Out May 3rd, Funeral For Justice is the new album by Mdou Moctar. Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, it captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are passionately political. Nothing is held back or toned down. The songs on Funeral For Justice speak unflinchingly to the plight of...
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Emotive storyteller Jess Locke follows up the announcement of her forthcoming album with another new single in ‘The Place’. Locke’s fourth omnibus Real Life will be released on Friday, 3rd May through Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. Unhurried in pace, ‘The Place’ is buoyed by acoustic guitars and a metronomic bass line, while Locke’s yearning vocals drive home the themes of adulthood and nostalgia. It follows her “punchy” (Rolling Stone) lead single ‘Uncomfortably Happy’ which was added to heavy rotation at KEXP, and received love from Double...
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The Toronto-born-and-raised singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Day Wilson announces her sophomore album Cyan Blue out May 3rd. First single ‘I Don’t Love You’ is a stark and devastatingly beautiful confessional, highlighting Wilson’s immaculate production skills and chill inducing vocals laid atop smooth groove piano chords and soft drums. The track also arrives with a visual directed by Dani Aphrodite featuring layered low-fi footage of the artist and producer performing at home, living every day...
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Signing to XL Recordings / Remote Control, Nourished By Time returns to announce his new EP Catching Chickens will be released on 22 March digitally and on 12” vinyl. With tracks like ‘Hell of a Ride,’ in which Nourished By Time contemplates the fall of the American empire and late-stage capitalism loneliness, and ‘Had Ya Called’, which deals with the frustrations of growing distance in friendships, Nourished By Time chronicles his own test of agility as he weaves through the motions of his...
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Today, Leeds-based art-rock experimentalists Drahla share ‘Second Rhythm’, the second single from angeltape, their long-awaited second full-length album due out April 5th via Captured Tracks / Remote Control. The release of ‘Second Rhythm’ comes with a video created by the band. According to vocalist and guitarist Luciel Brown: “’Second Rhythm’ is the twisted reprise to our 2019 release ‘Primitive Rhythm.’ It simultaneously represents the link and disconnect between the two albums Useless Coordinates and angeltape. From reaching the handsome landscape to no...
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Adrianne Lenker shares a new single ‘Fool’ from her upcoming album, Bright Future, out on 22nd March. With bent, plucked, and trembling strings, ‘Fool’ chases its tail for answers with softened beach glass geometry. Accompanying the single is another video directed by Adrianne’s brother, Noah Lenker, featuring Adrianne’s family and their dogs. “I feel like I can hear her laughing and smiling when I listen back to this song. The joy is palpable,” says producer Philip Weinrobe. “It’s easy to forget that Adrianne can do unbridled ecstatic...
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Musician and visual artist Kim Gordon has released ‘I’m a Man’, the latest preview track from her second solo album, The Collective, out March 8th on Matador / Remote Control. Atop a dark, churning soundscape, Gordon ruminates on discrimination, gender norms and societal constraints in her inimitable style—once again challenging the listener to think deeply about the world around them. An evocative video for ‘I’m a Man’ is also out today, starring Coco Gordon Moore and Conor Fay and was directed by filmmaker Alex Ross Perry,...
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London-based singer, producer, and harpist TATYANA shares a new single, ‘Control’ feat. Dave Okumu, on February 14th from her upcoming album, It’s Over, out March 22nd via Sinderlyn / Remote Control. The single comes with a video directed by Andy King. A luminous, thumping voyage through the arcs of modern / chronically online dating, ‘Control’ feat. Dave Okumu charts the undulating risk vs. reward trade off when you open yourself up to someone. It also contains a prominent use of her primary instrument, the harp. The...
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SAM MORTON – the musical duo comprising singer, songwriter and acclaimed actor and director Samantha Morton, and music producer and artist Richard Russell – today release a new single, ‘Cry Without End’, via XL Recordings / Remote Control. Featuring musician and composer Alabaster DePlume, ‘Cry Without End’ is simultaneously fragile and powerful, a gorgeous, heart-jangling song that sees Morton’s ethereal vocal – acapella for the first verse – ultimately enveloped by delicate, lush orchestration. The single is complimented by a...
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After enrapturing audiences on their just-finished single tour, lyrical masterminds Obscura Hail share one more lament before the release of their upcoming album Playing Dead out March 1st via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. ‘Foreign Substances’ is accompanied by the announcement of album launch dates across the east coast next month. Sonically upbeat, ‘Foreign Substances’ deals in the highs and lows of modern life showcasing the band’s ability of masking mature content with a playful delivery. Bobbing on a bed of...
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Goat Girl – Lottie Pendlebury (she/her), Rosy Jones (they/them) and Holly Mullineaux (she/her) are excited to announce their third album Below The Waste which is being released on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records on June 7th. The album was co–produced by the band and John Spud Murphy (Lankum and black midi). Singer Lottie says on the lead track ‘ride around’, “I was listening to lots of music at the time by Phillip Glass and Deerhoof that plays with the relationship between tension and resolution which...
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Four-time ARIA award-nominated future-soul artist Ngaiire announces, alongside the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, the release of Live At The Sydney Opera House – a recording taken from their sold out 2022 Forecourt performance for the 50th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House. To be released on Friday, 26th April, the album consists of orchestral arrangements of tracks from across her career, including her critically-acclaimed album 3, performed to thousands of captivated fans and highlighting her powerhouse vocals. Today sees the release of ‘Once (Live at The Sydney Opera House)’. To celebrate, Ngaiire and the Sydney...
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NYC’s beloved sibling duo The Lemon Twigs announce their new LP A Dream Is All We Know, arriving May 3rd on Captured Tracks / Remote Control. Following 2023’s emotionally charged Everything Harmony — which The Guardian called “totally perfect,” Questlove praised for going “full Debarge”, and The Needle Drop’s Anthony Fantano revealed was the source of his #1 most played song of the year — A Dream Is All We Know finds brothers Michael and Brian D’addario exploring upbeat, shimmering arrangements that live in an imaginary space they call Mersey Beach: the sonic...
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Erika de Casier shares a new single and video from her highly-anticipated third album Still, out on 21 February via 4AD / Remote Control. ‘ice’ featuring Tampa rap duo They Hate Change marks the first collaboration in de Casier’s discography, and what a marvellous first showing. For the three-minute cut de Casier moonlights as the duo’s third member, flipping a classic hip-hop trope (“Ice – you put it all on me,” she sings) into a comment on a frustratingly noncommittal person. The song...
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Alongside becoming the face of Daniel Lee’s first global campaign for Burberry and walking for Marine Serre at Fashion Week, Hackney-born rapper, producer and poet John Glacier also began to gain notoriety globally, working with in-demand NY production team Surf Gang on a spontaneous collaborative project last year. With her star continuing to full ascent, John Glacier today announces her signing to Young / Remote Control with ‘Money Shows’, the Eartheater-featuring first cut from a brand new EP, Like A Ribbon. Produced by Kwes Darko and inspired by the sounds of...
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Today, Leeds-based art-rock experimentalists Drahla make their long-awaited return with their second record angeltape. Due out on 5th April via Captured Tracks / Remote Control, the album comes on the heels of their recent singles ‘Lip Sync’ and ‘Under The Glass’, and is their first full-length effort since their critically acclaimed 2019 debut, Useless Coordinates. The next taste of this record is offered up in the form of the album’s frenetic lead single ‘Default Parody’, which is announced today alongside the album....
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