Bartees Strange announces his new album Farm to Table released digitally on 17 June, with LP and CD following on 7 October, plus a brand-new song, ‘Cosigns’ and a stunning accompanying video directed by Pooneh Ghana. Watch below! An unapologetic and braggadocious indie-trap banger, ‘Cosigns’ celebrates Bartees’ peers, collaborators and friends, through a genre-defying outpouring somewhere between swaggering hip hop and euphoric alt rock. ‘Cosigns’ is also a moment for Bartees to acknowledge himself, giving himself credence and unashamedly basking in that glow. Where...
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The Smile will release their highly anticipated debut album A Light For Attracting Attention on 13 May, 2022 with CD and vinyl formats to follow on June 17. Brand new single ‘Free In The Knowledge’ is out now, with an accompanying video directed by Leo Leigh. Watch below! The track was first performed by Thom Yorke as part of the Letters Live event at London’s Royal Albert Hall, in December 2021, the first time Thom had performed since the pandemic began. Introducing the song, he dedicated it...
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HANDSOME announces BLAME – her new EP and companion short film out Friday 3 June. Alongside the announcement, HANDSOME unveils the title track and accompanying video serving as the first instalment in a trilogy of videos that together make up the BLAME visual experience. Watch below! Enter the world of BLAME – where desert grit meets hyper real adventure. Thanks to the AMEX Music Backers Fund, HANDSOME travelled to the middle of Australia to...
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Recently, Interpol premiered ‘Toni‘, the first single from their new album The Other Side Of Make-Believe, released July 15th on Matador. The song was accompanied by the opening instalment of a two-part film directed by Van Alpert (Post Malone, Machine Gun Kelly), which quickly went to garner over a quarter of a million views on YouTube. Interpol have now released the second and concluding part, as well as unveiled new song ‘Something Changed’. Singer Paul Banks says: “In “Something Changed,” part 2 of...
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London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have shared their brand new single and video ‘Concrete Over Water’; another hint at a still-to-come TBA debut full-length record on their new label home Rough Trade / Remote Control. ‘Concrete Over Water’ received its first national airplay from Lauren Laverne on her BBC Radio 6 Music Breakfast show. Watch the video below! Commenting on the new single – which comes complete with hugely inventive and ambitious storytelling visuals, directed by the band themselves...
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Following their syrupy bop ‘Sugar’ and lush single ‘Sister’, Dorsal Fins share ‘Criminal’, their third single from their long-awaited third album Star of the Show, out Friday May 13. Watch the accompanying animated video by artist and illustrator Eleanor James below! ‘Criminal’ came together from a demo that Jarrad Brown had hidden in his vault, initially titled ‘Spirit Gambler’. Channeling the power of three in the name of the magic of collectivism. Brown’s sweet spy jazz/funk instrumental forming the basis, they rode...
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Horsegirl share new single and lyric video ‘World of Pots and Pans’ from their debut album Versions of Modern Performance, out June 3rd. Following the propulsive ‘Anti-glory’, ‘World of Pots and Pans’ has a rough, blown-out pop charm. Watch below! Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums) do everything collectively, from songwriting to trading vocal duties and swapping instruments to sound and visual art design. Reece and Cheng, college freshmen, and Lowenstein, a high school senior,...
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Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK shares ‘purgatory’, the second single from their third album If I Never Know You Like This Again. Listen to ‘purgatory’ and watch the accompanying video shot by Ellius Grace below! Bridie explains “’purgatory’ is about the weight of time and the perpetual fear of reaching the end of your life, unsatisfied with how you’d spent it. The song came out of a slump phase, I wasn’t really a fan of myself and honestly just felt...
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The Smile (aka Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner) share their newest offering ‘Pana-Vision’, along with an animation by Sabrina Nichols of artwork from artist Stanley Donwood. Watch below! Featured in BBC’s broadcast of Peaky Blinders, ‘Pana-vision’ was likely identifiable to sonically savvy viewers as the latest from The Smile, the same episode premiered a sublime, Satie-esque instrumental piece that the keenest of ears might recognise as the work of Thom Yorke: ‘That’s How Horses Are’, out now here. ‘Pana-vision’ follows last month’s release of ‘Skrting on the Surface’....
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Oliver Sim unveils a new Jamie xx-produced single, ‘Fruit’, a joyful celebration of queer identity and self-acceptance penned to his younger self. Watch the accompanying video directed by French director Yann Gonzalez (Knife + Heart) below! ‘Fruit’ follows Sim’s solo debut single, ‘Romance With A Memory,’ which debuted last month with a lyric video starring artists and drag performers Charity Kase, HoSo Terra Toma, Gena Marvin and more. Both tracks will feature on a forthcoming limited edition vinyl 12” available only...
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Interpol share ‘Toni’, the first single from their 7th LP The Other Side of Make-Believe, out July 15th. The album breaks fresh ground for the group: parallel to exploring the sinister undercurrents of contemporary life, Interpol’s new songs are imbued with pastoral longing and newfound grace. ‘Toni’ arrives as the first instalment of a two-part dance film directed by Van Alpert (Post Malone, Machine Gun Kelly), with the second chapter to follow soon. Van Alpert says: “I...
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Afro-Cuban, French twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, also known as Ibeyi, have shared the third single from their forthcoming third-studio-album Spell 31 out May 6th, 2022 via XL Recordings / Remote Control. Titled ‘Lavender & Red Roses’, the new single features the Brit-Award winning Jorja Smith and speaks on the powerful realisation that we can only save ourselves. The single lands alongside a truly spiritual and captivating visual, directed by Lucrecia Taormina, which sees Ibeyi and Jorja embodying the roles of the three sisters of fate on...
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TATYANA’s rise continues unabated as she shares the brand new single ‘Treat Me Right’. The song is the title track to her eagerly anticipated debut album, which follows on April 22nd via Sinderlyn / Remote Control. ‘Treat Me Right’ is indicative of the escapist romantic thrills that make TATYANA’s music such a rousing rush of big-hearted emotions. The song plays upon the promise that “I’ll make it worth your while” and that seductive allure tingles throughout TATYANA’s versatile voice: a heady mix...
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Perfume Genius announces the release of his new album, Ugly Season out on June 17th via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. To coincide with the release of the album, Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has teamed with renowned visual artist Jacolby Satterwhite for a short film featuring Hadreas and the music of Ugly Season. Perfume Genius just kicked off his North American tour and will bring the electrifying Perfume Genius live show to Australia for the first time since 2018, sharing songs from Set My Heart On Fire Immediately (Matador...
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Until recently, it was thought that we had heard all there was to hear from Saâda Bonaire. Though the group had continued working until 1994, founder Ralph “von” Richthoven had firmly stated that all of their post-1986 work was lost: “I threw away most of my work; I didn’t see any reason to hold onto it anymore.” A visit to a relative’s house, however, turned up a pleasant surprise: Richthoven stumbled across a battered cassette tape labeled Saâda...
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‘Skrting On The Surface,‘ The Smile‘s new single and video is released today via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. The video was shot in 16mm black and white by BAFTA-winning writer / director Mark Jenkin in the depths of the disused Rosevale Tin Mine in Cornwall UK, and hand-developed in water from the mine. ‘Skrting On The Surface’ is the third single from The Smile, the new group comprising Thom Yorke,...
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