Multi-award-winning artist and Milk! Records co-founder Jen Cloher releases their fifth album I Am The River, The River Is Me. I Am The River, The River Is Me is an honouring of Jen’s Māori heritage, the indigenous people of Aotearoa, New Zealand and the first time they have woven the Māori language through their songwriting. These are fiercely political songs that never feel heavy. It suggests that home is not found in a place or a politic, but in the community you...
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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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On October 22nd, Courtney Barnett performed a unique live show in Melbourne called MTV Unplugged (Live in Melbourne) at the invitation of MTV Australia. A stripped back, vulnerable and emotional performance of eight tracks, including an original track from Barnett herself titled ‘Play It On Repeat‘, is available now digitally via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. Joined by her usual band Dave Mudie and Bones Sloane, she also enlisted cellist Lucy Waldron, legendary songwriter Paul Kelly, angelically-voiced New...
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Sleater-Kinney share the new music video for ‘Can I Go On,’ from their critically acclaimed new album,The Center Won’t Hold, produced by St. Vincent, out now via Milk! Records / Remote Control. The concept for the ‘Can I Go On’ video was written by Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein; it was directed and filmed by Ashley Connor, a long-time friend of the band, and stars Lauri Guzda and Mami Kimura. Brownstein explains, “Within the broader thematic context of The Center Won’t Hold album, we wanted the video...
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Sleater-Kinney release the title track from their forthcoming album, The Center Won’t Hold. It is the tenth album from iconic trio. Brownstein explains, “We’re always mixing the personal and the political but on this record, despite obviously thinking so much about politics, we were really thinking about the person — ourselves or versions of ourselves or iterations of depression or loneliness — in the middle of the chaos.” Watch the lyric video...
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jade imagine have announced their debut album Basic Love, to be released 2 August via Milk! Records. Watch the shimmering video for new single ‘Remote Control‘ below. The album is an existential ride through playful pop-tones and more stripped back textures. Jade McInally shows off the wit and noir of her vocal delivery, backed by an arrangement of synthwave and art-rock. It’s bleak pop at its most incandescent. Preorder the...
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Los Angeles-based artist Hand Habits has shared ‘can’t calm down‘, the latest single from their upcoming album, placeholder, out Friday 1st March. The song features vocal contributions from Elizabeth Powell of Land of Talk. Watch the accompanying video below! Duffy says “this song took the longest lyrically for me to finish. i started it about 3 years ago and kept it in progress throughout different cycles of feeling. ‘ancestral damage’ and learned behaviours and conditioning to react/hold and place certain emotions are...
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Tiny Ruins, originally conceived as the solo project of New Zealand singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, are releasing their third album Olympic Girls on February 1st. Today, Tiny Ruins share a new song and video for ‘Holograms’, Watch below! “The song is a conversation in a way, where one person posits the idea that technology will increasingly connect us. That we will not just be emotionally or mentally connected, but that our...
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Almost a year after the release of her self-titled fourth album, Jen Cloher delivers multiple surprises in the form of a gorgeous acoustic EP, the announcement of her first ever solo European shows and a set of brilliantly shot intimate live band performance videos. The solo EP Live at The Loft and Loew’s features performances captured at Wilco’s famous Loft studios in Chicago and from within the decaying glory of...
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East Brunswick All Girls Choir release their long-awaited second album Teddywaddy. To celebrate, the four-piece have released a video for their ferocious new single ‘Dog FM’, watch below! Speaking of ‘Dog FM’, frontman Marcus Hobbs explains: “You know when people say they don’t have any regrets, they’re lying. Hindsight is a beautiful thing. We reworked this song from an old slow solo piece I had been playing, introduced Rie’s filthy bass line...
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Melbourne three-piece Loose Tooth announce their debut album Keep Up to be released on August 3rd. In addition, Loose Tooth share the album opener ‘Keep On’, watch the accompanying clip below! With Keep Up, Etta Curry (drums, vocals), Luc Dawson (bass, vocals, guitar, keys), and Nellie Jackson (guitar, vocals) have inked their impeccable ear for a hook on a fresh sonic palate. Long time friends with a democratic approach to...
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East Brunswick All Girls Choir are excited to share new single ‘Leave The City’. The track is the second cut from their new album Teddywaddy to be released Friday 29th June. Listen below! The band are launching the album at the Northcote Social Club on Friday 13th July before touring across Australia with Courtney Barnett in August. Tour info below! ‘Leave The City’ takes a slower, more reflective pace, than...
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Evelyn Ida Morris has shared a new video directed by Julia Suddenly for ‘Darwin Heat’, from their newly released self-titled album. Watch below! Evelyn shares – “When Julia pitched the idea of a naked body filmed in the murky waters of a river it resonated with me so clearly that I insisted on being that body. I am a big fan of using artworks as experiences, and the challenge of letting...
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The self-titled album by Evelyn Ida Morris is out today. They have shared details for upcoming shows in Melbourne & Hobart. Details below. Evelyn Ida Morris represents a significant departure from the looping pop of Pikelet, for which Evelyn is best known. It builds on the structural complexity of that project, but focuses wholly on piano. Indeed, a number of these songs don’t have words, because Evelyn Ida Morris didn’t know...
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Courtney Barnett shares ‘City Looks Pretty’, the third single from her upcoming album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out Friday 18 May. Watch below! ‘City Looks Pretty’ has Barnett experimenting with new song structures while delivering one of her most exhilarating guitar performances to date. It’s metronomic drive and squealing lead guitar provide the sonic foundation from which Barnett sings a melodic exploration of friendship, place and home. A Record...
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The Finks announce their new album Rolly Nice to be released Friday 25 May. Today they have shared the first cut from the record ‘Body Language’. Watch the accompanying video below! The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz, who records everything in his Melbourne home, layering instrument upon instrument and mixing each song straight to tape. As Oliver describes “‘Body Language’ started as a melody that I misheard Sarah humming to...
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