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26 April 2019

Out Now: SOAK – Grim Town

SOAK has released her new album Grim Town – out now via Rough Trade. Listen here. Grim Town is a record about getting lost that you can, also, truly get lost in. It arrives as inspired by the audio-visual environmentalism of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ as the production of Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene or Phoebe Bridgers. Bridie tackles everything from long-distance love, depression, divorce and social anxiety to the…

26 April 2019

Out Now: Aldous Harding – Designer

Designer, the third album by Aldous Harding is out today via 4AD. Listen here. The album finds the New Zealander hitting her creative stride. After the sleeper success of Party (internationally lauded and crowned Rough Trade Shop’s Album of 2017), Harding came off a 100-date tour and went straight into the studio with a collection of songs written on the road. Reuniting with John Parish, producer of Party, Harding spent…

18 April 2019

New music from Pixx and Juan Wauters

Some new music to tide you over to the long weekend. Happy chocolate to you. No holds barred on Pixx‘s new single and video, ‘Bitch.’ “[It’s] about accepting and forgiving yourself for struggling; not being too hard on yourself for getting stuck in your head, and finding the relief in waking up and getting out of your hole to show the world you’re a strong bitch.” Her new album Small…

18 April 2019

Announced: Palehound – Black Friday

Thrilled to announce we’ll be releasing the third album from Palehound – Black Friday. Out 7 June. Preorder here. Fronted by Ellen Kempner, the Boston trio’s new album is a finespun exploration of all the forms of 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. Watch…

18 April 2019

Watch: Courtney Barnett ‘Everybody Here Hates You’

Courtney Barnett has shared the video for brand new single – ‘Everybody Here Hates You.’ Peek some behind the scenes fun times footage here! Recorded late in 2018 during some rare off-time on her Tell Me How You Really Feel world tour, ‘Everybody Here’ is about as close as you’ll get to hearing the extraordinary weight and swagger of her live show on a recording. It’s got one of the…

12 April 2019

Watch: Aldous Harding ‘Fixture Picture’

She’s done it again. Aldous Harding shares a new song and video for ‘Fixture Picture’ from her forthcoming third album Designer, out April 26 via 4AD. Co-directed by Aldous Harding and Jack Whiteley, the video’s suspenseful opening scene finds Harding strumming her guitar on the white cliffs of Dover. The pay-off comes later with a dramatic and enigmatic live performance by Harding and her band inspired by Alejandro Jodorowsky. Preorder Designer here.

12 April 2019

Out Now: Jess Ribeiro LOVE HATE

Jess Ribeiro‘s third album LOVE HATE is out now via Barely Dressed. Listen or download here. The album is confirmation (if ever it was needed) that Ribeiro is one of the country’s most gifted and enigmatic songwriters, a master of genre, nonchalance, double-entendre, intuition and melody. Indeed it’s been confirmed by album features this week on Double J, 2SER and Edge Radio. Opening track ‘Stranger‘ echoes the infatuation of poet…

12 April 2019

Announced: Black Cab Call Signs Reissue

Black Cab have announced the reissue of their critically acclaimed third album, Call Signs. It’s an original blend of 70s rock, 80s post-punk and proto electronic dance beats. Shortlisted for the 2009 Australian Music Prize, the album also features a guest vocal on track ‘Ghost Anthems’ by legendary Died Pretty frontman Ron Peno. Celebrating 10 years since its release, Call Signs has been remastered and pressed on limited edition ‘stasi…

11 April 2019

New music from Soaked Oats, Evan Lock, Drahla, Cubby + more

Soaked Oats, our pals from across the pond, dropped a single and video ‘Driftworld,’ the name lovingly given to the 30ft 1980s tour-RV wherein they lost their wallets and their minds. Broken Stone Records‘ in house guitarist, Evan Lock, branches out solo on beautiful new song ‘Scorpio.’ His new album Kaleidoscopic is out 24 May. Iceage offer up a visual for the Sky Ferreira featured Beyondless track, ‘Pain…

4 April 2019

Listen: The National ‘Light Years’

The National share another album track ‘Light Years‘ – the closer on I Am Easy To Find. Their eighth studio album will be released 17 May via 4AD. Preorder here. Watch the accompanying video below, directed by Academy Award-nominated director Mike Mills, and starring Academy Award Winner Alicia Vikander. I Am Easy To Find will be released with a companion short film, directed by Mills, named after, and inspired by…

4 April 2019

Listen: Big Thief – Cattails

Big Thief share another new song, ‘Cattails.’ It’s Big Thief as nothing but transcendental. “Cattails came about while we were at the studio in Washington in the pine forest. Writing it was just one of those electric multicoloured waves of connectivity just sweeping through my body. I stayed up late finishing the song and the next morning was stomping around playing it over and over again. We thought why not…

2 April 2019

Listen: Jess Ribeiro ‘Dylan’

Melbourne’s Jess Ribeiro shares a new single ‘Dylan‘ ahead of the release of her new album LOVE HATE, out Friday 12 April, via Barely Dressed. Opening with a hypnotic chorus spelling out “L. O. V. E. H. A. T. E.” the song descends into a purred verse which dissects the nuances and disappointments of former relationships. On its surface, Dylan is a song about trying to be friends after breaking up with someone –…

29 March 2019

Announced: Interpol – A Fine Mess EP

Interpol have announced a 5-track EP titled A Fine Mess. Out 17 May via Matador. Listen to single ‘The Weekend’ / preorder here. It’s a living, breathing postcard from the band to their fans as they tour the world throughout 2019. If you loved Marauder, this one’s for you – a linear continuation of the visceral and contagious energy created by the album.

28 March 2019

Out Now: Chris Cohen – self titled

Chris Cohen has released his new self-titled album via Captured Tracks. Listen here. “My parents got divorced while I was making this record,” he says. “They were married for 53 years and my father spent most of his life in the closet, hiding both his sexual identity and various drug addictions. For me it was like being relieved of a great burden, like my life could finally begin.” It is…

28 March 2019

Introducing Gena Rose Bruce

Thrilled to announce our latest signing to Dot Dash, Gena Rose Bruce. Her debut album, Can’t Make You Love Me will be released Friday 28 June. Watch the video for ‘Angel Face’ here. We are taken by Gena’s vocal. It drives this album; a stirring force amidst the pulsing rhythms, with echoes of Mazzy Star and Lynchian undertones. We can’t wait for you to hear it. Or maybe you already…

28 March 2019

Listen: black midi ‘Crow’s Perch’

black midi have been dubbed by NME as “the best new band in the UK that no one knows anything about” but today you’re about to get to know them. Listen to the caustic new single ‘Crow’s Perch‘ – out now via Rough Trade. The accompanying video, directed and edited by Villi Hijálmarsson reflects the track’s frenetic energy, juxtaposing saturated graphics and peculiar scenes with mundane images. black midi is…