Mac DeMarco’s third full-length album, This Old Dog, is out today! It was a little space—in time, location and method—that inspired DeMarco while making This Old Dog. Arriving in California with a grip of demos he’d written in New York, he realised after a few months of setting up his new shop that the gap was giving him perspective. DeMarco says, “I demoed a full album, and as I was moving...
Algiers will release their second album The Underside Of Power on Friday 23rd June. Check out the Henry Busby-directed video for the first single and title track ‘The Underside of Power’ below! Recorded largely in Bristol and produced by Adrian Utley and Ali Chant, mixed by Randall Dunn, with post-production by Ben Greenberg, The Underside Of Power follows Algiers’ 2015 debut and touches on oppression, police brutality, dystopia, and hegemonic power structures. Led by vocalist...
Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister have launched a new song to celebrate the release of their forthcoming, collaborative album Planetarium. ‘Mercury’ is the second track to be released from Planetarium, out Friday 9 June. Watch the video below! Planetarium unites Stevens’ vocals, McAlister’s beats, Dessner’s guitar performance, and Muhly’s instrumental compositions: from lush piano ballads to rock anthems, classical cadenzas to electronic beats with Stevens’ distinctive vocals providing a centre of...
Car Seat Headrest appeared on Conan O’Brien last night and during their performance they rolled out a new version of their Teens of Denial track ‘Unforgiving Girl (She’s Not An)’. The more condensed version has been updated to ‘Unforgiving Girl (She’s Not A Single Version)’, check it out below! Car Seat Headrest are currently between their two weekend performances at Coachella, and Will Toledo recently shared an acoustic cover of the Smiths’...
Melbourne’s Jim Lawrie, returns with the shimmering title-track from his new album Slacker of the Year, a gorgeously finger-picked daydream ballad which entertains the idea that a bedroom-bound slacker could somehow be celebrated as hero to the masses. Jim has also shared his video for the song, directed & produced by James Ruse. Watch it below! The video features a forlorn Lawrie travelling around Melbourne during peak-hour in nothing but a pair...
Kamasi Washington today debuts ‘Truth’, the sixth movement from Harmony of Difference, a new EP set for release this winter via Young, who Kamasi has signed to. ‘Truth’ is accompanied by a new short film from director A.G. Rojas, watch it below. The EP is an original six-movement suite, featuring artwork by Kamasi’s sister Amani Washington. Amani created five paintings focused on raw shapes and colours, each inspired by one of the first five movements of...
Arca reveals a video for ‘Desafío’, the stunning track – taken from his new self-titled third album, out now – is perhaps one of the Venezuelan artist’s most accessible works to date. Watch it below! Arca (aka Alejandro Ghersi) has again teamed up with longtime visual collaborator Jesse Kanda for the video. Cathartic, provocative and sensual in equal measures, it completes a trio of Arca music videos (see also Anoche and Reverie)...
Spoon have shared a new video for the title track of their new album Hot Thoughts. The video shows atmospheric footage of Spoon performing at their three day residency at SXSW taking over The Main, captured through the lens of lo-fi yet vivid VHS style cam. Watch it below! Spoon recently performed ‘Hot Thoughts’ on Jimmy Kimmel and ‘I Ain’t The One’ on The Late Show with James Corden, and last month were...
Process is a film about London musician Sampha by Kahlil Joseph (Pulse Films). Now available exclusively on Apple Music. The 37 minute film is a rich, widescreen visual contextualisation of Sampha’s acclaimed 2017 debut album of the same name. Process was filmed in January 2017 between Freetown, Sierra Leone and Morden, south London. Both places have deep personal significance for Sampha, Freetown being the hometown of Sampha’s parent’s (and the city where...
Pool House Records and Remote Control are thrilled to announce the signing of Melbourne’s Jess Locke, she’s the first addition to the Pool House family. To celebrate, Jess has shared a new single ‘Better/Bitter’, taken from an album due for release later this year. Watch the video below! Pool House Records’ Chris Cowburn says of Jess: “We have loved and admired Jess Locke for some time now. We were all...
Aldous Harding announces her second album Party to be released Friday 19th May. She has shared a new single ‘Imagining My Man’ to celebrate, it’s taken from the upcoming album, followed from the first single ‘Horizon’. Check out the accompanying video below! Party was produced with the award-winning John Parish in Bristol, a world away from Harding’s New Zealand home. As well as contributions from Parish, Perfume Genius’s Mike Hadreas lends vocals to ‘Imagining My Man’...
Planetarium, the new collaborative album co-composed by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister, will be released on 9th June. Watch the video to ‘Saturn’, the first single taken from the album, below. A completely reimagined version of the project originally undertaken years ago and performed in various iterations around the world, Planetarium unites Stevens’ vocals, McAlister’s beats, Dessner’s guitar performance, and Muhly’s instrumental compositions. Planetarium revolves around the cosmic ideas...
John Moreland has released a video for ‘It Don’t Suit Me (Like Before)’. Taken from his upcoming fourth studio album Big Bad Luv, out on 5th May. Watch the clip below. Serving as much as a document of John’s life on the road as a snapshot of the US southern states, the video was created by Sterlin Harjo. A fellow Oklahoma native, he has watched Moreland’s audience grow over the years, and...
Baltimore trio Future Islands have released a new single from their upcoming album The Far Field out Friday 7 April. The chest-pounding ‘Cave’ speaks directly to the bruised but brave romantic in each of us. For a unique spin on a lyric video, the band enlisted American sign language interpreter Jonathan Lamberton to sign ‘Cave’s lyrics. Watch it below! The Far Field refines and builds on the breakthroughs of their...
After Molly Burch released her acclaimed debut album Please Be Mine last month, following a triumphant round of SXSW showcases, she shares the Jordan Moser directed video for the album’s title track, watch it below. Growing up in LA with a writer/producer father and a casting director mother, Burch’s childhood was filled with old Hollywood musicals and the sounds of Patsy Cline, Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. After finding her...
Perfume Genius’ fourth album, No Shape will be released on May 5. The album was recorded in Los Angeles, produced by Blake Mills, mixed by Shawn Everett. Watch the video to first single, ‘Slip Away’ below! With his new songs, Mike Hadreas goes even further, merging church music, makeout music, R&B, art pop, krautrock, and queer soul into his take on stadium anthems, completing the journey from critically acclaimed underground hero to...
