NYC’s Parquet Courts will perform two Laneway Festival sideshows this summer. Catch Parquet Courts perform in Melbourne on Thursday 31 January at The Croxton and in Sydney on Wednesday 6 Feburary at The Factory Theatre. Supporting the band in Melbourne and Sydney will be Brisbane outfit The Goon Sax who recently released their new album We’re Not Talking. Melbourne’s Primo! will also join both bands at The Croxton. Full tour...
Thom Yorke was in studio at BBC Radio 6 Music last week and shared live versions of singles ‘Suspirium’, ‘Open Again’ and ‘Unmade’ as well as an interview on the making of the Suspiria soundtrack with Mary Anne Hobbs. Watch the videos below! Suspiria consists of 25 original compositions written by Thom specifically for Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of the 1977 Dario Argento horror classic. The album is a mix of instrumental score work,...
King Krule has released a music video for ‘Cadet Limbo’. Directed by Charlotte Patmore, the video is the second of a three-part collaboration with WeTransfer, which sees King Krule exploring the creative process with each video’s director, hosted on their WePresent platform. Watch below! Patmore captures a fogged vision of the hotels, long distance travels and late nights of a touring band, all unmistakably shot in the cinematic landscape of...
The sublime piano and vocal melodies at the center of ‘Unmade’ signal the fifth and final song released yesterday, in advance of Thom Yorke’s Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film), out today. ‘Unmade’ follows previous advance offerings ‘Open Again’, ‘Volk’, ‘Has Ended’, and the first piece of music to emerge from the soundtrack, ‘Suspirium’. Suspiria consists of 25 original compositions written by Thom specifically for Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of the...
Steve Gunn announces his fourth album The Unseen In Between, where he explores his own emotional landscapes with his most complex, fully realised songs to date. Today’s announcement comes with first single ‘New Moon’ and its accompanying lyric video. Watch below! ‘New Moon’ begins in the mode of a deep track with its upright bass and sparse tremolo guitar. But during the song’s final minutes, strings double the melody, and then...
Zach Condon, the mastermind behind Beirut, will release his fifth studio album Gallipoli on Friday 1 February 2019 and today he shares the title track. Listen below. The 12-track Gallipoli started life in the winter of 2016, with Condon returning to his old Farfisa organ, the same one used to write the first two Beirut albums. Following recording stints in New York and Berlin (where he now calls home), Condon...
Kamasi Washington debuts the Jenn Nkiru-directed video for ‘Hub-Tones’ today, the track is taken from Washington’s massively acclaimed new album Heaven and Earth, released in June. Watch the video below! “Hub-Tones is me trying to connect my ancestors via music,” says Washington. “As an African-American, a lot of us don’t know the country of our origin, that’s why most of us take on the ideology of Pan-Africanism. I was trying...
Melbourne’s Total Giovanni are thrilled to release their debut album Euphoria, out today. A blend of Balearic hedonism, classic punk funk and psychedelic washes, Euphoria feels like a sweaty dancefloor and tastes like the first burst of summer. Glistening singles ‘Your Light’, ‘Comes In Waves’, ‘Awake’ & ‘I See’ each draw on the diverse inspirations that have influenced the making of Euphoria, where the Paradise Garage meets Madchester on the...
Tiny Ruins announce the upcoming release of their new album Olympic Girls, out Friday 1st February 2019. To celebrate, they have released their new single and title track ‘Olympic Girls’ with its official music video. Watch below! Directed by Charlotte Evans, the video follows the first acoustic guitar flourish of ‘Olympic Girls’ ushering the potent words of Tiny Ruins’ Hollie Fullbrook. The track is buoyant with a rolling energy. Cascading...
Powell Tillmans announce their first EP Spoken By The Other, released on Friday 16 November. It’s a collection of recordings from two of the most interesting artists in Europe. Their first single, ‘Feel the Night’, uses a flickering pair of notes and Tillmans’s treated voice to slowly build an anthem. Listen below! The first part of the partnership is Oscar Powell, the London-based electronic musician. The second is Wolfgang Tillmans, the Turner Prize-winning...
SOAK has shared the video for her acclaimed new single ‘Everybody Loves You’, the first sight of new SOAK material since 2015’s debut album, Before We Forgot How To Dream. Bridie also performed the track for the first time on Ireland’s prestigious Late Late Show. Director Joseph Wilson explains the video as following SOAK whilst she “navigates through a world of temptation before eventually succumbing and accepting the chaos and love...
Today sees the unveiling of ‘Open Again’, the fourth extract released in advance of Thom Yorke’s Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film) out next Friday 26 October. Listen below! Suspiria consists of 25 original compositions written by Thom specifically for Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of the 1977 Dario Argento horror classic. The album is a mix of instrumental score work, interstitial pieces and interludes, and more traditional song structures featuring...
Melbourne singer-songwriter Jess Locke today releases a new 7” vinyl featuring two new singles ‘My Body Is An Ecosystem’ & ‘Nothing At All’. To celebrate, the band will hit the road this December, playing Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney, Port Macquarie & Wollongong. Tour details below! ‘My Body Is An Ecosystem’ is a perfect slice of Jess Locke’s trademark dreamy guitar-pop. Speaking of the single she comments “I have a temperamental relationship with...
Following the release of acclaimed singles ‘One Trick Ponies’, ‘Loading Zones’ and the epic 10-minute float of ‘Bassackwards’, Kurt Vile today releases his eclectic and electrifying new album Bottle It In. Kurt Vile recorded Bottle It In at various studios around the country over two very busy years, during sessions that usually punctuated the ends of long tours or family road trips. Every song becomes a journey unto itself, taking unexpected detours, circuitous...
Courtney Barnett and her album Tell Me How You Really Feel have been nominated for 8 ARIA Awards including Album Of The Year, Best Female Artist, Best Rock Album, Best Independent Release, Best Video and Best Live Act. Courtney was also nominated for Best Adult Contemporary Album for Lotta Sea Lice – her collaborative album with Kurt Vile. Earlier this morning at the Art Gallery Of New South Wales it...
Thom Yorke unveils the release of haunting instrumental ‘Volk’, the third song to be released in advance of Thom Yorke’s Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino Film), out October 26. Listen below! Suspiria consists of 25 original compositions written by Thom specifically for Luca Guadagnino’s reimagining of the 1977 Dario Argento horror classic. The album is a mix of instrumental score work, interstitial pieces and interludes, and more traditional song structures...
