Montreal-based artist, producer, engineer and remixer Patrick Holland recently announced his self-produced debut album, You’re The Boss, out this summeron Sinderlyn. Following the album’s earworm of a first single ‘Sinister Bell,’ ‘Nice Try‘ is out today. Featuring sunny guitars and velvety vocal harmonies, courtesy of Holland’s bandmate Jane Penny of TOPS, ‘Nice Try’ receives an incredible Erin O’Connor directed video. Holland has been known in the past for his electronic releases under aliases such as Project Pablo and Jump Source, and just as this album showcases another side of his...
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Hideous Bastard, the debut album from Oliver Sim is set for release on Friday 9 September. Pre-order here. Produced by bandmate Jamie xx, Hideous Bastard is the culmination of two years of writing and recording, inspired by Sim’s love of horror movies and his own life experience, unpacking themes of shame, fear, and masculinity. These themes are front and centre on new single ‘Hideous’. Enlisting the help of lifelong hero and “guardian angel”...
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JayWood – Winnipeg musician & songwriter Jeremy Haywood-Smith – presents a new single ‘Thank You’, from his forthcoming album Slingshot, out July 15th. Pre-order here. ‘Thank You’ was co-produced with Jacob Portrait of Unknown Mortal Orchestra & Blouse and features string arrangements by Johan Lenox. The charming accompanying video, directed by Chantel Simpson, shows Haywood-Smith passing out flowers across Harlem. Watch below! The song brings JayWood’s sound full circle, offering something reminiscent of Haywood-Smith’s earliest recordings while flaunting that “the...
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Chicago band Horsegirl – Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums) – unveil a new single/video, ‘Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty),’ from their debut album, Versions of Modern Performance, out June 3rd. Watch below! ‘Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty)’ is a scuffed up, guitar-driven piece of garage-pop. The tracks’ lyrics brim with alliteration and slanted rhymes, and as the instrumentation rises, the song rides out with a chorus of “oohs.” As a band who do everything as a...
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Men Seni Suyemin (Kazakh for “I love you”) is the solo electronic project of St. Petersburg-based musician & producer Minona Volandova, whose arrangements toe the line between experimental electronic and atmospheric post-rock, centered around elegant guitar melodies that reflect her classically-trained background. June 24th, 2022 will see the release of the EP HOPE, a genre-defiant, multilingual collection of irresistible tracks. With the announcement of HOPE comes the release of lead single ‘NOZH’ (which translates to “knife”). ‘NOZH’ begins delicately, with Volandova singing...
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NYC’s superstar, Jennifer Vanilla (they/them), announces their signing to Sinderlyn, home of HOMESHAKE, Cults, and more. Along with the announcement, Jennifer Vanilla, aka Becca Kauffman, shares a new single and video ‘Body Music’, collaboratively crafted with co-writer/co-producer Brian Abelson, who also worked with Jennifer Vanilla on their 2019 debut EP, J.E.N.N.I.F.E.R. (Beats in Space), and whose credits include releases on Lobster Theremin, HAUS of ALTR, and more. ‘Body Music’ is a “jennifreaky” journey into ‘90s dance music and art pop. Like much of the Jennifer Vanilla oeuvre,...
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The Smile have today released their brand-new, stop-motion animated video for ‘Thin Thing’, taken from the band’s upcoming debut album A Light For Attracting Attention, which is out this Friday 13 May digitally and 17 June physically, via XL Recordings / Remote Control. Watch below! The video was directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña and took the pair six months to make. Speaking about the video, they say: “Hearing the song for the first time, we imagined a frenetic fluid that...
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black midi – the UK-based trio of Geordie Greep (guitar, vocals), Cameron Picton (bass, vocals) and Morgan Simpson (drums) – announce their third album, Hellfire, out July 15th on Rough Trade. In conjunction with the announcement, they share the album’s lead single/video, ‘Welcome To Hell.’ Written in isolation in London after the release of last year’s Cavalcade, Hellfire builds on the melodic and harmonic elements of its predecessor, while expanding the brutality and intensity of their debut, Schlagenheim. As Greep describes it: “if Cavalcade was a drama, ‘Hellfire’ is...
