Remote Control and our friends at Boss Battle Records are thrilled to announce the release of the soundtrack for video game Hell Is Other Demons. Listen to it here. Created by Berlin’s Remi Gallego (Hacknet, Hacknet Labyrinths) the synthwave soundtrack is an exercise in bridging the gap between to monuments of sound – EDM and progressive metal. Hear it soundtrack you play the game on Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Kartridge....
FKA twigs has taken ‘Cellophane‘ to a new dimension with a stunning live rendition, and on piano for the first time. Directed by twigs herself, the intimacy of the performance strikes a deep contrast with the conceptual scale of Huang’s original video. It was filmed in London’s renowned The Wallace Collection, a place that has long inspired both twigs and one of her favourite designers, Vivienne Westwood. In celebration of...
After two years, jade imagine are back! Premiering via Double J and Pilerats, check out the video and listen to ‘Big Old House‘ here. Front-person and key songwriter Jade McInally says of the track “I wrote ‘Big Old House’ in Sunshine Beach, after a dream in which a loose melody and lyrics came to me and stuck around just in time for me to get them down on paper. It was the...
Meet Velvet Negroni – experimental R&B vocalist and songwriter, based in Minneapolis. His debut album NEON BROWN is out 30 August on 4AD. Listen to first single ‘CONFETTI’ here. Velvet Negroni is the alter-ego of creative polymath Jeremy Nutzman. Raised in an outer suburb of the Twin Cities, Jeremy – a black kid adopted into a white evangelical Christian family – split his formative years between classical piano lessons and late night jam sessions....
Feature album on Double J and Album of the Week at the Herald Sun, The National have released their eighth studio album I Am Easy To Find. Listen here. The Mike Mills directed film of the same name, inspired by the record, is now available to watch here. On September 3, 2017, director Mike Mills emailed Matt Berninger to introduce himself and in very short order, the most ambitious project of the National’s 20-year career...
Toronto rapper Lil Berete teams up with fellow producer in the Six, AR. ‘Goat Cheese‘ reflects on Berete’s new found local fame, which also attracted the attention of local authorities: “Police are trying to pull me over but I know what my rights are.” Check the dream sequence video set in Spain, naturally. NYC angular punks, B Boys have announced the follow up to their debut album Dada, Dudu....
Gena Rose Bruce has shared a new single ‘Rearview‘ alongside its Alex Badham directed video clip. It’s another taste of her debut album, Can’t Make You Love Me, out 28 June via Dot Dash. Preorder the album here. Gena explains – “This song is a conversation I could never have with this person, it’s about accepting failed love. I was angry at the time but I didn’t have the energy...
Holly Herndon has released her third album, PROTO, via 4AD. The album isn’t so much about A.I. as much as it was created in collaboration with A.I. – with her own A.I. ‘baby’ Spawn, to be precise. PROTO makes reference to what Holly refers to as the protocol era, where new ideological battles over the future of A.I. protocols, internet protocols, and personal and political protocols force us to ask...
How good were Huntly‘s album launch shows? To celebrate their signing to US label House Arrest, and the re-release of their debut album Low Grade Buzz in North America, Huntly have shared their video for ‘Giving Circle.’ Huntly share “Giving Circle is about the mess left in the aftermath of a break up. The moments you look around your friendship group and want to extricate yourself from the whole scene...
Check out the new single and video from Palehound – ‘Worthy.’ It premiered at PAPER Magazine, and is another taste of their forthcoming album Black Friday, out 7 June. Prolific singer / songwriter Ellen Kempner says the song is “about feeling unworthy of love even within a relationship. It’s about years of being conditioned to hate my body and the shock of finding someone who isn’t telling me to change....
Holly Herndon operates at the nexus of technological evolution and musical euphoria. Listen to new song, ‘Frontier’ now. It follows previous single ‘Eternal,’ music punctuated by grandiose orchestration and the voices of her Berlin-based vocal ensemble. The video was constructed from footage processed from the perspective of an intelligent machine, analysing and searching for a face, yearning for a connection. These songs are lifted from her forthcoming third full-length album,...
The National have shared new single ‘Hairpin Turns‘ featuring Gaill Ann Dorsey and Lisa Hannigan, alongside a Mike Mills directed video. With performances from Dorsey, mina tindle, Kate Stables and featuring dancer Sharon Eyal, co-founder, co-artistic director and choreographer of L-E-V Sharon Eyal | Gai Behar. I Am Easy To Find is out 17 May. Preorder here. To celebrate the release of the new record and short film, The National have announced...
Meet Soaked Oats, our friends from across the ditch, and the latest signing to Dot Dash Recordings. They’ve announced their new EP Sludge Pop to be released 14 June. Hear the new single ‘Coming Up’, and take the scenic route through the video here. Soaked Oats have done a lot of time together. Last year, they embarked on a DIY US tour on an old and cheap RV with no...
Introducing SL, and his debut EP Everything Good Is Bad. Listen here. Watch the video for EP track ‘Homage’ below. At 17 years old, South London’s SL is one of the most intriguing prospects in UK music. If you’re new, check the videos for ‘Gentleman,’ ‘Tropical,’ and ‘Summertime Santa.’ He’s got over 45 million views across all his videos on YouTube. At only 17 years old South London’s SL is one of...
FKA twigs has returned with her first new music in over three years. Listen to ‘Cellophane‘ here and watch the breathtaking visual below. Written and produced by FKA twigs with Jeff Kleinman and Michael Ozuwuru, ‘Cellophane’ is twigs’ most vulnerable song to date and is an enticing first glimpse of what to expect from her second album; the follow up to her Mercury Prize and Brit Award nominated 2014 debut,...
Designer, the third album by Aldous Harding is out today via 4AD. Listen here. The album finds the New Zealander hitting her creative stride. After the sleeper success of Party (internationally lauded and crowned Rough Trade Shop’s Album of 2017), Harding came off a 100-date tour and went straight into the studio with a collection of songs written on the road. Reuniting with John Parish, producer of Party, Harding spent...
