On Friday 20 March, Låpsley will release her highly-anticipated second album via XL Recordings / Remote Control. Titled Through Water, it’s the follow up to her 2016 album Long Way Home. Through Water is without doubt Låpsley’s most accomplished work to date, written and recorded during her transition into young womanhood. With Låpsley as the major producer and songwriter, the ten songs (whittled down from over one hundred) reflect her...
Basia Bulat shares ‘Already Forgiven‘ from her forthcoming record Are You in Love? out March 27. Bulat has joined forces once again with Jim James of My Morning Jacket for the new album, who also produced her 2016 release Good Advice. The song was recorded during a session in Joshua Tree. “One day Andrew recorded the wildest wind outside and sent the signal through a path of electronics and the swirling feeling...
After finishing a 2019 tour with Frankie Cosmos and signing to Captured Tracks, Christina Schneider, the brainchild behind Locate S,1, shares the first single/title track “Personalia” from her forthcoming sophomore album Personalia, out 3 April. Schneider seeks to address how the attention economy is plaguing us with feelings of FOMO and anxiety, and is causing many of us to abandon more progressive values. Working under various aliases since 2014—including CE Schneider Topical, Jepeto...
Meet Braids. They’ve just announced their new album Shadow Offering to be released on 24 April. Produced by Chris Walla of Death Cab For Cutie, the new album finds the band at their most personal, unabashedly flexing a new sense of confidence through songs that reach a higher level of artistry and collaboration. Check out lead single and video ‘Young Buck,’ an effervescent ode to impossible love that exudes an undeniable magnetism. Seriously, you...
Stephen Malkmus has announced his new album, Traditional Techniques, out Friday 6 March, and leads with new single ‘Xian Man‘. Malkmus’ third solo LP without the Jicks (or Pavement), is new phase folk music for new phase folks, with Malkmus as attuned as ever to the rhythms of the ever-evolving lingual slipstream. It’s packed with handmade arrangements, modern folklore, and 10 songs written and performed in his singular voice. It’s adventurous with...
Following the release of his acclaimed 2019 album New Ways, Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk has announced a run of Australian shows for March 2020. Leif will perform co-headline shows with Melbourne’s inimitable Ainslie Wills in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane, as well as perform a Brisbane’s Nine Lives Festival. Full run of dates below. To celebrate the announcement, Leif Vollebekk has shared his new video for ‘Apalachee Plain’ which includes vocals from Australian...
“Jeffrey Lebowski, it is “The Dude”, Donny Benét, it is “The Don”. Quite simply.” Donny Benét is back with a new single and video, ‘Girl Of My Dreams.’ Watch it below. He explains… “Some songs just write themselves – when it happens you’re a passenger and a vessel to the whole process. Girl of My Dreams was exactly this – as I was feverishly recording instrumental parts I felt that...
Banoffee has shared the second single ‘Count On You’ from her debut album Look At Us Now Dad out Friday 21st February ‘Count On You’, a full-throttle anthem fueled by blasts of jagged synths and written at the peak of the MeToo movement, is a relentlessly upbeat declaration of solidarity with survivors. The single comes with an uplifting video. “This video was a thrill to make. My co-director Will Mcdowell and I had a pretty ambitious vision for...
Remote Control Records in partnership with Emergency Music release the reissue of Life Was Better by Magic Dirt. Life Was Better was originally released in November 1994 on CD and has long been out of print. This is the very first time Life Was Better has been available on vinyl and to stream on DSPs. Catch Magic Dirt as they continue their national tour supporting Cold Chisel this month. Debuting at No. 1 on the Australian alternative music chart and staying on that chart for a whopping 75...
Legends of indie-emo rock Pinegrove have released their new album, Marigold. It comes with the next in a series of gorgeous acoustic renditions – ‘The Alarmist’ – available to watch now. Of the track, the band says ‘This song tries to look at the negotiation of space between two people—balancing comfort and closeness with a need for independence. the song takes place in the first moment you find yourself alone after an intense experience with a friend,...
Very excited to announce the return of U.S. Girls. The seventh album by the protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist Meg Remy, will be released on Friday 6 March entitled Heavy Light. While Remy has been widely acclaimed for a panoply of closely observed character studies, on Heavy Light she turns inward, recounting personal narratives to create a deeply introspective about-face. The songs are an inquest into the melancholy flavour of hindsight, both personal and cultural. Remy makes this notion formally explicit...
Algiers have released their new album, There Is No Year. Those aware of the ideals of this outspoken four-piece will find their latest direction on There Is No Year traversing unprecedented ground. Coming off two years of nonstop world-touring for their critically acclaimed second album, The Underside of Power—including Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltic States and the Balkans, where they have established a rabid following; an extended stint opening for Depeche Mode...
The grind is tough. We’re all just trying to get by – but at what cost? You can chase a dream but if you’re in the working class – everything else suffers for it. In ‘Still Want You Around Me’ Jeremy Neale explores the sentiments not often shared with those closest to us when we’re strung out or snowed under – featuring the feel-good sing-a-long chorus of the summer! The video is a lighthearted clip,...
In December 2019, XL Recordings announced that the acclaimed, Chicago-based jazz musician Makaya McCraven is to release a unique reimagining of I’m New Here, the final album by the late, legendary musician, poet and author Gil Scott-Heron. Titled We’re New Again, the album will be released on 7 February and marks the tenth anniversary of I’m New Here. It’s the second full-length interpretation of the album, following Jamie xx’s 2011 We’re...
Algiers have shared new track and video ‘We Can’t Be Found’, taken from the London/NYC four-piece’s third album There Is No Year, out next Friday 17 January. The mesmerising visual for the sinuous, dub-inflected song, which builds to a soaring, cascading chorus, propelled by the powerhouse vocals of frontman Franklin James Fisher, was directed by Ian Cone. “I always feel the most successful music videos are the ones that are reflective and convey the mood of the...
Thrilled to announce that Big Thief will return to Australia in May 2020 to play shows in Melbourne and Brisbane. Following on from two near sell-out tours and a Meredith Music Festival appearance in 2017, Big Thief will play The Corner in Melbourne on Tuesday 19th May (presented by Triple R) and Brisbane’s The Zoo on Thursday 21st May (presented by Jet Black Cat Music). Sydney show details to be announced soon! To celebrate the announcement of Australian tour dates for 2020, Big Thief have shared two new live videos from Bunker Studios in New York...
