Gruff Rhys releases his new album Seeking New Gods, out now on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. His seventh solo album, Seeking New Gods was recorded following a 2019 US tour with his band and mixed in LA with superstar producer Mario C (Beastie Boys), with beautiful art direction is by long-time Gruff collaborator Mark James. Gruff has a long history of pushing the boundaries of how music can be listened to, and has been working with BBC Research & Development on a special...
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From live electronic music trio The Sticks comes new single and video ‘EXMEN‘ via Broken Stone / Remote Control Records – the group’s first release since their acclaimed self titled 2015 debut album. The Sticks‘ sound revolves around the AirSticks, a gestural electronic ‘invisible’ drumkit invented by the band’s drummer/percussionist, Alon Ilsar, who also contributes live drums to the record. Ilsar‘s creeping multi-textural groove, combined with Josh Ahearn‘s grinding bass tones and keyboardist Daniel Pliner‘s otherworldly melodies, create the impression of a slow jam being pulled through...
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Melbourne’s Ryan Downey delivers his luminous art-rock album A TON OF COLOURS via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records. In celebration, he’s announced a run of tour dates in July & August in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and Castlemaine. Full details and ticket link below. A TON OF COLOURS is about humanness – its beauty, its contradictions, and our desire for connection. It is a love letter to the beauty of emotional expression and communication, with love being the...
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Introducing Cavallo Nero – a Melbourne-based three-piece outfit dressed for the occasion. The latest addition to the Pointer Recordings family, Cavallo Nero share their hypnotic debut single and video, ‘Lessons’. Formed in the summer of 2019 by three members of live-show sweat-stalwarts Total Giovanni, this new project delves deeper into clubland and the after hours – all that the strobe light touches and the smoke machine envelopes. Cavallo Nero exists...
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Sleater-Kinney return with a new single and video entitled ‘Worry With You’. It marks their first new music since 2019. The accompanying visual, which was shot in Portland, Oregon was directed by Alberta Poon and stars Fabi Reyna and Megan Watson. The song also heralds the arrival of the group’s tenth full-length studio record, Path Of Wellness (via Milk! Records / Remote Control) arriving on June 11th. The album is now available for pre-order at all digital service providers. Pre-order here. In the midst...
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Erika de Casier releases a new single ‘Busy’ and presents fierce CEO boardroom realness in its official video. Assuming her alter ego Bianka – a character who has featured in the visuals for previous singles ‘Polite’ and ‘Drama’ – on ‘Busy’, the Danish songwriter and producer is working hard and taking nothing for granted. Connect with Bianka on LinkedIn here. ‘Busy’ is the fourth single to be taken from de Casier’s second full-length studio album Sensational. Featuring the tracks ‘Polite’, ‘Drama’ and ‘No Butterflies, No Nothing’, Sensational will be released on 21 May 2021 via 4AD / Remote Control...
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Philly-born, NYC-bred and Berlin-based DJ, producer and performer LSDXOXO releases his much-anticipated debut EP Dedicated 2 Disrespect, out now on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. An illustrious portrait of the intersections between rave, techno, house, gender, sexuality, camp and race, Dedicated 2 Disrespect is a project that oscillates between the politics and the party so effortlessly bold and unapologetic. Following previously released singles ‘Sick Bitch‘ and ‘The Devil‘ today LSDXOXO has shared a new lyric video for the EP’s closing...
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Rough Trade Records’ newest signing, London-based band caroline are sharing a new track and self-directed video today, called ‘Skydiving onto the library roof’. The track will be released as a 12” single, their second for Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records, on June 25th. caroline began in early 2017, evolving out of weekly improvisation sessions. Band members brought together their shared influences, including Midwestern emo, Appalachian folk, minimalist classical and various forms of electronic music,...
