‘Midnight Legend’ is described by Special Interest front person Alli Logout as “a love...
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Ireland’s Gilla Band release new single ‘Backwash’, taken off their upcoming album Most Normal, out October 7. Watch the video directed and animated by Mortis Studios below! Singer Dara Kiely shares “We didn’t really stick to the brief but it lead us down different sonic avenues. ‘Backwash’ is one of the few tracks where the words represent a dream-like circumstance. The track is about attraction – fancying someone and not knowing what to say exactly. It’s an indirect love...
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black midi’s long anticipated album Hellfire is out now! The album includes their new single ‘Sugar/tzu’ released alongside a music video directed by Noel Paul, watch below! ‘Sugar/Tzu’ centres on a futuristic boxing match wherein one of the contenders is assassinated by a young boy. It features the core band plus horns by Kaidi Akinnibi (sax), Joe Bristow (trombone) and Ife Ogunjobi (trumpet), and the voice of boxing announcer Hus...
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Gilla band announce their new album Most Normal, to be released on October 7th. It will be available on limited edition blue vinyl and an exclusive alt cover white vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies. Pre-order here. First single ‘Eight Fivers’ announces itself in that typical Gilla Band way where the lyrics often feel abstracted from the music. Dara Kiely’s voice is two opposing forces at once. In some ways it’s...
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Special Interest share ‘Follow Me’, the B-side to their debut Rough Trade single, ‘(Herman’s) House’. Lauded New Orleans 4-piece Special Interest breathe new life into a late 70s disco classic from arts & culture icon Amanda Lear. Equally as euphoric as the original, mixed by Collin Dupuis, lush production, sparkling synths & heavy bass are buoyed by gorgeous glam crooning from Alli Logout, who exchanges Lear’s deadpan delivery, instead imbuing her witty...
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Much hyped London-based eight piece caroline share a live video for their song ‘IWR’, recorded at Trafo in Jena, Germany this April. Watch below! “After we finished playing at Trafo in Jena in April, they asked if we wanted to quickly record a live version of one of our songs before packing down our gear,” caroline explain of how the new video for ‘IWR’ came to be. “Trafco is an...
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