16 September 2022
Ireland’s Gilla Band are sharing a new track and video, ‘Post Ryan’ today off their upcoming album Most Normal, out October 7, 2022 on Rough Trade Records. ‘Post Ryan’ was directed by Michael Speed and follows earlier singles ‘Backwash’ and ‘Eight Fivers’, which were accompanied by videos directed and animated by Mortis Studios. ‘Post Ryan’ is the album’s electrifying closer, in which the beat has been taken from ‘I Ran’ by Flock of Seagulls, the band quote saying “We thought, that’s a really great, immediate pop-sounding beat, let’s start there and go somewhere else’ –to have that immediacy, and then abstract…
16 September 2022
Minneapolis-raised artist Jeremy Nutzman, the brainchild behind Velvet Negroni, has announced details of a second album. Bulli will be released on 13 January 2023 and its lead single ‘Sinker’ is out now. Whirring with a strutting positivity and rich instrumentation, ‘Sinker’ is accompanied by an official video directed by Casey Anderson. Watch below! Created during a particularly tumultuous time in Nutzman’s life that involved drug abuse, bank fraud, and a house fire, it’s unsurprising that Bulli would echo his present state of mind. Bulli feels…
9 September 2022
Oliver Sim unveils his debut album Hideous Bastard. Produced by bandmate Jamie xx, and featuring lifelong hero Jimmy Somerville. Taking inspiration from his love of horror films and his own life experience – exploring fear, shame, sexuality and masculinity. Music from the album also soundtracks the queer horror short film Hideous, starring Sim and directed by Yann Gonzalez, which made its world premiere as part of the Semaine de la Critique at this year’s…
9 September 2022
Dry Cleaning share ‘Gary Ashby’. The new single, from their second album Stumpwork (out 21 October), follows the travails of a beloved family tortoise lost in lockdown (“Have you seen Gary?”). Loaded with melodious hooks, the 2-minute jangle pop song is “a lament about a pet tortoise, escaped as a result of family chaos,” explains the band. “We wrote it in December 2020, one of the first new songs after the New Long Leg session.” To support the…
9 September 2022
Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) release their hotly-anticipated debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B. Last week, Jockstrap released a documentary by Rosie Marks on the orchestral recording session they did for the new record. Watch below! Featuring amazing behind the scenes content, the four-minute piece demonstrates the musical prowess and dedication to detail and complexity that have earned the duo well-deserved worldwide hype as the next big thing. Additionally, last Friday they released a sample…
9 September 2022
As Mess Esque continue on their tour of the UK and Europe, they now reveal ANOTHER new single! Scraped delicately from the embers of internal passions and rendered as music in their separate studios. Mess Esque clearly desire to share some space in our souls: ‘Liminal Space’! Helen’s plaintive and private vocal delivery – accentuating Mick Turner’s guitaristic accents and nuances – draws focus into the unique cocktail of feels…
9 September 2022
Following her first BIGSOUND performance last night on the triple j Unearthed stage, and a first play on triple j’s Good Nights, today Melbourne DnB purveyor Memphis LK reveals the pop-tinged, energy fuelled ‘Whip’. Opening with sparse synths, ‘Whip’ quickly picks up the pace with high intensity beats underpinning Memphis LK’s euphoric vocals. On the dynamics, Memphis LK shares “Making dance music, I’m drawn to sounds that have conflicting moods, contrasting…
9 September 2022
Patrick Watson’s critically acclaimed album Better in the Shade will be available everywhere in LP and CD formats October 7. The singer-songwriter also shares a brand-new video for the single ‘Height of the Feeling’ featuring La Force. Watch below! Director, Arizona O’Neill reveals ”after two years of feeling isolated during the pandemic…we wanted to make a video that reflected how jarring it is to return to social activities. In the black and white sections of the video, Patrick and La Force are singing while standing…
2 September 2022
After the release of her anthemic electro-pop EP BLAME, Sydney-based, multidisciplinary artist HANDSOME returns with an equally euphoric remix of the title-track by Perth denizen St. South. Morphing and building throughout the track, St South makes it their own culminating in light, swirling distorted vocals and production giving a brighter edge to the song’s themes of shame and fear. Recently ‘BLAME’ was used in the trailer for the upcoming Heartbreak High reboot which has already had over 410k views – the perfect track to accompany teen anguish. On…
2 September 2022
Tama Gucci announces details for his latest project, Almost Blue (After Hours Deluxe), set for release on September 27th via Sinderlyn. The EP features remixes of several tracks originally found on his widely praised 2021 Almost Blue EP. The new project from the New York City-based, Miami-raised musician, vocalist, and electronic composer aka Kymani Floyd features a cover of Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ and six remixes from Autow Nite Superstore, Swami Sound, Phyzical Trax, Indigo Heaven, Peter Fonda and SONIKKU, whose new take on Tama’s ‘Show Me’ is available now. “The updated…
2 September 2022
New Orleans no-wave punks Special Interest announced that they will release Endure, their third album and Rough Trade Records debut, on Friday, November 4th, 2022. The announcement was accompanied by lead single ‘Midnight Legend’ featuring iconic rapper, performance artist, poet and activist Mykki Blanco, and complete with a stunning music video directed by Special Interest vocalist Alli Logout. ‘Midnight Legend’ is described by Special Interest front person Alli Logout as “a love…
2 September 2022
Sunbeam Sound Machine reveals ‘Paradise’, the second sonic dreamscape lifted from his third album Possum out on Friday, 7th October. The single is accompanied by an exquisitely shot film clip, watch below! Multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick Sowersby explains “This song is about the transience of true love, and there’s no better way to express that than by dancing in front of a 1985 Toyota Corolla out by the airport.” The bright new track plays between sparse,…
2 September 2022
Kenny Beats releases his debut solo album, LOUIE. Though best known for producing seminal full-length albums for some of the world’s most exciting artists (including Vince Staples, IDLES, Rico Nasty and Denzel Curry), on LOUIE, Kenny subverts expectations with an almost entirely instrumental artist record that acts as a deeply personal tribute to his ailing father. Set for release on XL Recordings next week, the first solo album from Kenny Beats is a spontaneous burst of creativity spurred by an avalanche of despair…
31 August 2022
Detroit-based singer and producer John FM releases new single ‘White Science’, featuring fellow Detroit artist ZelooperZ. It’s the first piece of new music since the release of his EP American Spirit, which exemplifies the unique, dismantled Hi-Tech Soul music that John FM has globally become known for. Listen to ‘White Science’ here, which John FM explains is about “a high school puppy love gone south after her parents found out I was black.” White Science by John FM feat….
26 August 2022
Brooklyn, NY’s Scout Gillett has shared her vibrant new single ‘slow dancin’‘ from her forthcoming debut LP no roof no floor, due out on October 28th via Captured Tracks. Premiering at FLOOD Magazine, the song’s Matthew Lippman and Jordan Tetewsky-directed video was inspired by the Dennis Hopper film Out of the Blue: “In the movie, Cebe, a young girl, finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene. I related to this a lot,” says Scout. “This video was…
25 August 2022
The National have been playing a number of new songs live since returning to the road this May, and now the group has released one of them as a new single through 4AD / Remote Control Records, ‘Weird Goodbyes’ feat. Bon Iver. The single continues the tradition of Justin Vernon’s collaborations with the band in the studio and on stage. “It’s about letting go of the past and moving on, then later being overwhelmed by…
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