Big Thief share Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is a sprawling, 20-track double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities of Big Thief. To truly dig into all that the music of Adrianne Lenker, Max Oleartchik, Buck Meek, and James Krivchenia desired in 2020, the band decided to write and record a rambling account of growth as individuals, musicians, and chosen family over 4 distinct recording sessions. In Upstate New York, Topanga Canyon, The Rocky Mountains,...
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Next month, Big Thief will release Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, the group’s new 20-track double album. Ahead of its release, they’ve set the bar high with a string of singles, and newest single ‘Simulation Swarm’ is another powerhouse track. This previously unreleased track has been a staple and fan favourite of the band’s live shows. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is a sprawling double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities...
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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. ...
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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...
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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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Big Thief announce their new album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, out Friday 11 February 2022 via 4AD / Remote Control Records and share a new single ‘Time Escaping’. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You is a sprawling double-LP exploring the deepest elements and possibilities of Big Thief. To truly dig into all that the music of Adrianne Lenker, Max Oleartchik, Buck Meek, and James Krivchenia desired in 2020, the band decided to write and record a rambling account of growth...
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Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval, “a post-punk pop philosopher at the height of her craft” (Pitchfork), announces her signing to 4AD / Remote Control Records with new single/video, ‘Jupiter’. The ‘Jupiter’ video sees Hval collaborating once again with director Zia Anger. Following its soulful, almost jazzy opening with Hval intoning over floating piano, ‘Jupiter’ blooms with shuffling percussion, and as Hval’s crystal cooing layers, it swells into a simple hymn-like chorus. “When I wrote the music for this song in 2015, it had no...
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Danish producer and songwriter Erika de Casier releases The Sensational Remixes EP – a reworking of her critically acclaimed album Sensational – out now via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Last week, de Casier kicked off the remix project with a new version of ‘Drama’ reworked by Isabella Lovestory and Chicken, followed by the release of Mura Masa‘s woozy, club-ready remix of ‘Polite‘. Elsewhere on The Sensational Remixes, the likes of Eartheater, Hannah Diamond & caro♡, Smerz have remixed tracks from de Casier’s acclaimed second album Sensational. Purchase / Download Erika de Casier...
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Following the success of Sensational, Danish producer and songwriter Erika de Casier has announced a special remix compilation. Entitled The Sensational Remixes, de Casier invited friends and respected peers to reimagine songs from her critically-acclaimed second album. The 9-track digital-only release is out next Friday 12th November via 4AD / Remote Control Records, with the first track, Isabella Lovestory and Chicken’s reworking of ‘Drama’, out now. Born in Portugal to Belgian and Cape Verdean parents and raised in...
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Earlier this year, 4AD released Bills & Aches & Blues, where 18 of its current artists reworked songs from 4AD’s catalogue: a creative experiment rooted in the spirit of collaboration and a snapshot of the label, 41 years after its inception. In tandem with this celebratory compilation, today 4AD releases Go Back For New, a 5-track digital EP of 4AD songs reimagined by five Chinese musicians. The five recordings showcase some of China’s most forward-thinking and influential musicians, all of...
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Following the release of the Bills & Aches & Blues compilation, Maria Somerville shares her reworking of Pale Saints’ ‘Kinky Love’ today, via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Previously only available as a bonus track on the Bills & Aches & Blues Japanese edition, the song is now available worldwide on all digital services. Originally made famous by Nancy Sinatra, ‘Kinky Love’ was covered by Pale Saints as part of their 1991 Flesh Balloon EP. Maria Somerville’s version of ‘Seabird’ by Air Miami is also included in Bills &...
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Today, Helado Negro releases new album Far In, via 4AD / Remote Control Records, alongside the video for the album’s fourth single ‘There Must Be A Song Like You’. Commenting on the song, Roberto Lange writes, “who are you? All of our songs are so different. All of the experiences that we are, can there be a song like you? This song is a map of this exploration. Looking for melodies and rhythms that are you, day to day moment to moment, we are...
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Anjimile Chithambo, known artistically as Anjimile, has joined the 4AD family and today he releases his debut for the label, a one-off single entitled ‘Stranger’ – out now via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Of the single, Anjimile shares: “‘Stranger’ is something of a confrontation between my past and present selves in relationship to my trans identity. I started testosterone about 3 or 4 years ago, and It’s been simultaneously liberating and alarming to note the changes...
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Big Thief have unveiled ‘Change’, another gorgeous track in their catalogue, out now via 4AD / Remote Control Records. Following three stunning singles – ‘Little Things’, ‘Sparrow’, and ‘Certainty’,‘Change’ is intimate and evocative, and places the listener right alongside the band. Dreamy, eerie harmonies find warmth in the simple romance of Adrianne Lenker’s lyrics; their innocent hope looking to find a simple moment of peace in chaotic times. Stream / Download Big Thief – ‘Change’
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Helado Negro has released the new single ‘La Naranja’. The song is accompanied by an official video directed by Andrew Anderson. ‘La Naranja’ is the third single to preview the new album Far In which will be released on October 22 via 4AD / Remote Control Records. The song opens with long violin tones, joined by a creeping tea kettle frequency. Rather than a brutal jolt, at the point of contact, Roberto Lange’s voice gleefully bounces in to tell us that we will...
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Parquet Courts have shared a new single/video, ‘Black Widow Spider’, from their forthcoming album, Sympathy For Life, out October 22nd on Rough Trade Records / Remote Control Records. Following their highly-praised lead single ‘Walking at a Downtown Pace’, ‘Black Widow Spider’ kicks off with scorching guitar. In A Savage’s words, “I told [producer] Rodaidh McDonald that I wanted to find a sound that was equal parts Can, Canned Heat and This Heat. He was really into that and probably took some glee...
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