Parquet Courts have released their much-anticipated new album, Sympathy For Life, via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records, alongside a scorching new single & video,‘Homo Sapien’. Sympathy For Life is Parquet Courts at their most instinctive and electronic, spinning their bewitching, psychedelic storytelling into fresh territory, yet maintaining their unique identity. Although new track ‘Homo Sapien’ is guitar heavy, it still has a grooving edge as A Savage’s vocals ruminate: “The erotic quality of not feeling meaningless //...
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Today, Helado Negro releases new album Far In, via 4AD / Remote Control Records, alongside the video for the album’s fourth single ‘There Must Be A Song Like You’. Commenting on the song, Roberto Lange writes, “who are you? All of our songs are so different. All of the experiences that we are, can there be a song like you? This song is a map of this exploration. Looking for melodies and rhythms that are you, day to day moment to moment, we are...
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Snail Mail (Lindsey Jordan) recently announced the November 5th release of her new album Valentine via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Today, the American indie rocker shares a new single ‘Ben Franklin,’ along with a companion music video directed by Josh Coll. ‘Ben Franklin’ sees drum machine and synths enveloping Jordan’s raw and sneering yet vulnerable vocals: Got money, I don’t care about sex / You knew how i’d take it / You brought her to flex. “I wanted to sonically...
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Four years since the release of their sophomore album, Let Love Through – further establishing Roderick Smith‘s low-key and hypnotic songwriting credentials after their well- received self-titled debut album in 2015 – 2021 sees the return of North Arm. The Sydney-based group share Bring the Daylight, alongside the album’s title track, via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. ‘Bring The Daylight’, which received its premiere with Henry Wagons on Double J’s Tower of...
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Arca, the Venezuelan artist, singer, DJ, performer, model, painter, pop diva and experimental music composer, returns to announce the details of her highly-anticipated album KICK ii; the follow-up to her 2020 GRAMMY-award nominated album KiCk i, which last week received a Latin GRAMMY Award® nomination for Best Alternative Music Album. Last week Arca re-emerged to release a long-teased, rapid-fire rap track titled ‘Incendio’. Adding fuel to the fire, today she debuts KICK ii’s first single ‘Born Yesterday’ featuring Sia, watch the video for the new song...
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Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), has shared a striking video for ‘Clean Air,’ the new single from their upcoming album, Fun House – out October 22 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. The song features Dave Hartley from The War On Drugs on bass. them., who premiered the V Haddad directed video today and profiled Duffy, says Fun House “indicates a sea change, not only in its sound, but in how Duffy writes of their pain — now centring compassion, empathy,...
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Dinner aka Danish multi-instrumentalist Anders Rhedin shares the video for ‘Connection’ the exquisite, reflective new single which features dreamy vocals from Molly Burch, and appears on the new album titled Dream Work, a lush collection of synth and guitar-laden indie pop that expertly channels Ryuichi Sakamoto, early British indie, and the sound of water, due for release October 22 on Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. The delicately expressive, hazy-yet-sunlit video for ‘Connection’ was directed by Amsterdam-based multimedia artist and photographer, Annabel van...
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One of the shimmering highlights of her upcoming album Things Take Time, Take Time, Courtney Barnett’s new single ‘Write A List of Things to Look Forward To’ is gorgeous and poignant; a joyful and melodic love letter to friends and friendship. ‘Write A List of Things to Look Forward To’ takes its name from the technique one of Barnett’s friends advocated for her to get her out of a depressive funk, and paints a bittersweet picture of small...
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Toronto rapper Shad’s brand-new album TAO is out now, via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. To celebrate the release week, Shad shares the video for ‘Black Averageness‘. The rapper explains the concept behind the song: “’Black Averageness’ is a just fun celebration of our beautifully imperfect selves in a society that still struggles to see our humanity. As vital as it is to elevate Black Excellence and to address the harsh realities that we disproportionately experience,...
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Circuit des Yeux (Haley Fohr) has released a new single and video taken from her Matador Records / Remote Control Records debut, -io, out October 22nd. ‘Vanishing’ is Circuit des Yeux at her most colossal, with driving strings that border on Bond theme leading to a howling chorus refrain, with Fohr’s sonorous 4-octave voice at center stage. The self-directed video for ‘Vanishing’ sees Fohr veering between different personas and backdrops, channelling the multifaceted drama, absurdity and apocalypse which underpin the new album. Of...
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Helado Negro has released the new single ‘La Naranja’. The song is accompanied by an official video directed by Andrew Anderson. ‘La Naranja’ is the third single to preview the new album Far In which will be released on October 22 via 4AD / Remote Control Records. The song opens with long violin tones, joined by a creeping tea kettle frequency. Rather than a brutal jolt, at the point of contact, Roberto Lange’s voice gleefully bounces in to tell us that we will...
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Radiohead have revealed the brand-new video for their recently released single ‘If You Say The Word’. The video is directed by Norwegian director Kasper Häggström (Kelly Lee Owens). ‘If You Say The Word’ is taken from Radiohead’s upcoming KID A MNESIA reissue package, set for release on 5th November via XL Recordings / Remote Control. KID A MNESIA collects Radiohead’s fourth and fifth albums, alongside the debut of a newly compiled third disc, titled Kid Amnesiae. Exclusive to this release, Kid Amnesiae is made up of unearthed material from...
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Parquet Courts have shared a new single/video, ‘Black Widow Spider’, from their forthcoming album, Sympathy For Life, out October 22nd on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Following their highly-praised lead single ‘Walking at a Downtown Pace’, ‘Black Widow Spider’ kicks off with scorching guitar. In A Savage’s words, “I told [producer] Rodaidh McDonald that I wanted to find a sound that was equal parts Can, Canned Heat and This Heat. He was really into that and probably took some glee...
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Imperial Broads are a noisy, deranged, pop explosion led by three Sydney/Blue Mountains singer-songwriters who work together to make a delightfully raucous, urgent, and melodic sound. Comprised of Pip Smith, Eve Lande and Lauren Crew, the trio share their new album Counterpart, via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. The scene has already been set for the album with its three hook-laden singles, ‘Unromantic‘, ‘Control‘ and ‘Another Planet’, songs that show the range of three songwriters...
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Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu has released ‘Keeper’, the newest single from her upcoming album Public Storage, out November 5th on Ghostly International / Remote Control Records, following ‘Maker’ and ‘Everybody’s Birthday’. ‘Keeper’ is a pulsating new wave cut, replete with soaring dreamy synths and a cool-voiced narrator. The accompanying video, directed by Meagen Houang and choreographed by Jas Lin, sees Vu honing in on her artistic craft, both sonically and physically. It was shot in a single take on 16mm film by cinematographer Andrew Yuyi Truong and it’s a...
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The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are the hidden gem of Melbourne’s DIY music scene – sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, subtle but unpolished. Today, they release The moment the world rushed in via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Recorded in a tiny, sun-filled apartment during a pandemic, this “non-album” is an introvert’s consolation – a meticulously arranged collection of digital and analogue sounds, heartbreaking melodies and private...
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