Listen: Tommy Barlow – ‘Won’t You Ever Need Me’’

Singer, producer and songwriter Tommy Barlow returns with ‘Won’t You Ever Need Me’, his new single and accompanying Josh Renaut-directed music video, released today via Young. Where debut single ‘Earth Killer’ arrived as a slow-burn torch song – bruised, luminous and slightly unmoored – ‘Won’t You Ever Need Me’ pushes into rawer, more volatile territory: a track that builds from a single drums and piano motif into a wall of collapsing sound, the vocals decaying…

Listen: Rowena Wise – ‘Home In This World’

Today, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Rowena Wise shares her new single ‘Home In This World’, out now via Beloved Records / Remote Control Records, the third offering from her forthcoming sophomore album, Bad Things Feel Good*, set for release on Friday 7th August, 2026. Alongside the single, Wise announces a run of headline shows across Australia this Oct/Nov with her band. Following the emotional reckoning of ‘Blood Ties’ and the quiet unravelling of ‘Diamond In The Rough’, ‘Home In This World’ enters…

Announced: @ – Autosmile

@ (pronounced “at”) is the art-folk project of Philadelphia-based multi-instrumentalist songwriters Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak. On October 16, the band will share their new album Autosmile, their second full-length record and first release with 4AD. Across Autosmile’s 11 songs, @ reimagine the psychedelic folk tradition as an undeniably contemporary art form, carefully balancing beauty and pain and shifting between black hole heaviness and patient understanding. This is seen first…

Listen: Everything Is Recorded – ‘Beyond The Brilliant Haze’

Everything Is Recorded – Richard Russell’s ever-evolving collaborative artist project – today announces ‘Beyond The Brilliant Haze’, a new single featuring Maryland rapper .idk. and legendary British musician Peter Gabriel, out now via XL Recordings. A striking departure from the spectral folk and soul that defined Everything Is Recorded’s acclaimed 2025 album Temporary (Disco Pogo’s album of the year), ‘Beyond The Brilliant Haze’ is a unique meeting of minds, and…

Announced: This Is Lorelei – The Singer in My Band + ‘Billy Came Back’

The last few years have been transformative for Nate Amos. Between delivering breakout records both as a solo artist — under his This Is Lorelei moniker — and with his band Water From Your Eyes, sold out shows across multiple continents, to seeing some of today’s most influential artists cover his songs, the ascending songwriter has found his stride. As the first This Is Lorelei album for Matador Records, The…

Listen: SOAK – death valley fridge magnet

SOAK – Irish singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson – has returned with ‘death valley fridge magnet’ on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records, their first new solo song in over four years. It follows their 2024 viral collaboration with Fred Again.. on the track ‘just stand there’ which has been played over 25 million times. SOAK’s last album was 2022’s If I Never Know You Like This Again which followed 2019’s Grim…

Announced: Julia Jacklin – The Gem + ‘Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)’

The fourth studio album from Julia Jacklin, The Gem, will be released on 25 September and marks the Australian musician’s debut release on 4AD / Remote Control Records. She has also shared the first single ‘Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)’ as well as details of a summer run of solo in-store performances in the UK. ‘Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)’ is a…

Announced: Pulp – Live! + What Do You Do For an Encore?

“A concert is an event where songs come back to life. That’s why this album is called ‘Live!’” explains Jarvis Cocker of this unique record in the Pulp canon. “It’s both a statement of fact (it’s a recording of a live band) & a challenge (come on! Everyone come alive!).” It’s also Pulp’s first film soundtrack album: the Garth Jennings directed movie What Do You Do For an Encore? which is to…

Announced: Two Shell – Infinite Now + ‘Thing About You’

Two Shell announce their second album Infinite Now, released October 16th as a ten track album on vinyl, CD and digital, alongside an expanding world of infinite new music promised all summer long. Infinite Now is the culmination of a feeling that began with ‘The Nightmare’ earlier this year, a release that leant into positive escapism as a response to the dark and confusing times we’re living in. This album is about existing in the moment,…

