20 January 2022
DARKSIDE have made new song ‘Ecdysis!‘ available online. The propulsive six and a half-minute track, led by Nicolas Jaar’s coasting vocal and Dave Harrington’s volatile guitar work, was recorded in the same sessions that yielded their long-awaited second full-length, Spiral – out now via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. DARKSIDE is an American rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2011. The group consists of Chilean electronic musician & vocalist Nicolás Jaar and American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington. Jaar and Harrington first met while…
20 January 2022
Montreal singer-songwriter Gus Englehorn announces his sophomore album Dungeon Master, the cutest, heaviest, strangest rock’n’roll record you will hear this year. Set for release on April 29 via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records, the news is accompanied with a new single + video directed by Englehorn and Estée Preda; the stomping, paranoid ‘Tarantula‘. Englehorn says, “This song is about uninvited recurring irrational thoughts and fears. I decided to make a little fable where a tarantula is whispering bad things…
20 January 2022
Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval announces her new album Classic Objects, out on 11 March, and unveils the video for new single ‘Year of Love’, the album’s opener. Classic Objects is a map of places; past places, like the old empty Melbourne pubs Hval’s band used to play in, public places Hval missed throughout lockdown, imagined, future places, and impossible places where dreams, hallucinations, death and art can take you. It is interested in combining heavenly things and plain things. …
20 January 2022
London-based eight piece caroline have shared a new song and video – ‘Good morning (red)‘ follows earlier single ‘IWR‘, and both hail from their eponymous debut album which will be released on February 25th 2022 via Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Guitarist/vocalist Mike O’Malley says of ‘Good morning (red)‘: “We wrote the basic electric guitar parts, drums and “Good morning, it’s that time again” vocal line in early 2017 and used to play it as a…
13 January 2022
Parquet Courts have debuted a brand new single, ‘Watching Strangers Smile,’ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. This follows the release of Sympathy For Life, their new album available now on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. ‘Watching Strangers Smile’ came out of the same sessions the band did with Rodaidh McDonald for Sympathy for Life. The Ellen performance puts A. Savage’s fiery vocal performance at the forefront, once again cementing them as one of the most lauded indie bands of the last decade…
13 January 2022
Montreal’s Basia Bulat shares ‘Fables (The Garden Version),’ the breathtaking, deeply stirring second single arranged and orchestrated by Zou Zou Roubidoux and from her forthcoming album The Garden, out digitally February 25th and physically March 25th, via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. The track arrives alongside a video directed by Bulat that juxtaposes Hi 8 Camera footage from her childhood with recently shot footage of herself and her daughter. “This is one of my favourite songs I’ve ever written because, as…
13 January 2022
Aldous Harding returns to announce details of a new studio album, the follow-up to 2019’s acclaimed Designer. Warm Chris will be released on March 25 via 4AD / Remote Control Records, and its first single ‘Lawn’ is available now accompanied by visuals created by Harding and Martin Sagadin. For Warm Chris, the New Zealand musician reunited with producer John Parish, continuing a professional partnership that began in 2017 and has forged pivotal bodies of work (2017’s Party and the aforementioned Designer). All ten tracks were recorded at Rockfield…
13 January 2022
DIY singer-songwriter and producer dvr has released dirty tapes, his debut EP on XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Expressing raw vulnerability, dvr explores the ups and downs of teenage life through wry lyricism, unique production, and infectious guitar hooks; a charismatic style that shines from all corners of the EP. To mark the release of the EP, dvr premieres the visual to the newly released track ‘drugs’. Directed by underground visual-artist Elif Gönen aka FORLUCK (Lava La Rue, Louis Culture, Poppy Ajudha), ‘drugs’…
13 January 2022
On April 8th, Matador Records / Remote Control Records will release Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal, an exhaustive 45-track reissue of the band’s much-loved fifth and final album. The new special edition compiles the remastered original album, B-sides, home demos, rehearsal tapes, era-appropriate live recordings, and even the rough tracks from Pavement’s scrapped session at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon studio. Altogether, it features 28 unreleased tracks. Now out is the band’s never before heard track, ‘Be The Hook’. …
13 January 2022
In the lead up to their forthcoming new album Lucifer On the Sofa, out February 11 (Matador Records / Remote Control), Spoon share ‘Wild’, a celebratory and anthemic song about finding one’s way from cashed out depths back into a vivid world full of colour and life. ‘Wild’ is the second track that Spoon have revealed off of Lucifer On the Sofa. Like ‘The Hardest Cut’ before it, the song captures the sound of a band cracking things open and letting it all spill…
13 January 2022
Widowspeak have announced their sixth studio album, The Jacket, to be released March 11 via Captured Tracks / Remote Control. Along with the announcement, the duo (singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas) have shared a propulsive, spirited song about shifting perspectives in increasingly complicated situations. In the music video directed by OTIUM, Hamilton croons “learned to love the ropes when you were caught, see they could be braided a better way and sinking into nothing – you learn to stay” fittingly…
13 January 2022
New Jersey-based group Pinegrove have shared their new single titled ‘Respirate‘. A crushing ballad, the track is the latest song to release from their forthcoming new album 11:11 (out January 28th on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records) and urges us to look out for and love each other. “With ‘Respirate,’ I was thinking about the opportunity we had in the chaos Covid brought to redesign society so that it works well for more people, but that…
13 January 2022
The Smile, the new group comprising Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons Of Kemet’s Tom Skinner, have revealed their debut single ‘You Will Never Work In Television Again’ – out now via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. The track, which is available now and accompanied by a lyric video (dir. Duncan Loudon) was first heard in the band’s secret show as part of last year’s Glastonbury event Live At Worthy Farm. It is the first official release from The Smile, produced by Nigel Godrich. Stream / Download The Smile – ‘You Will Never Work In Television…
17 December 2021
Matador Records / Remote Control Records celebrate the 25th anniversary of Bardo Pond’s long out-of-print second album and label debut, Amanita, with a newly remastered 2xLP reissue, featuring ‘Clean Sweep’ and ‘Bramble’ – tracks previously only available on original vinyl pressings. Recorded by the lineup of John Gibbons (guitar), Michael Gibbons (guitar), Isobel Sollenberger (voice, flute), Clint Takeda (bass), and Joe Culver (drums), Amanita is the place where the band’s collective…
17 December 2021
Harvey Gruff Rhys – Seeking New Gods Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth – Utopian AshesRose City Band – Earth TripDry Cleaning – New Long LegAlan Vega – MutatorSteve Earle & the Dukes – JTThe Mountain Goats – Dark In HereRedspencer – DreamworldBlack Country, New Road – For The First TimeKhruangbin – Mordechai RemixesThe Reds, Pinks & Purples- Uncommon WeatherThe Weather Station – IgnoranceFemi & Made Kuti – Legacy +The Beach Boys…
17 December 2021
Big Thief‘s forthcoming album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, was recorded in four different sessions, and during the third, in the Colorado Rockies, the band heard someone playing beautifully from a nearby lookout tower. They soon met the person responsible for the sound – musician Richard Hardy. They invited him to sit in on some songs, and his inspired fluting brings a lot of love to the tearfully wholesome…
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