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18 January 2024

Announced: Kim Gordon – The Collective

Kim Gordon returns with her second solo album The Collective, which will be released March 8th. Its lead track ‘BYE BYE’ is out now, driven by a snaking bassline which guides us through a haunting packing list, accompanied by a video starring Coco Gordon Moore, directed by photographer and filmmaker Clara Balzary, with cinematography by Christopher Blauvelt. Check it out below! Recorded Los Angeles, The Collective follows Gordon’s 2019 full-length debut No Home Record and continues her collaboration with producer Justin Raisen, with…

12 January 2024

Watch: Helado Negro – ‘Best For You and Me’

Helado Negro (aka Roberto Carlos Lange) releases a new single, ‘Best For You and Me’, from his upcoming album PHASOR, which will be released on the 9th February via 4ad / Remote Control Records. In ‘Best For You and Me’ Lange retains the warmth of a childhood summer night on the Florida peninsular soundtracked by frogs and crickets, Bermuda grass between your toes. With its bright, pastel tones and uplifting melodies and rhythms, ‘Best For You and Me’ feels like an…

11 January 2024

Watch: Gruff Rhys – ‘Bad Friend’

Gruff Rhys shares ‘Bad Friend’ – the third and final track from his new album Sadness Sets Me Free before its release on 26th January. Remarkably, Sadness Sets Me Free is Gruff Rhys’ 25th long playing record in a 35 year recording career. Gruff says on his new track “People always refer to ‘good friends’. This song is toying with the idea of the ‘bad friend’. Maybe a bad friend is still better than not being a friend at all. Some friends…

11 January 2024

Announced: Erika de Casier – Still

Erika de Casier returns to announce her highly-anticipated third album Still, out February 21st via 4AD / Remote Control Records, and shares the first single ‘Lucky.’ The song arrives alongside an accompanying Jesse May Fisher-directed video titled “me walking on the beach” made as homage to viral YouTube videos from the early aughts. The album is classic de Casier, her idiosyncratic mix of luxuriant electronica and moonlit R&B drilled further into that one-of-a-kind sound here. Her songwriting is as masterful…

11 January 2024

Listen: The Smile – ‘Friend Of A Friend’

The Smile have revealed their brand-new single ‘Friend Of A Friend’, taken from the forthcoming sophomore album Wall Of Eyes. Showcased live during the band’s 2022/2023 touring, the studio version features strings from the London Contemporary Orchestra and saxophone from Robert Stillman. The video for ‘Friend Of A Friend’, by motion picture director Paul Thomas Anderson will be premiered alongside a surround sound album playback of Wall Of Eyes at a series of one-off events hosted at independent cinemas between 18-25th January. The events,…

11 January 2024

Announced: Jess Locke – Real Life + ‘Uncomfortably Happy’

Jess Locke returns with the announcement of her fourth album Real Life out on Friday, 3rd May, and shares a sample of the long play that explores mortality with ‘Uncomfortably Happy’, alongside a video. Watch below! Setting the tone on her forthcoming album, ‘Uncomfortably Happy’ says it all in the title. Backed by fuzzy guitars and swelling synths, Locke questions the temporary aspect of living. The buoyant chorus attempts to sweep these anxieties and overanalyses away – a…

11 January 2024

Watch: Jamie xx – ‘IT’S SO GOOD’

Jamie xx returns with new track ‘IT’S SO GOOD’. Released via Young / Remote Control, ‘IT’S SO GOOD’ is the soundtrack to the latest Chanel Coco Crush campaign. Available on all digital services, it’s a subtly euphoric anthem that builds over four and a half minutes of stop-start tension and release. ‘IT’S SO GOOD’ is Jamie’s first new music in over a year and is set to build on the success of 2022’s ‘LET’S DO IT AGAIN’ and ‘KILL DEM’ singles. Stream /…

11 January 2024

Watch: Future Islands – ‘Say Goodbye’

At the end of this month, Future Islands will release their highly anticipated new album, People Who Aren’t There Anymore (Jan, 26, 2024). Today, they’ve shared another new song, ‘Say Goodbye,’ an examination of a long distance relationship unravelling. People Who Aren’t There Anymore, the band’s seventh album, heralds a new chapter for Future Islands who, despite having formed nearly two decades ago, continue to challenge themselves and each other. Stream / download ‘Say Goodbye’ here. Pre-order /…

