Leif Vollebekk shares a brand-new EP of live recordings titled New Waves, via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records – in this enduring worldwide pandemic, Leif’s EP is a beaming ode to the unique connection live music brings, an amalgam of feelings that can only be shared with an audience. “Last year I had a chance to revisit these songs and I realised they had something my records didn’t have,” says Leif. “They resonate with that incalculable energy of...
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The Smile, the new group comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, have revealed a new track ‘The Smoke‘ and its accompanying lyric video, created by the BAFTA winning writer and director Mark Jenkin. ‘The Smoke‘ is the follow up to the band’s debut single ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again‘. The Smile will play three consecutive live shows across sixteen hours and three timezones at Magazine London this weekend, on January 30th (AEDT). Performing in the round...
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Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK, has announced their third album If I Never Know You Like This Again. To be released by Rough Trade Records on May 20th, 2022, the announcement arrives alongside the the release of new track ‘last july’ – the accompanying video was shot by Ellius Grace, and stars Bridie and their partner. If I Never… is the follow up to 2019’s Grim Town and SOAK’s Mercury-nominated 2015 debut album Before We Forgot How to Dream. SOAK’s Bridie Monds-Watson (they/them) has incessantly documented their life in...
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Today, New Jersey-based group Pinegrove share their new album 11:11, alongside a new video for the mini-epic lead track ‘Habitat.’ A robust, textural masterpiece, ‘Habitat‘ was inspired by long drives around upstate New York with dilapidated houses covered in plantlife spotting the landscape along the way. Of the song, singer/guitarist Evan Stephens Hall stated, “‘Habitat’ collages imagery from across the 2020’s – monuments to the past torn down, vandalised, and thrown to the waves, making much needed room for...
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Songwriter, beatmaker, and multi-instrumentalist-maverick Ethan P. Flynn announces the release of his first “finished” project Universal Deluge; a purposefully curated seven-track EP set to be released digitally and as a 12” vinyl on Friday 11 March 2022 via Young / Remote Control Records. The announcement is made in line with the release of the visual for the lead single ‘Father of Nine’, a striking music video shot by Aliyah Otchere and directed by London-based visionaries ethan&tom. Speaking on the...
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Widowspeak share ‘While You Wait‘, the second single off their forthcoming sixth studio album The Jacket, to be released March 11 via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. The track features Mellotron plug-in flutes drifting over a hypnotic and buoyant motif, and an angular chorus that repeats the phrase “while you wait, we’ll have it done today.” The duo (Molly Hamilton and Robert Earl Thomas) say, “the song itself is maybe one of the more narrative remnants from when the...
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Part Time Records / Remote Control Records announce their latest signing, EWAH & The Vision of Paradise, with a sneak peak of their upcoming sophomore album The Warning Birds. Hailing from Tasmania, EWAH & The Vision of Paradise’s moody sound has been described as “epic post punk with a scope as wide as the Australian skyline.” For this first release from Vol. 2 of PTR Singles Club, Part Time Records offers a sneak peak of EWAH & The Vision of Paradise’s sophomore album The...
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Montreal singer-songwriter Gus Englehorn announces his sophomore album Dungeon Master, the cutest, heaviest, strangest rock’n’roll record you will hear this year. Set for release on April 29 via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records, the news is accompanied with a new single + video directed by Englehorn and Estée Preda; the stomping, paranoid ‘Tarantula‘. Englehorn says, “This song is about uninvited recurring irrational thoughts and fears. I decided to make a little fable where a tarantula is whispering bad things...
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Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval announces her new album Classic Objects, out on 11 March, and unveils the video for new single ‘Year of Love’, the album’s opener. Classic Objects is a map of places; past places, like the old empty Melbourne pubs Hval’s band used to play in, public places Hval missed throughout lockdown, imagined, future places, and impossible places where dreams, hallucinations, death and art can take you. It is interested in combining heavenly things and plain things. ...
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London-based eight piece caroline have shared a new song and video – ‘Good morning (red)‘ follows earlier single ‘IWR‘, and both hail from their eponymous debut album which will be released on February 25th 2022 via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Guitarist/vocalist Mike O’Malley says of ‘Good morning (red)‘: “We wrote the basic electric guitar parts, drums and “Good morning, it’s that time again” vocal line in early 2017 and used to play it as a...
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Parquet Courts have debuted a brand new single, ‘Watching Strangers Smile,’ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. This follows the release of Sympathy For Life, their new album available now on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. ‘Watching Strangers Smile’ came out of the same sessions the band did with Rodaidh McDonald for Sympathy for Life. The Ellen performance puts A. Savage’s fiery vocal performance at the forefront, once again cementing them as one of the most lauded indie bands of the last decade...
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Montreal’s Basia Bulat shares ‘Fables (The Garden Version),’ the breathtaking, deeply stirring second single arranged and orchestrated by Zou Zou Roubidoux and from her forthcoming album The Garden, out digitally February 25th and physically March 25th, via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. The track arrives alongside a video directed by Bulat that juxtaposes Hi 8 Camera footage from her childhood with recently shot footage of herself and her daughter. “This is one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written because, as...
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Aldous Harding returns to announce details of a new studio album, the follow-up to 2019’s acclaimed Designer. Warm Chris will be released on March 25 via 4AD / Remote Control Records, and its first single ‘Lawn’ is available now accompanied by visuals created by Harding and Martin Sagadin. For Warm Chris, the New Zealand musician reunited with producer John Parish, continuing a professional partnership that began in 2017 and has forged pivotal bodies of work (2017’s Party and the aforementioned Designer). All ten tracks were recorded at Rockfield...
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DIY singer-songwriter and producer dvr has released dirty tapes, his debut EP on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Expressing raw vulnerability, dvr explores the ups and downs of teenage life through wry lyricism, unique production, and infectious guitar hooks; a charismatic style that shines from all corners of the EP. To mark the release of the EP, dvr premieres the visual to the newly released track ‘drugs’. Directed by underground visual-artist Elif Gönen aka FORLUCK (Lava La Rue, Louis Culture, Poppy Ajudha), ‘drugs’...
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On April 8th, Matador Records / Remote Control Records will release Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal, an exhaustive 45-track reissue of the band’s much-loved fifth and final album. The new special edition compiles the remastered original album, B-sides, home demos, rehearsal tapes, era-appropriate live recordings, and even the rough tracks from Pavement’s scrapped session at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon studio. Altogether, it features 28 unreleased tracks. Now out is the band’s never before heard track, ‘Be The Hook’. ...
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In the lead up to their forthcoming new album Lucifer On the Sofa, out February 11 (Matador Records / Remote Control), Spoon share ‘Wild’, a celebratory and anthemic song about finding one’s way from cashed out depths back into a vivid world full of colour and life. ‘Wild’ is the second track that Spoon have revealed off of Lucifer On the Sofa. Like ‘The Hardest Cut’ before it, the song captures the sound of a band cracking things open and letting it all spill...
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