The Hard Quartet release their eponymous debut album and announce a run of Australian tour dates in early January 2025. Says the band, “Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney and Jim White formed The Hard Quartet in May 2023. They recorded a 15 song album in NYC and Malibu California without telling anyone except their families and friends – ideal times spent in idyllic locales. The Hard Quartet starts touring...
London-based artist Lucinda Chua has shared the new song and accompanying short film, ‘Echo‘ announcing her debut solo album YIAN, out March 24th via 4AD. If Chua’s 2022 release ‘Golden,’ written from the perspective of her younger self, was the meditative prelude to the world of YIAN, then her new single ‘Echo’ places us firmly in its first chapter. A pop song about ancestral trauma, ‘Echo’ is the antihero’s journey, walking the line between respect for the past and the freedom to carve out a new...
The Smile have today revealed details of a brand new live release, The Smile At Montreux Jazz Festival July 2022. The seven track, eight song digital-only live release of selected tracks from the band’s debut album A Light For Attracting Attention is available from Wednesday, 14th December. A film of the performed tracks will broadcast from the band’s YouTube channel on Tuesday 13th December. The performance, available for just 48 hours, will also exclusively contain the first ever public outing of new...
Yo La Tengo will release their sixteenth album This Stupid World on February 10th. What’s more, you can listen to the new song ‘Fallout’ below! Yo La Tengo have raced time for nearly four decades and they just keep winning. The trio’s latest victory is called This Stupid World, a spellbinding set of reflective songs that resist the ticking clock. This music is not so much timeless as time-defiant. “I want to fall out of...
Kenny Beats releases his debut solo album, LOUIE. Though best known for producing seminal full-length albums for some of the world’s most exciting artists (including Vince Staples, IDLES, Rico Nasty and Denzel Curry), on LOUIE, Kenny subverts expectations with an almost entirely instrumental artist record that acts as a deeply personal tribute to his ailing father. Set for release on XL Recordings next week, the first solo album from Kenny Beats is a spontaneous burst of creativity spurred by an avalanche of despair...
Soaked Oats welcome you to their world and the way it works with their debut album Working Title out Friday, 18th November via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. Written and recorded over the last eighteen months, the New Zealand four-piece group’s first full length album explores the contrasting ways we perceive and interact with the world, how we define ourselves through work, and the subtle shift from viewing objects in the world...
‘Stick of Sage (S.O.S.)’ is yet another taste from Dorsal Fins’ glorious sonic return, Star of the Show out now via Dot Dash. This year’s best feel-good song about a well-loved self-enlightenment product: ‘Stick of Sage (S.O.S)’ is a cleansing journey through spooky harpsichords & organs, a fantasy of rippling castanets, orchestral flourishes to a groovy beat. Penned by co-lead vocalist Jarrad Brown, the song speaks to our own obsessions with self-help, wellness and self-...
Melbourne-based electronic rock band Black Cab have released their long awaited sixth album Rotsler’s Rules, out now on digital and limited edition vinyl, with launch shows in Melbourne and Sydney. The album started as a series of free flowing electronica jams at Melbourne’s Bakehouse studios with local producer Graeme Pogson (GL, Bamboos) on drums and dials, and features guest appearances by Evan Tweedie (Husky, DubFX), Lucy Buckeridge (Lowtide) and Steve Law (Zen Paradox) with mixing by long time Cab producer Woody Annison. Black Cab founder members Andrew Coates and James Lee were keen to explore simpler, synth driven...
Saâda Bonaire has released their collection of recently uncovered ’90s material which saw the band dip their toes in dub, house, & trip-hop territories – straying away from their earlier post-punk & new wave sound, creating a time capsule that up until now – no one knew existed. Until recently, it was thought that we had heard all there was to hear from Saâda Bonaire. The German studio project’s 1980s recordings had...
Belle and Sebastian have released their 9th studio album, A Bit Of Previous. Marking the occasion comes a new video and single ‘Talk To Me, Talk To Me’. The video was written and directed by 15-year-old south London siblings Freya and Rosalie Salkeld. Watch below! A Bit of Previous was recorded in Belle and Sebastian’s hometown of Glasgow when plans to fly to Los Angeles in spring of 2020 were scrapped due to the pandemic. Says frontman Stuart Murdoch in the...
Afro-Cuban, French twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Díaz, also known as Ibeyi, have released their third-studio-album Spell 31 via XL Recordings. On the album, Lisa and Naomi set out to remobilize the power of their birth given destiny as Ibeyi, which has led them on a path to restoration in pursuit of true harmony, healing and magic. Inspired by ‘Spell 31’, taken from The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, the project features 10 tracks, written, produced and recorded by Ibeyi, who beautifully crafted the songs...
Scout Gillett has released one to ten – her debut EP for Captured Tracks. Ahead of it’s release Gillett premiered ‘come on let’s go’ – her lush, faithful cover of Broadcast’s The Noise Made by People single – at The FADER with a self-directed and self-shot video. The new cover is one of four (also including Brenda Lee, Ferrante & Teicher, and Blaze Foley) on Scout’s hypnotic introductory EP, one to ten, and follows its recently released original title track. “The covers here complement the title track. one to ten is a peek...
After a run of deliriously off-kilter singles, Montreal’s singer-songwriter Gus Englehorn has released his sophomore album Dungeon Master. Dungeon Master, Englehorn’s Secret City Records debut, is an outsider opus that sparkles with Dada spirit — a playful juxtaposition of isolation, alienation and mildish OCD. Surprising, paranoid, and studded with synths and strings, Dungeon Master is deeper than a cellar and blunter than a club — a shivering introduction to an artist who’s finally arrived. “I let my subconscious do...
Sleaford Mods have released a brand new EP, Live At Nottz. Recorded live at Nottingham Arena in 2021 during their biggest show ever, it features six fiery, transformative tracks and includes guest appearances from Billy Nomates and Amyl and the Sniffers’ Amy Taylor. Additionally, Sleaford Mods are sharing three electrifying live videos from the performance for ‘Nudge It’, ‘Mork n Mindy’ and ‘Tied Up in Nottz’. Watch below! If the legends are true, the first ever Sleaford Mods gig took place at a cafe near Nottingham...
The Colorist Orchestra & Emiliana Torrini have releaased their collaborative self-titled live album, out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control. The Colorist Orchestra is a Belgian ensemble founded by Aarich Jespers and Kobe Proesmans in 2013. They re-envision the repertoires of established musicians from across genres using traditional classical instruments and arrangements, along with a variety of their own musical inventions to contribute innovative, never-before-heard sounds and grooves to their compositions...