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Belle and Sebastian have released their 9th studio album, A Bit Of Previous. Marking the occasion comes a new video and single ‘Talk To Me, Talk To Me’. The video was written and directed by 15-year-old south London siblings Freya and Rosalie Salkeld. Watch below! A Bit of Previous was recorded in Belle and Sebastian’s hometown of Glasgow when plans to fly to Los Angeles in spring of 2020 were scrapped due to the pandemic. Says frontman Stuart Murdoch in the...
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JayWood – the moniker of Winnipeg musician & songwriter Jeremy Haywood-Smith – has announced his new album, Slingshot, out July 15th on Captured Tracks, and shares its lead single/video, ‘Just Sayin.’ Since 2015, JayWood has captured the young writer’s journey of self-discovery and heartache through unique songwriting and an ever-evolving sound. After the loss of his mother in 2019 and a global standstill with multiple social crises throughout 2020, Haywood-Smith yearned for forward momentum. “The idea of looking back to go...
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Montreal-based artist, producer, engineer and remixer Patrick Holland has announced his debut album. Holland has been known in the past for his electronic releases under aliases such as Project Pablo and Jump Source, as well as his production and remix work for artists such as TOPS, Cut Copy, Jacques Greene, Homeshake, and more. Now with his forthcoming record entitled You’re The Boss, Patrick Holland is re-introducing himself and making his first foray into guitar-driven indie pop. Written and recorded in tandem, You’re The Boss finds Holland self-producing, playing...
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Aotearoa eight-piece The Black Seeds have today released their new heavy reggae single ‘Game Over’, accompanied by a captivating video set on the inside of a pinball machine! ‘Game Over’ is the fourth single to be released from their upcoming seventh studio album Love & Fire, out June 17. Packed with muted guitar riffs, driving bass and drums, and an infectious horn section, ‘Game Over’ is a classic reggae track that showcases the band’s iconic...
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Following the recent announcement of her upcoming EP and companion short film BLAME – out Friday 3 June via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records – Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist HANDSOME unveils her new single ‘Royally’ and accompanying video serving as the second instalment in a trilogy of videos that together make up the BLAME visual experience. It follows HANDSOME’s latest single ‘Blame’ and Part 1 of the BLAME video trilogy, which is out now. Watch below! HANDSOME invites you to enter the world of BLAME – where desert grit meets hyper real adventure. Thanks...
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Sleaford Mods have released a brand new EP, Live At Nottz. Recorded live at Nottingham Arena in 2021 during their biggest show ever, it features six fiery, transformative tracks and includes guest appearances from Billy Nomates and Amyl and the Sniffers’ Amy Taylor. Additionally, Sleaford Mods are sharing three electrifying live videos from the performance for ‘Nudge It’, ‘Mork n Mindy’ and ‘Tied Up in Nottz’. Watch below! If the legends are true, the first ever Sleaford Mods gig took place at a cafe near Nottingham...
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Hideous, a new short film from Oliver Sim, has been selected for a special screening during the Semaine de la Critique at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film will make its global premiere with the screening. Watch the trailer and see the film poster below! “‘Hideous’—a horror film from the big heart and perverted imagination of Mr. Yann Gonzalez,” says Sim. “Starring yours truly, Fehinti Balogun, Jimmy Somerville, Jamie xx, Bimini and more. I’m trying to find a creative way to say what a dream...
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Telenova are thrilled to share their self-assured new single ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ with accompanied visuals, conceived and directed by Angeline Armstrong, featuring choreography from Zoe Marsh. Watch below! ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ is a sophisticated slice of modern nostalgia that evokes ‘90s melancholic guitar pop without losing its contemporary lean. Intensely personal in nature, the song is about letting go of someone you loved, someone bent on their own destruction. Teased earlier this month, mysterious...
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