18 July 2022
After traversing North America on tour with Mono this Spring, Bing & Ruth has shared a new EP Species (Solo Piano). The two-track digital release finds the group’s leader David Moore transpose to piano songs from their 2020 album, Species. Moore says, “While I wrote and recorded the songs on Species with an organ I had always felt, in the back of my mind, that they would also be interesting …
15 July 2022
Interpol release their seventh album The Other Side Of Make-Believe, including a new single and video ‘Gran Hotel’. Watch the Malia James-directed video below! Paul Banks says: “The lyrics to Gran Hotel tell a story of grief and heartbreak, of a character processing loss. Working with a fantastic camera crew and with the help of two very talented actors, Malia created a powerful video that conveys the events that lead to that loss. It’s a…
15 July 2022
black midi’s long anticipated album Hellfire is out now! The album includes their new single ‘Sugar/tzu’ released alongside a music video directed by Noel Paul, watch below! ‘Sugar/Tzu’ centres on a futuristic boxing match wherein one of the contenders is assassinated by a young boy. It features the core band plus horns by Kaidi Akinnibi (sax), Joe Bristow (trombone) and Ife Ogunjobi (trumpet), and the voice of boxing announcer Hus…
15 July 2022
JayWood releases his new album Slingshot, a self-portrait of JayWood at his surface and his depths, merging fantasy scenarios, personal anecdotes, and infectious pop and dance instrumentals. From the first track to the last track, JayWood takes you on a journey that touches on themes of childhood, religion, and identity. While writing and recording the album, Haywood-Smith put together a complex “script” mapping out all of the plot points, environments, characters that make up this…
15 July 2022
Gilla band announce their new album Most Normal, to be released on October 7th. It will be available on limited edition blue vinyl and an exclusive alt cover white vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies. Pre-order here. First single ‘Eight Fivers’ announces itself in that typical Gilla Band way where the lyrics often feel abstracted from the music. Dara Kiely’s voice is two opposing forces at once. In some ways it’s…
15 July 2022
Four years after his last original music, British producer and songwriter SOHN will return on his new record Trust, out digitally on September 2nd with vinyl to follow on November 4th. Pre-order available here. The album finds him further exploring a sound that first found success in the electronic and noir-pop spaces, and now explores deeper roots in folk structures and an aching, emotive balladry. New single ‘Segre’ is direct, anthemic electro-pop – a perfect summation…
15 July 2022
Jennifer Vanilla shares their new single ‘Humility’s Disease’ off their forthcoming album Castle In The Sky out August 5. ‘Humility’s Disease’ is a campy adventure where Jennifer Vanilla, aka Becca Kauffman, portrays a pseudomasculine devil-like figure with two angels surrounding them. Watch the video directed by Luca Venter below! Jennifer Vanilla’s forthcoming full length is a deft and mercurial “jennifreaky” journey, traversing 90s dance music, no wave, post-punk, art pop,…
15 July 2022
CASISDEAD returns with his new single ‘Traction Control’, out now. It’s the third single to be revealed from the rap icon’s highly anticipated debut album -a record CASISDEAD is currently masterminding in the DEADCORP® headquarters -and the latest chapter in his transition from cult, underground hero to future global star. No one else out there is doing it like CASISDEAD right now as he takes UK rap into unchartered audio…
13 July 2022
Special Interest share ‘Follow Me’, the B-side to their debut Rough Trade single, ‘(Herman’s) House’. Lauded New Orleans 4-piece Special Interest breathe new life into a late 70s disco classic from arts & culture icon Amanda Lear. Equally as euphoric as the original, mixed by Collin Dupuis, lush production, sparkling synths & heavy bass are buoyed by gorgeous glam crooning from Alli Logout, who exchanges Lear’s deadpan delivery, instead imbuing her witty…
13 July 2022
New York-based, Peruvian-born artist Daniela Lalita releases her debut single and music video ‘Tenía Razón’. Written, produced (with co-production from Sega Bodega) and directed by Lalita, it’s a bold debut for the multi-hyphenated artist whose practice spans music, costume design, film, performance and fine art. Lalita shares: “This music video is a form of self exploration about one’s relationship with past and future selves with the intention of trying to…
8 July 2022
Oliver Sim unveils new single ‘GMT’, from his debut album Hideous Bastard, set for release on 9th September. Watch the accompanying video by longtime friend and collaborator Laura Jane Coulson below! ‘GMT’ was one of the first songs made for the record,” says Sim. “I’d chased Jamie to Australia to escape British winter. We worked in Sydney and road tripped down to Byron Bay, stopping at secluded beaches and listening to a lot…
8 July 2022
Julien Baker has announced B-Sides, an EP of tracks taken from the recording sessions for her critically heralded third full-length Little Oblivions. You can listen to ‘Guthrie’, out now, a gorgeous and hushed finger-picked ballad. The EP will be out digitally on July 21st and features three emotionally potent never-before-heard songs. Stream / purchase ‘Guthrie’ herePre-order / pre-save B-Sides here
8 July 2022
Richard Cartwright has created DAISY LION, his first official solo album, reflecting his time spent during the Covid years, living in the beautiful Blue Mountains and spending time with family. In many ways it’s an ode to his daughter Juniper who named the album. ‘Daisy Lion’, the new title-track single, is a consummate blend of cool 80s synths Prince-styled drums and Cartwright’s dreamy Air-like vocal wrapped up in a hazy, harmonica-assisted psych vibe. The song is about spending time with his daughter around the ages…
7 July 2022
Two new remixes of ‘Chi-Co-La’ are available now – one by Frank Topaz & the other by Spod. Frank Topaz remix: Lured out of retirement by the opportunity to grow new house cuttings from these assorted stems, the Frank Topaz remix takes the vocals on a dark horse journey via the bygone dance floors of Manchester, Mallorca and Milan. Now operating from an abandoned warehouse in Malaga, Western Australia, Frank…
1 July 2022
After a sold-out debut at Glastonbury and packed Boiler Room set, Two Shell release their hotly anticipated EP Icons, out now digitally alongside the pre-sale of a limited 12” vinyl. From shell.tech to the real world Icons started life in the mainframe and is now smashing into the mainstream. Listen below! Two Shell are quickly becoming one of the wildest names in dance music, bringing a new spirit into the…
1 July 2022
It’s been 25 years since the release of The Prodigy’s The Fat of the Land; an album so iconic it turned the sound of underground rave music into a global force; capturing the world’s attention and dominating the charts. In celebration, XL Recordings announces two-anniversary releases including a limited edition 2LP silver 12” vinyl package of the original album with a reimagined version of Alex Jenkin’s artwork, and a brand-new remix of ‘Firestarter’ by…
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