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27 June 2019

Thom Yorke releases new album ANIMA

Thom Yorke’s new album ANIMA is out now The physical release will follow on Friday 19 July. ANIMA is available to stream, download and physically pre-order now via https://thomyorke.ffm.to/anima. A ‘one-reeler’ also entitled ANIMA will be available to watch exclusively via Netflix from 27 June. The one-reeler, made by Paul Thomas Anderson, is set to three tracks from Thom’s new album. ANIMA was written by Thom Yorke and produced by Nigel Godrich. The album features 9 tracks, with an extra…

27 June 2019

Handsome releases new single & video ‘Delete You’

Following the release of her acclaimed 2018 debut EP No Hat No Play, Sydney-based artist HANDSOME shares her new single ‘Delete You’, as premiered by Double J. ‘Delete You‘ perfectly exhibits HANDSOME‘s brand of tomboy pop and brooding electronic and is accompanied by a self-directed video which was premiered overnight by The Line of Best Fit. HANDSOME on ‘Delete You’: “The ‘Delete You’ video shows one of the most vulnerable moments of my life. It was an experience so…

27 June 2019

Sui Zhen announces new record Losing, Linda

Sui Zhen has announced her latest chapter, Losing, Linda, which is set for release Friday 27th September via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records and is sharing the first single & video from the record ‘Perfect Place’. The video for the lead single, ‘Perfect Place’ introduces the character Linda, a ghostly apparition, representing the fragments of self, the avatars we leave behind after one dies in the physical realm — but do our digital selves ever…

27 June 2019

Lucy Dacus releases new song ‘Forever Half Mast’

Lucy Dacus has released her new single ‘Forever Half Mast’ the third instalment of Dacus’ 2019 holiday song series. ‘Forever Half Mast’ follows her Valentine’s Day-inspired cover of ‘La Vie En Rose’, and an original ode to Mother’s Day and Taurus Season, ‘My Mother & I’. Still to come in Lucy’s 2019 singles series are tracks tied to Springsteen’s Birthday, Halloween, Christmas, and New Year’s, with a physical EP of the collection coming in…

21 June 2019

Introducing Leif Vollebekk

A pleasure to welcome Leif Vollebekk to the Remote Control family, announcing his new album New Ways. The follow up to his Polaris Music Prize finalist Twin Solitude, the announcement comes with a beautiful single and visual for ‘Hot Tears.’ New Ways is the sound of desire in its unfolding. Two years ago, things were changing so fast, and the songwriter didn’t want to forget. “I often think of Leonard Cohen’s line,…

21 June 2019

New music from B Boys, Molly Burch, Lina Tullgren…

B Boys share ‘Pressure Inside,’ another track off their forthcoming album, Dudu. The song boasts the raucous, in-your-face energy of an angsty Parquet Courts cut. Over a tight, jittery guitar, they shout, “I’m always busy in my mind / Can’t think things through / It’s getting harder to breathe.” Dudu is out 26 July via Captured Tracks. Molly Burch has shared ‘Only One’ the A-Side to her Ballads…

21 June 2019

black midi debut album Schlagenheim out now

Just announced as FBi Radio’s Album of the Week, black midi have released their debut album Schlagenheim (Rough Trade Records). Watch the surreal visual for new single ‘Ducter‘ below. Over the past many months, black midi – Geordie Greep (vocals/guitar), Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin(vocals/guitar), Cameron Picton (vocals/bass), and Morgan Simpson (drums) – have built a reputation for their dynamic, collaborative energy and uncompromising live shows. Their songs are slippery creatures and they play them as a musical unit that’s constantly in a state…

21 June 2019

The Bennies share ‘Green Mitsubishis’

Our favourite party boys The Bennies are back with a new burner ‘Green Mitsubishis.’ It’s a ballad, but not in the way that you know it. Vocalist Anty explains – “It is a ballad about the disco before the breakdown, claustrophobia in sweaty nightclubs, prioritising time with friends over everything else, it is about the heights of ecstasy, it is about finding family in friendship, but most importantly it is a…

