After leaving a digital breadcrumb trail in the lead up to the track’s release in its newest form, Two Shell unveil an enhanced version of ‘Talk To Me’, a vibrant, hi-octane collaboration with avant-garde icon FKA twigs. A saccharine blast of dance music drums, very cool sounds and very nice vibes, ‘Talk To Me’ is Two Shell at its most ecstatic. Marking her first musical appearance since 2022, FKA twigs is electric on the track, providing...
The Lemon Twigs release theatrical epic ‘A Dream Is All I Know,’ the titular track and latest taste of their forthcoming album, A Dream Is All We Know, out May 3rd. Meshing ripping guitars, zig-zagging harmonies, and bittersweet nods to love and loss, the single captures those sort of spacey, fleeting moments in our everyday experience. “This song is about impermanence and the dreamlike nature of our day to day lives. It was written when...
Leeds-based art-rock experimentalists Drahla share ‘Grief In Phantasia,’ the latest single from angeltape, their long-awaited second full-length album due out April 5th. ‘Grief In Phantasia’ is the expressionistic closer of angeltape and encapsulates Drahla’s often elliptical creative process and the tumultuous nature of the album itself. According to the band: “This song was informed by others on the record and those we’d written in the past. It felt like the closing track when we wrote it, as though it...
Fabiana Palladino releases ‘I Can’t Dream Anymore’ the latest single taken from her highly anticipated self-titled debut album which is out on 5th April. Premiered during the Radio Fabiana show on NTS, ‘I Can’t Dream Anymore’ is released alongside a music video conceptualised by Fabiana and directed by Josh Renaut and Caroline Waxse. It places Fabiana aboard Radio Caroline ship – the world’s most famous pirate radio station during the 60s and 70s – where her sense of longing exists in her isolation as she broadcasts out to...
Ahead of her SXSW showcases, alternative pop enigma Sui Zhen returns with her latest single ‘Sleepless’. At a sprawling 13 minutes, ‘Sleepless’ defies the traditional confines of a pop song, inviting listeners on a haunting journey through grief’s depths. Drawing inspiration from influences ranging from post-punk to krautrock, the track blends spoken-word incantations and melodic hooks with pulsing synths, distorted guitars, and a mix of electronic and live percussion. Emerging as a testament...
Kamasi Washington today confirms his new album, Fearless Movement, is set for release May 3rd via Young / Remote Control. A new song, ‘Prologue,’ debuts today alongside a video directed by longtime collaborator AG Rojas. Washington calls Fearless Movement his dance album. “It’s not literal,”Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music—expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.” Pre-order / Pre-save Fearless Movement here. Stream / Download ‘Prologue’ here.
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...
Out May 3rd, Funeral For Justice is the new album by Mdou Moctar. Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, it captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are passionately political. Nothing is held back or toned down. The songs on Funeral For Justice speak unflinchingly to the plight of...
Emotive storyteller Jess Locke follows up the announcement of her forthcoming album with another new single in ‘The Place’. Locke’s fourth omnibus Real Life will be released on Friday, 3rd May through Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. Unhurried in pace, ‘The Place’ is buoyed by acoustic guitars and a metronomic bass line, while Locke’s yearning vocals drive home the themes of adulthood and nostalgia. It follows her “punchy” (Rolling Stone) lead single ‘Uncomfortably Happy’ which was added to heavy rotation at KEXP, and received love from Double...
The Toronto-born-and-raised singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Day Wilson announces her sophomore album Cyan Blue out May 3rd. First single ‘I Don’t Love You’ is a stark and devastatingly beautiful confessional, highlighting Wilson’s immaculate production skills and chill inducing vocals laid atop smooth groove piano chords and soft drums. The track also arrives with a visual directed by Dani Aphrodite featuring layered low-fi footage of the artist and producer performing at home, living every day...
Signing to XL Recordings / Remote Control, Nourished By Time returns to announce his new EP Catching Chickens will be released on 22 March digitally and on 12” vinyl. With tracks like ‘Hell of a Ride,’ in which Nourished By Time contemplates the fall of the American empire and late-stage capitalism loneliness, and ‘Had Ya Called’, which deals with the frustrations of growing distance in friendships, Nourished By Time chronicles his own test of agility as he weaves through the motions of his...
Today, Leeds-based art-rock experimentalists Drahla share ‘Second Rhythm’, the second single from angeltape, their long-awaited second full-length album due out April 5th via Captured Tracks / Remote Control. The release of ‘Second Rhythm’ comes with a video created by the band. According to vocalist and guitarist Luciel Brown: “’Second Rhythm’ is the twisted reprise to our 2019 release ‘Primitive Rhythm.’ It simultaneously represents the link and disconnect between the two albums Useless Coordinates and angeltape. From reaching the handsome landscape to no...
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...
Musician and visual artist Kim Gordon has released ‘I’m a Man’, the latest preview track from her second solo album, The Collective, out March 8th on Matador / Remote Control. Atop a dark, churning soundscape, Gordon ruminates on discrimination, gender norms and societal constraints in her inimitable style—once again challenging the listener to think deeply about the world around them. An evocative video for ‘I’m a Man’ is also out today, starring Coco Gordon Moore and Conor Fay and was directed by filmmaker Alex Ross Perry,...
Twenty years ago today, in a small studio on Fairfax Boulevard in Los Angeles, indie quartet Warpaint was born. To mark the anniversary of their formation, they are thrilled to announce the release of a new 7”, ‘Common Blue’ b/w ‘Underneath’, out March 22 on Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. For their first new material in two years, Warpaint reunited with Rough Trade, the label behind their debut album and creative home for most of their existence. “It...
London-based singer, producer, and harpist TATYANA shares a new single, ‘Control’ feat. Dave Okumu, on February 14th from her upcoming album, It’s Over, out March 22nd via Sinderlyn / Remote Control. The single comes with a video directed by Andy King. A luminous, thumping voyage through the arcs of modern / chronically online dating, ‘Control’ feat. Dave Okumu charts the undulating risk vs. reward trade off when you open yourself up to someone. It also contains a prominent use of her primary instrument, the harp. The...
