Widowspeak have announced their sixth studio album, The Jacket, to be released March 11 via Captured Tracks / Remote Control. Along with the announcement, the duo (singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas) have shared a propulsive, spirited song about shifting perspectives in increasingly complicated situations. In the music video directed by OTIUM, Hamilton croons “learned to love the ropes when you were caught, see they could be braided a better way and sinking into nothing – you learn to stay” fittingly...
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New Jersey-based group Pinegrove have shared their new single titled ‘Respirate‘. A crushing ballad, the track is the latest song to release from their forthcoming new album 11:11 (out January 28th on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records) and urges us to look out for and love each other. “With ‘Respirate,’ I was thinking about the opportunity we had in the chaos Covid brought to redesign society so that it works well for more people, but that...
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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 their debut single ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’ – out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. The track, which is available now and accompanied by a lyric video (dir. Duncan Loudon) was first heard in the band’s secret show as part of last year’s Glastonbury event Live At Worthy Farm. It is the first official release from The Smile, produced by Nigel Godrich. Stream / Download The Smile – ‘You Will Never Work In Television...
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Rounding out a milestone year, Melbourne three-piece Telenova release a brand new film clip for their glistening hit single ‘Bones’, taken from their debut EP Tranquilize, out now via Pointer Recordings. Co-directed by frontwoman Angeline Armstrong and LA-based filmmaker Jill Sachs, the video is a nod to the film references that influence Telenova’s songwriting and a visual feast of the drama dreamt up in Armstrong’s lyrics (I was dreamin’ of blue skies in California / While you were loading your gun / Thе time has come Red and bluе lights chase us...
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On April 16th, 2021, in between shows on their recent Australian tour, Wolf & Cub travelled to a remote location in NSW with the idea to perform and record a selection of live tracks from their recently released fourth album, NIL. Creating a makeshift live setup in the carpark of the Watagan Forest Inn Motel – and with full support of the owners – the band treated a small audience of...
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Parquet Courts present the music video for ‘Marathon of Anger’, off their new album, Sympathy For Life, out now on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. The video, directed by Mara Palena, was originally part of Sympathy For Life, Visualised, a live-streamed Noonchorus film event broadcast earlier this year that featured videos for all 11 songs from the album, and features guest appearances from Bill Walton and Joe Pera. ‘Marathon of Anger‘ is the first of the previously unreleased videos to be...
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Matador Records / Remote Control Records celebrate the 21st anniversary of The New Pornographers’ debut record and breakout, Mass Romantic (2000), with the release of a limited-edition LP reissue – out now. The album – clocking three singers and 12 effervescent and undeniable power-pop gems – returns to us on red vinyl and will include a bonus 7”, Letter From An Occupant, which includes two rare B-sides, ‘The End of Medicine’ and ‘When I Was a Baby.’ All told, Mass Romantic took three...
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Arca is a singularity, a point where our preconceptions and prior knowledge break down, an entrance into a new realm of being. Her transcendent, transgressive body of work has collapsed long-standing barriers that once seemed impermeable: between artist and art, between human and technology, between avant-garde and pop, and between the many disciplines—from music to visual art to fashion and beyond—where she’s made her indelible mark. To complete the KICK series,...
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Milk! Records / Remote Control Records present Hachiku Remixed, a double single that finds Hachiku reinterpreted by a pair of beloved Australian musicians: Stella Mozgawa (Warpaint, Kurt Vile, Courtney Barnett) and Georgia Maq (Camp Cope). Mozgawa takes ‘Bridging Visa B‘ – Ostendorf’s lyrical tale of submitting your romantic relationship to the scrutiny of immigration officials – to the dancefloor, stripping the sparkling original back to a flickering lost highway of Blue Monday drum machines, squelchy synths, and ersatz bird calls: “My Hachiku remix for ‘Bridging Visa...
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Fake / Fear the band’s new single, picks up where their self-titled fourth album left off. A mantra sits at the heart of ‘Fake’, on which Julia Shapiro examines her inability to be vulnerable. “I’m a fake,” she sings repeatedly, as she takes stock of a situation in which all language broke down and communication failed. “The song is about not being able to be honest with someone and say what you mean,” she explains. “I wrote it because...
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Wolf & Cub, on the first anniversary of the release for their acclaimed fourth album NIL, have announced the release of new single ‘Blue State – Live’, the first taste of the band’s forthcoming live EP and short film, Dusk at the Watagan Forest Motel – set for release on Friday 10 December via Part Time Records / Remote Control Records. On April 16th, 2021, in between shows on their most recent Australian tour, the band travelled to a...
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Songwriter, beatmaker and multi-instrumentalist Ethan P. Flynn releases his new single ‘The Universal Deluge’ – out now via Young / Remote Control Records. Accompanied by a pensive new visual directed and shot by Aliyah Otchere which places Ethan at the centre of a vastly desolate and unworldly landscape; reflective of the emotive new single. Ethan says of its creation, “The film of me walking was taken just after a sandstorm, I still feel like I have sand in my ears...
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At the beginning of 2021, Afro-Cuban French twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz, better known to the world as Ibeyi, headed back into the studio in London to begin work on their third studio album. Feeling a sense of chaos, due to the state of the world, Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi set out to invoke the ancient teachings of their ancestors to remobilise the power of their birth given destiny as Ibeyi. The result of this summoning arrives via the duo’s...
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Chicago’s Horsegirl, the trio of 17-19 year olds Penelope Lowenstein (she/her), Nora Cheng (she/her), and Gigi Reece (they/them), present ‘Billy’, their debut single/video via Matador / Remote Control Records. Having only formed in 2019, Horsegirl’s first three singles captured the ears and fans and critics worldwide, garnering early support and acclaim from BBC 6 Music, Pitchfork, NME, Loud & Quiet, NPR, Stereogum, and others. Following their appearance at the Pitchfork Music Festival this fall, where the trio performed for their biggest crowd yet, NYLON remarked “Horsegirl...
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London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have announced their signing to Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records and shared the first single on their new label home ‘50/50’. Fresh from a sold-out headline tour of the UK, and a summer of rightfully hyped festival slots (alongside the likes of Pa Salieu, Kode 9, Jamie XX, Floating Points) and one-off appearances supporting Caroline Polachek & Jarvis Cocker, Jockstrap have returned with a pulsating new track, more influenced by the club...
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dvr announces the release of dirty tapes, his debut EP on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records due out on 14th January 2022. To mark the news dvr shares a new single ‘stupid’. Written, recorded and produced by dvr, ‘stupid’ is accompanied by a Forluck-directed music video. ‘stupid’ is the second track to be released from the dirty tapes EP following September’s release of lead single ‘lowlife (with kenny beats)’. It once again showcases dvr’s genre-fluid sound, combining wry lyricism, unique DIY production and...
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