6 June 2019
PicaPica are the lush vocal interplays of dual front women Josienne Clarke and Samantha Whates, atop the textural arrangements of Adam Beattie and Sonny Johns. Today, they have shared Together & Apart, their new album out now via Rough Trade. The album is about health and heartache, spring and shade, love and loss and life – beautifully balanced through their expert songwriting. Stream / download it here.
6 June 2019
Four years on from Holding Hands With Jamie, Girl Band are back to announce their new album, The Talkies, out 27 September via Rough Trade Records. The album was recorded in November 2018 at Ballintubbert House, a stately home on the outskirts of Dublin “a few pay grades above what we’re used to”. The alien construction of Ballintubbert and its corridors help to navigate Girl Bands cataclysmic sound within a…
6 June 2019
Iconic, ARIA-Award winning, Australian indie band Art of Fighting have returned with their first album in twelve years! Luna Low is out now – expansive, heartfelt, and sublime, with a newfound wry sense of humour. Hear the title track and preorder the album now. Of the finished album, Art Of Fighting say: “Luna Low is not an autobiographical work, more a proxy by which we can reflect on some of our own could-have-beens and would-have-beens. It’s about…
5 June 2019
Black Friday, the new album from Palehound is out now. Their third full-length, Black Friday is a finespun exploration of all the forms that love can take: love between friends, love for people no longer in your life, love in the face of self-hate, love that endures through major life changes or through many tiny catastrophes. Palehound hope that the album might help others to work through their own troubles…
5 June 2019
Jai Paul has returned. Double B-side single ‘Do You Love Her Now’ / ‘He’ is the first official release from Paul since 2012’s ‘jasmine (demo)’ which, alongside ‘BTSTU (demo),’ changed the face of a generation of musicians and producers. Both songs are written, recorded, produced, and mixed by Jai Paul. Hear them via Jai Paul’s first official website: www.jai-paul.com. As well as the new music, Paul has also for the first…
31 May 2019
Juan Wauters returns with Introducing Juan Pablo… out now via Captured Tracks. Travel has always left a mark on Juan’s music. While his previous album, with its folkloric airs and Latin roots, made that clear, this is an album which at its core is an internal journey. Wauters explores his two worlds, his two languages, and his day-to-day life in his NYC neighbourhood, and his life as an artist. “At…
31 May 2019
Thrilled to announce the return of, and the new label home of, Sleater-Kinney. The first new music since 2015’s No Cities To Love, ‘Hurry On Home‘ is out now via Milk! Records in AU/NZ. Legends of punk Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker, and Janet Weiss teamed up with master of industrial rock Annie Clark (St. Vincent) on production for what is their boldest sound yet. It’s a hint of more music to come…
31 May 2019
Katz is back! His first new music since last year’s collaborative debut EP Waterfall – ‘Back From Nothing‘ is out now everywhere via Dot Dash Recordings. Written and produced in Katz’ Collingwood home studio with Melbourne based songwriter Janeva Burrill, the track features powerful, soaring vocals that are both rich and intimate. “It’s a song about being grateful for someone’s friendship and guidance, particularly through difficult times,” says Katz. It…
24 May 2019
Remote Control and our friends at Boss Battle Records are thrilled to announce the release of the soundtrack for video game Hell Is Other Demons. Listen to it here. Created by Berlin’s Remi Gallego (Hacknet, Hacknet Labyrinths) the synthwave soundtrack is an exercise in bridging the gap between to monuments of sound – EDM and progressive metal. Hear it soundtrack you play the game on Nintendo Switch, Steam, and Kartridge….
24 May 2019
Sydney guitarist/singer-songwriter Evan Lock has released his debut solo album – Kaleidoscopic. Out now via Broken Stone Records. Listen to it here. It’s the realisation of a life-long ambition, exploring love lost, identity dislocated, and solidarity expressed. Sonically, it draws inspiration from styles of country, folk, progressive rock, blues, latin and raga – sewn together by Lock’s acute ear for beautiful, engaging guitar lines.
23 May 2019
FKA twigs has taken ‘Cellophane‘ to a new dimension with a stunning live rendition, and on piano for the first time. Directed by twigs herself, the intimacy of the performance strikes a deep contrast with the conceptual scale of Huang’s original video. It was filmed in London’s renowned The Wallace Collection, a place that has long inspired both twigs and one of her favourite designers, Vivienne Westwood. In celebration of…
23 May 2019
After two years, jade imagine are back! Premiering via Double J and Pilerats, check out the video and listen to ‘Big Old House‘ here. Front-person and key songwriter Jade McInally says of the track “I wrote ‘Big Old House’ in Sunshine Beach, after a dream in which a loose melody and lyrics came to me and stuck around just in time for me to get them down on paper. It was the…
21 May 2019
Meet Velvet Negroni – experimental R&B vocalist and songwriter, based in Minneapolis. His debut album NEON BROWN is out 30 August on 4AD. Listen to first single ‘CONFETTI’ here. Velvet Negroni is the alter-ego of creative polymath Jeremy Nutzman. Raised in an outer suburb of the Twin Cities, Jeremy – a black kid adopted into a white evangelical Christian family – split his formative years between classical piano lessons and late night jam sessions….
17 May 2019
Feature album on Double J and Album of the Week at the Herald Sun, The National have released their eighth studio album I Am Easy To Find. Listen here. The Mike Mills directed film of the same name, inspired by the record, is now available to watch here. On September 3, 2017, director Mike Mills emailed Matt Berninger to introduce himself and in very short order, the most ambitious project of the National’s 20-year career…
17 May 2019
Toronto rapper Lil Berete teams up with fellow producer in the Six, AR. ‘Goat Cheese‘ reflects on Berete’s new found local fame, which also attracted the attention of local authorities: “Police are trying to pull me over but I know what my rights are.” Check the dream sequence video set in Spain, naturally. NYC angular punks, B Boys have announced the follow up to their debut album Dada, Dudu….
16 May 2019
Gena Rose Bruce has shared a new single ‘Rearview‘ alongside its Alex Badham directed video clip. It’s another taste of her debut album, Can’t Make You Love Me, out 28 June via Dot Dash. Preorder the album here. Gena explains – “This song is a conversation I could never have with this person, it’s about accepting failed love. I was angry at the time but I didn’t have the energy…
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