Leif Vollebekk and Angie McMahon, unveil a captivating new cover of The Eagles’ iconic hit ‘Take It To The Limit.’ With emotive vocals and haunting lap steel arrangements from Cindy Cashdollar, Vollebekk and McMahon reimagine ‘Take It To The Limit’, offering a fresh yet reverent interpretation to this timeless anthem. Vollebekk honors a major musical influence, “My good friend Angie McMahon and I spontaneously recorded ‘Take It To The Limit’, my favourite Eagles song, when I...
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Leif Vollebekk announces his Revelation Australian tour. He will play four headline shows across both coasts as his sweeping guitar tones and arresting vocals journey across the country. This tour comes off the back of his critically acclaimed alternative masterpiece Revelation which was released late last year. A project which settled Leif into the realm of lasting indie-folk influence. The tour kicks off at The Rechabite in Perth on Tuesday...
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Leif Vollebekk reveals an acoustic version of ‘Peace of Mind’ off his critically acclaimed new record Revelation. ‘Peace of Mind (Morning)’ is a captivating acoustic take. “‘Peace of Mind (Morning)’ felt like it wanted its own space, separate from the album version,” says Vollebekk. ‘Peace of Mind (Morning)’ arrives alongside an official visualiser directed by Andy Mann, offering fans a sensory journey that pairs perfectly with the song’s immersive tones....
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Leif Vollebekk reveals ‘Peace of Mind (Evening)’, a memorable and melodious single co-produced and mixed by David Baron. His new album Revelation is out September 27th. “This is the ‘evening version’ of ‘Peace of Mind’,” says Leif. “This version isn’t even on the record. It just wanted to be its own thing… I suppose I wanted it to remind me of the bliss I feel when a great song come on the radio on...
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Leif Vollebekk reveals ‘Southern Star’ a poignant ballad as second single, including backing vocals by Australian singer-songwriter Angie McMahon and steel guitar by legendary Cindy Cashdollar. Watch the accompanying video, directed by longtime collaborator and award-winning filmmaker Kaveh Nabatian, below! “I think this might be my favourite song I have ever written, and it took a while to reveal itself,” says Leif. “I spent about two years waiting for the last verse to come. It was recorded in one...
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Leif Vollebekk shares a brand-new EP of live recordings titled New Waves, via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records – in this enduring worldwide pandemic, Leif’s EP is a beaming ode to the unique connection live music brings, an amalgam of feelings that can only be shared with an audience. “Last year I had a chance to revisit these songs and I realised they had something my records didn’t have,” says Leif. “They resonate with that incalculable energy of...
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Leif Vollebekk shares a live version of ‘I’m Not Your Lover,‘ recorded at The Troubadour in Los Angeles back in 2020 – out now via Secret City Records / Remote Control Records. “This was the first time we played the song live, a couple of months before the lockdowns. It was a beautiful sold-out show at one of my favourite venues,” Leif explains. “When I first heard the live recording,” he continues “I thought it sounded better than the record.” Its accompanying...
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Leif Vollebekk shares Long Blue Light, a two-song EP available now across all streaming services. The title track is a brand new original song from Leif, while the second is a Bon Iver cover of the song ’29 #Strafford APTS.’ Leif explains: “Long Blue Light was recorded during the sessions for New Ways, live with just myself and a drummer, Homer Steinweiss. I had all but abandoned it but this...
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Widowspeak share their poignant new single ‘Breadwinner,’ their first release since Expect the Best (2017), the band’s fourth album. The stop-motion video was made by the duo, singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton and guitarist Robert Earl Thomas, at home in Brooklyn. Put your sourdough starter away. Emerging U.K.-based singer, producer and harpist TATYANA has shared her bewitching new track ‘Shadow On The Wall’ on Sinderlyn – sister label to Captured Tracks....
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Following the release of his acclaimed 2019 album New Ways, Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk has announced a run of Australian shows for March 2020. Leif will perform co-headline shows with Melbourne’s inimitable Ainslie Wills in Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane, as well as perform a Brisbane’s Nine Lives Festival. Full run of dates below. To celebrate the announcement, Leif Vollebekk has shared his new video for ‘Apalachee Plain’ which includes vocals from Australian...
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New Ways is the new album by Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk, his hotly anticipated follow-up to the Polaris Music Prize finalist Twin Solitude. It’s out now through Secret City Records. Whereas Twin Solitude was about self-reflection, New Ways is about engaging and changing, touching and being touched. It’s a physical record, with louder and tighter grooves, and the rawest lyrics the musician has ever recorded. A portrait of beauty, desire, longing, risk, remembrance—without an instant of regret. “Anything that I wouldn’t...
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Leif Vollebekk has unveiled the second single from his forthcoming album New Ways (out 1st November via Secret City Records) with a music video for ‘Transatlantic Flight.’ ‘Transatlantic Flight’ takes its time, and wraps itself around you. Leif found inspiration in a host of places – from sticky Rihanna choruses, the dark sizzle of Leonard Cohen, the visual mastery of Richard Linklater (he drops a couple references in the opening verse of the song). The song builds to a soaring euphoria, a wall of rich sounds and...
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A pleasure to welcome Leif Vollebekk to the Remote Control family, announcing his new album New Ways. The follow up to his Polaris Music Prize finalist Twin Solitude, the announcement comes with a beautiful single and visual for ‘Hot Tears.’ New Ways is the sound of desire in its unfolding. Two years ago, things were changing so fast, and the songwriter didn’t want to forget. “I often think of Leonard Cohen’s line,...
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