Fontaines D.C. release a deluxe edition of their acclaimed fourth album ROMANCE. Available on all digital services, ROMANCE (Deluxe Edition) adds three songs to the original 11 track album. In addition to recent new single ‘It’s Amazing To Be Young’ and its stunning, Luna Carmoon-directed music video, the deluxe album also features the brand new, James Ford-produced song ‘Before You I Just Forget’. Completing the trio is a live, stripped-back...
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Riding high off the universal love for his latest single ‘father’, Jim Legxacy keeps things moving with new track ‘stick’. Dropping alongside another slick video from Rohan Dil shot partly on a Blackberry, ‘stick’ sees Jim at the peak of his powers offering another snapshot of his journey and cements his advancing cultural significance as a young writer and producer. Jim’s prolific output forever tells an important story. Always ahead...
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DJ Python releases his debut XL Recordings EP – i was put on this earth – today, marking his first solo music in over three years. Released earlier this week, his latest single ‘Dai Buki’, featuring elusive London MC Jawnino and unclassifiable songwriter Organ Tapes, is the first time all three artists have created music together despite Jawnino and Organ Tapes having previously released music on DJ Python’s Worldwide Unlimited...
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Florence Sinclair is a name that has been swirling through the UK underground; a music-maverick who has been quietly unravelling their liminal world since 2021 debut Gentle Decay (a sparsely cinematic exploration of memories and dreams – Document Journal). Through subsequent releases – It’s a Big Man Ting and departures, wonders & tears – Florence Sinclair has captivated a devoted following that includes Sega Bodega who invited them to remix...
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Yaeji returns with a new single and music video for ‘Pondeggi.’ The title is an homage to Beondegi, a traditional intergenerational Korean street food made of silkworms, and schoolyard hand-clap game that serves as the foundation for the track’s beat. ‘Pondeggi’ is a striking evaluation of the toil within humanity, nature, and technology. Utilizing storytelling, humanity’s oldest technology and most radical form of expression, Yaeji uses innovation with the aim to invoke deeper examination. Directed by...
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Over thirty years since their debut single on XL Recordings, Liquid’s legacy is clear. In 1992, Richard Russell made his first signing to XL with Liquid, who debuted on the label with ‘Sweet Harmony’, an anthemic track that has become one of the most iconic dance songs of all time and remains a staple on dancefloors worldwide. Liquid went on to release five EPs and one album on the label, including the beloved Future Music EP and Liquid...
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Jim Legxacy enters 2025 with another spellbinding offering, ’father’. Having teased the track on socials in 2024, fan calls for its full release exploded with the latest snippet gaining 1M+ views across his platforms. The fervent anticipation for this song is palpable. ‘father’ is Jim’s latest track that continues to whet appetites for his forthcoming project, black british music (2025) and is a buoyant departure from previous more melancholic singles...
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Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, releases Temporary. The record features an incredible roll call of collaborators including Sampha, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Alabaster Deplume, Jah Wobble, Yazz Ahmed, Laura Groves, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, Roses Gabor, Jack Peňate, Samantha Morton, Clari Freeman-Taylor and Nourished By Time. Created over four years from 2020 to 2024, Temporary was recorded in...
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Fontaines D.C. launch into 2025 with brand new single ‘It’s Amazing To Be Young’. Produced by ROMANCE album producer James Ford, it’s Fontaines D.C. at their most anthemic and is set to soundtrack a huge year of live shows for the band. The single is accompanied by a video from acclaimed BAFTA-winning filmmaker Luna Carmoon, who previously directed the videos for Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Here’s The Thing’ and ‘In The Modern...
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The Smile have today announced two new remixes of tracks from their critically acclaimed third album Cutouts, from James Holden and Robert Stillman. ‘Don’t Get Me Started (James Holden Remix)’and ‘Instant Psalm (Robert Stillman Remix)’ are out now digitally, each track accompanied by a ‘recycled video mix’ by audiovisual artist Weirdcore, who created videos for every track on Cutouts. Watch below! The remixes will also be released as a limited edition AA side 12-inch on 28th March. Stanley Donwood’s sleeve design...
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DJ Python announces i was put on this earth, his first solo music since 2022, and debut on XL Recordings. The five-track EP will be released on Friday 28 March. The first look at the EP comes in the form of ‘Besos Robados’. Isabella Lovestory lends an insouciant yet insistent vocal to this sublime downtempo lovers’ reggaeton track that’s been a fan-favourite since appearing on Python’s epic BBC Radio 1’s Essential Mix. The track comes alongside a...
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UK innovator Joy Orbison and cult underground rap icon Joe James come together on new single ‘bastard’, the track sees the two kindred spirits combining their own distinct sounds to create something genuinely unique. It’s a suburban sound born outside of the M25, as the Southend rapper paints trademark vivid imagery over Joy Orbison’s deep, introspective beats. The result is part-rapturous, part elegiac. Recorded at XL Recordings’ Ladbroke Grove studio,...
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Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, releases new single ‘Swamp Dream #3’. The third song taken from Everything Is Recorded’s highly-anticipated third album Temporary, out 28th February. Everything Is Recorded releases are often characterised by Russell’s unique ability to bring multiple musicians and collaborators together on record. On ‘Swamp Dream #3’ Russell strips things right back to himself and just one collaborator – Mary...
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Blawan releases his hotly anticipated BouQ EP. The four-track project is his third on XL Recordings, following on from 2023’s critically acclaimed Dismantled Into Juice EP and Woke Up Right Handed. Blawan returns once again to side-step expectations with BouQ, an EP that melds his vocal with disorientating, menacing electronic experimentation. Having previewed the EP during recent DJ sets (including his curated stage at Draaimolen and Overmono’s Pure Devotion), Blawan...
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Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, announces his third studio album. Temporary will be released on 28th February 2025 and features an incredible roll call of collaborators that have been sourced over four years from 2020 to 2024. Everything Is Recorded also releases ‘Losing You’, the second single to be taken from the album. It features the redemptive vocals of longtime collaborators Sampha and Laura Groves alongside musical...
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Blawan returns with ‘Fires’, the first single revealed from his freshly-announced upcoming EP BouQ, released on 6th December. ‘Fires’ sees Blawan push his distorted, syncopated productions into a new broken-pop lane, his own vocal creating an intense, visceral hook that rips through the track’s multilayered, pulsing beats. BouQ is the follow-up to his acclaimed 2023 Dismantled Into Juice EP. Fans may have heard Blawan previewing tracks from the EP during recent...
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