Two of the UK’s most exciting and original new acts, Ethan P. Flynn and Black Country, New Road have come together to record a live version of Flynn’s ‘Television Show‘ out now via Young / Remote Control Records. The original version featured on Ethan P. Flynn’s debut mixtape – 2020’s highly acclaimed B-Sides and Rarities Volume One – and this live version is the first time Black Country, New Road have featured on an official Ethan P. Flynn release following a...
Read More
Known and loved by fans as the set-closer at her most recent live shows, Aldous Harding finally releases ‘Old Peel’ via 4AD. The one-off single was recorded with producer John Parish, who also worked on her last two albums Designer (2019) and Party (2017), at the end of her hugely successful 2019 European tour. The official video for ‘Old Peel’, directed by and starring Harding and long-time visual collaborator Martin...
Read More
Ahead of her headline show in Sydney this Saturday, Sydney-based, Papau New Guinea-born future soul artist Ngaiire today shares the stunning accompanying visuals for her new single ‘Closer’. Co-written by Japanese Wallpaper and Jack Grace and premiered via triple j, the track is taken from her forthcoming album 3 out Friday 27 August via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records for AUNZ and Majestic Casual for the rest of the world. Described by Ngaiire...
Read More
Rock band Sleater-Kinney have released their 10th studio album, Path Of Wellness via Milk! Records/Remote Control and share lyric video ‘Method’. The song is a scrappy plea for tenderness, a grasp at vulnerability in times that require toughness and armor. Path of Wellness has already been lauded one of the most anticipated albums from the likes of Vulture and Vogue. Click HERE to watch to ‘Method,’ with a lyric video by Lance Bangs....
Read More
Mississippi Hill Country bluesman Cedric Burnside has shared his brand new single ‘Pretty Flowers’ while “ushering the genre into a beautifully Black future” (Ebony). Written by the two-time GRAMMY nominee while on the road in 2018, ‘Pretty Flowers’ tells the story of a man looking back at his past mistakes with women and recognizing that he’s learned important lessons over the years while growing into a loving, supportive partner. Throughout the coming-of-age love song, flowing extended guitar riffs become one...
Read More
From her forthcoming album, Molly Burch releases ‘Heart of Gold’, an irresistibly effervescent anthem for unrequited love. The new single from her upcoming album Romantic Images (out July 23rd via Captured Tracks / Remote Control Records) follows the release of recent singles ‘Control’, which Nylon praised for “its smoky vocals and romantic, timeless sound” and ‘Emotion’ ft. Wild Nothing that earned a nod as one of Cosmopolitan’s Best Songs of 2021 so far....
Read More
Poet and songwriter Mustafa releases his debut project, When Smoke Rises, via his own Regent Park Songs / Remote Control Records. The project, which American Songwriter called “one of the most poignant, intimate and authentic projects of recent memory,” exemplifies a style Mustafa himself describes as “inner-city folk music” that finds musical inspiration in the folk greats such as Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Richie Havens but channelled through the contemporary lens of Mustafa’s modern-day Toronto. Mustafa was moved to release his own music following...
Read More
Following singles ‘John L’, ‘Slow’ & ‘Chondromalacia Patella‘, London band black midi have released their second album Cavalcade via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. Cavalcade is a dynamic, hellacious, and inventive follow-up to 2019’s widely-praised Schlagenheim, “a labyrinth with hairpin-turn episodes and lyrics full of dourly corrosive observations” (New York Times, Best Albums of 2019). It scales beautiful new heights, pulling widely from a plethora of genres and influences, reaching ever upwards from an already lofty base of early achievements. black midi picture Cavalcade as a line...
Read More
Bachelor – the collaborative project of Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner – have released their debut album Doomin’ Sun, out now through Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Written and recorded in Topanga, CA over the course of two weeks in January of 2020, pre-pandemic, Doomin’ Sun is a record steeped in friendship. Kempner and Duterte hybridised their individual songwriting talents, producing a collection that slips between moods with ease and showcases their lyrical prowess. While the album features collaborations with the likes...
Read More
Today, rock band Sleater-Kinney share their second offering ‘High In The Grass’ from their forthcoming 10th studio album, Path Of Wellness which is due out June 11 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. To coincide with the track release, the band also shares the Kelly Sears directed video. ‘High In The Grass’ follows the release of the first single ‘Worry With You’ which was met with great critical praise from the likes of...
Read More
After taking people by surprise last month by releasing ‘Out of Touch,’ the first brand-new song since 2018, Canadian rapper Shad is at it again and today unveils a punchy new track and its video titled ‘Work’, as premiered by Complex. Shad tells us: “Like ‘Out of Touch’, ‘Work’ was another song written pre-pandemic that is (sadly) even more timely now. I knew I wanted to write a song specifically about two aspects of...
Read More
Today Welsh producer Lewis Roberts aka Koreless announces his much-anticipated debut album Agor, due for release July 9 via Young / Remote Control Records. An album over five years in the making, Agor is announced with the single ‘Joy Squad’, a track that has a life of its own already. Played by Caribou, Jamie xx and TNGHT in their BBC Radio1 Essential Mixes and with further support from Oli XL and HAAi,...
Read More
Danish producer and songwriter Erika de Casier releases Sensational, her second studio album, today. Featuring the singles ‘Busy’, ‘Polite’, ‘Drama’ and ‘No Butterflies, No Nothing’, de Casier’s debut for 4AD / Remote Control Records is now available on all digital platforms. Sensational expands the universe of de Casier’s 2019 self-released debut album Essentials. Where Essentials dealt more with the infatuation stages of love, Sensational has more of an attitude, aiming to dismantle the stereotype of single women looking for love, tackling relationship dramas and the toxicity of dating. It was...
Read More
Lucy Dacus presents ‘VBS’, a new single/video from her forthcoming album, Home Video, out June 25th on Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Like the previously released ‘Hot & Heavy‘ and ‘Thumbs‘, ‘VBS‘ starts the way a memoir might – “In the summer of ‘07 I was sure I’d go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBS” – and presents the compassion, humour and honesty of the best autobiographical writing. ‘VBS’ features Dacus on vocals, Jacob Blizard on a slew of electric...
Read More
Today, black midi reveal a new single/video, ‘Chondromalacia Patella‘, from their forthcoming album, Cavalcade, out next Friday May 28 on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records, with an online Cavalcade listening party held on May 27. The third in a string of fervent singles, ‘Chondromalacia Patella’, is a song about convalescence, aptly named after a band member’s knee injury from running. It features abrasive noise rock chords and circular drumming, which ultimately climax in a sunburst of arpeggiated guitars skyscraping above and beyond power metal....
Read More
Mdou Moctar’s sixth album and Matador Records debut, Afrique Victime, finally hits down. Recorded across four studios and two continents, the album has already drawn universal praise as a powerful rallying call – a melding of guitar pyrotechnics and full-blast noise with poetic meditations on love, inequality, and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands of colonial powers. Read Pitchfork’s “Best New Music” review of Afrique Victime HERE and Rolling Stone’s profile of Mdou HERE. Alongside the album release comes the video...
Read More
