Remote Control Records | Independent record label based in Australia

10 February 2023

Listen: not dvr – emptyhouse

2023 is set to be a transformative year for 18-year-old Dillon Van Rensburg aka singer-songwriter and producer not dvr. Following an update to his artist moniker and on the verge of a move to London from his North Berwick hometown, not dvr returns to release his first new music in over a year. Recorded in his bedroom studio, ’emptyhouse’ is a pitch-perfect example of the kind of raw, intimate song-writing and production that’s seen not dvr build a…

10 February 2023

Announced: Big hART and The Freedom Collective – Songs For Freedom

Songs For Freedom, an uplifting collection of original songs created by Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi artists in the Pilbara town of Roebourne, together with guests. The album is the work of numerous songwriters, musicians and other creatives, coming together under the name The Freedom Collective. Produced by Grammy Award-winning musician Lucky Oceans, Songs for Freedom features lead vocal contributions from Naomi Pigram, Patrick Churnside, Fred Ryan, Vikki Thorn (The Waifs), Kendall Smith, Kankawa Nagarra (Olive Knight), Jay Jarome and John Bennett. The February 17 release of Songs for Freedom is…

3 February 2023

Listen: Romy ‘Strong’ (I.JORDAN + Pretty Girl remixes)

Romy’s 2022 single ‘Strong’ is undoubtedly one of the year’s biggest anthems. It’s the latest in a run of collaborations with UK producer Fred again.. (including their ‘Lights Out’ single with HAAi, and Romy’s Fred-produced debut solo single ‘Lifetime’) and was first teased by the pair in summer 2022; Romy via a run of club and festival DJ appearances and Fred via his much talked about Boiler Room performance back in July. The pair would round off the year on stage together, performing the…

3 February 2023

Announced: Xylouris White – The Forest In Me + ‘Latin White’

More in tune now with the rhythm of the sun and moon, Xylouris White (Dirty Jim White and George Xylouris) speak to each other across great distances with the intuition and fellowship that can only be found over years in each other’s company. With fewer distractions, appreciative of the freedom to play with new sounds and spaces, they carve The Forest In Me from unbelievably thin air. The album will be released on Friday, 14th April via Remote…

3 February 2023

Watch: Jen Cloher – My Witch

Changing gears, Jen Cloher releases their most unruly single yet in ‘My Witch’, from their forthcoming fifth album I Am The River, The River Is Me which will be released on Friday, 3rd March 2023 via Remote Control Records. The single is accompanied by an equally unbridled clip featuring a top-tier cast of Georgia Maq, Mo’Ju,Kira Puru, Alice Skye and Lay the Mystic. On the new single, Cloher says: “I went to a party in 2022 where a friend had hired a portable cedar spa….

3 February 2023

Announced: Lankum – False Lankum + ‘Go Dig My Grave’

Critically acclaimed Irish quartet Lankum announced a new record, False Lankum, out March 24, 2023 on Remote Control Records. They are sharing the first single ‘Go Dig My Grave’ today with a video by Peadar Gill. False Lankum follows their 2019 breakthrough album The Livelong Day, which paved the way for critical and commercial success, earning them that year’s RTE Choice Music Prize (the Irish equivalent of the Album of the Year Grammy) and the #8 spot on NPR Music’s Best Albums…

3 February 2023

Listen: Kate Fagan – ‘Say It’

The DIY post-punk, new wave, and ska pioneer Kate Fagan shares ‘Say It,’ the second previously unreleased song made available from the forthcoming I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool (Expanded Edition). Originally a coveted self-released single put out in 1980, this version of ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool’ has been re-mastered and made into a full-length vinyl album featuring four additional, previously unreleased, ahead-of-their-time tracks, due out February 24th, 2023 via Remote Control. The release of…

27 January 2023

Announced: Lucinda Chua YIAN + ‘Echo’

London-based artist Lucinda Chua has shared the new song and accompanying short film, ‘Echo‘ announcing her debut solo album YIAN, out March 24th via 4AD. If Chua’s 2022 release ‘Golden,’ written from the perspective of her younger self, was the meditative prelude to the world of YIAN, then her new single ‘Echo’ places us firmly in its first chapter. A pop song about ancestral trauma, ‘Echo’ is the antihero’s journey, walking the line between respect for the past and the freedom to carve out a new…

20 January 2023

Listen: Algiers – I Can’t Stand It!

