Chastity Belt share the final single before the release of their new self-titled album on 20 September ~ ‘Drown.’ The lush new track has roots in the band’s early years. Singer/guitarist Julia Shapiro says “I started writing “Drown” back when I was 23… so almost 6 years ago. It came together with the band a few years later. It feels good to finally put it out into the world! Everyone’s parts on it...
R&B experimentalist Velvet Negroni has released his debut album NEON BROWN – it’s out now via 4AD. Stream it here. The album features singles ‘CONFETTI,’ ‘WINE GREEN,’ and more recently released ‘KURT KOBAIN,’ garnering praise from the likes of The FADER, The Guardian and Pigeons & Planes and The Observer toting Velvet Negroni as an artist you need to know. On NEON BROWN, he is a griot relaying the life and...
Jack Peñate returns. His first official release in a decade since his second album Everything is New, ‘Prayer‘ is out now through XL Recordings. In Jack‘s own words – “Prayer was made for and with my family and friends. It’s a piece about the unifying nature of loss and the thread of hope that survives throughout.” World-renowned British artist Eddie Peake created the artwork and directed the music video. It was shot in the...
Dyson Stringer Cloher have announced their debut self titled album will be released 4 October through Milk! Records. Check out their video for new single ‘Believer,’ an anthem in owning your aspiration, and inspired by the AFLW. Catch the iconic trio on tour around the country in November. Cloher says of the video, “I remember the day Tayla Harris’ kick was immortalised. Women in my circle, mostly musicians, posted the now...
Tiny Ruins announce the release of Olympic Girls Solo, an acoustic recording of the widely acclaimed third album. Featuring Hollie Fullbrook’s arresting vocals and intricate guitar playing, the solo recordings reflect the sparse beauty of her earliest work. The album features some of Fullbrook’s most accomplished songwriting. Olympic Girls Solo will be released on Friday 27th September through Milk! Records. Soak in the first single from the album ‘One Million Flowers.’ Hollie’s songs start their lives as simply crafted lyrics carried only by...
Excited to announce Pinegrove‘s signing to Rough Trade Records. The band share their first new music under the label – ‘Moment.’ Pinegrove’s singer/songwriter/guitarist Evan Stephens Hall says of this new song, “‘Moment’ for me was a way of thinking about gratitude in the context of chaos or tedium. This last stanza says directly what i say more obliquely in the verses, zeroing in after a meandering route”: I’m in this moment & i...
Efterklang have shared a new song and video from their forthcoming fifth studio album Altid Sammen, the trio’s first release in their native Danish. Entitled ‘I dine øjne’, meaning ‘In your eyes’, the song is something of an outlier on Altid Sammen, embodying a different persona to its album siblings. It strikes a starker tone with its strident bass line and urgent synth arpeggio, intersected with the cool instrumentals of...
Common Holly have released their latest single ‘Joshua Snakes’, from their new album When I say to you Black Lightning, out Friday 18 October . Using sounds composed of quirky materials like bouncy balls, fidget spinners, and accidental recordings of roommates— an area where electroacoustic producer Devon Bate (Jean-Michel Blais, Jeremy Dutcher) thrives. ‘Joshua Snakes’ works through the themes of restlessness, jealousy, even mild obsession, and paints a picture of the damsel in...
Kim Gordon is back. Announcing her first ever solo album, No Home Record, to be released on 11 October through Matador Records. It is a seismic, watershed moment in the singular career of one of the most trailblazing music, art and fashion icons of our time. New single and video ‘Sketch Artist‘ out now. Watch below. Speaking on the video, director Loretta Fahrenholz says: ‘Sketch Artist’ is a haunted car ride. Kim drives...
Girl Band have shared ‘Going Norway,’ the second single from their new album The Talkies, out on Rough Trade 27 September. In ‘Going Norway’, we hear the mimicry of Dara’s vocal to Alan’s guitar coming close to a moan, both simultaneously reaching outside of the confines of Adam’s steady, flitting snare sound: ‘And Why/ Is the Death/ So Alive?’ The track pushes and pulls against itself, and the emotion is felt within this combative...
Attenzione! Second Dinner is served. The new single, and accompanying visual, from Donny Benét is out now. It’s a hooky, groove-driven, and unashamed ode to the dopamine inducing late night meal. Put simply, director Alex Smith says the video is “a story about a man and a fridge, and their impossible love.” The past 24 months have been a whirlwind for Donny Benét. After releasing his fourth album The Don in March 2018,...
A total joy to announce the signing of Melbourne’s Obscura Hail to Dot Dash Recordings! Watch the video for first single ‘Swear Jar‘ below, from their new EP Zero out Friday 25 October. Conceived on NSW’s South Coast, and now buried alive somewhere in Melbourne, Obscura Hail are Sean Conran, Tamara Issa & Steven West. Conran says of the video: “Swear Jar is about the dumb stuff we fight about in the heat of the moment, and having the patience to...
Thrilled to announce our partnership with Part Time Records and share music from their first signing, Siberian Tiger. ‘Plane Spotting‘ is out now. Siberian Tiger is a new project of partners in music and life, Bree Tranter (The Middle East, Matt Corby) and Chris Panousakis (Timberwolf). During time off together between tours, they bring you their first collaborative expression of experiences with tradition, ritual, loss and devotion from their home and...
Thom Yorke has released an EP of remixes for the track ‘Not The News‘ from his new album. ANIMA is out now via XL Recordings. Listen to it here. The EP features remixes from Thom Yorke & Nigel Godrich, plus Mark Pritchard, Equiknoxx, Clark and is available to steam and download, and as a white label 12” limited to 3000 copies in stores soon. Accompanied by a “one-reeler,” also entitled ANIMA, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and available exclusively via Netflix, ANIMA was released across digital platforms...
Los Angeles’ Starcrawler formed in 2015, and since that time have gone from bashing out songs in the garage to earning legendary fans such as Shirley Manson and Elton John, and to supporting the likes of Beck, Foo Fighters, Spoon, The Distillers, MC5 and more. They have announced their remarkable second album Devour You – out 11 October via Rough Trade – a record that dynamically captures the essence and aggression...
Sleater-Kinney have shared the fourth single off The Center Won’t Hold, their new album out 16 August. Watch the lyric video below. ‘Can I Go On’ pulls the listener in with its upbeat, hooky guitar riffs and catchy chorus, but delivers a contrastingly pained message of existential despair; “Sell our rage, buy and trade, but we still cry for free every day…… maybe I’m not sure I wanna go on at all.”...
