Part Time Records and Remote Control have released EWAH & The Vision of Paradise’s second album The Warning Birds. Recorded towards the end of 2018 at Head Gap Studio in Melbourne with Finn Keane, who co-produced the album with bandleader and vocalist, Emma Waters (EWAH), The Warning Birds is an exploration of the meaning of paradise that. Across its twelve tracks, the new album manages to feel both grim and uplifting in equal measure; something of a treatise on a world...
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Known for making anthemic electronic pop songs, today, Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist HANDSOME returns with a new single & video ‘Youth Disaster‘, via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records – the first single from her forthcoming second EP dropping this year. HANDSOME is as much a movement as it is a name. Relishing the freedom of gender fluidity and embracing the beauty in androgyny, you come for the dance floor bangers and stay for the big feels. ‘Youth Disaster’...
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Helado Negro has released the official music video for his new single ‘Hometown Dream‘, taken from his acclaimed recent album Far In. The ‘Hometown Dream’ video incorporates footage from Roberto Carlos Lange‘s first family trip to their native Ecuador in 1988 and reveals the source of his Far In album cover art. “‘Hometown Dream ‘is about me leaving New York after living there for so long,” Roberto shares. “New York showed me my...
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London-based eight piece caroline have released the album version of their track ‘Dark blue’, alongside their debut self-titled album – out via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. An earlier version of the song introduced the world to the band when it was released in March 2020, and it was subsequently reworked for the album. ‘Dark blue’ follows earlier singles ‘Good morning (red)’ and ‘IWR’. With a blend of slow-build guitar music, folk drones and...
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Montreal’s Basia Bulat shares her rousing new single ‘In The Name Of (The Garden Version)’, which features orchestration by Owen Pallett that matches the passionate conviction in her vocal delivery. “When I first wrote it, ‘In the Name Of’ was the song I was most nervous about sharing with anyone, and it’s since become the song I most want to shout from the rooftops,” says Bulat. “It’s a song about living for your own truth, in your own heart,...
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Widowspeak have shared a new music video for ‘The Jacket‘, the title track off their forthcoming sixth studio album – to be released March 11 via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. In signature Widowspeak style, ‘The Jacket’ builds on repetition and live room energy as the same chords start to change shape and hypnotise over time. Molly Hamilton croons “no no no, you could never let it go”, speaking to both a physical jacket and its embodiment of an...
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Sydney-based composer Donny Benét – hailed and panned by critics as “Prince on a serious budget cut” – returns with a new single and video, ‘Le Piano‘. An intoxicatingly groovy instrumental piece paying homage to, and influenced by, Benét‘s love of funk, city pop and disco. ‘Le Piano’ arrives alongside the announcement of the Le Piano EP – an instrumental project out April 1, via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records. Composed and recorded entirely by himself at the renowned Donnyland Studios in 2021, Le...
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Snail Mail (Lindsey Jordan) has shared ‘Adore You,’ the early demo version of the lead single and title track off of her critically acclaimed new album Valentine – out now via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Featuring early lyrics and a different structure, the whispered, vulnerable lo-fi version is a sonically opposite yet equally devastating flipside, proving that in any configuration ‘Valentine‘ is as powerful a lovelorn torch song as they come. Jordan also released a live full band...
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Electro-pop artist and harpist, TATYANA, returns with a catchy, shimmering new single, ‘Between The Lines‘, that finds the producer, songwriter and performer in a candid moment of self-reflection over an irresistible, syrupy, synth-soaked track – out now via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. Similar to TATYANA’s last single, ‘Right Places‘, ‘Between The Lines’ features the singer’s signature twinkling harp melodies, only this time, TATYANA confesses, “Maybe I overreacted / Maybe I’m in over my head / Maybe...
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Big Thief share Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is a sprawling, 20-track double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities of Big Thief. To truly dig into all that the music of Adrianne Lenker, Max Oleartchik, Buck Meek, and James Krivchenia desired in 2020, the band decided to write and record a rambling account of growth as individuals, musicians, and chosen family over 4 distinct recording sessions. In Upstate New York, Topanga Canyon, The Rocky Mountains,...
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Spoon have shared ‘My Babe,’ alongside their new album Lucifer On the Sofa via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. ‘My Babe’ is a song of contrast. What begins as a sentimental ballad with a heartbreaking piano melody yields to an exuberant chorus with a proclamation of sheer bravado. Hailed by Time magazine as “one of the greatest American rock bands,” Spoon previously shared the visceral and vivid track ‘Wild‘ a song Stereogum says “demands to be played from rooftops”. It follows...
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Afro-Cuban, French twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, known to the world as Ibeyi, have shared a video for new single ‘Sister 2 Sister‘ – the lead track of their newly announced album, Spell 31, out May 6th on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Directed by Colin Solal Cardo and starring Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, ‘Sister 2 Sister’ is inspired by the twins sisterhood and their Latinx roots. Sampling Ibeyi’s early single ‘River‘, the track sees the duo evoking the chant of “IBEYI.” ...
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Montreal-based, St. Vincent-born artist Skiifall shares a new single ‘Bloodclarrt Business’ via XL Recordings / Remote Control. The song arrives alongside a Guillaume Landry-directed video that shows Skiifall performing the track over a series of greyscaled scenes where he’s joined by close affiliates in his hometown neighbourhood and was also debuted with a live version on A COLORS SHOW earlier this month. The Yama//Soto and Joseph L’etranger-produced single follows Skiifall’s debut EP WOIIYOIE TAPES Vol. 1 released last summer including songs ‘My Gully,’ and ‘Bagga Yute,’ continuing the emerging artist’s...
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Unstoppable Aotearoa eight-piece The Black Seeds, return with the invigorating new single ‘Bring The Sun’, the third release from their upcoming new album. Following on the release of last year’s single, the perfect summertime banger ‘Let The Sunshine Through’, the new single sees The Black Seeds set out to further their quest to produce the perfect mix of reggae, funk, afrobeat and dub. ‘Bring The Sun’ features a stellar debut guitar solo from new guitarist Ryan Prebble and was written by frontman Daniel Weetman and The...
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Lucy Dacus released Home Video via Matador / Remote Control Records last year, solidifying her place as one of music’s best storytellers. After a remarkable showing on year-end lists, she returns with the new single, ‘Kissing Lessons’, and an accompanying video directed by Mara Palena. Complete with hand-drawn hearts and Polaroids, ‘Kissing Lessons’ is another gem mined from Dacus’ childhood in Richmond, Virginia. It was recorded and mixed during the Home Video sessions, and stood out with its sweet and relatable reflection of...
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Circuit des Yeux has released new song and video, ‘The Manatee (A Story of This World Pt. III)’, via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Recorded during the sessions for last year’s masterful and multi-layered full-length -io, ‘The Manatee’ is a shift in mood – serene astral folk sewn up with whirring aquatic interludes. Circuit des Yeux’s Haley Fohr says: “At 4:30 A.M. on February 4th, 2020 a manatee popped out of the sea and stared...
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