Algiers release new single “I Can’t Stand It!”, taken from their forthcoming new album ’SHOOK’, released February 24th. The song features Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands) and Jae Matthews (Boy Harsher). It samples fellow Atlanta artist Lee Moses’ 1971 song, “What You Don’t Want Me To Be”. “I Can’t Stand It!” was written and produced by frontman Franklin James Fisher, who says: “It’s a very personal song about a devastating…

20 January 2023

Announced: Kosaya Gora – Kosogor + ‘Motorcyclists Die’

Kosaya Gora (English translation; Oblique Mountain), a new indie project from acclaimed electronic producer/singer Kedr Livanskiy and experimental producer/visual artist Flaty, have announced their first full-length album Kosogor today. Kosaya Gora is an entirely new sonic direction for them both. The debut is a multilingual foray into guitar-based folk, haunting dream pop, and moody synth, underpinned by Livanskiy’s signature hypnotic vocals. Kosogor’s album centerpiece ‘Motorcyclists Die’ features several lines from…

19 January 2023

Announced: Yaeji – With A Hammer + ‘For Granted’

NYC-via-Seoul artist Yaeji, whose introspective, genre-pushing tracks have made her a global icon occupying a space all her own, announces the details of her debut album With A Hammer, out April 7th. The album’s first single ‘For Granted’ arrives with a music video directed by and starring Yaeji. The bouncy electronica single slowly descends into a hardstyle fury, prompting Yaeji to take her hammer and smash all of the things around her, embracing the expression of anger as…

19 January 2023

Announced: Sleaford Mods – UK GRIM + title track

Sleaford Mods are pleased to announce their new album UK GRIM to be released on March 10, 2023. Sleaford Mod’s last three albums have placed top ten in the UK charts, with their last album charting top five. As the Nottingham duo’s most dance-floor friendly release to date, UK GRIM is an urgent and sage-like look at life, living and the gritty reality of our era. The video is directed by British Collage Artist and Satirist Cold War Steve, who has created a…

19 January 2023

Watch: the GOLDEN DREGS – Before We Fell From Grace

the GOLDEN DREGS (real name Benjamin Woods) shares a new offering from his forthcoming record, On Grace & Dignity, out February 10th. Like its predecessors ‘American Airlines’ and ‘Sundown Lake,’ ‘Before We Fell From Grace’ is deeply rooted in Woods’ rich baritone, his voice beautifully laying the foundation for the song to crescendo into a joyous chamber-pop anthem. The video is equally as striking, Joe Wheatley creating a richly moving black-and-white narrative on the fragility of death. Releasing on 10th February, Woods’ third album, On Grace &…

19 January 2023

Watch: Huntly – My Limits

Ahead of the release of their sophomore album Sentimental Still on Friday, 3rd February, Melbourne-based genre-melders Huntly reveal their final single ‘My Limits’. The slow-burner is a raw track reminiscent of their 2019 AMP and AIR Award-nominated debut Low Grade Buzz. Dreamy and delicate, ‘My Limits’ employs a sparse synth-scape alongside a sample of children playing as the bed for vocalist Elspeth Scrine’s modulated lyrics. Scrine says of the track’s meaning “It’s just a raw journal entry really, capturing me figuring out my limits –…

19 January 2023

Announced: Braids – Euphoric Recall + ‘Evolution’

Canadian experimental pop band Braids announces their new album Euphoric Recall. Set for release on April 28th. A freer and wholly anew effort, their fifth studio album finds the trio abandoning strategy, burning it down, and realizing their love record. Love, all of it; the unbound bliss, the budding impulses, and the messy imperfections, a supernova swirled up in a suite of bold, melodic, symphonic pop songs surrendered to the present. Braids also releases their new single…

19 January 2023

Watch: Lisa O’Neill – Silver Seed

Lisa O’Neill, one of the most evocative songwriters in contemporary Irish music today, is sharing a new track with accompanying video, ‘Silver Seed’ from her upcoming album, the beautiful, resonant All of This Is Chance, out February 10th, 2023. ‘Silver Seed’ follows earlier album singles ‘Old Note’ and ‘Goodnight World’. A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, O’Neill is a five time BBC Folk Award nominee and her previous album Heard a Long Gone Song was…