Austin-based singer and songwriter Molly Burch announces the release of her fourth studio album Romantic Images, out July 23rd via Captured Tracks. The announcement is accompanied by the release of the exhilarating album opener ‘Control‘ that hears Burch make peace with letting go paired with its mesmerising, fashion-forward video directed by Jackie Lee Young and Burch. The track sets the stage for the album’s guiding light: Burch’s radical choice to shed the anxiety and insecurity of her twenties and embark upon a confident embrace of her truest self. The...
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Conceptual multimedia artist Laura Callier, aka Gel Set, releases her news album, Tone Invasion, via 2MR. The LP includes the hypnotic single “It Has Come To Our Attention,” second single “Where The Ocean Meets The Land” praised by Post-Punk and HighClouds, third single “Next Exit,” a cinematic track about escaping reality by, well, escaping, and last single “Feed Me”, about feeding capitalism culture. Something about the crime of a home...
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Juan Wauters releases new album Real Life Situations, featuring collaborations with Mac DeMarco, Homeshake, Nick Hakim, Cola Boyy, El David Aguilar, and more, via Captured Tracks. His fifth solo album, Real Life Situations is a delicate interplay between genre-hopping eclecticism and earnest, plain-spoken observation. Mining older songs, phone notes, new material, and snippets from TV and YouTube, he’s crafted an aural document of the year through his eyes. Jubilant choruses and spoken word poetry...
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Pointer Recordings is proud to introduce Canberra artists Ryan Fennis and Voidhood. ‘Tapped‘ is the first release from the duo’s collaborative project and is accompanied by an electrifying video. Morphing together their bass-heavy, sample-driven electronic styles, the pair shape an unstable sound reflecting the increasingly distorted world we find ourselves in. Inspired by their everyday lives and the drive to create something unique and true to self, through ‘Tapped’, Ryan Fennis and Will Klep (Voidhood) upend the preconceived ideas of mediocracy associated with the city they come from....
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Bachelor – the collaborative project of Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and Palehound’s Ellen Kempner – will release its debut album Doomin’ Sun on May 28th via Milk! Records. The duo share another single off of the record. Of the country-inflected ‘Sick of Spiraling‘ the band says “Sick of Spiraling is one of the last songs we wrote and recorded together in Topanga. Both of us initially tried to play drums on the song but the groove wasn’t right so we enlisted help from James Krivchenia. He came over...
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Toronto-based rapper Shad today releases a brand-new song ‘Out of Touch’, a bright, RnB-spiked track featuring the multi-talented pHoenix Pagliacci. This memorable new offering marks the return of the rhymer and the first taste of forthcoming music coming later this year on Secret City Records. “’Out of Touch’ is basically the thesis statement for this upcoming collection,” explains Shad. “It’s about how our individual sense of wholeness can’t be disentangled from our collective well-being. It’s about the idea that we belong to each...
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Melbourne cult party outfit JAZZPARTY are proud to announce their new album Nobody Gets Away – released Friday 23 July 2021 via Remote Control Records. To celebrate the album, the band have shared a new single and video ‘Higher With My Love’ – which they’ll launch Friday 7 May at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel. JAZZPARTY is more than a band, more than a party, more than a bunch of old mates, more than a supremely talented gang of musicians and creatives. They are an energy bomb, a...
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Lucinda Chua is a singer, songwriter, composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in South London. Primarily using her voice, a cello, and an array of effects units, Chua writes ambient pop songs that are intimate, atmospheric, and totally enchanting. Newly signed to 4AD, she will release a second EP of solo work, Antidotes 2, on 7 May 2021. To celebrate, Chua launches the EP’s opening track ‘Until I Fall’ with an accompanying video directed by William Kennedy. She says, “for me, this song is about rebirth and...
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After a year when plenty discovered what “the blues” really means, Cedric Burnside returns with I Be Trying; a new collection of 13 original songs that chart a course through dark times and towards the resonant love waiting to be found on the other side. A masterclass in Mississippi Hill Country Blues from its greatest living practitioner and two-time GRAMMY nominee, I Be Trying features stories of connection, hurt and redemption in the South as Burnside’s blistering guitar riffs...
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Detroit-based singer and producer John FM has released his EP American Spirit with XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Initially self-released late last year on Bandcamp, American Spirit is an extraordinary project filled with the unique, dismantled Hi-Tech Soul music that John FM has tacitly become known for. With vinyl to follow on June 25th, the news of the re-release is accompanied by a music video for the EP’s lead track ‘February’ filmed by John FM’s frequent collaborator Omar S, over the course...
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Lucy Dacus announces her third album, Home Video, out June 25th on Matador, and releases lead single/video, ‘Hot & Heavy’, which she’ll perform tonight on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The follow-up to 2018’s Historian and her 2016 debut No Burden, Home Video was built on Dacus’ interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, Virginia. Many of the songs start the way a memoir might, and all of them have the compassion, humour, and honesty of the best autobiographical writing. These songs capture...
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Copenhagen-based songwriter and producer Erika de Casier has announced details of her second full-length studio album. Sensational, which includes recent singles ‘No Butterflies, No Nothing’ and ‘Drama’, will be released on 21 May 2021 via 4AD. Today, she releases another preview from Sensational – the anti-bad boy tune ‘Polite’. ‘Polite’ was inspired by a nightmare date where her dining partner was rude to the waiter and only spoke about himself. Thinking she should walk out of the restaurant or confront his impoliteness,...
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Crumb announce their new album, Ice Melt, out April 30th 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. Lila Ramani characterises 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 sounds, toolsets, and thematic concepts, Ice Melt sees...
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Toronto-based rapper Shad today releases a brand-new song ‘Out of Touch’, a bright, RnB-spiked track featuring the multi-talented pHoenix Pagliacci. This memorable new offering marks the return of the rhymer and the first taste of forthcoming music coming later this year on Secret City Records. “’Out of Touch’ is basically the thesis statement for this upcoming collection,” explains Shad. “It’s about how our individual sense of wholeness can’t be disentangled from our collective well-being. It’s about the idea that we belong to each...
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In mid-2018, Moon Rituals released a debut album on Solar/Sonar, concurrently playing their last two shows. The finalé drew in Melbourne’s most self-assured weirdos, engrossed in the moment. This year, Moon Rituals offer an unexpected rebirth of songs less about fantasy, but drawn from the altered consciousness of grief. Employing a similar process, Sarah wrote some demos and emailed them to Mikey who added instruments. For ‘Painting a Bird’, Young grabbed Shaun Gionis (Boomgates)...
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Afterlife Remixed is a fresh take on Ex-Olympian’s 2020 debut Afterlife, calling on some friends, favourite musicians & DJs to rework some of their favourite songs on the record – giving them an Afterlife of their own. Afterlife Remixed is out now via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. The original record itself was influenced by themes of starting again, trial & error, renewal and dialogue. Liam McGorry aka Ex-Olympian says: “In this way, I thought it would be interesting to extend that dialogue and ask...
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