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21 June 2017

Gold Class announce new album Drum + share ‘Twist In The Dark’ video

Gold Class have announced their new album, Drum, to be released on Friday 18 August. The band have also shared a video for their first single off the record ‘Twist In The Dark’. Watch it below! Drum is the follow-up to 2015 debut It’s You. Recorded at Melbourne’s Head Gap studios and Tropical Fuck Storm Studios and produced by Gareth Liddiard, Drum sees Gold Class explore new sonic territory. On the album…

20 June 2017

Introducing – The Fresh & Onlys

San Francisco’s psych-blasted, starry-eyed weirdos The Fresh & Onlys return with the announcement of new album, Wolf Lie Down, out Friday 25th August. For a taste, they have shared the opening title track. Listen below! Wolf Lie Down strips back the layered feel of the last few records to reveal singer Tim Cohen and guitarist/producer Wymond Miles full of passion, imbued with an uplifting romanticism, and their trademark wry sense…

16 June 2017

Out now – B Boys ‘Dada’

Brooklyn trio B Boys have today released their full-length debut Dada. Featuring singles ‘Energy’, ‘Walking’ and ‘Discipline’ the band create effortless punk, sun beaten guitars and bass riffs twist around each other, sharp turns and jagged edges careen wildly, making for a breathless record.

16 June 2017

Queens Of The Stone Age announce new album Villains + share first single ‘The Way You Used To Do’

“The title Villains isn’t a political statement. It has nothing to do with Trump or any of that shit. It’s simply 1) a word that looks fantastic and 2) a comment on the three versions of every scenario: yours, mine and what actually happened… Everyone needs someone or something to rail against—their villain—same as it ever was. You can’t control that. The only thing you can really control is when…

15 June 2017

Watch – Methyl Ethel ‘Drink Wine’

Methyl Ethel share a new video for ‘Drink Wine’, directed by Paxi (behind the surrealism-flavoured visuals for ‘Ubu’) and filmed in Sydney, Australia. The new single opens their second studio album, Everything Is Forgotten, out now. Watch the video below. The band are currently in the middle of a run of European dates with fellow Perth band POND. After appearances at Boardmasters, Lowlands and Green Man festivals, Methyl Ethel will head to North…

14 June 2017

Announced – The Black Seeds ‘Fabric’

The Black Seeds have announced their long-awaited sixth studio album, Fabric, which will be their first album in over five years, set to be released Friday 8 September. The album features their new single ‘Better Days’ which the band has shared a lyric video for, created by Mark Russell & Owen Watts the video features stunning scenes from their homeland Aotearoa. Watch the time-lapsed footage below. The sessions for Fabric took…

14 June 2017

Listen – Algiers ‘Cleveland’

Algiers have released new single ‘Cleveland’, taken from their forthcoming second album, The Underside Of Power, released Friday 23rd June. Listen below. While the song invokes Tamir Rice, as a reference and tribute, the lyrics summon Kindra Chapman, Andre Jones, Lennon Lacy, Sandra Bland, Roosevelt Pernell, Keith Warren and Alfred Wright, similarly victims of state sanctioned violence. It also makes a link with theorist Walter Benjamin’s work on divine violence, placing justice against…

13 June 2017

Watch – Aldous Harding ‘Blend’

Aldous Harding has revealed a new video for the single ‘Blend’, taken from her latest album Party, watch it below. The visuals for ‘Blend’ were created by Charlotte Evans, the New Zealand filmmaker also responsible for Harding’s previous videos for ‘Horizon’ and ‘Imagining My Man’. Disquieting in its nature, and inspired by Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary war film Apocalypse Now, Harding goes into further detail – “The concept is based on that awful…

9 June 2017

Out Now – ‘Planetarium’

Planetarium, the new collaborative album co-composed by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister, is out now via 4AD / Remote Control Records. A completely reimagined version of the project originally undertaken years ago and performed in various iterations around the world, Planetarium unites Stevens’ vocals, McAlister’s beats, Dessner’s guitar performance, and Muhly’s instrumental compositions—part rock odyssey, part electronic experiment, part classical opus. Conceptually, Planetarium revolves around the cosmic ideas Stevens’…

9 June 2017

Watch – Ibeyi ‘Away Away’

Ibeyi have released a new song titled ‘Away Away’. The track pushes forward the unique, cross-cultural sound that Ibeyi have become so widely recognised for. The duo, who split their time between Paris, Cuba and London, explain that the song is about “looking out onto the world’s craziness, which is symbolised by the sirens heard in the track, and wondering if the promises of a better world will be made true.” Culminating with a…

9 June 2017

Introducing – Torres

Meet the latest edition to the 4AD family! Torres is the creative alias of Brooklyn-based Mackenzie Scott. She has released her new single ‘Skim’ along with a video. Watch it below! In the striking clip, directed by Ashley Connor, Torres reflects on the relativity of human interactions, which is at odds with the robotic synth pop of the track. ‘Skim’ is the first new music since the release of her acclaimed…

9 June 2017

Out now – Jim Lawrie ‘Slacker Of The Year’

Jim Lawrie has today released his album Slacker of the Year via Barely Dressed Records / Remote Control Records. His most ambitious work yet, the album is a culmination of years of creative introspection, Jim’s own gloriously crafted interpretation of classic rock and folk. Purchase / Stream Slacker Of The Year Catch Jim celebrate the album release at Northcote Social Club on Friday 28 July. Tix available here: http://bdr.ec/jimlawriensc

5 June 2017

Listen – Radiohead ‘I Promise’

Radiohead’s previously unreleased ‘I Promise’ has been made available to stream and download. ‘I Promise’ is one of 3 previously unreleased tracks to be featured on the band’s album OKNOTOK, which will be released on June 23 through XL Recordings. The digital version of the album is now available to preorder. The release of ‘I Promise’ is accompanied by a new video for the song, directed by Michal Marczak who…

2 June 2017

Out now – Pixx ‘The Age Of Anxiety’

Pixx – the alter ego of UK artist Hannah Rodgers – has released her debut album, The Age Of Anxiety. The album seeks to address a generation increasingly isolated by an unprecedented new world order, from the pressures of social media to ever-changing political turbulence. The Age Of Anxiety borrows its title from W.H. Auden’s final poem, charting one man’s quest to find substance and identity in a shifting and…

2 June 2017

Out today – Benjamin Booker ‘Witness’

Benjamin Booker has today released his incredible new album Witness. On Witness, Booker has created his most ambitious work yet by digging deep into his passion for eccentric soul, R&B, and blues, while never straying too far from the garage-punk intensity that made his self-titled 2014 debut such a creative breakthrough. Listen to the record here: Watch Benjamin Booker perform ‘Right On You’ and ‘Believe’ live below

26 May 2017

Introducing – Walter TV

Meet Walter TV! What is there to be said that hasn’t already been said about the old Walter TV band? Our main men in the group (Joe McMurray, Simon Ankenman, Pierce McGarry) are either aged 30 or close to. They do their best to make music that is meaningful, interesting, and…danceable? Emotionally razed these bad boys are pumping out of the ashes, instruments in hand. Simon is a canoe guide in the Northwest…