14 June 2018
Perth’s angelic Rabbit Island announces her newest album Deep in The Big, to be released August 17, along with sharing the title track. Rabbit Island play five shows in Melbourne from Friday 29 June – Wednesday 4 July. More info below. Deep in The Big is a culmination of the music Amber Fresh is known and adored for in her hometown Perth, and beyond. Rabbit Island shoots for her own constellation of sound, lands there,…
13 June 2018
Milwaukee Banks share their latest single ‘No Time To Waste’ featuring Rromarin along with an accompanying live video. The track comes from their upcoming album No Time, due Friday 29th June. Catch the duo playing live at Changes Conference, Collective Artists showcase on July 4th. Details below! Vocalist Dyl Thomas says of the collaboration with Rromarin: “Rromarin is a long time friend and collaborator, so it was great to work with her again on…
12 June 2018
Ibeyi joined Brazilian rapper Emicida to record a beautiful collaborative track titled ‘Hacia El Amor’. Accompanying the track is a captivating music video, for which the two artists gathered in Paris to record. Watch below! Directed by Christian Beuchet, the video illustrates the plural lyrics that promote the breaking of barriers, bringing the artists into a shed covered with graffiti and filled with people, dancing and celebrating the ancestral feeling…
8 June 2018
Perfume Genius has released Reshaped, a special remix EP of tracks taken from his album No Shape. Reshaped presents six adventurous takes on the albums vivid sonic world. Featuring contributions from the stellar cast of Mura Masa (‘Slip Away’), Laurel Halo (‘Die 4 You’), Jam City (‘Just Like Love’), King Princess (‘Run Me Through’), mmph (‘Braid’), and No Shape producer Blake Mills (‘Every Night’). Previewing the collection upon release, was artist and…
8 June 2018
Gruff Rhys releases his fifth album, Babelsberg, it’s his first record for Rough Trade since 2007’s classic Candylion. Babelsberg was initially recorded in early 2016 in a whirlwind three day session that took place before producer Ali Chant’s studio was demolished. The band he gathered for the record were his regular drummer Kliph Scurlock and multi-instrumentalists Stephen Black and Osian Gwynedd. The tracks then hibernated for eighteen months, awaiting orchestral scores by Swansea…
8 June 2018
Following ‘J-TREE’ and ‘Lotus’, New York act Gang Gang Dance have released a third new song, ‘Young Boy (Marika in Amerika)’ from their upcoming album Kazuashita, out Friday 22 June. listen below! A piercing, heartfelt elegy, Lizzi Bougatsos empathetically sings for those lives unjustly lost to police brutality over weighty, tug-o-war synths and destabilising beats. Founded by Lizzi Bougatsos, Brian DeGraw and Josh Diamond, Gang Gang Dance has consistently blurred the…
8 June 2018
Swedish-born 24-year-old Baba Stiltz (real name) releases his Showtime EP. A playful brand of electronic music that crosses boundaries and genres unlike many before. Opening the EP with jazz inflected slow-jam ‘Showtime’ and peaking with ‘Maze’- the kind of summer floor-filler Baba is such a natural at crafting. “This EP is a collection of songs that were recorded during the past couple of years,” says Baba. “They all represent things I’ve…
8 June 2018
Details of the new Interpol album can finally be confirmed: Their sixth album, Marauder, will be released on August 24th. The album’s first single, ‘The Rover’, can be heard below, and will be performed live on US television show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert tonight. Overnight, Interpol revealed all details (Themes! Making-of! Album art! Producer! Visuals!) to a convergence of their most fervent fans and media, live from General Prim…
8 June 2018
Snail Mail today releases her debut album Lush. Throughout, Lindsey Jordan’s most masterful skill is in crafting tension, working with muted melodrama that builds and never quite breaks, stretching out over moody rockers and soft-burning hooks, making for visceral slow-releases that stick under the skin. Lush feels at times like an emotional rollercoaster, only fitting for Jordan’s explosive, dynamic personality. Growing up in Baltimore suburb Ellicot City, Jordan began her guitar…
7 June 2018
Melbourne three-piece Loose Tooth announce their debut album Keep Up to be released on August 3rd. In addition, Loose Tooth share the album opener ‘Keep On’, watch the accompanying clip below! With Keep Up, Etta Curry (drums, vocals), Luc Dawson (bass, vocals, guitar, keys), and Nellie Jackson (guitar, vocals) have inked their impeccable ear for a hook on a fresh sonic palate. Long time friends with a democratic approach to…
7 June 2018
East Brunswick All Girls Choir are excited to share new single ‘Leave The City’. The track is the second cut from their new album Teddywaddy to be released Friday 29th June. Listen below! The band are launching the album at the Northcote Social Club on Friday 13th July before touring across Australia with Courtney Barnett in August. Tour info below! ‘Leave The City’ takes a slower, more reflective pace, than…
6 June 2018
Wild Nothing, the project of Los Angeles-based Jack Tatum, announces his fourth album, Indigo, out Friday 31st August. Alongside sharing the first taste from the record, with new single ‘Letting Go’. Listen below! Indigo finds Tatum at his most efficient, calculated, and confident after a decade of making music as Wild Nothing. On one hand, Indigo is a return to the fresh, transcendent sweep of his debut, 2010’s Gemini, and on the other, a…
6 June 2018
Everything Is Recorded releases a brand new video for ‘She Said (featuring Obongjayar and Kamasi Washington)’, from the debut album Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell, released earlier this year. Watch below! Directed by Dear Mr Quistgaard, the video sees appearances from the enigmatic Nigerian-born, London-based artist Obongjayar and Richard Russell himself, alongside the British Olympic judo team. Speaking about the video, Richard Russell says: “I first heard Steven (Obongjayar) via…
5 June 2018
Body/Head, the duo of Kim Gordon and guitarist Bill Nace, will release The Switch, on July 13. Accompanying the album announcement is an early glimpse into its immersive, improvisational sound, pushing the limits of amplification, voice, and composition with the song ‘You Don’t Need’, listen below! Their debut album Coming Apart, from 2013, was more of a rock record—heavy, emotional, cathartic, spellwork in shades of black and grey. The Switch is their second…
1 June 2018
Gabriella Cohen’s new album Pink Is The Colour Of Unconditional Love is out today. To celebrate, she has announced two headline dates in New York and Los Angeles this September / October. Catch Gabriella tour Australia with her full band starting next Friday 8 June. Full tour details below. Following the release of 2016’s record Full Closure and No Details, Cohen moved to a countryside Victoria farm in the summer of 2017…
1 June 2018
Leeds trio Drahla have shared brand new single ‘Twelve Divisions Of The Day’. One of Drahla’s most visceral and instant tracks to date, blends the band’s wiry art-rock with krautrock inspired experimentalism, underpinned by singer/guitarist Luciel Brown’s captivating spoken drawl. Listen below! This is the first new music from the band since signing to Brooklyn’s Captured Tracks and the release is accompanied by ‘Twelve Divisions Of The Day’ (Black Ribbon Alternate…
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