Tune-Yards reveal the first single ‘Look at Your Hands’ from their forthcoming album I can feel you creep into my private life, out 19th January 2018. Watch the video to ‘Look at Your Hands’ below! Bandleader Merrill Garbus explains “Yes, the world is a mess, but I’ve been attempting to look more and more inward: how do all of these “isms” that we live in manifest in me, in my daily activities, interactions? Some of the...
The National have released the video for ‘I’ll Still Destroy You’, from their most recent album Sleep Well Beast, The video was directed by Allan Sigurðsson and Icelandic performance and installation artist Ragnar Kjartansson. Watch it below! Ragnar, who also appears in the video, collaborated with The National for A Lot Of Sorrow which saw the band play their song ‘Sorrow’ for six hours in front of a live audience at MOMA’s...
Everything Is Recorded have released ‘Show Love feat. Syd & Sampha’. The new single comes with an accompanied lyric video, watch below! Back in August Richard Russell stopped by Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 radio show in which he discussed his respect for Syd and working with her for Everything Is Recorded. Bridging the gap between London and Los Angeles, ‘Show Love’ begins with Russell’s percussive instrumentation, interlaced with an introductory verse from Sampha,...
Jaye Bartell has released his new album In a Time of Trouble a Wild Exultation. To celebrate, he has shared the Angel Olsen-assisted video for ‘Give Erin A Compliment (So Kind)’. Watch below! “’Give Erin a Compliment (So Kind)’ was written as a birthday present for Erin Kennedy” Bartell states. “The title itself comes from a poker chip one of Erin’s friends found that said, “give Erin a compliment” on it. It’s...
Remote Control Records are thrilled to announce the signing of HANDSOME to Dot Dash Recordings. The announcement comes with the release of a new single and video for ‘Late Night Ball Game feat. Joyride’, lifted from an EP, No Hat No Play, coming early 2018. Watch the clip below! Sydney-based HANDSOME crafts a mix of tomboy pop and brooding electronica. The new sounds herald a celebration of self-expression and carefree creativity,...
Barely Dressed Records welcome Brisbane punks Good Boy to their roster with the release of their brilliant impending EP Shirk Life out Friday 10 November. Along with announcing an Australian headline tour in December, Good Boy have released a video for first single ‘Fishing With A Shotgun’. Watch below! Produced and engineered by Tim Fitz, and mixed and mastered by Mikey Young, ‘Fishing With A Shotgun’ is a burst of hyper-intelligent garage punk energy. Infused...
Julien Baker shares the video for the title track from her new album Turn Out The Lights, out October 27. Directed by Sophia Peer, who also helmed Baker’s video for first single ‘Appointments’, watch the new single below. Recorded at Ardent Studios in Baker’s hometown of Memphis, TN, Turn Out The Lights expands upon the sound and vision of Sprained Ankle while retaining the haunting, confessional songwriting style.The result is a deeply empathetic...
The Bennies have announced their forthcoming record Natural Born Chillers, released Friday 2 February. To celebrate, the band have announced a national single tour, with the first cut from they album they have also shared ‘Get High Like An Angel’, watch the video below! It’s been a wild time since the release of Wisdom Machine in 2016. The band supported The Living End, released a song with Damian Cowell, toured 3 times around Europe, completed...
Jen Cloher has shared the video for ‘Strong Woman’, the third single off her instant-classic self-titled fourth record. Filmed just weeks ago in a London warehouse, the video is the result of a back-to-basics approach – a two-camera crew. Watch it below! The song itself serves as an exploration of gendered identity in Cloher’s childhood in 1980’s Adelaide and a celebration of Cloher’s unique matriarchal heritage. Cloher explained the inspiration behind the...
Meg Remy, the unapologetic pop revisionist, known as U.S. Girls, has just dropped a new video for her song ‘Mad As Hell’. Directed by Remy and Emily Pelstring, the video pieces together historic patriotic and military imagery. Watch it below! The wall-of-sound arrangement and throbbing disco beat along with Remy’s radiant voice make a candy-coated Trojan horse for her powerful call to action for pacifism and impassioned critique of military...
Spoon have released a new video set to a live recording of ‘I Ain’t The One’ from their latest album Hot Thoughts. Watch below! Renowned British artists and filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard captured the band in an intimate studio setting, the slinky silhouettes and blue-tinged shadows complimenting the song’s sinewy synths and Britt Daniel’s soulful vocals. The minimalist drums and bass surface sporadically throughout, building tension across the...
King Krule gives us yet another taste from his upcoming album The OOZ, out 13 October, with ‘Half Man Half Shark’. The track is accompanied by a visual culled from VHS footage of King Krule’s recent LA/NYC/London surprise concerts overlaid with animated loops by Theo Chin. Watch below! The jittery punk rock ‘Half Man Half Shark’ digs even deeper into the gritty, decaying blues of previous single ‘Dum Surfer’, delivering an...
The Breeders announce their return with new track, ‘Wait in the Car’. The single marks the reunion of band members Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson. Watch the accompanied video below! The artwork and visuals for ‘Wait in the Car’ come from Chris Bigg and Martin Andersen, with the video piecing together 800 still images. “It all started with a brick,” the pair say. “We both liked the...
Ibeyi released a music video for new song ‘I Wanna Be Like You’, off their album Ash, out today. The video, which stars twins, Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, was shot in France and directed by Remi Besse and produced by Standard Films. Watch it below! Lisa-Kaindé wrote the track for Naomi – her twin by nature but opposite in reality. Lisa-Kaindé explains further, “Sometimes I want to be like Naomi. I want her eyes,...
TORRES, the creative alter-ego of Brooklyn-based Mackenzie Scott, has released her new album Three Futures today, watch the video to new single ‘Helen In The Woods’ below! In describing the album, Scott says it “is entirely about using the body that each of us has been given as a mechanism of joy.” The 10 original tracks on Three Futures embrace ecstasy, desire and indulgence rather than self-denial, and exude this...
Following the opening single ‘Over Everything’, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile share new single ‘Continental Breakfast’, from their collaborative album Lotta Sea Lice, out Friday 13th October. Watch it below! The video gently pushes the door open just a little bit further. Using intimate home footage shot over four days of Kurt and Courtney in their respective environments, ‘Continental Breakfast’ goes beyond being a mere music video and becomes a mini...