11 January 2024

Listen: Buck Meek – ‘Cuero Dudes’ + ‘Beauty Opens Doors’

Buck Meek kickstarts 2024 with two new singles ‘Cuero Dudes’ and ‘Beauty Opens Doors’, as well as a video for ‘Cuero Dudes’, watch below! Last year, Meek released his stunning third solo album, Haunted Mountain, featuring songs co-written with one of Buck’s longtime musical heros Jolie Holland. ‘Cuero Dudes’ should sound familiar to those who have listened to the record. It’s a rollicking reworking of the track ‘Cyclades,’ one of the album’s singles and live standouts. Meanwhile, ‘Beauty Opens Doors’ was a song…

11 January 2024

Announced: TATYANA – It’s Over

London based TATYANA shares details of the brand new album It’s Over due March 22nd via Sinderlyn / Remote Control. A luminous, thumping voyage through the arcs of modern/chronically online dating, the LP charts the undulating risk versus reward trade off when you open yourself up to someone. Today’s announcement arrives alongside brand new single and video, ‘Down Bad’, and follows previous single and video ‘Hold My Hand’ setting the tone for the record. Stream / download ‘Down Bad’ here….

10 January 2024

Watch: The Lemon Twigs – ‘My Golden Years’

The Lemon Twigs — New York’s sibling duo beloved for their sophisticated pop, which aims to pick up where The Beach Boys left off — release ‘My Golden Years’ on Captured Tracks / Remote Control, their first new release since their acclaimed 2023 LP, Everything Harmony. ‘My Golden Years’ holds close the smooth harmonies of The Beach Boys, the energy and bombast of Raspberries, and shimmering 12 string textures of The Byrds — as the…

22 December 2023

RC’s Favourite Releases of 2023

Harvey Rose City Band – Garden PartyBar Italia – Tracey DenimThe Church – the HypnogogueSparks – the girl is crying in her latteMozart Estate – Pop- up kerching !The Jasmine Minks – We make our own historyThe National – First two pages of FrankensteinSampa – LahaiKristen Hersh – Clear Pond RoadLucinda Williams – Stories from a rock n roll heart **** Steve Gena Rose Bruce – Misery And MisfortuneHeartworms –…

15 December 2023

Announced: Lisa O’Neill – Australian Tour

Lisa O’Neill, one of the most striking folk singers performing on the live circuit, announces an extensive tour of Australia taking in Woodford Folk Festival and WOMADelaide as well as dates in New South Wales and Victoria in 2024. Tour details below. O’Neill’s pure song writing and organic music alight in songs that reach the soul. She’s built a reputation as a modern artist tapped into the ancient, whose voice…

7 December 2023

Out Now: Car Seat Headrest – Faces From The Masquerade

Car Seat Headrest share their new live album Faces From The Masquerade alongside a video of the band performing the song ‘Sober To Death’. On March 28th-30th 2022, Car Seat Headrest played three consecutive sold out nights at Brooklyn Steel in New York. An air of celebration, community and showmanship was present, made all the more palpable as the shows were far from a certainty – they took place amidst a year which saw the band having to postpone or cancel…

7 December 2023

Out now: Lucinda Chua – Reclaiming The Rose

Following the release of her critically-acclaimed debut album YIAN earlier this year, Lucinda Chua shares her brand new EP Reclaiming The Rose, out now via 4AD / Remote Control. Reclaiming The Rose expands sonically on YIAN, with Chua explaining “Reclaiming The Rose is a bi-lingual meditation exploring ideas of returning, remembering and retracing ancestral roots. I was inspired by the journey of the rose; a plant indigenous to China that made…

7 December 2023

Watch: Adrianne Lenker – ‘Ruined’

Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief) presents her new single and video, ‘Ruined’. The track is a heart-breaking, remarkable intro to Lenker’s highly anticipated new solo album, which she has announced will be coming in 2024. On ‘Ruined’, Lenker moves to the piano for the first time and the accompanying video was directed by Adrianne’s brother Noah Lenker, collaging gorgeous footage of Lenker in autumnal foliage. Of ‘Ruined,’ Lenker says: “This song has been a quiet beacon for me. It may contain the essence of the gift…