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25 May 2023

Announced: Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain

Texas-bred singer/songwriter and Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek announces his new album, Haunted Mountain, out Friday, 25th August. His first release for 4AD / Remote Control, Meek also shares the lead single and title track, ‘Haunted Mountain’, a song co-written alongside his friend and long-time hero Jolie Holland. Following his beloved 2021 album, Two Saviors, Haunted Mountain marks Meek’s third solo album. Haunted Mountain is about love and… something other. Something bigger than love, something that doesn’t challenge love exactly but stands in contrast to it. Lead single…

25 May 2023

Announced: Anjimile – The King

Anjimile Chithambo, better known as Anjimile, announces his new album, The King, out September 8th, his first full-length since 2020’s breakthrough Giver Taker. To herald the announcement, he shares lead single, ‘The King.’ Highlighting the artistic shift from Giver Taker to now, ‘The King’ opens with a lofty, melodic choir, an intro that belies the song’s motives. Suddenly, sinister arpeggios interrupt the reverie, and the voices grow darkly serious. Deeply steeped in the confusion, grief, and rage…

25 May 2023

Listen: Jeremy Dutcher – Skicinuwihkuk

Jeremy Dutcher is a Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist, and ethnomusicologist from Tobique First Nation in Eastern Canada. Dutcher’s 2018 debut — Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa — vaulted him into the upper echelons of Canadian performance, from the Polaris and Juno Award stages to the judges’ panel on Canada’s Drag Race. Dutcher — a classically trained opera tenor and pianist that has been singing the songs of his ancestors since he was a child — returns with his first new solo work since…

25 May 2023

Announced: Friendly Fires – Self Titled + Paris Remixes Reissues

Friendly Fires have announced the 15-year anniversary reissue of their seminal debut Friendly Fires and ‘Paris’. The album Friendly Fires will come on silver vinyl, whilst a 12” of the ‘Paris’ remixes by Aeroplane and Justus Kohncke will come on gold vinyl. These will both be released by XL Recordings / Remote Control on 8th September. On the reissues the band say: “We’re going to mark the occasion with 15th anniversary re-issues of the vinyl edition of the ‘Friendly Fires’ LP, and the ‘Paris’ 12”…

19 May 2023

Watch: King Krule ‘If Only It Was Warm’

King Krule shares a new single and video for ‘If Only It Was Warmth’, the latest piece of new music from the highly anticipated forthcoming new album Space Heavy, out Friday, 9th June via XL Recordings / Remote Control. The wistful, stripped-back instrumentation of ‘If Only It Was Warmth’ comes alongside a self-directed music video that sees King Krule journey across vast waters, with a cactus. Along the way, he is confronted by thoughts of love and lost connection,…

19 May 2023

Out Now: Overmono – Good Lies

British electronic duo Overmono are proud to release their highly anticipated debut album, Good Lies out now via Remote Control Records. Good Lies is a comprehensive realisation of the innovative sound the duo have cultivated over the last few years. Vocal samples that were once directly about love are remoulded into a series of multi-genre electronic sounds that are as powerfully euphoric as they are melancholic depending on the listener’s mood that day. Purchase / Download Good Lies here.

19 May 2023

Out Now: Blawan – Dismantled Into Juice

Blawan releases Dismantled into Juice, the highly anticipated follow-up EP to Woke Up Right Handed. Out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control, Dismantled into Juice started with captivating original vocal cuts from rising singer Monstera Black and evolved into five tracks that are Blawan’s most riveting and genre-bending to date. Last month, Blawan released the first single ‘Toast’ which sparked a wave of excitement for the new project, going on to be named one of the best new tracks by the likes of The Quietus and The…

19 May 2023

Out Now: bar italia – Tracey Denim

bar italia, the London trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, have released their new album Tracey Denim digitally and on CD via Remote Control. The album will be available on vinyl September 8. Tracey Denim was recorded and produced by bar italia with mixing from Marta Salogni. It features the single ‘Nurse!’ which was released in March to acclaim, and described as “a hypnotic post-punk ballad” (The Guardian) and “narcotically arresting” (Pitchfork). Stream / Purchase Tracey Denim here.

