25 July 2017
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Purity Ring’s debut LP Shrines, Megan James and Corin Roddick have released a new song, ‘Asido’. Accompanied by an animated lyric video written and directed by Megan and illustrated by Tallulah Fontaine. Watch it below! Tallulah took videos of Megan walking and falling, then traced the movement to create the character frame by frame. In order to situate their meaning, Megan had her mother…
25 July 2017
With her forthcoming self-titled LP, Jen Cloher plays it fearlessly close to the bone, with raw, unflinching dissections of her life, love, and home of Australia. With her first single ‘Forgot Myself’, a deceptively upbeat track about the sacrifices and difficulties of maintaining a long-distance relationship with a high profile partner. Cloher turns that unfiltered lens onto her complicated relationship with Australia in ‘Regional Echo’, a title inspired by legendary Australian poet…
21 July 2017
Goat Girl have released their new single ‘Crow Cries’. The track comes from a 7″ out Friday 25 August. Listen below! Goat Girl formed a few years ago in South London, all four members of the band have just turned 20, being busy on the road for the last 18 months playing with everyone from The Fall to Parquet Courts. The band’s furious sound represents how it feels to live…
21 July 2017
This Is The Kit, the musical project which holds Paris-via-Bristol songwriter Kate Stables, share a new video to ‘Hotter Colder’, taken from their new album Moonshine Freeze. Watch below! Video Director James Hankins explains how the video came about; “Kate was very keen on the video involving water and wanted quite a dark feel to it. Seeing as her and Rozi both love wild swimming we thought we’d go for…
20 July 2017
The Lemon Twigs have announced Brothers of Destruction, a six-track EP of previously unreleased material, slated for Friday 22 September. The siblings shared the first single from the EP ‘Night Song’ with fans during a Reddit AMA. Brothers of Destruction was written and recorded by the D’Addario brothers on their 8-track at home in New York during 2015, not long after recording their debut album, Do Hollywood. “Many of you will…
20 July 2017
Celebrating the international release of Diplomatic Immunity and their collaboration with Tina Arena, Client Liaison will reward audiences worldwide with their biggest production yet for A Foreign Affair World Tour. Client Liaison will reveal the benchmark for what’s to come, when they ignite the Splendour In The Grass main Amphitheatre this Sunday evening. A Foreign Affair World Tour will be the final mark of their Diplomatic journey, starting in Australia, with support from…
18 July 2017
The Fresh & Onlys share their second single from their new album Wolf Lie Down, out Friday 25th August. Listen below! Singer Tim Cohen tells us, “Impossible Man came from a song I came up with called “Invisible Man”, based loosely on Ralph Ellison’s sole but legendary novel. In it, I fancied myself figuratively invisible, like Ellison’s protagonist, but realising it would be construed as either a pure homage to another,…
14 July 2017
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14 July 2017
Naomi Punk have shared two new singles, ‘Cookie’ and ‘Cardboard’, taken from their forthcoming double LP Yellow, out 4th August. Listen below! Naomi Punk got their start in 2012 with the release of their debut The Feeling. They seamlessly transfer what they create in the studio to the stage putting on intense, dynamic shows that tend to require the use of earplugs – they mean to be loud, and they are. On…
13 July 2017
Moscow’s Kedr Livanskiy (real name Yana Kedrina) shares the video for ‘Ariadna’, the title track from her forthcoming debut LP, out Friday 8th September. Watch the video below. Shot by Masha Demianova in Georgia and based on the Greek myth of Ariadne, Kedr asked Masha, an old friend, to work with her. “Masha works with mythical images and structures, blending them into the now in a way that doesn’t look…
13 July 2017
Torres announces her third full-length album Three Futures, out on Friday 29th September. Torres also shares the title track and video, which ties visually into the album’s artwork and previous single ‘Skim’, all shot and directed by Ashley Connor. Watch both videos below. Scott describes the album “is entirely about using the body that each of us has been given as a mechanism of joy.” The 10 original tracks on Three Futures embrace ecstasy, desire and…
13 July 2017
Black Cab have announced 明 (Akira) to be released on Friday 4 August via Interstate40. Alongside an East Coast album tour, they have shared two tracks from the album. Listen to ‘Prelude’ and ‘Closing Titles’ below. The album was inspired by classic Japanese sci-fi anime movies such as Akira, Ghost In the Shell, the Evangelion series and more. A blend of dark electronica, massed taiko drums and found sounds, the album…
13 July 2017
Gold Class release their second single, ‘Rose Blind’, from their new album Drum, out on Friday 18 August. ‘Rose Blind’ is accompanied by a dark and ambiguous video directed by Defero Productions, watch it below! ‘Rose Blind’ explores themes of personal and societal politics. Vocalist Adam Curley explains “We wanted to write something with a big, raging chorus. It’s a love song, really, but a love song to a friend. It’s about feeling that…
12 July 2017
Sigur Rós return to Australia this month, performing at Splendour in The Grass, Sydney’s Hordern Pavillion and Melbourne’s Margaret Court Arena. Further tour details below. Having being made aware of recent comments by former tennis player Margaret Court, the band decided to commission a special t-shirt celebrating positivity and inclusion, with proceeds going towards Australian Marriage Equality. The band approached London-based illustrator Andrew Rae to create a special crest, who…
11 July 2017
Cults announce their return with a new album, Offering, out Friday 6 October. The album marks their first since 2013’s Static, and with that have shared the LP’s title track ‘Offering’. Listen below! On the single, the band note, “We had been working on a lot of songs for a long time and when this one came together it felt like a release. We were trying to make a jam about finding…
7 July 2017
Norwegian duo Smerz are back with new track ‘Oh my my’, their first new music since releasing the critically-acclaimed debut EP Okey, which Gorilla vs. Bear called “one of the best debuts of last year.” Produced, programmed and sung entirely by the duo, ‘Oh my my’, their debut release on XL Recordings / Remote Control, is a minimal track that’s pinned together by speaker sucking bass and soulful vocal melodies, crafting a modern techno sound that’s uniquely Smerz. Henriette and Catharina, who comprise Smerz, were raised…
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