Remote Control Records | Independent record label based in Australia

22 April 2022

Watch: Telenova – Why Do I Keep You?

Telenova are thrilled to share their self-assured new single ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ with accompanied visuals, conceived and directed by Angeline Armstrong, featuring choreography from Zoe Marsh. Watch below! ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ is a sophisticated slice of modern nostalgia that evokes ‘90s melancholic guitar pop without losing its contemporary lean. Intensely personal in nature, the song is about letting go of someone you loved, someone bent on their own destruction. Teased earlier this month, mysterious…

22 April 2022

Out now: Patrick Watson – Better In The Shade

Patrick Watson releases his seventh full-length studio album. The CD and a limited-edition coloured vinyl will be released later this year and available for pre-order here. Along with the release, Watson has also shared a stop-motion music video for the title track. Watch below! In Patrick’s words, Better in the Shade “is about negotiating a world where you don’t know what’s real anymore.” “I was very inspired by Jesus’ Son by Denis Johnson, The Waves by Virginia…

22 April 2022

Out now: TATYANA – Treat Me Right

London based electro-pop artist and harpist, TATYANA has released her highly-anticipated debut album, Treat Me Right via Sinderlyn. The ten-track album features recent acclaimed singles ‘Between The Lines’ – picked as Radio 1’s ‘Next Big Wave’ and which called The Forty Five to ask “is electro-harp pop our new fave genre? Quite possibly” and the irresistible ‘Kiss Me Right Now’. Over ten tracks on Treat Me Right, TATYANA manages to achieve pop excellence, combined with the twinkling, unrivalled sounds of a harp and production by dream collaborator, Joseph Mount (Metronomy). Speaking…

22 April 2022

Watch: Helado Negro ‘Ya No Estoy Aquí’

Helado Negro has released the new single ‘Ya No Estoy Aquí’ alongside a video directed by Neuderts. Watch below! The song is the first release since his album Far In came out late last year. “‘Ya No Estoy Aquí’ is a song about loneliness and alienation,” Roberto Carlos Lange shares. “It’s about being lost within yourself and not knowing who you are. Making this song was catharsis; it was a way to get this all out and feel the texture…

22 April 2022

Announced: Bartees Strange – Farm To Table + ‘Cosigns’

Bartees Strange announces his new album Farm to Table released digitally on 17 June, with LP and CD following on 7 October, plus a brand-new song, ‘Cosigns’ and a stunning accompanying video directed by Pooneh Ghana. Watch below! An unapologetic and braggadocious indie-trap banger, ‘Cosigns’ celebrates Bartees’ peers, collaborators and friends, through a genre-defying outpouring somewhere between swaggering hip hop and euphoric alt rock. ‘Cosigns’ is also a moment for Bartees to acknowledge himself, giving himself credence and unashamedly basking in that glow. Where…

22 April 2022

Announced: The Smile – A Light For Attracting Attention + ‘Free In The Knowledge’

The Smile will release their highly anticipated debut album A Light For Attracting Attention on 13 May, 2022 with CD and vinyl formats to follow on June 17. Brand new single ‘Free In The Knowledge’ is out now, with an accompanying video directed by Leo Leigh. Watch below! The track was first performed by Thom Yorke as part of the Letters Live event at London’s Royal Albert Hall, in December 2021, the first time Thom had performed since the pandemic began. Introducing the song, he dedicated it…

14 April 2022

Introducing: Scout Gillet

Brooklyn-based Scout Gillett joins the Captured Tracks roster and shares her first release for the label: the title track of her debut EP one to ten, out April 29th, 2022. Listen below! The five-song collection consists of four covers — of Broadcast, Blaze Foley, Ferrante & Teicher, and Brenda Lee — alongside the hypnotic original ‘one to ten’, which arrives today alongside a dreamy video, shot by Julie Orlick. “I wrote ‘one to ten’ a few years ago to my future self,…

14 April 2022

Announced: Black Cab – Rotsler’s Rules + ‘Superheroes’

Black Cab share their new single ‘Superheroes’ and announce their long awaited sixth album Rotsler’s Rule to be released May 13th on digital and limited edition vinyl, with launch shows in Melbourne and Sydney. See below! The album started as a series of free flowing electronica jams at Melbourne’s Bakehouse studios with local producer Graeme Pogson (GL, Bamboos) on drums and dials, and features guest appearances by Evan Tweedie (Husky, DubFX), Lucy Buckeridge (Lowtide) and Steve Law (Zen Paradox) with mixing by long time Cab producer Woody Annison. Black Cab founder members Andrew Coates and James Lee were keen to explore simpler,…

