To celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated third album, After You, Jack Peñate releases a stunning live video of ‘Loaded Gun’. Directed by Daniel Castro Garciaand filmed at north London’s legendary The Church studios, the intimate black and white live recording sees Jack stripping back the song to just piano and vocal to beautiful effect. Watch below! Featuring the singles ‘Prayer’ and ‘Murder’ (and their accompanying Eddie Peake-directed videos), After...
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Grimes has released her newest single ‘So Heavy I Fell Through The Earth‘. The song comes on the heels of ‘Violence’, which was released in September. The new single was written, produced, and performed by Grimes. On February 21st 2020 via 4AD , Grimes will release her highly-anticipated fifth studio album, Miss Anthropocene. Pre-Order Miss Anthropocene here. About Grimes: CEO, Chief Ethereal Officer
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King Krule has released a short film called ‘Hey World!’, directed by Charlotte Patmore. With signature King Krule wit and in his own unique style, the short film shows Archy Marshall performing solo four as-yet-unreleased tracks, titled ‘Perfecto Miserable’, ‘Alone,Omen3’, ‘(Don’t Let The Dragon) Draag On’ & ‘Energy Fleets.’
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Another in a series of previously unreleased demos is out now from Spoon: ‘The Underdog.’ Meet Basia Bulat, signed to Secret City Records, and get to know her forthcoming album Are You In Love? Horses abound in her video for ‘Your Girl.’ Introducing Braids. Dive in to some beautiful indie art-rock from the Montreal act. ‘Eclipse (Ashley)‘ is a taste off a forthcoming album in 2020. It’s been 30...
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Milk on Milk a compilation of the Milk! Records roster is out now – Tiny Ruins, courtney barnett, Hachiku, Jen Cloher, The Finks, jade imagine, Evelyn Ida Morris, East Brunswick All Girls Choir and Loose Tooth – covering each other’s songs. Most of Milk On Milk was recorded earlier this year over a four day period by producer & Milk! friend Anna Laverty at Audrey Studios just around the corner from Milk! HQ in Coburg, Melbourne. Some of the Milk! roster share their thoughts on the recording, cover...
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Three years since the release of their shambling classic, Mid Thirties Single Scene, Scott & Charlene’s Wedding announce the release of six-track EP When in Rome, Carpe Diem ahead of their performance at Meredith Music Festival this year. First single ‘Back In The Corner‘ out now. The band will also be returning to Adelaide for a hometown performance in the weekend prior to Meredith, saying hello to friends both new and old. Formed around Craig Dermody, a songwriter who provides you with speed-dial access...
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Thrilled to announce the reissue of Gene Clark‘s 1974 masterpiece No Other – one of the American singer-songwriter and Byrds founding member’s finest works – out now via 4AD. Recorded at the Village Recorder in West Hollywood and produced by Thomas Jefferson Kaye, No Other was originally released in 1974 on Asylum Records, coming a year after the Byrds short-lived reunion. Reaching for the stars, Gene delivered a visionary record of psychedelic rock, folk, country and soul which famously cost a small fortune to make...
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Here it is, the new album from FKA twigs – MAGDALENE. Out now everywhere through Young. MAGDALENE is the follow up to FKA twigs’ critically acclaimed Brit Award and Mercury Prize-nominated debut LP1 (2014, Young). Created in a period where her confidence was knocked following heartbreak and laparoscopic surgery, MAGDALENE is the sound of twigs reconfiguring, emotionally and physically. As she sings on ‘Mary Magdalene’, the album track that opened her highly-praised, sold-out live shows earlier in the year, “A woman’s time...
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2019, The year of Lucy Dacus, and the title of her new EP – out now through Matador Records. It arrives following the release of her acclaimed second record, Historian, and the collaborative boygenius EP with Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers. Throughout the year, Lucy Dacus has rolled out a festive mix of original and cover songs tied to various holidays. This is 2019. From the poignant refrain of ‘My Mother...
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The Finks announce the release of Affectations on tape & digital on Friday 29th November and share first track & video ‘No One Else’ today. The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, subtle but unpolished. As Oliver writes about Affectations: “The idea was to record a few covers and some originals using only equipment that could fit in a shoebox. This included a Tascam four-track, two microphones, a few leads and cassettes, and my mum’s Sony Walkman from...
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Josienne Clarke has released her debut solo album In All Weather via Rough Trade. The album In All Weather is a new collection of songs by writer, singer and musician Josienne Clarke, it’s a record with which she goes it alone; both musically, as this is her first solo record, and in her own life, laid bare and played out in the leave-it-all-behind-and-start-anew nature of the lyrics. “Learning to sail in all weather, the line from which...
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A new Milk! Records compilation Milk On Milk – with the Melbourne label’s artists covering each other’s songs – will be released on Friday 15th November. Evelyn Ida Morris covers Courtney Barnett‘s ‘Nameless, Faceless‘ ahead of the compilation’s release. They offer: “Courtney’s song Nameless Faceless stood out as an obvious choice for me, mainly based on its content. I have really strong feelings about that fear that women have to carry. That silent, creeping fear that most...
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New Ways is the new album by Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk, his hotly anticipated follow-up to the Polaris Music Prize finalist Twin Solitude. It’s out now through Secret City Records. Whereas Twin Solitude was about self-reflection, New Ways is about engaging and changing, touching and being touched. It’s a physical record, with louder and tighter grooves, and the rawest lyrics the musician has ever recorded. A portrait of beauty, desire, longing, risk, remembrance—without an instant of regret. “Anything that I wouldn’t...
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In the past couple of years, Hachiku bandleader Anika Ostendorf found herself dealing with darker themes; a 25-year-old’s quarter-life crisis around growing up, changing views and feeling mounting frustrations. The Melbourne-based band, known for their self-produced dream-pop jams release a new single & video, ‘Shark Attack,’ a study of loss and grieving, following a grim diagnosis of Ostendorf’s family dog Lexus. Ostendorf says of ‘Shark Attack’: “If you’re like my friend Tushara you might think this song...
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Pinegrove have revealed plans for their new album, Marigold, to be released on Rough Trade Records on January 17, 2020. Check out the video for the second track to be released from the album, ‘Phase‘, directed by Colin Read. Marigold marks their debut album for Rough Trade Records and offers what Evan calls a “heart-first” perspective. The album begins with a breath and ends with a shimmering exhalation. In between is an urgent, multivalent meditation – and an expanded take on the blend...
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Algiers will return in 2020 with a new album, There Is No Year (Matador), and have shared a new single ‘Dispossession.’ Those aware of the ideals of this outspoken four-piece will find their latest direction on There Is No Year traversing unprecedented ground. The album solidifies and expands upon the doom-laden soul of their foundation, toward an even vaster, genre-reformatting sound, one somehow suspended in the amber of “a different era,” as...
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