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Welsh artist Koreless returns with ‘Black Rainbow’, a pumping, anthropomorphic electronic jam that has blood and guts where the wires should be. Koreless’ first solo material in 5 years, ‘Black Rainbow’ is served with a video originally conceived and shot in a ravine in Rachub, North Wales during lockdown 2020. The video for ‘Black Rainbow’ is inspired in equal parts by cult 70’s coming of age BBC drama Penda’s Fen, soft orthopedic foam and slow-motion bullet time videos of the...
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Melbourne three-piece Telenova are proud to share their brand new single ‘Tranquilize’. Premiered overnight by triple j’s Good Nights with Bridget Hustwaite, ‘Tranquilize’ arrives with a stunning video directed by Telenova frontwoman Angeline Armstrong. Assembled by Chris Walla (Death Cab For Cutie) at an APRA SongHubs writing camp in early 2020, Telenova combines the alluring vocals of multi-disciplined creative Angeline Armstrong, alongside the refined musicality of Edward Quinn (Slum Sociable) and Joshua Moriarty (Miami Horror). ‘Tranquilize’ was written in its entirety on the first day of the APRA SongHubs where the trio met for the first time. Armstrong shares – “I was actually...
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Lucinda Chua releases her new EP Antidotes 2, out now through 4AD. Like so many, the past year in lockdown was an isolating experience for Chua. “When you don’t get to participate in your culture, it’s like a part of you is being erased, a piece of your spirit is washed away, you become a bit more invisible.” Those feelings were heightened by discussions about racism on social media and within the music industry. Where music was once...
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Liz Stringer releases her sixth studio album—First Time Really Feeling—on Milk! Records, a ten-song collection documenting a recent reckoning and metamorphosis for the acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter. Recorded at Toronto’s Union Sound Company and produced and engineered by Chris Stringer (no relation to Liz, and known for his work with Timber Timbre and the Rheostatics), this will no doubt be regarded as Stringer’s seminal work and her most searingly personal: a musical time-capsule of love, loss and legacy,...
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‘Half Light’ is the thumping, tumbling new art-rock track by Melbourne artist Ryan Downey, exploring the challenges and cathartic rush of personal freedom and expression. Produced by Burke Reid (Courtney Barnett, Julia Jacklin, The Drones), the track heaves and crashes with electrifying heft yet carries a beautiful sensuality at its core, recalling baroque rock anthems of Kate Bush and David Bowie by way of 90s Britpop, but handled with contemporary indie production flair. Downey‘s powerfully...
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black midi present a new single/video, ‘Slow‘, from their forthcoming album, Cavalcade, out May 28th on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. In conjunction, the band completed a new KEXP interview and live performance. A full circle moment for black midi, their first KEXP performance (live from Iceland Airwaves in 2019) is how many first experienced the band. Following lead single ‘John L’, “a zoomed-out optical illusion, making you question what you’re witnessing at every turn,” (Pitchfork, “Best New Track”) ‘Slow’ is one of two Cavalcade songs fronted by bassist Cameron...
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Philly-born, NYC-bred and Berlin-based DJ, producer and performer LSDXOXO returns to share ‘The Devil,’ the first track off his forthcoming EP DEDICATED 2 DISRESPECT out May 14 on XL Recordings. The second offering from LSDXOXO is a world of darkness and opulence. “I make a deal with the devil/sell my soul and my body/but I look fucking good/whipping in my Maserati,” sings LSDXOXO, over a crunchy and addictive pop-infused techno production. ‘The Devil’ is LSDXOXO to the core; a mixture of light and dark and a...
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Psychedelic indie-rock band Crumb release their new album, Ice Melt, via their own label Crumb Records. Convening in Los Angeles to work with producer Jonathan Rado, Crumb tapped into atmosphere-creation like never before, building experimental compositions that are at turns head-nodding and surrealist, energetic and euphoric. Singer and guitarist Lila Ramani characterizes the album as a “return back down to earth,” a deeply felt examination of “real substances and beings that live on this planet.” The cultivation of road-worn musicians exploring brand-new...
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