Courtney Barnett launches the video for ‘Before You Gotta Go‘, taken from the much anticipated forthcoming album Things Take Time, Take Time – out November 12 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. The beautifully offbeat video, directed by Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore, casts Barnett as an ethnographer of the most delightfully idiosyncratic kind, collecting field recordings of dogs and horses, mushrooms and insects, and, most surreally, what looks like enormous statues...
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Snail Mail (Lindsey Jordan) has announced Valentine, her new album out November 5th via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. To mark the occasion, she has released the title track, ‘Valentine’, and its outrageous period drama companion video directed by Josh Coll. A hugely anticipated follow-up, Valentine was written and produced by 22-year-old Lindsey Jordan and co-produced by Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee) in 2019-2020. The album is filled with romance,...
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DEADCORP®’s latest motion picture, to be released on the recently acquired XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. This feature is, of course, compulsory to watch and equates to one...
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dvr has released his new single and video ‘lowlife (with kenny beats)’, out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Filmed in North London and directed by Elif Gönen, dvr says of the video: “Was rly hot during the shoot so the running was a bit of an effort. Gd to meet Kenny tho, not v talkative but must’ve just been the nerves.” dvr is Dillon van Rensburg, a seventeen-year-old songwriter and producer...
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Mdou Moctar has released Afrique Victime – The Documentary. The 10-minute short film offers an intimate glimpse into Moctar and his band – rhythm guitarist Ahmoudou Madassane, drummer Souleymane Ibrahim and American bassist and producer Mikey Coltun – as they prepare for the release of their critically acclaimed latest album Afrique Victime in Niamey, Niger. Navigating complex world and regional geo-political circumstances, the film touches on the environment, inspiration, stories, challenges and singular musical and personal...
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Kedr Livanskiy’s upcoming album Liminal Soul plays like an opera. It’s expansive, timeless and finds the Russian producer/musician pushing the boundaries of electronic songwriting. Ahead of its October 1 release, via 2MR / Remote Control Records, she’s revealed her dynamic new single ‘Your Turn‘ which features Kedr’s frequent collaborator and friend, Flaty. For the video, director Masha Demianova, Kedr and stylist Olesya Skaryna teamed up to create their take on a mockumentary music...
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On the back of the release of his first new solo single in six years, Richard Cuthbert unveils the video clip for ‘Milky Way‘. The song comes from his forthcoming new album Daydreaming, due out on November 5th via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. The video clip for ‘Milky Way’ was directed by Ben Romalis, who also plays with Richard in The Green Mohair Suits, and features stellar mirrorball technician performances from Joe Driver and Lou Peake. The song showcases his sparkling...
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Dinner aka Danish multi-instrumentalist Anders Rhedin shares a collaborative video for the buoyant, motorik new single ‘Anima‘ which 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, 2021 on Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records. The video for ‘Anima’ was co-directed by Rhedin and Russian multi-instrumentalist...
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Today, Big Thief present ‘Certainty’, a track that showcases the most innate parts of Big Thief: the human journey, real love and the raw emotions that accompany the two – out now via 4AD / Remote Control Records. It was written and recorded directly to 4-track during a three-day power outage while recording at Sam Evian’s Flying Cloud Studios and features harmonies from Hannah Cohen. Framed by a lyrical picture only Adrianne Lenker can paint, the...
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Canadian ensemble BADBADNOTGOOD shares a new song and video. ‘Beside April’, the second single from BADBADNOTGOOD’s highly anticipated psychedelic jazz album, was composed in conjunction with legendary Brazilian composer Arthur Verocai and features iconic drummer/producer Karriem Riggins (J Dilla, Madlib). The forthcoming album, Talk Memory, also features collaborations w/ Laraaji, Terrace Martin & more. Paired with the new track are visuals directed by Camille Summers-Valli, whose inspiration for the video was taken from the...
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Alongside the release of his debut album, Are U Down?, today, Spencer. has shared a third and final single ‘No Direction’, via 4AD / Remote Control Records. A heart-on-its-sleeve love song, its official video reunites Spencer. with director Danica Arias Kleinknecht (also behind the visuals for his 2019 single ‘Automatic’). “We shot the video in Jersey one night in the town where Danica’s from,” Spencer. explains. “We started shooting at 5pm and shot all night in the...
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Circuit des Yeux has released the second single and video taken from her Matador Records / Remote Control Records debut, -io, out October 22nd. With sweeping strings and ornate vocal arrangements, ‘Sculpting the Exodus’ brings the scale of the album’s ambition into sharp focus. The video was filmed in Chicago during the same session that yielded -io’s cover image, which captures vocalist/composer Haley Fohr suspended in void. Fohr on ‘Sculpting the Exodus’: ...
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The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, subtle but unpolished. This week, they announce The moment the world rushed in releasing on Friday 24th September via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Five instrumentals envelope the title track, the only song with vocals, to create a cocoon of warm noise for the hushed refrain. As Oliver explains: The hungry ghosts came to me and said: Make MIDI...
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Ngaiire has always been peculiar, but on her third studio album, titled 3, she embraces it. Released via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records, the project memorialises the differences that have hindered and propelled the Papua New Guinean R&B/Soul artist. “This album is about me letting go and accepting that not everyone is gonna get me,” says Ngaiire. “So here it is. 3. A perfectly acceptable odd number, just like me —a bit...
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King Krule announces his forthcoming live album You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down, due out September 10th via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. In addition, the artist shares the lead single and an accompanying video from the live album, ‘Stoned Again (Live)‘. Mere weeks before the world went into lockdown, King Krule had performed a handful of European shows which featured tracks from his critically acclaimed third album Man Alive!. Recorded live...
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Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), has shared a video for ‘No Difference,’ the new single from their upcoming album, Fun House, available for pre-order now and due Oct 22 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Fun House is Duffy’s most ambitious Hand Habits album to date. Produced by Sasami Ashworth (SASAMI) and engineered by Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), the record was not intended as a reaction to the pandemic, but it was very much the result of taking...
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