19 May 2023

Listen: Interpol – Jeff Parker ‘Passenger’ Interpolation

Last month, Interpol launched Interpolations, a series of collaborations that finds songs from the band’s latest album, The Other Side Of Make-Believe, reworked by artists Daniel Avery, Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker, Jesu, and Water From Your Eyes. Today, you can hear the second instalment, an interpolation of ‘Passenger’ created by guitarist and composer Jeff Parker. “When asked to make a remix for Interpol, I was intrigued and initially excited to make something from the drum breaks on the original version of ‘Passenger,’” explains Parker. “However, the muse had other plans…

19 May 2023

Announced: Spoon – Memory Dust

Out digitally on June 13, Memory Dust features three new Spoon recordings – the original songs ‘Sugar Babies’ and ‘Silver Girl,’ plus a cover of Bo Diddley’s ‘She’s Fine, She’s Mine.’ These aren’t b-sides. The recordings began during sessions for Spoon’s Grammy-nominated album, Lucifer on the Sofa, but were left unfinished. Following the record’s release and at the tail end of a year-plus of intense touring, the band came back to the sketches with renewed energy and fresh perspective. The completed tracks retain a touch of Lucifer’s character –…

19 May 2023

Announced: ANOHNI and the Johnsons – My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross

ANOHNI announces My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, a new album by ANOHNI and the Johnsons, out July 7th on Remote Control Records, and presents its lead single and video, ‘It Must Change.’ The British-born, New York- based ANOHNI describes the creative process for My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross, her first album since 2016’s much-lauded HOPELESSNESS, as painstaking, yet also inspired, joyful, and intimate, a renewal and a renaming of her response to the world as she sees it. Pre-Order / Pre-Save My…

12 May 2023

Announced: Queens of the Stone Age – In Times New Roman… + ‘Emotion Sickness’

Queens of the Stone Age have announced their long-awaited 8th studio album, In Times New Roman…out June 16th on Matador / Remote Control Records. In Times New Roman… is raw, at times brutal and not recommended for the faint of heart. And yet, it’s perhaps the most beautiful and definitely the most rewarding album in their epic discography. Founder Joshua Homme’s most acerbic lyrics to date are buoyed by the instantly identifiable QOTSA sonic signature, expanded and embellished with new and unprecedented…

10 May 2023

Watch: Water From Your Eyes – 14

Water From Your Eyes have released a new single and video ‘14,’ the latest preview from their forthcoming album and Matador debut Everyone’s Crushed, out May 26th. A crescendo of swelling strings, pizzicato and electronic drone moving around a cyclical vocal refrain of “How many is 14?,” the band describe the song as “a quasi-serial inkblot signifying submission to personal demons and the realisation that change is both necessary and inevitable.” On the video, director and band member Rachel Brown says “I…

10 May 2023

Watch: This Is The Kit – More Change

This Is The Kit today shared their latest single ‘More Change’ from the band’s new album Careful Of Your Keepers – produced by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) – due out on June 9th via Rough Trade/Remote Control Records. Featuring Rhys on backing vocals, the meditative track is out now alongside an adorable animated video created by Benjamin Jones that brings everyday objects to life as it follows along to the song’s heartfelt lyrics. Jones explains the video: “With this video I wanted to create something…

5 May 2023

Announced: Lifeguard – Crowd Can Talk / Dressed In Trenches + ’17-18 Lovesong’

On July 7th, Matador Records / Remote Control Records will release Crowd Can Talk / Dressed in Trenches, a composite of two EPs by Lifeguard. Crowd Can Talk was originally released in the summer of 2022 by Chicago label Born Yesterday, while Dressed in Trenches features five brand new and unreleased songs. On each record, there are echoes of underground guitar bands from decades past. This is not record-collector music, though. It’s the product of a present-day community. Lifeguard are, first and foremost, a…

5 May 2023

Out Now: The National – First Two Pages Of Frankenstein

The National has released its ninth studio album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, on 4AD / Remote Control. The project has already garnered rave reviews, with Rolling Stone saying, “Nine albums deep, the National find new energy by conjuring not just a great, suffocating fog but also the far light that guides the way out.” Also out today is a lyric video for the new album’s song ‘The Alcott,’ a pensive yet luminous duet between The National’s Matt Berninger and Taylor…