17 June 2022
London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have announced their hotly-anticipated debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B for release on 9 September. The announcement comes with the record’s lead single ‘Glasgow’ and its vlog-like, fantastical music video – featuring Taylor’s compelling portrayal of a mythical pixie-ish creature – which was shot, directed and edited by Jockstrap themselves. Watch below! On the album release, Jockstrap’s Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye said: “I Love You Jennifer B is a collection of Jockstrap tracks that have been…
17 June 2022
Last month Two Shell released ‘Pods’, a serious digital-rocker and another example of the big city rollers they make. Following their Boileroom set and ahead of their sold out Glastonbury debut, Two Shell return with ‘Dust’; a cruise-ship jet-engine and the second single on a new five track EP Icons! Danger! Out 30 June, Icons was designed in the nightclub but made for the airPods. From shell.tech to the real world these tracks started life in the mainframe and…
17 June 2022
In July of last year, Welsh producer Lewis Roberts aka Koreless released his highly-anticipated debut album Agor. An album over five years in the making, Agor was released to huge acclaim. Koreless returns to announce two Agor remix packages which will be made available digitally and as a limited run of 12” white labels this June. The first, out now via Young, sees techno powerhouse VTSS put a hard-hitting spin…
13 June 2022
Marking the 10yr anniversary of his final studio album ‘The Bravest Man in The Universe’ [CLASH + Q’s Best Album 2012, Best of the Year for Rolling Stone]. Boasting a moving vocal performance from the now-global-superstar Lana Del Rey, excerpts from the legendary Sam Cooke + new orchestral production by multihyphenates Damon Albarn + Richard Russell. An introspective R&B masterpiece, performed once on Le Grand Journal (FR) reminds listeners of the singularity of Womack’s…
10 June 2022
Released is the solo piano version of ‘Nearer’, a transcendent and beautiful interpretation that blossoms as its own unique work. This track is from Bing & Ruth’s new EP Species which comes out July 15. 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 pieces to approach on the…
10 June 2022
Rolling off the back of their debut single ‘Summer Lungs’, Mount Monda are pleased to announced they have signed to Part Time Records for the release of their debut EP. The rush of inspiration naturally caught others in its spell. A Dream in Slow Motion, the title track of Mount Monda’s debut EP, features lyrics co-written by US alt-country artist Kim Richey. Drummer Lachlan O’Kane (Angie McMahon) came in to record loops and samples, and replay and restructure rhythms tapped…
10 June 2022
It’s not common practice to have an album’s title track released after said album as a standalone single, but Belle and Sebastian aren’t sticklers for ceremony. The band have released a new single and video ‘A Bit Of Previous‘, which shares the title of their critically acclaimed 9th full-length released in May to become their third UK Top Ten charting album. Explained alternately as an allusion to the concept of reincarnation in Buddhism and…
7 June 2022
Friday June 3rd, 2022 – Two months after the release of the critically acclaimed SOLO album, Montreal songwriter and producer Jesse Mac Cormack is thrilled to share three filmed live sessions. The videos were filmed at Le Livart in Montreal and are directed by Félix-Antoine Boutin & Thomas Leblanc-Murray. “Watching these songs come alive was a good buzz. It was easy and felt very natural”, reveals Jesse. “Surrounded by such…
3 June 2022
Chicago is baked into the core of Versions of Modern Performance out now via Matador. Cheng (she/her), Lowenstein (she/her) and Reece (they/them) learned to play—and met—through the significant network of Chicago youth arts programs, and they have their own mini-rock underground. Across the album, recorded at Chicago’s Electrical Audio with John Agnello, there’s elements of the ‘80s and ‘90s independent music the band love so deeply and sincerely. But as…
3 June 2022
Known for making anthemic electronic pop songs that celebrate gender fluidity and embrace the beauty in androgyny, Sydney-based multidisciplinary artist HANDSOME releases her new EP BLAME. Alongside it’s release comes HANDSOME’s self-directed short film of the same name. Watch below! At its deepest root, BLAME dissects the impact society’s shame can have on an individual and the domino effect of deep loneliness it leaves behind. Celebrating butch/masc culture, the film looks closely at the power of camaraderie and attempts…
2 June 2022
Montreal-based artist, producer, engineer and remixer Patrick Holland recently announced his self-produced debut album, You’re The Boss, out this summeron Sinderlyn. Following the album’s earworm of a first single ‘Sinister Bell,’ ‘Nice Try‘ is out today. Featuring sunny guitars and velvety vocal harmonies, courtesy of Holland’s bandmate Jane Penny of TOPS, ‘Nice Try’ receives an incredible Erin O’Connor directed video. Holland has been known in the past for his electronic releases under aliases such as Project Pablo and Jump Source, and just as this album showcases another side of his…
26 May 2022
Following the release of last year’s album 3, Ngaiire returns with a new single ‘Fuchsia’. A continuation of the art project/experiment that Ngaiire has described as ‘a very expensive therapy session’. ‘Fuchsia’, with it’s subversive beats & Ngaiire’s signature vocals, is an exploration of all that is queer & taboo in post-colonial Papua New Guinea. Listen below! Ngaiire shares, “Fuchsia is about wanting autonomy on your choices, who you love, your body…
26 May 2022
Hideous Bastard, the debut album from Oliver Sim is set for release on Friday 9 September. Pre-order here. Produced by bandmate Jamie xx, Hideous Bastard is the culmination of two years of writing and recording, inspired by Sim’s love of horror movies and his own life experience, unpacking themes of shame, fear, and masculinity. These themes are front and centre on new single ‘Hideous’. Enlisting the help of lifelong hero and “guardian angel”…
26 May 2022
As Lewis Goldmark, Liam Judson (Belles Will Ring) takes on a new outlook and musical direction that still pays homage to the core influences that have informed his music over the years. Now however, it all comes together with a syringe injection of pop chaos – echoes of 80’s Australian indie, dreamy 70’s Californian rock, and 90’s Britpop amongst other sounds. The new album Cut And Flash is a consummate…
25 May 2022
JayWood – Winnipeg musician & songwriter Jeremy Haywood-Smith – presents a new single ‘Thank You’, from his forthcoming album Slingshot, out July 15th. Pre-order here. ‘Thank You’ was co-produced with Jacob Portrait of Unknown Mortal Orchestra & Blouse and features string arrangements by Johan Lenox. The charming accompanying video, directed by Chantel Simpson, shows Haywood-Smith passing out flowers across Harlem. Watch below! The song brings JayWood’s sound full circle, offering something reminiscent of Haywood-Smith’s earliest recordings while flaunting that “the…
24 May 2022
To mark its 20th anniversary, The Libertines’ era-defining debut ‘What A Waster’ is being re-pressed on seven-inch single (backed by original b-side I Get Along), while the new What A Waster Live From The ICA EP will be made available on streaming services. This digital only edition features live versions recorded during the band’s legendary show at the iconic venue just up the road from Buckingham Palace on the original day of release, 3rd June 2002. Part calling…
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