Ahead of the release of their sophomore album Sentimental Still on Friday, 3rd February, Melbourne-based genre-melders Huntly reveal their final single ‘My Limits’. The slow-burner is a raw track reminiscent of their 2019 AMP and AIR Award-nominated debut Low Grade Buzz. Dreamy and delicate, ‘My Limits’ employs a sparse synth-scape alongside a sample of children playing as the bed for vocalist Elspeth Scrine’s modulated lyrics. Scrine says of the track’s meaning “It’s just a raw journal entry really, capturing me figuring out my limits –...
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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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THUS LOVE have today revealed their brand new single ‘Put On Dog’ and its accompanying video, directed by Min Soo Park. Speaking about their new single THUS LOVE say: “In 2023 self expression is still a challenge. In the 1920s, ‘Put on the Dog’ was a term coined to express putting on your finery and dressing to the nines. From the old twenties to new twenties, we’re bringing it back, but for the gays this time‘. ...
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The eighth album by U.S. Girls, the nom de plume of North American multi-disciplinary and experimental pop artist Meg Remy, will be released on 24 February entitled Bless This Mess. To celebrate, U.S. Girls releases the slow jam gem, ‘Futures Bet’ alongside a music video directed by Alex Kingsmill that explores the visual wonder and resiliency of trash. Watch below! A combination of traditional 3D animation and composited live action footage was fed into various Stable Diffusion deep learning models....
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Returning with their first studio album for seven years, Stereo Mind Game is a new chapter for Daughter. To be released on 7 April, the group’s third record follows Not to Disappear (2016) and soundtrack Music from Before the Storm (2017). After more than a decade spent depicting the darkest emotions, the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella present their most optimistic record yet. The album’s lead single ‘Be On Your Way’ is a longing but resilient song...
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The Lemon Twigs release poignant, ’60s-tinged rock song and first single ‘Corner Of My Eye’, accompanied by a wistful video set in a cemetery, directed by Hilla Eden and Brian D’Addario. Watch below! The release marks their first new music in two years, following the 2020 album Songs For The General Public. ‘Corner Of My Eye’ is a warm, guitar-led ode to a new love interest, written and produced entirely by The Lemon Twigs. On the release, The Lemon...
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Kicking off Matador’s Revisionist History Series for 2023, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Bettie Serveert’s debut album, Palomine. Heralded in its original four-star review by Rolling Stone as “untamed and free as pop gets,” this 1993 classic will see its first pressing by Matador since the album’s original release on June 23rd on limited-edition translucent orange vinyl, accompanied by the ‘Brain-Tag’ 7”, which was included with the original pressing. A deluxe digital edition of the album is out now on streaming services, featuring...
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The Smile have today revealed details of a brand new live release, The Smile At Montreux Jazz Festival July 2022. The seven track, eight song digital-only live release of selected tracks from the band’s debut album A Light For Attracting Attention is available from Wednesday, 14th December. A film of the performed tracks will broadcast from the band’s YouTube channel on Tuesday 13th December. The performance, available for just 48 hours, will also exclusively contain the first ever public outing of new...
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Memphis LK announces her EP Too Much Funout Friday, 13th January 2023. Memphis LK continues to push genre boundaries with the club-fuelled, pop anthem ‘Coffee’. One to scream along to on the dancefloor, ‘Coffee’ captures the conflicting emotions of being in a situationship, combining silky soft vocals, with energetic, UK underground-inspired production. A self-taught DJ and beatmaker already, Memphis LK has turned her attention towards building herself as a producer, fleshing the knowledge she already had out into a fully realised passion. With...
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Jen Cloher reveals ‘Being Human’, the second single from their forthcoming fifth album I Am The River, The River Is Me – released on Friday, 3rd March 2023. A powerful anthem committed to truth telling and Indigenous sovereignty, ‘Being Human’ builds its intensity upon an urgent drum beat, driving bass line, angular guitars and synth. The track breaks down before bursting into an exclamation of haka chants from Naarm based Kapa Haka (cultural performance group) Te Hononga o...
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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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A note from Jen on ‘Mana Takatāpui’ out now: “In 2019 I typed the words ‘Māori word for Queer’ into Google. The word ‘takatāpui’ flashed onto my screen with this description: ‘Takatāpui is the Māori word meaning a devoted partner of the same sex. In Western terminology, a person who identifies as takatāpui is a Māori individual who is gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Takatāpui is used nowadays in response to...
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Patrick Holland shares a brand new single and his first new material since releasing his debut record. Holland explains that ‘Years In The Ground’ is “a discussion between a shoulder angel and devil on how to spend your time and money.” Watch the accompanying video below! He continues, “I made this video with my best friend Geoff (Meugens). We woke in the early hours of summer 2021 to catch the sunrise on...
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Meg Remy, the experimental alt-pop chameleon U.S. Girls enters her diva era with the ballad, ‘Bless This Mess’. Released today, the song follows her synth anthem, ‘So Typically Now’ and is accompanied by an extraordinary music video created by Remy and artist Evan Gordon. “Before camera phones, the family camcorder was often the mirror tool used to capture selfie-like performances of teenage daydreams and insecurities. Recently I unearthed a VHS tape housing footage of my...
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Lucinda Chua presents ‘Golden’: a self-produced song about identity and representation, accompanied by a short film co-created with director Tash Tung. Written from the perspective of her younger self, ‘Golden’ is an intimate and heartfelt meditation on identity in the absence of a role model. Watch below! “Who do I turn to, when I don’t look like you?”, Chua whispers softly, a quiet, uncertain call to the universe. “When the sunlight hits me /...
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