Portland duo Reptaliens announce their forthcoming EP Wrestling out November 6 via Captured Tracks. Along with the announce, the duo share their first single, ‘Taking,’ with a lyric video overlaid on top of the eerie deep red Oregon skies during the wildfires, posing the question “are we existing?” Reptaliens on ‘Taking‘ – “‘Taking’ is about perception and existence. It’s a song that carries the listener through the balance between action...
Perth-based, Albany-native Carla Geneve has released a new single and accompanying video titled ‘The Right Reasons‘. Premiered via triple j Good Nights, the track is the second taste of her debut full-length due in 2021 via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records. ‘The Right Reasons’ is an exercise in finding strength through vulnerability. “It took me a long time to write The Right Reasons, I think I probably wrote...
Melbourne’s Ex-Olympian has released a new single ‘Netherworld Boogie‘ from his debut album Afterlife out Friday 16th October via Dot Dash Recordings. Liam McGorry says of the track “I’ve found that purchasing new musical equipment really makes you creative (maybe largely because you’ve just spent a whole lot of money you shouldn’t have and you need to justify it)?. Sometimes making music is like banging your head against a brick...
Future Islands have released their sixth album As Long As You Are via 4AD. Earlier this week, the band launched As Long As You Are Listening, Together, an interactive real-time cooperative listening event, released a new video for ‘Born In A War‘ and performed ‘For Sure’ on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Tomorrow night, to celebrate the release of As Long As You Are, Future Islands will perform their...
Matador Records & Remote Control Records are thrilled to announce the addition of prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar to its roster. A once-in-a-generation artist backed by an unstoppable rhythm section, Mdou’s music has roots in both traditional Tuareg melodicism and Eddie Van Halen’s daredevil majesty. Today we offer you ‘Chismiten’, the white-hot ripper that will kick off an expansive new full-length due to hit down next year. “The...
Norway’s Smerz return with two new songs, shared in the form of a trailer for an as-yet-unannounced project known as Believer. The visual takes shape around the songs ‘The favourite‘ and ‘Rap interlude‘, a taster for a forthcoming body of work that pushes Smerz far beyond their previous releases. The duo of Henriette Motzfeldt and Catharina Stoltenberg decamped for a time from Copenhagen (where they cut their teeth in the...
Overmono were on a roll before lockdown. As the top YouTube comment for their Joy Orbison collaboration track ‘Bromley’ put it, “so this is the track that was on every 5 minutes at Warehouse Project.” That track and the duo’s own ‘Le Tigre’ were played out constantly by the likes of Four Tet and Ben UFO, the former also hiring the duo to remix his track ‘Teenage Birdsong’. Then there...
Yo La Tengo have released Sleepless Night – a six-song EP with one new tune (‘Bleeding’) plus covers of songs by The Byrds, The Delmore Brothers, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Lane, and The Flying Machine. The tracks on Sleepless Night were initially released as one side of an LP, included within a limited-edition catalogue accompanying the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s career retrospective for the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. A...
This is The Kit have shared new single ‘Was Magician‘ alongside a live performance video. The single comes from her upcoming album Off Off On, out on Rough Trade Recordson October 23rd, 2020. The video was recorded and filmed by Lyon Sound and Vision at L’Epicerie Morderne in France and remotely directed from NYC by Marisa Gesualdi. ‘Was Magician’ is both a wander through the books of author Ursula K....
Barcelona trio, MOURN, share their fourth single ‘Stay There‘ off their forthcoming album, Self Worth, out October 30 via Captured Tracks. On Self Worth, MOURN is leaving behind abusive ties and externalizing the interior noise, ‘Stay There’ sticks to that empowered spirit. Its fury does not overshadow the vocal arrangements as Jazz sings “No matter what I said/ I’m the form you don’t respect.” MOURN on ‘Stay There’ – “Stay...
Romy – Romy Madley-Croft of The xx – releases her debut solo single ‘Lifetime‘. Written and recorded in London during lockdown, ‘Lifetime’ is a song about the dream of being reunited with friends, family and the ones we love, capturing the euphoria of being together again. Carefree and uninhibited, it’s a song that finds Romy giddy on possibility and, in her own words, is about “being totally in the moment...
Experimental audiovisual duo friendships have released their full project FISHTANK via Dot Dash Recordings. The record will be released physically on USB via Anterograde. Each song from the eleven track album features a corresponding video. Nic Brown describes the concept behind the project: “FISHTANK is a concept set on a non-linear timeline between the blurring of two worlds. The physical present (your world) and an alternative present reimagined and interpreted in...
Kurt Vile releases Speed, Sound, Lonely KV (ep). Announced last week with the track ‘How Lucky’, a cover of and duet with the late John Prine, the EP features an additional Prine cover, a cover of “Cowboy” Jack Clement and two originals. It was recorded alongside a cast of Nashville heavyweights including Bobby Wood, Dave Roe, and Kenny Malone with Dan Auerbach (The Black Keys) and Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Superwolf) tossed...
Washington-based vocalist and songwriter Marti shares her new single ‘Mothers & Fathers’. The single and accompanying video are available to buy and stream on all platforms via b4. On ‘Mothers & Fathers’, Marti imagines a utopia for her chosen family. “This song and video are about the freedom of youth. The freedom to simply exist,” Marti explains. “We often find ourselves in a complex or “forbidden” love as one of our...
UK quartet Goat Girl are delighted to announce their new album On All Fours out Friday 29 January, 2021 via Rough Trade. The new album was produced by Dan Carey (Kae Tempest, black midi & Franz Ferdinand) in South London in early 2020. The album will be available on black double LP, transparent pink double LP & CD. This new record sees the band veer away from the confrontational lyricism...
Big Thief‘s Adrianne Lenker will release two new albums, songs and instrumentals, on Friday 23 October. She shares a new single, ‘dragon eyes’, which follows lead single ‘anything’. Throughout ‘dragon eyes’, Lenker’s sweet voice moves over guitar like wind rustling through autumn leaves. Her lyrics refer to tangible feelings – hot sand, cold air, and cool hands – and more mystical images – a “dragon with silent eyes.” Each stanza...
