Helado Negro – the project of Roberto Carlos Lange – has released the new single ‘Outside the Outside‘. ‘Outside the Outside‘ is the second single to preview the new album Far In which will be released on Friday 22nd October via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Roberto shares that he still felt like an “outsider” amidst his family’s community as much as he felt that he belonged. “I found space through music and outsiders...
On Kedr Livanskiy’s new single, ‘Boy‘, she pushes her crystalline voice to the forefront resulting in one of Liminal Soul’s most personal and palpable songs. For the first time ever, the Russian producer/musician wrote the lyrics and sings in English, mournfully reflecting on the end of a relationship and growing older. ‘Boy’ comes with a stunning video directed by Kristina Podobed who explains, “After hearing the song, we realised that this is a classic relationship story that...
Mess Esque, the newly minted duo of Mick Turner and Helen Franzmann, have been mixing up the medicine for their second single ‘Jupiter‘, taken from their forthcoming self-titled album out Friday 22 October via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. For a new band it really helps to have a hit single, so this new radio friendly unit shifter remixes one album cut, reshaping it into a smoldering, cascading indie ballad! Mick and Helen say...
Emilie Kahn is thrilled to share a brand-new song and video titled ‘Gemini‘, via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. This is Emilie’s first new material since the release of Outro, two and a half years ago. Produced by Marc-André Gilbert (Charlotte Cardin, Ariane Moffat) and Ben Sloan, the song was mixed by Joe Zook (Alessia Cara, Katy Perry, U2). Emilie shares the inspiration behind the song: “Gemini is a...
Dinner aka Danish multi-instrumentalist Anders Rhedin has announced a 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. Dream Work features vocal contributions from labelmates Molly Burch and Charlie Hilton as well as Lina Tullgren and Nicolai Koch. The...
Parquet Courts have announced their new album, Sympathy For Life, out October 22nd on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records, and share the first single/video, ‘Walking at a Downtown Pace.’ On Sympathy For Life, Parquet Courts’ thought-provoking rock is dancing to a new tune. The album finds the Brooklyn band at both their most instinctive and electronic, spinning their bewitching, psychedelic storytelling into fresh territory, yet maintaining their unique identity. In the video for...
Out October 22nd on Matador Records / Remote Control Records, -io is the sixth album by vocalist and composer Haley Fohr, best known as Circuit des Yeux. A celebrated figure in Chicago’s music community, she has released acclaimed albums via De Stijl, Thrill Jockey, and Drag City and toured throughout the world. However, -io is Circuit des Yeux’s most ornate and elaborate work to date – a set of compositions that nest Fohr’s otherworldly four-octave...
Los Angeles-based artist Hana Vu announces Public Storage, her new album and debut for Ghostly International / Remote Control Records, out November 5th. In conjunction, she presents a new single, ‘Everybody’s Birthday,‘ the follow-up to ‘Maker,’ her “slick and assured” (Stereogum) first offering. The album is named after the public storage spaces the 21-year old Vu and her family would regularly use moving every few years. Vu sees the art of making...
Toronto rapper Shad has been keeping busy releasing singles since last spring to offer glimpses of his brand-new album TAO out October 1st via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. He now unveils a powerful and candid fourth track titled ‘Body (No Reason)’. Shad explains “Every song on the album highlights a different aspect (or aspects) of human life. And this one is the simplest: Body. No reason. Just movement, feeling....
Toronto-based musician Homeshake, born Peter Sagar, shares a new song and video from his forthcoming album Under The Weather – out September 10 via SHHOAMKEE / Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records. Directed by Keith Rankin, ‘I Know I Know I Know‘ visuals follow an animated laser-lined dancer moving through an otherworldly sunset coupling the serene feel of the track. This marks the third single released in tandem with an animated video, following ‘Passenger Seat,’ directed...
Following the success of their 2020 album As Long As You Are, Baltimore quartet Future Islands have released a brand new one-off single ‘Peach’ via 4AD / Remote Control Records. ‘Peach’ comes hot on the heels of a series of ALAYA remixes featuring techno legend Carl Cox, pop violinist Sudan Archives and hip-hop producer Controller 7. Stream / Download Future Islands – ALAYA Remixes 1 Stream / Download Future Islands –...
Spencer. has released a second single from his forthcoming debut album, Are U Down? – out September 10 via 4AD / Remote Control Records. ‘MyLuv’ was born from a night of smoking and playing Super Smash Bros. and is a simple ode to his girlfriend. Spencer. says, “I made this song in the morning which is super rare for me. I realised I didn’t have any trumpet on the album and had...
Russian producer/musician Kedr Livanskiy returns with her expansive, timeless new record on which she pushes the boundaries of electronic songwriting. Liminal Soul plays like an opera as Livanskiy brings her crystalline voice to the forefront, channeling it into operatic choruses, looping falsetto, and one of her first full songs in English. This conviction is evident in the album’s instrumental arrangements as well – Livanskiy expertly fuses acoustic elements with electronic ones, deconstructing pop songwriting...
Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), announces their new sonically adventurous album Fun House, out October 22 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Fun House‘s lead single, ‘Aquamarine‘, is out now, alongside a one shot V Haddad-directed video. “What originally started as a minimally arranged acoustic ballad, ‘Aquamarine’ evolved into the story of certain events in life, what informs my identity, the silence in the questions left unanswered that become the...
Patrick Watson unveils a new video for the song ‘Can’t Stop Staring at the Sun,’ from his three-part single ‘A Mermaid in Lisbon‘, released via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. Directed and choreographed by Jacob Jonas, the video stars dancers Anthony Bryant, Gianinni Semedo Moreira, and Nicolas Walton. “During the lockdown I was really inspired and watching a lot of modern dance videos. ‘Can’t Stop Staring at the Sun’ felt like it was a dance piece from...
DARKSIDE, the duo of Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington, have released their long-awaited second album Spiral via Matador / Remote Control Records. Spiral is the long-awaited second full-length from DARKSIDE. Written and recorded in 2018, the album was mixed by Rashad Becker and mastered by Heba Kadry. It follows the band’s lauded 2014 debut Psychic. In the years that followed the Psychic tour in 2014, the musicians moved on parallel and occasionally intersecting paths. Jaar would release five albums under his name and two collections of club music as Against All...
