On 10th March 2020, ‘Stay Alive‘, the debut single from the 23-year-old Muslim poet Mustafa was first released into the world. With little in the way of pre-release hype or fanfare, ‘Stay Alive’ has quickly emerged as one of the year’s defining debut releases and is a near-perfect introduction to a vital new voice in music. Produced by Frank Dukes and James Blake, this is inner-city folk music; a song...
4AD presents a special SOHN release for Record Store Day 2020, 18 April. Late last year the British producer and songwriter shared the stage with the Grammy-winning Metropole Orkest and conductor Hans Ek for the opening night of Amsterdam Dance Event. Combining SOHN’s signature glacial electronics with the 54 person-strong orchestra, the one-off live performance at celebrated Dutch venue Melkweg brought to life his best-known songs such as ‘The Wheel’,...
Stephen Malkmus releases his new album Traditional Techniques. Watch a video for his latest single ‘Shadowbanned. Following lead single ‘Xian Man,’ ‘Shadowbanned’ bursts with flute-laced swagger and Malkmus as attuned as ever to the rhythms of the ever-evolving lingual slipstream as he sings of “Amazon wheatfields and rivers of Red Bull//drip gush drip//data driven skip//to the part where the left bros parody TED talks.” Its video, directed by Jan Lankisch, features friends and fans of Malkmus, such as Kim Gordon, Mac DeMarco, Sharon Van...
caroline are pleased to share their debut live session and signing to Rough Trade Records – the track is called ‘Dark blue‘. The session was shot in January 2020, in a disused swimming pool in North London. The band hail from London. caroline began as a three-piece (Jasper Llewellyn, Mike O’Malley, Casper Hughes) in early 2017, initially evolving out of weekly improvisation sessions. Bringing together shared influences in, and experiences...
“I wrote this song in LA back in July last year, where I was doing a bunch of sessions every day for a month straight. This specific day I had the studio to myself, and it was on a day when it was unusually hard to deal with the distance between me and my personal life in New York. It started with the guitar, and the rest wrote itself. It’s...
Remote Control and Boss Battle Records are pleased to announce the release of two video game soundtracks – Wargroove: Double Trouble by Phonetic Hero and Kunai by PONGBALL. The soundtracks are now available for streaming and purchase on all digital services. Wargroove: Double Trouble features add-on downloadable content for the critically acclaimed, turn-based strategy game Wargroove. Wargroove: Double Trouble adds a brand new co-op enabled campaign story which introduces several new characters. After an unexpected kidnapping and some severe ransom demands, your group of rogues have no...
King Krule has announced his new album Man Alive! with his first ever self-directed video. Following on from last year’s ‘Hey World!’ video in which Archy Marshall performed acoustic versions of four new songs, Man Alive! (set for release on 21 February 2020) will be the third King Krule titled studio album. Archy Marshall’s long-time love of cinema seeps out in his first foray into directing, with a video for ‘(Don’t Let The Dragon) Draag On’ that pulls influences from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s classic The Passion of...
LA based rockers Starcrawler have announced their live Australian debut next month supporting friends from the LA underground, The Growlers! Kicking off January 4th 2020, Starcrawler will be joining The Growlers on a twelve-date Summer East Coast tour stopping in most big centres and surf breaks across QLD, NSW and VIC, including a night at the Enmore Theatre in Sydney. Full run of dates below. On heading Down Under, Starcrawler‘s Arrow de Wilde says “I’ve always wanted to come to Australia, and we’ve been dying to play there for so long! I...
Låpsley has returned with her new EP These Elements, out now through XL Recordings. It’s the first new music since the release of her acclaimed debut album Long Way Home over three years ago – a record that distilled the yearning and heartache of teenage love and cemented Låpsley’s position as one of the most exciting new artists in the UK. The album was hugely influential (not least on Billie Eillish, who name-checked it as a...
Congratulations to those amongst the Remote Control extended family who have received nominations at the 2019 GRAMMYs! Read the full list of nominees here. Best Music Video CELLOPHANE FKA twigs Andrew Thomas Huang, video director; Alex Chamberlain, video producer Best Alternative Music Album U.F.O.F. Big Thief ANIMA Thom Yorke
Milk on Milk a compilation of the Milk! Records roster is out now – Tiny Ruins, courtney barnett, Hachiku, Jen Cloher, The Finks, jade imagine, Evelyn Ida Morris, East Brunswick All Girls Choir and Loose Tooth – covering each other’s songs. Most of Milk On Milk was recorded earlier this year over a four day period by producer & Milk! friend Anna Laverty at Audrey Studios just around the corner from Milk! HQ in Coburg, Melbourne. Some of the Milk! roster share their thoughts on the recording, cover...
HAWA shares another taste off her forthcoming debut project. ‘My Love‘ HAWA shares inspiration for the track, “This girl slipped into my DMs and I ended up falling in love with her hard only to find that she was playing me the whole time.” The next big thing in Toronto rap, Lil Berete, drops a mixtape, 1 Way Out. It tackles the strain of growing up all too fast, being faced with...
Thrilled to announce Jeremy Neale‘s new album We Were Trying To Make It Out will be released Friday 28 February 2020. Lead single ‘Everything I Do Is Replaced By Two‘, premiered via triple j’s Home & Hosed, is a song which laments on the perils of a never-ending to do list. Who hasn’t been there? Neale says of the track “Life is demanding and the seemingly infinite to-do list is a brutal beast sworn to make sure you can never...
More than any record before, Devour Your, captures the essence and aggression of Starcrawler’s gloriously unhinged live shows. The album is out now through Rough Trade. It’s no mystery the band have garnered support from some of the greats – Shirley Manson and Elton John count themselves as fans. They’ve also supported the likes of Beck, Foo Fighters, Spoon and more. Produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave & the Bad...
‘Lust’ is the brand-new single from Melbourne-via-Sydney-via-Perth artist Denise Le Menice (AKA Ali Flintoff). It premiered on triple j Home & Hosed and sees DLM aim her sublime guitar-based dream-pop straight at the dance-floor. On ‘Lust’ Denise Le Menice’s desire is set to four-on-the-floor rave-up, takes its lascivious subject-matter and presents it with a kind of purity and sweetness. “Butterflies, I’ve got a belly-full… I hope I run into you… I’m in lust with you” Catchy, post-psych-indie-pop, dance –...
In honour of The Boss’s birthday, Lucy Dacus has released a cover of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Dancing In The Dark’. This is the fourth instalment of her 2019 holiday song series, following her Valentine’s Day cover of ‘La Vie En Rose,’ and original songs ‘My Mother & I’ and ‘Forever Half Mast,’ celebrating Mother’s Day and Independence Day, respectively. Lucy’s ongoing 2019 singles series will also include tracks tied to Halloween, Christmas, and New Year’s, with a physical EP coming this Spring. Is there...
