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24 January 2017

Methyl Ethel Announce ‘Everything Is Forgotten’ + Share ‘Ubu’

Methyl Ethel have announced their new album Everything Is Forgotten, to be released Friday 3rd March via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. The band have also shared new single ‘Ubu’, a frenetic pop song inspired by Alfred Jarre’s surrealist play Ubu Roi. A self-portrait of self-flagellation and guilt, its companion video, directed by Paxi, takes some of its absurdist cues from Jarre. Watch it below. Due to overwhelming demand a handful of…

23 January 2017

The xx ‘I See You’ Debuts at #1 ARIA Album Chart

I See You, the long awaited third album from The xx, has debuted at the top of the ARIA Album Chart in its first week. This is the first #1 album in Australia for the band. I See You also topped album charts around the world including United Kingdom, Netherlands, Germany, Ireland and Belgium. The album is out now via Young / Remote Control Records. I See You marks a new era for…

20 January 2017

Announced – Client Liaison Diplomatic Immunity tour

Remote Control Records in partnership with triple j, Select Music and Dot Dash are thrilled to announce the Australian Tour for Melbourne associates Client Liaison. The tour follows last year’s release of their critically acclaimed debut album Diplomatic Immunity. Harvey Miller AO and Monte Morgan’s early shows as Client Liaison, around Melbourne at house parties and warehouse gigs, communicated an ineffable musical connection between the two former art school kids….

20 January 2017

Out Now – Tim Cohen ‘Luck Man’

Tim Cohen today releases his debut solo record Luck Man, out via Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records. The Fresh & Only’s / Magic Trick front man wants to make you aware of life’s imperfections; he likes to play devil’s advocate…or maybe he’s more like the devil’s buddy, offering up his own dark but playful asides. On Luck Man, Cohen has created a lush, insular world that deals with the uneasiness of accepting life’s inherent flaws. Recorded…

20 January 2017

Announced – Lost Animal You Yang tour

Lost Animal has announced his national You Yang album tour for this February. He will play Melbourne at Corner Hotel on Feb 3, Sydney at Newtown Social Club on Feb 10, Hobart at Brisbane Hotel on Feb 17, Brisbane at The Foundry on Feb 24 and Fremantle at Mojos on March 5. See full ticket links and details below. Jarrod Quarrell will perform tracks from his critically acclaimed new album You Yang out now via Dot…

19 January 2017

Spoon announce new album ‘Hot Thoughts’

After months of speculation, Spoon have announced the release of their monumental new album HotThoughts out Friday 17th March on Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Produced by Spoon and Dave Fridman, Austin’s most esteemed rock ambassadors have created the bravest, most sonically inventive work of their illustrious career. Reuniting the band with the label that released their 1996 debut, Telephono, and following on Spoon’s streak of three consecutive US Top…

19 January 2017

Listen – King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard ‘Sleep Drifter’

Hailed by Rolling Stone as “one of the most compelling collectives of art-rock experimentalists in recent years, exploring a mix of high-concept musical odysseys that range from AM bubblegum to kaleidoscopic acid tests,” psychedelic seven-piece King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have expanded minds yet again with their latest song ‘Sleep Drifter.’ ‘Sleep Drifter’ is featured on the new album Flying Microtonal Banana, out 24th February via Flightless / Remote Control…

19 January 2017

Listen – Homeshake ‘Every Single Thing’

‘Every Single Thing‘ is the second single to date from Fresh Air, the forthcoming album fromHomeshake out on Friday 3rd February 2017 via Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records. Prior to this single’s release, Homeshake shared ‘Call Me Up‘ which Fader noted “pushes his bedroom R&B in a slightly funkier direction..a strong sense of hospitality is the track’s most defining characteristic” and IHeart Moosiq said it, “envelops us in buttery smooth, swirling warm R&B pop, leaving us in a divinely…

19 January 2017

Watch – The xx perform ‘Say Something Loving’ and ‘Lips’ on Fallon

To celebrate the release of I See You, The xx appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night. I See You, the long awaited third album from The xx, is out now on Young / Remote Control Records. Watch The xx perform ‘Say Something Loving’ and ‘Lips’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon below. I See You marks a new era for the London trio of Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and…

16 January 2017

Watch – Sampha perform ‘(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano’ on Fallon

Over the weekend Sampha performed new single ‘(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano’ on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Emotionally raw and achingly beautiful, the track is a tribute to the piano that sat in Sampha’s south London family home from the age of three – a piano on which he wrote much of his highly anticipated forthcoming debut album Process, out Friday 3rd February via Young / Remote Control…

13 January 2017

Watch – Jarrow ‘Mutual Feelings’

Jarrow has just released a new video for his track ‘Mutual Feelings’, ahead of a run of shows that includes supports for Car Seat Headrest and a headline show at Melbourne’s Yarra Hotel. Watch the clip below! Film-maker Max Wood drew from unlikely inspiration when making the visually compelling clip. It features a non-plussed Jarrow performing to the camera while the surprisingly beautiful urban landscape of Footscray swirls manically in the…

13 January 2017

Out Now – SOHN ‘Rennen’

Two years after the release of his celebrated debut album Tremors, SOHN has returned with the release of Rennen, out today via 4AD / Remote Control Records. The London-born artist has traded Vienna for the warmth of Los Angeles, but the influence of his former home still lingers (Rennen is a German verb meaning ‘to run’). Resuming a nocturnal schedule – as he did with Tremors – SOHN spent a month writing alone in northern California, recording until morning most days. The ten songs of Rennen are…

13 January 2017

Out Now – The xx ‘I See You’

I See You, the long awaited third album from The xx, is out today on Young / Remote Control Records and sitting at #1 on the iTunes Album Chart! I See You marks a new era for the London trio of Romy Madley Croft, Oliver Sim and Jamie Smith, both sonically and in terms of process. The album was recorded between March 2014 and August 2016 in New York, Marfa, Reykjavik, Los…

12 January 2017

Watch – Sleaford Mods ‘BHS’

‘BHS’ is the first single from the upcoming Sleaford Mods album English Tapas out Friday 3rd March via Rough Trade / Remote Control. The album was recorded at Steve Mackey’s (Pulp) West Heath Garage studios in London. Watch the video below! British Home Stores (BHS) was a chain of department stores in the UK controlled by Sir Philip Green, the chairman of Arcadia Group, which also owns Topshop, among others. The chain…

12 January 2017

Listen – Sampha ‘(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano’

Sampha has released a brand new single ‘(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano’. At once both emotionally raw and achingly beautiful, the track is a tribute to the piano that sat in Sampha’s south London family home from the age of three – a piano on which he wrote much of his highly anticipated forthcoming debut album Process, out Friday 3rd February via Young / Remote Control Records. Produced by…

12 January 2017

Announced – Julien Baker signs to Matador Records

Memphis, TN-based songwriter Julien Baker is the latest addition to the Matador Records roster. The 21-year-old’s devastating and vulnerable debut album, Sprained Ankle, saw Baker tour the critically acclaimed release across Australia last December. Fans can now hear a previously unreleased song ‘Funeral Pyre’, which is the title-track and A-side forBaker’s new 7” coming out Friday 17 March via Matador / Remote Control. Only Baker can make a song with such a darkly macabre…