16 December 2022
Arca has released Kick, a fan-voted ‘best of’ compilation featuring tracks from the previously released five-album KICK series. An additional five track bonus selection includes three brand new songs (‘Alto Voltaje’, ‘Ritual’ and ‘Sentient Savior’) plus two previously released songs (‘Cayó’ and ‘El Alma Que Te Trajo’), all produced during the original KICK cycle recording sessions, with each track representing a different era in the five-album series. ‘El Alma Que TeTrajo’ is a collaboration with Safety Trance a.k.a. Cardopusher, who is a…
9 December 2022
Hailing from regional NSW, Wade Jackson is a creative polymath. Songwriter, musician and film director, he knows how to draw the observer and listener into an immersive sensory world of sound and vision. Across five albums he’s covered wide musical ground, from jangly folk-rock to indie guitar and psych-pop sounds. Now comes the next avant garde chapter in Wade’s musical career. ‘Limelight’ emerges twitching, writhing, pulsing and electronically convulsing. Like Bowie and Suicide in…
9 December 2022
Kosaya Gora, (Oblique Mountain) is a brand new indie project from acclaimed electronic producer / singer Kedr Livanskiy and experimental producer / visual artist, Flaty. Though the two are no strangers to artistic collaboration, (Flaty co-produced Livanskiy’s lauded album Your Need and features on her most recent album Liminal Soul), Kosaya Gora is an entirely new sonic direction for both artists. Their debut single ‘Te Slova’ (‘Those Words’) is a hypnotic foray into guitar-based indie/alternative, with echoes of ‘90s grunge and haunting dream pop. Though these…
9 December 2022
HANDSOME today releases ‘Running Out Of Time’, a collaboration with fellow producer and songwriters flowerkid (Eora) and St. South (Boorloo). The concept is part of a larger collaboration album to be released in 2023. Living more than 4000km away from each, HANDSOME, St. South and flowerkid have been fans of each other’s work for a long time and concocted this partnership over the last couple of months by slipping into each other’s DMs. On the partnership, St. South shares “HANDSOME and flowerkid are two of my favourite artists. I look…
2 December 2022
Oliver Sim debuts a Soulwax remix of ‘Sensitive Child’. The legendary electronic duo follow in the footsteps of Midland (‘Romance With A Memory’), Jamie xx (‘GMT’) and Wolfgang Tillmans & Marc Krether (‘GMT’) to produce their own unique, dancefloor-focused take on a standout track from Sim’s acclaimed debut solo album, Hideous Bastard, out now via Remote Control. Produced by Sim’s The xx bandmate and lifelong friend Jamie xx, the album…
1 December 2022
Memphis LK announces her EP Too Much Funout Friday, 13th January 2023. Memphis LK continues to push genre boundaries with the club-fuelled, pop anthem ‘Coffee’. One to scream along to on the dancefloor, ‘Coffee’ captures the conflicting emotions of being in a situationship, combining silky soft vocals, with energetic, UK underground-inspired production. A self-taught DJ and beatmaker already, Memphis LK has turned her attention towards building herself as a producer, fleshing the knowledge she already had out into a fully realised passion. With…
1 December 2022
Australian trio Telenova cap off another landmark year by unveiling their late-night alter ego – Telenoir – a beats driven side project delivering a deeper, darker take on the band’s shadowy brand of alternative pop. Telenoir has reworked the band’s lauded Stained Glass Love EP into a brand new project out today via Remote Control Records, reconstructing it with dark dance floors and smoky speakeasies as inspiration. Modern trip-hop, breakbeat…
1 December 2022
Jen Cloher reveals ‘Being Human’, the second single from their forthcoming fifth album I Am The River, The River Is Me – released on Friday, 3rd March 2023. A powerful anthem committed to truth telling and Indigenous sovereignty, ‘Being Human’ builds its intensity upon an urgent drum beat, driving bass line, angular guitars and synth. The track breaks down before bursting into an exclamation of haka chants from Naarm based Kapa Haka (cultural performance group) Te Hononga o…
25 November 2022
To celebrate 10 years of Coexist, The xx will release a limited edition, crystal clear vinyl pressing of the record, available to pre-order now. An expanded digital edition will also feature live versions of fan favourites ‘Angels’, ‘Chained’, ‘Reunion & Sunset’. With Coexist, The xx defied any perceived ‘difficult second album’ pressures to create a record that cemented their status as a truly global breakout act. On the follow up to their acclaimed, era-defining debut, the London based…
18 November 2022
Off the back of their Australian Music Prize nominated album Rotsler’s Rules, Black Cab today reveal a reworking of their single ‘Superheroes’ by German producer-on-the-rise SHAN. The title-track from the band’s album has also just been nominated for ‘Song of the Year’ at the Music Victoria Awards. The remix arrives alongside news of Black Cab’s December resident shows at Colour Club in Melbourne. Based near Frankfurt, SHAN is perhaps best known for his work with Gerd Janson’s Running Back imprint on which he has released a…
18 November 2022
Overmono return to release brand new single “Walk Thru Water” alongside artwork by long-time collaborator Rollo Jackson. Overmono exhibit an introspective side of their intricate productions with new single “Walk Thru Water”. Bringing in a sample from ‘Greatness’ by St. Panther, Walk Thru Water propels their unique sound beyond the dancefloor. Stream Purchase ‘Walk Thru Water’ here.
18 November 2022
Joy Orbison has released his new single ‘2M3 2U’, a catchy and futuristic sounding track that follows previous tracks ‘pinky ring’ and ‘red velve7’ and sees Joy O continue his journey towards the dancefloor. “I see this one as a bit of a UK take on hyperpop,” says Joy. “But with a bit of bass weight. the vocal part could be a sample of some garbled message of love in Bladerunner or the Fifth Element, and the main…
18 November 2022
Benjamin Woods shares a new song from his upcoming GOLDEN DREGS album, On Grace & Dignity. ‘Sundown Lake’ is a coming-of-age song full of nostalgia where band leader Benjamin Woods –joined by Issie Armstrong on backing vocals –muses on hazy memories of teenage life in Cornwall. Founded in Falmouth, Cornwall in 2013, the GOLDEN DREGS is the project of Benjamin Woods, songwriter and producer currently residing in South London. From…
17 November 2022
Delays are reissuing their acclaimed debut album Faded Seaside Glamour – which went in to the Top 20 on its original release in 2004 – on 27 January, 2023. This will be the first time the Southampton band’s first record will be available on vinyl. The new edition comes on a limited-edition orange LP, accompanied by deluxe packaging, a print of singer Greg Gilbert’s original artwork and new sleeve notes written by keyboard player Aaron Gilbert. A…
17 November 2022
Lisa O’Neill, one of the most evocative songwriters in contemporary Irish music today, returns with this new album, and her first for the Rough Trade label, the beautiful, resonant All Of This Is Chance, to be released on 10th February and available on exclusive silver vinyl at indie retail and the webstore. The album follows five BBC Folk Awards nominations and a Folk Album of the Year accolade in The Guardian in 2019 for her recent album Heard a Long Gone Song on Rough Trade’s…
17 November 2022
Jenny Hval unveils the enchanting new single, ‘Buffy’. ‘Buffy’ began with Hval improvising on the synth, and the resulting chords express a hopeful loneliness, woven from a repetitive pattern. “Somehow I improvised some lyrics that referred to Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” says Hval, “probably just because I have watched it many times.I do like the idea that a TV series with many episodes, like Buffy, can be used as a creative…
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