A total joy to announce the signing of Melbourne’s Obscura Hail to Dot Dash Recordings! Watch the video for first single ‘Swear Jar‘ below, from their new EP Zero out Friday 25 October. Conceived on NSW’s South Coast, and now buried alive somewhere in Melbourne, Obscura Hail are Sean Conran, Tamara Issa & Steven West. Conran says of the video: “Swear Jar is about the dumb stuff we fight about in the heat of the moment, and having the patience to...
Jess Ribeiro follows up LOVE/HATE with a brand new song. Ribeiro is undoubtedly one of this country’s most gifted and enigmatic songwriters, a master of genre, nonchalance, double-entendre, intuition and melody – all of which is present on her new track ‘Wildflowers’ – out now via Barely Dressed Records. On ‘Wildflowers’ Jess Ribeiro has teamed up again with legendary producer and multi-instrumentalist Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds) to deliver a stunning song. Soulful and poignant...
Carla Geneve has announced a national tour this August performing shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle! She’s taking her debut self-titled EP on the road, which was released in June via Dot Dash Recordings/Remote Control Records. Carla’s also been announced on a national tour from September-October with HOLY HOLY. To celebrate the announcement, Carla has shared a video for ‘Things Change’. The video was filmed on her recent debut tour of...
Jess Ribeiro’s third album LOVE HATE is out now – a masterclass in songwriting and melody. Jess pivots to the visual realm with her directorial output for album track ‘Young Love.’ Premiering via Pilerats, watch the video below. ‘Young Love’ is a standout sleeper on her new record. It’s noticeably different from Ribeiro’s previous work – a trip-hop groove, and a more heavily processed electronic sound. The song was inspired...
Thrilled to share the debut album from Gena Rose Bruce – Can’t Make You Love Me. Stream / Order the vinyl here. The album is a distinct and dynamic debut from a young artist with a clear vision. It is an electrifying balance of tension and playfulness underpinned by a smouldering vocal performance that leaves audiences full of longing. Melbourne-based Gena Rose Bruce is one of the newest additions to the Dot Dash family and a truly exciting new voice in...
Our favourite party boys The Bennies are back with a new burner ‘Green Mitsubishis.’ It’s a ballad, but not in the way that you know it. Vocalist Anty explains – “It is a ballad about the disco before the breakdown, claustrophobia in sweaty nightclubs, prioritising time with friends over everything else, it is about the heights of ecstasy, it is about finding family in friendship, but most importantly it is a...
Their first new music since 2017’s Hot Thoughts, Spoon have shared new track ‘No Bullets Spent.’ It’s the band at their full creative forward momentum; staccato rhythms and spooky film-noir guitar. The song joins classic from the Spoon catalog on Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon compilation coming out 26 July via Matador Records. Check the album track list below and, as directed by the band, any complaints...
Saddle Creek’s newest signing Ada Lea has announced her debut album what we say in private will be released Friday 19th July. Premiered via The Fader, the Montreal-based artist has shared the video for new single ‘mercury‘. The Montreal, Quebec-based Alexandra Levy — who records and performs as Ada Lea — is also a painter and visual artist, and traces of her many creative abilities run throughout what we say in private. Levy explores the...
Local Feature at RTR FM, and featuring a KUTX Song Of The Day, Carla Geneve‘s self-titled debut EP is out today! Check out the intimate video for ‘Yesterday’s Clothes‘ released alongside the EP. Directed by Matt Sav, Carla says of the video, “I wanted the video to reflect the personal nature of the song. To me, sitting alone in front of a camera is a vulnerable situation, a lot like...
FKA twigs has taken ‘Cellophane‘ to a new dimension with a stunning live rendition, and on piano for the first time. Directed by twigs herself, the intimacy of the performance strikes a deep contrast with the conceptual scale of Huang’s original video. It was filmed in London’s renowned The Wallace Collection, a place that has long inspired both twigs and one of her favourite designers, Vivienne Westwood. In celebration of...
A new album out through out Dot Dash family! Sunbeam Sound Machine‘s Goodness Gracious is out now everywhere. Stream it here. The album debuted at #10 on the NACC (North American College and Community Chart) this week and has sold out on vinyl through Bandcamp. Copies will be available at a special in-store in Melbourne at Oh Jean Records, this Saturday 4 May at 5pm. Details here! Goodness Gracious is a self-produced...
Meet Soaked Oats, our friends from across the ditch, and the latest signing to Dot Dash Recordings. They’ve announced their new EP Sludge Pop to be released 14 June. Hear the new single ‘Coming Up’, and take the scenic route through the video here. Soaked Oats have done a lot of time together. Last year, they embarked on a DIY US tour on an old and cheap RV with no...
Courtney Barnett has shared the video for brand new single – ‘Everybody Here Hates You.’ Peek some behind the scenes fun times footage here! Recorded late in 2018 during some rare off-time on her Tell Me How You Really Feel world tour, ‘Everybody Here’ is about as close as you’ll get to hearing the extraordinary weight and swagger of her live show on a recording. It’s got one of the...
Thrilled to announce our latest signing to Dot Dash, Gena Rose Bruce. Her debut album, Can’t Make You Love Me will be released Friday 28 June. Watch the video for ‘Angel Face’ here. We are taken by Gena’s vocal. It drives this album; a stirring force amidst the pulsing rhythms, with echoes of Mazzy Star and Lynchian undertones. We can’t wait for you to hear it. Or maybe you already...
Melbourne trio Huntly have released their debut album Low Grade Buzz, a beautifully constructed and deeply personal record. Out now via Barely Dressed. Listen here. Drawing lines between all spectrums of RnB and electronica, its an album that engages the heart as much as it does the body. Hear it live in Sydney and Melbourne in May. From Huntly: “Low Grade Buzz is that feeling you get on a Sunday night...
Melbourne’s Black Cab have returned with new single ‘Take It‘ ~ listen here. Premiering on Double J, vocalist Andrew Coates says of the track “Take Is is about surrendering material things in the age of conspicuous consumption and waste. We’re only going to waste it, so why don’t you just take it?” The track is a marked step towards tighter, more concise songwriting and live instrumentation. Perfect for when you...
