Following their sophomore album announcement, jade imagine offer further insight into Cold Memory with ‘Instinct I Wanna Know’. The album by the Melbourne indie-stalwarts is due out October 21st. Blending synths and muffled beats, ‘Instinct I Wanna Know’ is a departure from their recent ominous release. An ode to ESP (Extra-sensory perception) – feeling spiritually in sync with those closest to you – the track builds with Jade’s dreamy vocals before erupting in a lush dance-floor worthy chorus. On the theme, front...
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As Mess Esque continue on their tour of the UK and Europe, they now reveal ANOTHER new single! Scraped delicately from the embers of internal passions and rendered as music in their separate studios. Mess Esque clearly desire to share some space in our souls: ‘Liminal Space’! Helen’s plaintive and private vocal delivery – accentuating Mick Turner’s guitaristic accents and nuances – draws focus into the unique cocktail of feels...
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Melbourne three-piece jade imagine return with dreamy title-rack from their sophomore album Cold Memory due October21st via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. The single offers a peek into life’s most visceral moments, perfectly moving between rhythmic, slightly uneasy verses before it explodes into a synth heavy, pop-y chorus – lush and evocative. It was written by front-person and key songwriter Jade McInally following a frigid mid-winter swim with friends in the salty waters of Victorian coastal town Killarney. Speaking on the track’s...
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Courtney Barnett, the unstoppable singer-songwriter, has released her song entitled, ‘Smile Real Nice’, which serves as the theme song for Harriet the Spy, new Apple Original series for kids and families that will premiere November 19, and marks the first animated adaptation of the iconic children’s novel chronicling the coming-of-age adventures of the irrepressible Harriet M. Welsch. The single was released via Mom + Pop and is now available on Apple Music. Courtney Barnett will be releasing her highly anticipated new...
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Today, bewitching new duo Mess Esque release their self-titled full-length album alongside feature track ‘Wake up to yesterday‘, via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Featuring music and instruments by Mick Turner and words and voice by Helen Franzmann, Mess Esque coalesce from ripples of guitar and shudders of emotion into the bumps and grooves of songs with biological inevitability. Mick Turner’s aquatic guitar moods are met where they live and breathe by the vocals and dream imagery of Helen Franzmann aka McKisko,...
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Courtney Barnett launches the video for ‘Before You Gotta Go‘, taken from the much anticipated forthcoming album Things Take Time, Take Time – out November 12 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. The beautifully offbeat video, directed by Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore, casts Barnett as an ethnographer of the most delightfully idiosyncratic kind, collecting field recordings of dogs and horses, mushrooms and insects, and, most surreally, what looks like enormous statues...
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Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), has shared a new single titled ‘Graves’, the latest from their anticipated upcoming album, Fun House, due October 22 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Of the track, Duffy says: “This song is a secret message to myself, a reminder, a conversation with grief and remembrance. A questioning of my own memory and it’s proximity to understanding closure.” While Fun...
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Bachelor — the collaborative project of Palehound’s Ellen Kempner and Jay Som’s Melina Duterte — released their debut album, Doomin’ Sun, via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records to overwhelming acclaim from fans and critics alike. Now, the indie-rock heroes have released a brand new single, ‘I See It Now‘. They share: “Back in January when Bachelor was filming our music videos for Doomin Sun, we found ourselves with a day to kill at Ellen’s...
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The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, subtle but unpolished. This week, they announce The moment the world rushed in releasing on Friday 24th September via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Five instrumentals envelope the title track, the only song with vocals, to create a cocoon of warm noise for the hushed refrain. As Oliver explains: The hungry ghosts came to me and said: Make MIDI...
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Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), has shared a video for ‘No Difference,’ the new single from their upcoming album, Fun House, available for pre-order now and due Oct 22 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Fun House is Duffy’s most ambitious Hand Habits album to date. Produced by Sasami Ashworth (SASAMI) and engineered by Kyle Thomas (King Tuff), the record was not intended as a reaction to the pandemic, but it was very much the result of taking...
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Mess Esque, the newly minted duo of Mick Turner and Helen Franzmann, have been mixing up the medicine for their second single ‘Jupiter‘, taken from their forthcoming self-titled album out Friday 22 October via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. For a new band it really helps to have a hit single, so this new radio friendly unit shifter remixes one album cut, reshaping it into a smoldering, cascading indie ballad! Mick and Helen say...
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Courtney Barnett has unveiled another track from her forthcoming album Things Take Time, Take Time out Friday 12 November on Milk! Records / Remote Control Records, in the form of the lithe, lovely single ‘Before You Gotta Go‘. Intimately detailed and gorgeously sketched, Things Take Time, Take Time pulls back the curtain to reveal an optimistic and beautifully serene side to Barnett. ‘Before You Gotta Go’, is one of the luminous highlights, turning...
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Hand Habits, the project of Los Angeles-based musician Meg Duffy (they/them), announces their new sonically adventurous album Fun House, out October 22 via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Fun House‘s lead single, ‘Aquamarine‘, is out now, alongside a one shot V Haddad-directed video. “What originally started as a minimally arranged acoustic ballad, ‘Aquamarine’ evolved into the story of certain events in life, what informs my identity, the silence in the questions left unanswered that become the...
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Just in time for the world that’s coming are a bewitching new duo – Mess Esque releasing their self-titled full-length album on Milk! Records / Remote Control Records on October 22nd. Featuring music and instruments by Mick Turner and words and voice by Helen Franzmann, Mess Esque‘s self-titled new album restlessly wanders through a series of intimate dialogues. Helen lives in Brisbane; Mick in Melbourne. Mick’s played guitar for years, collaborating with loads of talented others; he’s perhaps best known as one-third of Dirty Three – though...
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Courtney Barnett has announced her third studio album Things Take Time, Take Time. Set to drop November 12th on Milk! Records / Remote Control Records, the album is a finely woven collage of snapshots recorded at a time of creative renewal and deeper understanding for Barnett. The work signals an exciting new chapter for a musician who is operating at the very peak of her powers and it sees her consolidating her place in the...
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Liz Stringer returns with a new version ‘The Waning of the Sun’ from her recent album First Time Really Feeling which debuted at #1 on the AIR and #14 on the ARIA charts. This version was arranged by Elsie & Maggie Rigby of The Maes and features Melbourne choir One More Chorus. Recorded live on the first take in Brunswick Uniting Church Hall, the sixty additional voices bring a new depth to this album standout track. Of the track Stringer says, “The Waning of the Sun is a song about connection. During my...
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