Montreal’s Basia Bulat announces The Garden: a new album that reimagines songs across her five studio albums with stunning classical string quartet arrangements by Owen Pallett, PaulFrith, and Zou Zou Robidoux, set for digital release on February 25th 2022 and physically out March 25th, via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. While she has been known to play live with small chamber ensembles and full orchestras, The Garden marks Bulat’s first recording to capture this spellbinding configuration, which further showcases her singular voice...
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Leif Vollebekk shares a live version of ‘I’m Not Your Lover,‘ recorded at The Troubadour in Los Angeles back in 2020 – out now via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. “This was the first time we played the song live, a couple of months before the lockdowns. It was a beautiful sold-out show at one of my favourite venues,” Leif explains. “When I first heard the live recording,” he continues “I thought it sounded better than the record.” Its accompanying...
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Electro-pop artist and harpist, TATYANA, is back with new single and video, ‘Right Places,’ – out now via Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records – that dawns an impressive new era for the dynamic producer, songwriter and performer. The “New & Notable” (Bandcamp) “Rising Artist” (Vinyl Me, Please) is known to make a “Smooth pop gem” (Dork). Cultr calls TATYANA’s music “An astral surprise sculpting her musical dreamland – a vivid wonder that will consume your consciousness” and this new single is no exception, with it’s cheeky, fun...
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Acclaimed artist Courtney Barnett has released her third studio album Things Take Time, Take Time on Milk! Records / Remote Contol Records. The album is a finely-woven collage of snapshots recorded at a time of creative renewal and deeper understanding for Barnett, signalling an exciting new chapter for a musician who is operating at the very peak of her powers. Already receiving rave reviews from the likes of Mojo, Uncut, Rolling Stone and Loud and Quiet, Things Take Time, Take...
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The unveiling of the KICK series continues as Arca shares the details of the third album in the anthology: KicK iii, due out December 3 on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Featuring the previously released single ‘Incendio,’ KicK iii finds ecstasy in turbulence, as Arca returns to the mutant club music of her breakthrough early work. Accompanying the news of KicK iii’s release, Arca is sharing a new music video for album track ‘Electra Rex,’ directed by Carlota Guerrero and shot in September 2020, featuring Arca and friends performing in...
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CASISDEAD returns with his new single ‘Boys Will Be Boys’, his biggest musical and visual statement to date and the second track to be revealed from his highly anticipated debut album (due in 2022 via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records). ‘Boys Will Be Boys’ is accompanied by a cinematic music video directed by Hollywood actor, screenwriter and director Ed Skrein (Dead Pool, Game Of Thrones), and starring Emma Rigby (Hollyoaks), singer-songwriter Connie Constance, Jo Hartley (This Is England)...
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Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval, “a post-punk pop philosopher at the height of her craft” (Pitchfork), announces her signing to 4AD / Remote Control Records with new single/video, ‘Jupiter’. The ‘Jupiter’ video sees Hval collaborating once again with director Zia Anger. Following its soulful, almost jazzy opening with Hval intoning over floating piano, ‘Jupiter’ blooms with shuffling percussion, and as Hval’s crystal cooing layers, it swells into a simple hymn-like chorus. “When I wrote the music for this song in 2015, it had no...
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London-based eight piece caroline are excited to announce that their eponymous debut album, mixed by John ‘Spud’ Murphy (black midi, Lankum), will be released on Feb 25th 2022 via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Hear ‘IWR’ – a new track taken from the forthcoming album – and check out its self-directed video below. Mike O’Malley explains the thinking behind new single ‘IWR’: “Jasper was sending a lot of home-recorded nylon guitar and singing ideas, and one just stuck because...
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Tama Gucci shares Almost Blue, his latest EP out via Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records, the sister label to Captured Tracks and part of the Omnian Music Group. The New York City-based, Miami-raised musician, vocalist, and electronic composer forges his own sound that uniquely reimagines the intersection of pop and R&B. The seven tracks on the EP represent different parts of the sounds Tama Gucci’s Kymani Floyd wants to continue to create. The EP features lead single ‘Challenge‘ – an anthem about the...
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Arca returns to premiere ‘Prada / Rakata‘, a new music video featuring two new songs from her upcoming album KICK ii, which is out December 3 via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. A continuation of her work with artist Frederik Heyman, ‘Prada / Rakata’ introduces an ambitious act of musical world-building that reveals Arca’s many identities as an artist in a quantum superstate. Speaking on the songs, Arca shares:“’prada’ is about celebrating psychosexual versatility; a song explicitly about transness and nonbinary modes...
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Chastity Belt (Seattle / LA) have announced Fake / Fear – a limited 7″ to be self-released worldwide and on Milk! Records / Remote Control Records in Australia. Along with the news, the band share an anthem-of-a-single ‘Fear‘, accompanied by a mystically triumphant video directed by Eleanor Petry. About ‘Fear’, Chastity Belt member Lydia Lund says: “I wrote the song a few summers ago based around a dream I had. At one point in the dream, I was opening door after door, noticing the fear build, then dissipate upon opening,...
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Spoon’s tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band’s purest rock ’n roll record to date. Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade. Lucifer on the Sofa bottles the physical thrill of a band tearing up a packed room. It’s an album of intensity and intimacy, where the music’s harshest edges feel as...
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Melbourne’s cult pop-mystiques, Dorsal Fins are back after an extended stay in the musical wilderness, returning with new single and video ‘Sugar‘, via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records. In the 5 years since their last release, Dorsal Fins have peeled back from the epic cast of 9 mates, entrusting the band’s songwriting trinity, Liam McGorry, and co-vocalists, aka The-Twin-Tweaks, Ella Thompson & Jarrad Brown to navigate a kaleidoscopic bag of sun-soaked horns, love-puddle funk, and brat-pop night moves. Soak up...
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Snail Mail (Lindsey Jordan) has released ‘Madonna’, the third preview from her forthcoming new album Valentine – out November 5 via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Alongside the single’s release, Jordan shares a live performance of ‘Madonna’ filmed at the Armour-Stiner Octagon House in New York. Lindsey says, “I am excited to share this one! In summation it’s about why love can’t exist between a person and a concept of a person. Remove the pedestal and you might...
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NYC-based producer and artist Yaeji, in collaboration with OHHYUK, founder of the Seoul based indie band HYUKOH, has announced two new singles and music videos: ‘29′ and ‘Year to Year‘ (out now on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records). Starting as sketches exchanged between the two artists, the songs took full shape when they connected for studio sessions in Seoul earlier this year. Written, recorded and produced by Yaeji and OHHYUK, the singles premiered with two new music videos: ‘Year to Year’ directed by Seoul-based...
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Los Angeles-based artist and songwriter Hana Vu shares ‘Gutter’, the latest single off of Public Storage, her debut record on Ghostly International, due out next Friday, November 5th. In conjunction, she shares a live performance of ‘Gutter’. Following the “ethereal” (NYLON) ‘Maker’, and the “quasi-darkgaze banger” (MTV) ‘Everybody’s Birthday’, ‘Gutter’ is the heaviest song on the album. It thrives in grungy lowlight, with muscular guitar riffs striating above a bed of feedback, swelling alongside orchestral strings to a roaring finish. ‘Gutter’ sees Vu leaning into the alternative media she consumed...
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