Thrilled to announce the details for Banoffee‘s debut album! Look At Us Now Dad is out Friday 21st February via Dot Dash (AU/NZ/Asia) and Cascine (ROW). To celebrate the album announce, Banoffee has shared her new single ‘Tennis Fan (feat. Empress Of)’ – premiered via triple j Good Nights. ‘Tennis Fan (feat. Empress Of)’ arrives with a video directed by Quinn Whitney Wilson (Lizzo) and premiered via The FADER. Banoffee shares – “Working with Lorely (Empress Of) and Quinn was such a pleasure and it turned into a day time slumber...
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A pleasure to announce the release of the brand new EP from Obscura Hail – Zero. It’s out now everywhere through Dot Dash Recordings. Catch em live at the dates below. Born on NSW’s South Coast, and now buried alive somewhere in Melbourne, Obscura Hail (Sean Conran, Tamara Issa & Steven West) are sneaking into intimate spaces and filling strangers with relative truths. Themes of ontology, existentialism, love and loss are somewhat serious…...
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Sure you’ll join us in welcoming back Låpsley with some brand new music. These Elements is Holly ‘Låpsley’ Fletcher’s brand-new EP, set for release on Friday 22 November 2019 via XL Recordings. It’s her first new music since Long Way Home, her acclaimed 2016 debut album, a record that distilled the yearning and heartache of teenage love and cemented Låpsley’s position as one of the most exciting new artists in the UK. The album was hugely influential (not least on Billie Eillish,...
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Dublin four-piece Lankum’s majestic new album The Livelong Day is out now on Rough Trade / Remote Control. Made up of brothers Ian and Daragh Lynch, Cormac MacDiarmada and Radie Peat, Lankum have gained worldwide acclaim for their first two albums and captivating, often euphoric live performances. Lankum honour the sacredness of traditional Irish tunes, but allow them to metamorphose, to grow and breathe like the heavy, ancient breath of the Uilleann pipes which seethe beneath the tracks of their third studio album...
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Thrilled to share news of two Dot Dash artists representing at SXSW 2020 – Carla Geneve and Gena Rose Bruce. See the first lineup announcement here. 2019 has already proven to be a massive year for Carla Geneve including performances at festivals such as Laneway & Falls, touring with & supporting artists such as Cat Power, Kurt Vile, San Cisco and Holy Holy. Carla received international praise from KEXP and Matt Wilkinson...
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The latest in soundtracks released by Boss Battle Records – the original soundtrack for Rebel Cops is out now. Composed by Kevin Penkin (Florence, Made in Abyss, The Rising of the Shield Hero) and Ben Matthews, (This is the Police franchise). Listen here. Rebel Cops is a spin-off game from This Is the Police, which exclusively focuses on the series’ turned-based tactical operations. Lead a ragtag squad of cops in rebellion...
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Proud to announce the news of Memphis LK joining the Dot Dash family! New single ‘Roses‘ was premiered this week on triple j‘s Home & Hosed, and single launch shows have been announced for Sydney and Melbourne. ‘Roses‘ is spirited bass-pop atop a bed of dystopian electro. It’s an empowering antidote to Australia’s prevalent tall poppy syndrome. Memphis offers, “We’d all just grow so much taller and brighter and stronger and...
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Montreal’s Common Holly has released her debut album When I say to you Black Lightning. Out now through Solitaire Recordings. The record is more experimental than Brigitte Naggar’s debut. It is rougher, looser, louder and more atonal. It feels edgy, but still kind. When I say to you Black Lightning ditches fear without losing vulnerability, and trades in sadness for the healing powers of anger, and the strength of observing,...
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Jack Peñate has announced the release of his third album After You. Over a decade in the making, the album is set for release on Friday 29 November via XL Recordings and was produced in collaboration with Paul Epworth, Inflo and Alex Epton. ‘Murder’ is the second track to be taken from the album (following from ‘Prayer’), it’s a song of forgiveness and redemption and another indication of what to expect from the forthcoming album. Watch the video below. Preorder After You here.
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Perfume Genius shares another track from his collaborative music project The Sun Still Burns Here. ‘Pop Song‘ is a euphoric piece of orchestral chamber pop, elevated by another stunning vocal performance by Mike Hadreas. Listen here. Watch the video for previous single ‘Eye In The Wall.’ Ahead of next Friday’s album release, Lankum share a final single ‘The Young People.’ Another taste of The Livelong Day from the Irish...
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Glitched out pop duo HXXS release their debut album Year Of The Witch via Captured Tracks. As with much of the art created in the wake of the 2016 presidential election, Year Of The Witch sizzles with the fresh sting of political anguish. Instead of firing off platitudes about a nation divided, however, HXXS choose to look inward at how this divide affects familial relationships. Take it in, here.
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Memphis LK grows tall with the release of her fresh single ‘Roses’. Spirited bass-pop that blooms from a bed of dystopian electro, the new single reveals a further metamorphosis for the self-sufficient songwriter and producer since her introduction with ‘Speak Honestly’. Her newly cherished creative independence has been a journey of renewal and rebirth. Memphis looks back on the cathartic process as “clearing things that don’t serve you anymore, so you can step into...
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As anticipation mounts for the release of her second album MAGDALENE (released Friday 8th November via Young / Remote Control Records), FKA twigs has revealed more brand new music from the record. ‘home with you’ is another stunning statement from a truly multi-faceted artist, with FKA twigs producing and writing (with Ethan P. Flynn) the track as well as directing and starring in the accompanying video. It follows the release of previous MAGDALENE tracks ‘cellophane’ and ‘holy terrain’, her collaboration with Future that also featured an incredible FKA twigs-directed video. “You can take the...
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With a career spanning nearly four decades, Kim Gordon is one of the most prolific and visionary artists working today. She unleashes her first ever solo release, No Home Record, today through Matador. Produced by Justin Raisen (Angel Olse, Yves Tumor, Charli XCX etc.), the album is an outstanding display of Gordon’s characteristic resistance to any formula. Artist curiosity still at the core of her output. When Gordon first began...
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Two Hands, the second album from Big Thief in 2019, is out now through 4AD. A partner to the universally acclaimed U.F.O.F. (9.2 in Pitchfork), Two Hands is both connected and independent of its predecessor. In a cover story with Stereogum, Adrianne Lenker finds in words “U.F.O.F. is meant to be more focused on the immeasurable, sort of suspended ethereal playing with textures and colours and layering in the production,...
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New Zealand juggernaut Fat Freddy’s Drop announce the release of their new studio album Special Edition Part 1, alongside a new single ‘Kamo Kamo’. Special Edition Part 1 is out digitally on Friday 15 November with Vinyl LP & CD Available Early December. Part 1 of a double album, Special Edition Part 1 was recorded at the band’s Wellington studio, BAYS. Of the six tracks, ‘Raleigh Twenty’ ‘Trickle Down’ and ‘Six-Eight Instrumental’ were written undercover in the studio. Long time fans – ‘Special Edition’, ‘Kamo Kamo’, and ‘OneFourteen’ – you’d have...
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