21 June 2019

Spoon share ‘No Bullets Spent’

Their first new music since 2017’s Hot Thoughts, Spoon have shared new track ‘No Bullets Spent.’ It’s the band at their full creative forward momentum; staccato rhythms and spooky film-noir guitar. The song joins classic from the Spoon catalog on Everything Hits at Once: The Best of Spoon compilation coming out 26 July via Matador Records. Check the album track list below and, as directed by the band, any complaints…

21 June 2019

jade imagine announce Basic Love

jade imagine have announced their debut album Basic Love, to be released 2 August via Milk! Records. Watch the shimmering video for new single ‘Remote Control‘ below. The album is an existential ride through playful pop-tones and more stripped back textures. Jade McInally shows off the wit and noir of her vocal delivery, backed by an arrangement of synthwave and art-rock. It’s bleak pop at its most incandescent. Preorder the…

14 June 2019

Soaked Oats new EP Sludge Pop out now

New Zealand’s indie sludge-pop rockers Soaked Oats are on a high. After a massively successful summer tour of Australia and New Zealand and, having just returned from their UK tour, the band have released their new EP Sludge Pop – digitally and on limited edition 10″ multi-coloured vinyl via Dot Dash. Soaked Oats also reveal their most ambitious music video to date for ‘Don’t Chew‘ – premiered via Pilerats. Of the song itself, lyricist Oscar Mein shares “Inspired by the line…

14 June 2019

Gena Rose Bruce shares ‘I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You’

Another taste of the debut album from Gena Rose Bruce, ‘I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You.’ It comes with a beautiful lyric video created by Kate Adams and Alex Badham. Gena explains – “We wanted to create a meditative, surrealist-inspired video for this song. The imagery hints at the concept of being buried, in this case by the thoughts or memories of someone you can’t let go of. It’s quite…

14 June 2019

Efterklang announce Altid Sammen

Seven years after their last album release, Efterklang make a welcome return with a fifth studio record Altid Sammen on Friday 20 September via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Check out the Danish trio’s video for first single ‘Vi er uendelig’ with a video starring Helena Christensen below. Directed by Andreas Koefoed (behind the band’s film The Ghost Of Piramida), and featuring a fellow Dane, the model and photographer Helena Christensen, are a homage to an iconic Johnny Hallyday TV performance in 1964. Altid Sammen (meaning…

7 June 2019

Ada Lea shares video for ‘Mercury’

Saddle Creek’s newest signing Ada Lea has announced her debut album what we say in private will be released Friday 19th July. Premiered via The Fader, the Montreal-based artist has shared the video for new single ‘mercury‘. The Montreal, Quebec-based Alexandra Levy — who records and performs as Ada Lea — is also a painter and visual artist, and traces of her many creative abilities run throughout what we say in private. Levy explores the…

7 June 2019

Out Now: Pixx – Small Mercies

Pixx has shared her new album Small Mercies. Listen here. Small Mercies is a series of poetic examinations of love across the experiential spectrum, from the micro (self-love) to the macro (devotional faith-inspired love), all set to a soundtrack that mixes electronic pop and grungy guitar rock. Album highlight ‘Andean Condor’ “is written about the link between wo/mankind and nature,” Rodgers says. “It is important to recognise how many times women…

7 June 2019

Carla Geneve’s debut self-titled EP is out now

Local Feature at RTR FM, and featuring a KUTX Song Of The Day, Carla Geneve‘s self-titled debut EP is out today! Check out the intimate video for ‘Yesterday’s Clothes‘ released alongside the EP. Directed by Matt Sav, Carla says of the video, “I wanted the video to reflect the personal nature of the song. To me, sitting alone in front of a camera is a vulnerable situation, a lot like…