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7 July 2017

Listen – The Black Seeds ‘Freakin’

South Pacific reggae-soul legends The Black Seeds have debuted new single ‘Freakin.’ The band’s funkiest offering to date, ‘Freakin’ is a disco-inspired dance floor filler that gets down with 808 drums, bouncy synths and a beat to strut to. “Freakin is one for the end of the week, end of the line, letting loose. Shaking it off.” says band leader Barnaby Weir. “It is the party pick me up track…

7 July 2017

Out now: This Is The Kit – Moonshine Freeze

This Is The Kit have today released their new album Moonshine Freeze. This Is The Kit is the musical project which holds exceptional Paris-via-Bristol songwriter Kate Stables close to its heart. They have earned the adoration of peers including Guy Garvey, The National and Sharon van Etten. Their new album and Rough Trade debut, Moonshine Freeze, is undoubtedly their most compelling and accomplished to date. Produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, M Ward, Perfume Genius), it began in the immediate wake of…

30 June 2017

Introducing – Hamjam

Perth duo Hamjam announce their new debut album a/s/l?, out 11th August, and share their first single ‘Lean’. The music video to ‘Lean’ is a pastel reflection on domestic decadence, and an unfounded pining after early morning TV aerobics. Watch it below! Hamjam is a collaborative project between Hamish Rahn and James Ireland, two creative individuals who make music they describe as “blissed out sadness”. a/s/l? is an earnest and unassuming collection of…

30 June 2017

Introducing – Bedroom Suck

Remote Control Records is super proud to announce new label partnership with Melbourne indie label Bedroom Suck Records! Founded in 2001 by Harvey Saward and Steve Cross, Remote Control will provide publicity and marketing support on a number of Bedroom Suck releases. Bedroom Suck began in Brisbane in 2009, and has since based in Melbourne, with artists including Blank Realm, Free Time, Good Morning, Hamjam, Scott & Charlene’s Wedding, Terrible Truths, Totally Mild,…

30 June 2017

Watch – The xx ‘I Dare You’

The xx release a brand new music video for ‘I Dare You’, directed by Alasdair McLellan in collaboration with The xx and Calvin Klein Chief Creative Officer Raf Simons. Watch it below! The video, filmed in Los Angeles, continues The xx’s longstanding visual collaboration with McLellan, who also directed the band’s ‘On Hold’ and ‘Say Something Loving’ videos, in addition to their collaboration on the It Could Be Love photo…

29 June 2017

Watch – The National ‘Guilty Party’

The National share new single ‘Guilty Party’, from their forthcoming album Sleep Well Beast out 8th September. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Reas, below! “The video is a dream about memory and the degradation of memory; it’s about distance in time and space,” says Reas. “Time moves forward, but then backward as memory. The image of the two-faced Roman god Janus, who can look into the past and future, is the…

29 June 2017

Introducing – Princess Nokia

Princess Nokia has released a brand new single ‘G.O.A.T’. This is the first time her music has been available on streaming services other than SoundCloud and YouTube. The accompanying video was produced by Wally West, directed by Destiny Frasqueri & Milah Libin, with cinematography by Travis Libin. Watch it below! Princess Nokia is the best-known project of New Yorker Destiny Frasqueri. She’s been rapping and releasing tracks on YouTube and SoundCloud since…

28 June 2017

Introducing – Wiki

New York City based rapper Wiki, known for his role in Ratking, is back with a new song ‘Pretty Bull’. The music video for ‘Pretty Bull’ directed by Ben Solomon, sees Wiki in his element at home in downtown Manhattan, surrounded by friends for a party at the local bodega. Watch it below. Over the weekend Wiki made his Glastonbury debut, joined by Suspect OTB, Jesse James Solomon and Skepta,…

27 June 2017

Kedr Livanskiy announces debut LP Ariadna + shares title track

Moscow’s Kedr Livanskiy has announced her debut LP Ariadna, out Friday 8th September, and shares the opening title track which was named after the Greek goddess, Adriane. Listen below! Kedr Livanskiy (real name Yana Kedrina) confesses “Synthesizers help me maximally feel the present moment.” Livanskiy was born into a shifting and critical time for Russia. The Soviet Union had exhausted and old values were anathematised because of reconstruction. A sense of displacement…

27 June 2017

Widowspeak announce new album Expect The Best + share first single ‘Dog’

Widowspeak announce their new album, Expect The Best, to be released Friday 25 August, along with revealing a video for the first single, ‘Dog’, filmed and edited by musician/artist Otium, and filmed in Tacoma, WA. Watch it below! Widowspeak’s Molly Hamilton says the song is “about the compulsion to move on from things and places, even people, when you’re not necessarily ready to. Sometimes, I get caught up in ‘the grass is always…

23 June 2017

Out now: The xx – I See You (Deluxe)

The xx have released I See You (Deluxe) today. The Deluxe version of the album is available digitally and includes three new tracks: ‘Naïve’, ‘Seasons Run’ and ‘Brave For You (Marfa Demo)’. The xx just performed on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival in the UK, you can tune in to some amazing footage of the show on BBC 2 here, and an interview on Annie Mac’s Hottest Record In The World, where you can check…

23 June 2017

Out now: Algiers – The Underside Of Power

Algiers’ second album, The Underside Of Power, is out now. Recorded largely in Bristol and produced by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Ali Chant, mixed by Randall Dunn (Sunn O)))), with post-production by Ben Greenberg (The Men, Hubble, Uniform), touchstones on the uncompromising and impassioned album run from Southern rap to Northern soul, gospel to IDM, industrial to grime to italo. More pertinent than ever before, The Underside Of Power follows Algiers’ 2015 eponymous…

23 June 2017

Out now: Radiohead – OK COMPUTER OKNOTOK 1997 2017

Rescued from defunct formats, prised from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage… OK COMPUTER OKNOTOK 1997 2017 is out now and available on all digital formats, double CD, and triple 180g LP versions of the 23 track album. Coinciding in time for the release Radiohead have shared a new video to one of the previously unreleased tracks ‘Man Of War’. Watch it below! OKNOTOK features the…

22 June 2017

Jen Cloher announces self-titled album + shares ‘Forgot Myself’

Jen Cloher has announced her new self-titled album to be released Friday 11th August. Jen has also shared the first single from the album, ‘Forgot Myself’, and writes about the sacrifices and difficulties of maintaining a long-distance relationship. Listen and watch the accompanying video below! Of the song’s inspiration, Jen said “You want to be with your partner celebrating big moments in their life but at the same time you have your own life…

22 June 2017

Listen – Banoffee ‘Ripe’

Banoffee returns with ‘Ripe’, the first single to be released in almost two years. Listen below! Having produced her own brand of experimental electronica since 2013 in Melbourne, Banoffee felt a change was necessary and LA offered up a fresh creative start. ‘Ripe’ bounces around a manipulated vocal sample, a grating bassline scratch and infectious drops. Intentionally grubby, it’s also a mirror of the project’s “dirty, crass personality.” Banoffee is interested…

21 June 2017

Teeth & Tongue announce ‘Greatest Hurts’ party + share live video for ‘Turn Turn Turn’

Over the course of four albums, Teeth & Tongue – the music project of songwriter and instrumentalist Jess Cornelius – had gradually morphed into a more collaborative ‘band-like’ affair, with long-time collaborators Marc Regueiro-McKelvie, Damian Sullivan and James Harvey. Now, Jess is heading to the USA to focus on a new ‘actually solo’ project, with material that is more stripped back, personal and lyrically direct. To say goodbye (for a while),…