Announced: Ed Kuepper – The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper – Live, Today Wonder + The Aints! – Autocannibalism

Ed Kuepper adds three albums to his available catalogue of remarkable work, including a brand new double live album. The three albums will be available on Friday 24th July, with new live single ‘Also Sprach The King Of Euro-Disco’ out now digitally. Ed and his band tour nationally through July and August in support of these releases. The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper – Live Recorded at the National Theatre, Melbourne…

Announced: Mojave 3 – Reissue of Full Catalogue

All five records by Mojave 3 will finally be back in print from 24 July, some of 4AD’s most requested reissues of the last decade. Remastered at Abbey Road, Ask Me Tomorrow (1995), Out of Tune (1998), Excuses For Travellers (2000), Spoon and Rafter (2003) and Puzzles Like You (2006), will each be available digitally, on Standard Black LP and CD, and as a 4AD exclusive slipcase comprising all five…

Watch: Overmono – ‘Even Angels Ghost (feat. Kindora)’

Following the announcement of their highly anticipated second album, Pure Devotion (releasing 7 August), Overmono reveal the latest single, ‘Even Angels Ghost’. A collaboration with Tennessee-based singer Kindora, ‘Even Angels Ghost’ follows the release of ‘Lockup’ and comes alongside a cinematic visual that sees Overmono and Rollo Jackson expand the Pure Devotion visual world into its second chapter, watch here. Having discovered Kindora’s music during a Bandcamp deep-dive, Overmono sampled her voice on tracks such as 2022’s ‘Gunk‘ and…

Out now: YHWH Nailgun – Magazine

YHWH Nailgun share their new album Magazine via 4AD, out now digitally with physical formats arriving on August 22. Based in New York, YHWH Nailgun have built a reputation on music that is visceral, immediate, and impossible to neatly categorise. What began in 2020 as the raw collision between vocalist Zack Borzone and drummer Sam Pickard has since evolved into a full four-piece alongside guitarist/producer Saguiv Rosenstock and synth player…

Watch: Murex – ‘Hardness Of A Silverspoon’

Following the release of her debut single ‘Massacre’, Swedish artist Murex returns today with her second single, ‘Hardness Of A Silverspoon’, out today. Where ‘Massacre’ announced an artist of shifting, amorphous intent, the new single moves deeper still – more interior, more elemental, and made in a single, urgent session. “It felt so desperate, this need to let go of obsession and control and present something new,” she says. “It had to…

Listen: GB – ‘Starsound’

GB, Gustav Berntsen, is an artist from Copenhagen who crafts texture-heavy, adventurous guitar music cut with a pop sensibility. On 21 August, GB releases his new album Herzsprung. Today, he shares second single ‘Starsound’. ‘Starsound’ stretches out like a long summer’s evening. On the track, GB’s baritone vocal yearnings meet lush, intricate guitar playing and melt into languid textural drumming and collaged saxophone choirs. “Open wide and free”, this is a track…

Introducing: Superfan

Superfan is the songwriting veil of Kali Priya Flanagan, Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and producer. Initially imagined as a solo act, ambitious string arrangements crafted in collaboration with cellist Omeed Almassi have come to define Superfan’s noisy and magnetic pop soundscape. Today, Superfan shares their new single ‘Picture Of Return’ via new label home AD 93. Kali says “the song is a reflection on emotional manipulation – falling into a trap built by someone else’s projections and desires that oppose…

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Announced: This Is Lorelei – The Singer in My Band + ‘Billy Came Back’
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Listen: SOAK – death valley fridge magnet
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Announced: Julia Jacklin – The Gem + ‘Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)’
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Announced: Pulp – Live! + What Do You Do For an Encore?
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Announced: Ed Kuepper – The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper – Live, Today Wonder + The Aints! – Autocannibalism
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