14 April 2022

Announced: HANDSOME – BLAME EP + title-track

HANDSOME announces BLAME – her new EP and companion short film out Friday 3 June. Alongside the announcement, HANDSOME unveils the title track and accompanying video serving as the first instalment in a trilogy of videos that together make up the BLAME visual experience. Watch below! Enter the world of BLAME – where desert grit meets hyper real adventure. Thanks to the AMEX Music Backers Fund, HANDSOME travelled to the middle of Australia to…

13 April 2022

Listen: Saâda Bonaire ‘Extremes’

Saâda Bonaire shares the dubbed out time-capsule ‘Extremes’, the second single from their forthcoming collection of unreleased ’90s material, 1992, out 6 May. Until recently, it was thought that we had heard all there was to hear from Saâda Bonaire. The German studio project’s 1980s recordings had been compiled on the now cult-classic double LP Saâda Bonaire, released by Captured Tracks in 2013. Though the group had continued working until 1994, founder Ralph “von” Richthoven had firmly stated that…

13 April 2022

Listen: Belle and Sebastian ‘Young And Stupid’

Belle and Sebastian have released a new single, ‘Young and Stupid,’ taken from their forthcoming new album A Bit Of Previous, out May 6th. The song is accompanied by a lyric video which gets unfettered access into the band members respective family photo albums. Watch below! A Bit of Previous was recorded in Belle and Sebastian’s hometown of Glasgow when plans to fly to Los Angeles in spring of 2020 were scrapped due to the pandemic….

13 April 2022

Watch: Interpol ‘Something Changed’

Recently, Interpol premiered ‘Toni‘, the first single from their new album The Other Side Of Make-Believe, released July 15th on Matador. The song was accompanied by the opening instalment of a two-part film directed by Van Alpert (Post Malone, Machine Gun Kelly), which quickly went to garner over a quarter of a million views on YouTube. Interpol have now released the second and concluding part, as well as unveiled new song ‘Something Changed’. Singer Paul Banks says: “In “Something Changed,” part 2 of…

13 April 2022

Listen: Jamie XX ‘LET’S DO IT AGAIN’

Jamie xx releases his first new music in two years. Having spent the time since 2020’s ‘Idontknow’ concentrating on new music, ‘LET’S DO IT AGAIN’ is a triumphant return and the first glimpse of what’s to come over the next year from the London artist and DJ. It’s a track that’s all about tension, drama and catharsis; an anthemic, joyous call to arms built around an unrelenting “I get higher and higher… Let’s do it…

13 April 2022

Watch: Jockstrap ‘Concrete Over Water’

London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have shared their brand new single and video ‘Concrete Over Water’; another hint at a still-to-come TBA debut full-length record on their new label home Rough Trade / Remote Control. ‘Concrete Over Water’ received its first national airplay from Lauren Laverne on her BBC Radio 6 Music Breakfast show. Watch the video below! Commenting on the new single – which comes complete with hugely inventive and ambitious storytelling visuals, directed by the band themselves…

8 April 2022

Announced: Arca KICK series + ‘Cayó’

Arca shares the latest offering from the KICK series, and ancillary new single ‘Cayó’, a song generated from the period in which she recorded the KICK series, originally premiered on her DIVA_EXPERIMENTAL FM Twitch transmission in 2020. ‘Cayó’ features additional production from Tim Hecker and arrives with a music video directed by Albert Moya, starring Arca. Watch below! Following the December 2021 digital release of KICK ii, KicK iii, kick iiii and kiCK iiiii, and June 2020 release of KiCk i, Arca announces the physical release of all five albums from…

8 April 2022

Out now: Carla Geneve – Learn To Like It

Perth-based singer-songwriter Carla Geneve releases her debut album Learn To Like It, out now on all digital platforms with physical formats coming soon. Learn To Like It serves as a reflective statement of an artist finally coming into her own whilst simultaneously navigating the trials and tribulations of self-discovery and personal growth. From humble beginnings in the small south-west town of Albany to a rapid ascent wrapped up in two years of prolific touring, accolades…