Gruff Rhys shares ‘Bad Friend’ – the third and final track from his new album Sadness Sets Me Free before its release on 26th January. Remarkably, Sadness Sets Me Free is Gruff Rhys’ 25th long playing record in a 35 year recording career. Gruff says on his new track “People always refer to ‘good friends’. This song is toying with the idea of the ‘bad friend’. Maybe a bad friend is still better than not being a friend at all. Some friends...
Erika de Casier returns to announce her highly-anticipated third album Still, out February 21st via 4AD / Remote Control Records, and shares the first single ‘Lucky.’ The song arrives alongside an accompanying Jesse May Fisher-directed video titled “me walking on the beach” made as homage to viral YouTube videos from the early aughts. The album is classic de Casier, her idiosyncratic mix of luxuriant electronica and moonlit R&B drilled further into that one-of-a-kind sound here. Her songwriting is as masterful...
The Smile have revealed their brand-new single ‘Friend Of A Friend’, taken from the forthcoming sophomore album Wall Of Eyes. Showcased live during the band’s 2022/2023 touring, the studio version features strings from the London Contemporary Orchestra and saxophone from Robert Stillman. The video for ‘Friend Of A Friend’, by motion picture director Paul Thomas Anderson will be premiered alongside a surround sound album playback of Wall Of Eyes at a series of one-off events hosted at independent cinemas between 18-25th January. The events,...
Jess Locke returns with the announcement of her fourth album Real Life out on Friday, 3rd May, and shares a sample of the long play that explores mortality with ‘Uncomfortably Happy’, alongside a video. Watch below! Setting the tone on her forthcoming album, ‘Uncomfortably Happy’ says it all in the title. Backed by fuzzy guitars and swelling synths, Locke questions the temporary aspect of living. The buoyant chorus attempts to sweep these anxieties and overanalyses away – a...
Jamie xx returns with new track ‘IT’S SO GOOD’. Released via Young / Remote Control, ‘IT’S SO GOOD’ is the soundtrack to the latest Chanel Coco Crush campaign. Available on all digital services, it’s a subtly euphoric anthem that builds over four and a half minutes of stop-start tension and release. ‘IT’S SO GOOD’ is Jamie’s first new music in over a year and is set to build on the success of 2022’s ‘LET’S DO IT AGAIN’ and ‘KILL DEM’ singles. Stream /...
At the end of this month, Future Islands will release their highly anticipated new album, People Who Aren’t There Anymore (Jan, 26, 2024). Today, they’ve shared another new song, ‘Say Goodbye,’ an examination of a long distance relationship unravelling. People Who Aren’t There Anymore, the band’s seventh album, heralds a new chapter for Future Islands who, despite having formed nearly two decades ago, continue to challenge themselves and each other. Stream / download ‘Say Goodbye’ here. Pre-order /...
Buck Meek kickstarts 2024 with two new singles ‘Cuero Dudes’ and ‘Beauty Opens Doors’, as well as a video for ‘Cuero Dudes’, watch below! Last year, Meek released his stunning third solo album, Haunted Mountain, featuring songs co-written with one of Buck’s longtime musical heros Jolie Holland. ‘Cuero Dudes’ should sound familiar to those who have listened to the record. It’s a rollicking reworking of the track ‘Cyclades,’ one of the album’s singles and live standouts. Meanwhile, ‘Beauty Opens Doors’ was a song...
London based TATYANA shares details of the brand new album It’s Over due March 22nd via Sinderlyn / Remote Control. A luminous, thumping voyage through the arcs of modern/chronically online dating, the LP charts the undulating risk versus reward trade off when you open yourself up to someone. Today’s announcement arrives alongside brand new single and video, ‘Down Bad’, and follows previous single and video ‘Hold My Hand’ setting the tone for the record. Stream / download ‘Down Bad’ here....
The Lemon Twigs — New York’s sibling duo beloved for their sophisticated pop, which aims to pick up where The Beach Boys left off — release ‘My Golden Years’ on Captured Tracks / Remote Control, their first new release since their acclaimed 2023 LP, Everything Harmony. ‘My Golden Years’ holds close the smooth harmonies of The Beach Boys, the energy and bombast of Raspberries, and shimmering 12 string textures of The Byrds — as the...
Harvey Rose City Band – Garden PartyBar Italia – Tracey DenimThe Church – the HypnogogueSparks – the girl is crying in her latteMozart Estate – Pop- up kerching !The Jasmine Minks – We make our own historyThe National – First two pages of FrankensteinSampa – LahaiKristen Hersh – Clear Pond RoadLucinda Williams – Stories from a rock n roll heart **** Steve Gena Rose Bruce – Misery And MisfortuneHeartworms –...
Following the release of her critically-acclaimed debut album YIAN earlier this year, Lucinda Chua shares her brand new EP Reclaiming The Rose, out now via 4AD / Remote Control. Reclaiming The Rose expands sonically on YIAN, with Chua explaining “Reclaiming The Rose is a bi-lingual meditation exploring ideas of returning, remembering and retracing ancestral roots. I was inspired by the journey of the rose; a plant indigenous to China that made...
Adrianne Lenker (Big Thief) presents her new single and video, ‘Ruined’. The track is a heart-breaking, remarkable intro to Lenker’s highly anticipated new solo album, which she has announced will be coming in 2024. On ‘Ruined’, Lenker moves to the piano for the first time and the accompanying video was directed by Adrianne’s brother Noah Lenker, collaging gorgeous footage of Lenker in autumnal foliage. Of ‘Ruined,’ Lenker says: “This song has been a quiet beacon for me. It may contain the essence of the gift...
In March of this year, 100 gecs broke the internet by opening their debut Boiler Room set in Los Angeles with an energetic dub-take of the Basement Jaxx classic, ‘Where’s Your Head At’. Racking up over 1.3 million streams and counting, it’s one of the most in-demand underground remixes this year. The search is now over as today, XL Recordings / Remote Control officially release the highly sought-after remix, ‘Where’s My Head At_’, digitally under the label’s iconic house bag series. Stream...
The Smile will release a new album, Wall Of Eyes, on 26th January 2024 via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. A track from the record, also called ‘Wall Of Eyes’, is out today and is accompanied by a video from the film director Paul Thomas Anderson. Pre-order / Pre-save Wall Of Eyes here.Stream / Download ‘Wall Of Eyes’ here.
Helado Negro – the moniker of Roberto Carlos Lange – shares a second track from his forthcoming new album PHASOR (out 9 February 2024). Built around a chopped and sequenced guitar line, ‘I Just Want To Wake Up With You’ is a languid and fuzzy love song, an ode to domestic life, and to comfort and health. The song is accompanied by a joyously psychotropic official video directed by Lange. Stream / Download ‘I Just Want To Wake Up With...
Artist, producer, DJ and cultural icon Peggy Gou releases ‘I Believe In Love Again’, the highly-anticipated follow up to her global summer hit single ‘(It Goes Like) Nanana’. A truly unique collaboration with legendary Grammy award-winning artist Lenny Kravitz, ‘I Believe In Love Again’ is the sound of an artist who continues to defy categorisation: a timeless R&B-tinged anthem that reflects Gou’s diverse range of influences and open-ended musical philosophy. On it, we hear Kravitz as we’ve rarely heard him before. Stream /...
