23 August 2024
Memphis LK announces her new EP Say released 4th October, along with the release of infectious new single ‘Just The Way You Are’, with Australian tour dates due to land any moment! With the new single, she throws in a taste of her early 2000s influences as she takes on the 2003 original by Italian electronic group Milky – one of her all time faves. Starting as a remix for…
23 August 2024
Ruthven announces his long-awaited debut album Rough & Ready, released on 25th October, and reveals the album’s first single ‘I Can’t Go There’ alongside a self-directed video, made in collaboration with his wife Francesca Nelson, and shot by Josh Renaut. Watch below! Ruthven – aka Sean Nelson – first broke in 2017 as a founding member of Paul Institute, the label founded by A.K and Jai Paul, while also working…
23 August 2024
The Hard Quartet announce their eponymous debut album, out October 4th, and release new single and video, ‘Rio’s Song’ out now. Watch below! “The ‘Rio’s Song’ video is The Hard Quartet’s homage to street rock in the hot afternoon and clowning around with lifer friends in downtown New York City. Director Jared Sherbert shot it guerrilla style on St Mark’s Place and in The International Bar on July 15 2024….
23 August 2024
Geordie Greep (of black midi) announces his debut solo album The New Sound and shares its first single ‘Holy, Holy’ plus video directed by filmmakers Ethan and Tom. Watch below! Following three astonishing albums with black midi, most recently 2023’s Hellfire, and almost non-stop worldwide tours for near-on five years, Geordie Greep has somehow found time to record his first solo album The New Sound, an album that has allowed…
19 August 2024
Flore Laurentienne announces an expanded edition of the outfit’s 2024 album 8 tableaux, out September 13th. Flore Laurentienne also shares a brand-new track entitled ‘Les oies III’, which premiered last Sunday on KEXP’s show Pacific Notions. Watch Flore Laurentienne perform a special KEXP session from last fall below! The digital deluxe edition of 8 tableaux features four new songs, each expanding on Gagnon’s method of transmuting visual art into musical…
15 August 2024
One of the hottest topics in dance music in recent years has been about the lack of bona-fide anthems; those certified, unifying tracks that transcend genres, audiences and even the artist who made them to take on a life and energy of their own. Undeniably bucking that trend in 2024 is Joy Orbison’s ‘Flight FM’. ‘Flight FM’ has spawned dozens – if not hundreds – of unofficial edits from the…
15 August 2024
Last year, the members of Mdou Moctar convened in Niger to complete their then-unfinished album, Funeral For Justice, and to capture a series of live sets in the region surrounding Agadez, a historically important hub. Now released is the first of these sessions: The Agadez Folders: Live at Sultan’s Palace. It features Mdou Moctar performing a complete electric live set at the King’s Palace in the city’s centre. The band…
15 August 2024
gyrofield will release her new EP, These Heavens, on 30 August 2024. The four-track project will be the Hong-Kong-born, Bristol-based producer’s debut EP on XL Recordings as part of the iconic house bag series. These Heavens EP is an exploration into the universe and the beauty of nature via a series of shapeshifting sonics that are just as well-suited for personal introspection as they are for sweaty underground dancefloors. ‘Lagrange’…
15 August 2024
Philadelphia group Bardo Pond announce a much overdue reissue of Set and Setting (1999) to celebrate its 25th Anniversary. Out October 25th, the record has been fully remastered and returns pressed on purple vinyl. Watch a previously unseen video for the song ‘This Time (So Fucked)’ below! Set and Setting will be accompanied by a new double LP compilation, Melt Away, cataloging late-’90s rarities and outtakes from a creative apex…
14 August 2024
Green Mohair Suits return with ‘Hell or High Water’, the first single from their fifth album Stan Wella, out September 27th. Green Mohair Suits (Brian Campeau, Richard Cuthbert, Jason Mannell, and Ben Romalis) hold a reputation for inspired showmanship and performances as brash as they are emotive. After an attempt to record Stan Wella during Covid didn’t pan out, the group did what always works best for them: “The four…
9 August 2024
The Smile have released a new track ‘Don’t Get Me Started’. Watch the accompanying video, directed by audiovisual artist Weirdcore, below! ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ follows a very limited edition 2-track 12-inch single released last week through record shops globally. The double A-side comprises ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ and another new song, ‘The Slip’, sleeved in XL’s iconic housebag, re-designed by Stanley Donwood. Debuted during The Smile’s UK tour dates in March this year, ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ was produced…
9 August 2024
Fontaines D.C. reveal ‘Here’s The Thing’, the third single from their upcoming album ROMANCE, out August 23rd. Watch the accompanying cinematic music video directed by lauded filmmaker Luna Carmoon below! Written days before the band entered the studio to record the album, ‘Here’s The Thing’ leads with the mechanical, mutant guitar sounds of Placebo and the electronic expressiveness of Shygirl and Eartheater. “It’s an anxious tune that twists and turns in what…
9 August 2024
cumgirl8 emerge with the announcement of their long-awaited debut 4AD LP the 8th cumming, out on October 4th. cumgirl8 also share the record’s first single ‘Karma Police’ alongside a visualiser, watch below! With the track, the band deliver not a Radiohead cover, but a chaotic tour story of missed flights and stolen luggage delivered with a hailstorm of angular glittering keys, propulsive swirling riffs, and darkwave night club whispers. the 8th cumming (recorded…
9 August 2024
After releasing her beloved new album Bright Future earlier this year, which won over the hearts of fans and critics alike, Adrianne Lenker shares new single ‘Once a Bunch’. Listen below! Recorded during the Bright Future sessions and originally only appearing on the Japanese CD release of the album, the sweet, country-tinged single – already a live favourite – is seeing its wide release for the first time. Later this year, a 7”…
7 August 2024
To celebrate 10 years after its original release, Spoon reissue their beloved eighth album They Want My Soul on all digital platforms, with a 2xLP gatefold vinyl / 2xCD release to follow on November 8th. Along with the record’s original 10 tracks – including all-time Spoon classics ‘Inside Out’, ‘Do You’, and ‘Rent I Pay’ – They Want My Soul: Deluxe More Soul Edition features 11 demos and alternate versions, almost all of them previously unreleased….
2 August 2024
Worldwide production unit Two Shell has been shooting long and straight across 2024 with chart topping single ‘Talk To Me’, with avant garde icon FKA twigs, and a number one live debut at Coachella. In ‘Round’, a collaborative effort featuring new vocals from iconic British girl group Sugababes, the inventive entity delve back to the future in blazing fashion. ‘Round’ takes Sugababes’ #1 hit ‘Round Round’ and twists it into…
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