Another taste of the debut album from Gena Rose Bruce, ‘I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You.’ It comes with a beautiful lyric video created by Kate Adams and Alex Badham. Gena explains – “We wanted to create a meditative, surrealist-inspired video for this song. The imagery hints at the concept of being buried, in this case by the thoughts or memories of someone you can’t let go of. It’s quite...
Four years on from Holding Hands With Jamie, Girl Band are back to announce their new album, The Talkies, out 27 September via Rough Trade Records. The album was recorded in November 2018 at Ballintubbert House, a stately home on the outskirts of Dublin “a few pay grades above what we’re used to”. The alien construction of Ballintubbert and its corridors help to navigate Girl Bands cataclysmic sound within a...
Sydney guitarist/singer-songwriter Evan Lock has released his debut solo album – Kaleidoscopic. Out now via Broken Stone Records. Listen to it here. It’s the realisation of a life-long ambition, exploring love lost, identity dislocated, and solidarity expressed. Sonically, it draws inspiration from styles of country, folk, progressive rock, blues, latin and raga – sewn together by Lock’s acute ear for beautiful, engaging guitar lines.
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...
For the first time, Call Signs, the critically acclaimed 2009 third album from Melbourne group Black Cab has been reissued on vinyl via Interstate 40. Purchase Call Signs on vinyl here Call Signs incorporates an original blend of ’70s rock, 80s post-punk and proto electronic dance beats. With shades of Cold War tension and undertones of political intrigue, the album possesses an anxious and exciting energy that holds you captive from start to finish....
Some new music to tide you over to the long weekend. Happy chocolate to you. No holds barred on Pixx‘s new single and video, ‘Bitch.’ “[It’s] about accepting and forgiving yourself for struggling; not being too hard on yourself for getting stuck in your head, and finding the relief in waking up and getting out of your hole to show the world you’re a strong bitch.” Her new album Small...
Black Cab have announced the reissue of their critically acclaimed third album, Call Signs. It’s an original blend of 70s rock, 80s post-punk and proto electronic dance beats. Shortlisted for the 2009 Australian Music Prize, the album also features a guest vocal on track ‘Ghost Anthems’ by legendary Died Pretty frontman Ron Peno. Celebrating 10 years since its release, Call Signs has been remastered and pressed on limited edition ‘stasi...
Meet Jelani Aryeh, a new signing to b4, and listen to new song ‘Union Station.’ It’s an ode to leaving suburbia and finding home, not only in a new place, but in the people you take with you. At 18yrs old Jelani already finds the sweet spot between hip hop, RnB, and pop – Jack Kolbe helping out on production duties. The pair are members of the rising global collective...
The rumours are true: The “rejected” electronic album that Stephen Malkmus has been telling everyone about will see the light of day…has finally seen the light of day. But new album Groove Denied (Matador) is not a full-blown plunge into EDM or hiptronica. In fact, there aren’t any purely instrumental tracks on the album. Every song is precisely that: a song, featuring Malkmus staples like an artfully askew melody and...
Read on for a roundup of some excellent new music out this week. Happy Friday. Starcrawler – ‘She Gets Around’ (Rough Trade) LA band Starcrawler take a nod to 90s alt-rock in their new track ‘She Gets Around.’ You know front-person Arrow de Wilde for their manic live performance – hear it on this record, strange and frenzied. Watch out for an album to be announced very soon. Pixx –...
Aldous Harding is back. Watch the delightfully stirring, off-kilter video for new song ‘The Barrel.’ It is the first track from an album to be released Friday 26 April via 4AD – Designer. Harding reunites with John Parish, producer of previous album Party, on an album that again showcases an artist undoubtedly confident in their work. Preorder here. There is nothing more to be said apart from, watch the Martin Sagadin...
Pixx has shared a remix of ‘I Bow Down’, by teen duo Let’s Eat Grandma. Their re-styling of 21-year-old Hannah Rodgers’ latest single moves the song into their unique weird pop world and is the pair’s first ever remix. Listen below! ‘I Bow Down’ is the opening track from Pixx’s debut album The Age Of Anxiety, out Friday 2nd June. Originally from Chipstead, Surrey, and a graduate of the BRIT School, Rodgers experienced...
Mac DeMarco (aka 26-year old MacBriare Samuel Lanyon DeMarco) will release, This Old Dog, his third album and first full-length since 2014’s Salad Days, on May 5th via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. In conjunction with today’s album announcement, DeMarco is sharing two lead singles — ‘My Old Man’ and ‘This Old Dog’. They are the album’s openers and right off the bat, they show a new sonic direction and...
I See You, the long awaited third album from The xx, is out today on Young / Remote Control Records and sitting at #1 on the iTunes Album Chart! I See You marks a new era for the London trio of Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith, both sonically and in terms of process. The album was recorded between March 2014 and August 2016 in New York, Marfa, Reykjavik, Los...
Lost Animal has today released his new single for ‘Too Late To Die Young’ via BrooklynVegan. The track is from his forthcoming album You Yang set for release Friday 21 October 2016 via Dot Dash / Captured Tracks in North America and Dot Dash / Remote Control Records for the rest of the world. Pre-order You Yang here.
The latest and most excellent new album from EZTV is out now via Captured Tracks / Remote Control. Stereogum tell us in a glowing review of the album that EZTV are “stunningly consistent purveyors of high-level pop-rock with strains of retro folk and psych,” and “the sheer number of striking guitar sounds and riffs on this album is astounding, and that six-string action is always deployed in service of the...
