After releasing her beloved new album Bright Future earlier this year, which won over the hearts of fans and critics alike, Adrianne Lenker shares new single ‘Once a Bunch’. Listen below! Recorded during the Bright Future sessions and originally only appearing on the Japanese CD release of the album, the sweet, country-tinged single – already a live favourite – is seeing its wide release for the first time. Later this year, a 7”...
To celebrate 10-years of Nikki Nack, Tune-Yards announce a digital deluxe edition and a zine, set for release on 9th August. Tune-Yards also unveil a brand new remix of the iconic indie anthem ‘Water Fountain’, deconstructed by Water From Your Eyes. This danceable and utterly bonkers version reimagines the song as a dynamic, contemporary floor-filler, offering a thrilling new take that complements the original. The Water From Your Eyes remix,...
Kim Deal shares ‘Coast’, the first single through 4AD under her own name. Premiered by Lauren Laverne on her 6 Music radio show. Written in 2020 after being at her friend Mike Montgomery’s wedding when the house band, The Grape Whizzers, jammed Jimmy Buffett’s 1977 ‘Margaritaville’ with “revelatory levels of low self-esteem”. But the song’s roots reach back as far as 2000, when Kim was staying on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket. An unlikely retreat for the Ohio native...
Bartees Strange returns with new single ‘Lie 95’, paired with a striking video directed by Vincent Martell and Jordan Phelps of VAM STUDIO starring Strange as both himself and his otherworldly companion. Watch below! Kacy Hill and Charlene Gibbs contribute additional vocals on the track, which is co-produced by Strange and notcharles with additional production from longtime creative collaborator Graham Richman. Bartees Strange shares “This song is about searching for love all across the Northeast corridor (I-95) – my universe. I’m...
On August 23, almost forty years after it was initially released, The Moon and the Melodies by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is being reissued on vinyl for the first time – remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself. Cocteau Twins have also shared, for the first time, a full HD library of their music videos, upgraded using original masters from the vaults. These new uploads span the...
Cass McCombs announces the reissue of his first three records by 4AD – debut EP Not The Way, and first two albums A and PREfection, to be released on 6th September. To celebrate, he shares a never heard before demo of ‘Sacred Heart’ alongside a new video filmed by the renowned skater Jerry Hsu. Watch below! Remastered at Abbey Road, the records are finally back in print for the first time since their original release...
Becky and the Birds (the moniker of Swedish producer and songwriter Thea Gustafsson) returns with the release of an ethereal and intimate new track ‘When She Holds Me,’ a first look at her album arriving later this year. Finding inspiration in the early work of Bon Iver, the self-produced track’s intimacy blossoms into lush harmonies and atmospheric soundscapes; the rich instrumentation references previous collaborators Dijon and Lapsley via soft-spoken harmonies and plucked strings. As described by Pitchfork, the sonic...
Lauded by Paper Mag as “that rare act that melds the sweat of performance with the immediacy of a headphones-on experience,” cumgirl8 further proves their infectious nature with this new track, a throbbing, late night overture to twisted romance. With an unsettling, industrial air, here, the band touch close to Cabaret Voltaire in the style of “gothic pop and scuzzy dance-punk studded with horny prose”. Earlier this year, cumgirl8 shared another stand-alone track entitled ‘glasshour’ praised by the likes...
Ahead of the launch of their coast-to-coast North American tour this month, Belle and Sebastian have released a brand new song, ‘What Happened to You, Son?’ Stuart Murdoch says on the song “‘What Happened to You Son’ got pulled rather randomly from the last LP because the LP felt one track too long. Out it came. The song is about my youth, and the funny hole I fell into in my late teens....
Kicking off 2024 with a bang, Manhattan four-piece cumgirl8 (aka cg8) return with a brand new single entitled ‘glasshour’. It’s a spiky post-punk haze, showcasing all that’s exciting and unique about cumgirl8 via jarring electro-punk flourishes, industrial sludge, and an irrepressible hook tying it all together. A live highlight of their incendiary underground shows, the new track also previews the group’s upcoming debut 4AD / Remote Control record (due later this year). The release additionally marks the...
Adrianne Lenker shares a new single ‘Fool’ from her upcoming album, Bright Future, out on 22nd March. With bent, plucked, and trembling strings, ‘Fool’ chases its tail for answers with softened beach glass geometry. Accompanying the single is another video directed by Adrianne’s brother, Noah Lenker, featuring Adrianne’s family and their dogs. “I feel like I can hear her laughing and smiling when I listen back to this song. The joy is palpable,” says producer Philip Weinrobe. “It’s easy to forget that Adrianne can do unbridled ecstatic...
Erika de Casier shares a new single and video from her highly-anticipated third album Still, out on 21 February via 4AD / Remote Control. ‘ice’ featuring Tampa rap duo They Hate Change marks the first collaboration in de Casier’s discography, and what a marvellous first showing. For the three-minute cut de Casier moonlights as the duo’s third member, flipping a classic hip-hop trope (“Ice – you put it all on me,” she sings) into a comment on a frustratingly noncommittal person. The song...
Dry Cleaning will reissue their first two EPs on 8 March. Remastered to celebrate the release, Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks and Sweet Princess will be pressed as one single vinyl. The former will be available on cassette for the first time and include an exclusive bonus single, a demo of New Long Leg single, ‘Strong Feelings’, recorded during the sessions for Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks. The band has shared a new visualiser for the song ‘Sit Down Meal’,...
Adrianne Lenker announces her new solo album, Bright Future, out on 22nd March, and shares the new single ‘Sadness As A Gift’. Bright Future marks Lenker’s first album since 2020’s songs & instrumentals, and features co-production from Philip Weinrobe, alongside contributions from Nick Hakim, Mat Davidson, and Josefin Runsteen. Following the previously released single ‘Ruined,’ ‘Sadness As A Gift’ sees Lenker at her most familiar and warm, a track that is both utterly timeless, yet sounding new and surprising on every listen. The aliveness of Adrianne’s voice...
Helado Negro (aka Roberto Carlos Lange) releases a new single, ‘Best For You and Me’, from his upcoming album PHASOR, which will be released on the 9th February via 4ad / Remote Control Records. In ‘Best For You and Me’ Lange retains the warmth of a childhood summer night on the Florida peninsular soundtracked by frogs and crickets, Bermuda grass between your toes. With its bright, pastel tones and uplifting melodies and rhythms, ‘Best For You and Me’ feels like an...
Erika de Casier returns to announce her highly-anticipated third album Still, out February 21st via 4AD / Remote Control Records, and shares the first single ‘Lucky.’ The song arrives alongside an accompanying Jesse May Fisher-directed video titled “me walking on the beach” made as homage to viral YouTube videos from the early aughts. The album is classic de Casier, her idiosyncratic mix of luxuriant electronica and moonlit R&B drilled further into that one-of-a-kind sound here. Her songwriting is as masterful...
