Sydney duo Party Dozen return with new single and music video, ‘Special Unit’. Written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered, shot by and starring the band themselves, the track packs a lot into its 2 mins and 39 seconds. Less is more. More volume. More energy. In a three week period that will see Party Dozen play Sydney Opera House (for Vivid Festival) this Monday 25th May, and Red Rocks (as...
Overmono announce their hotly-anticipated second album Pure Devotion, arriving Friday, 7 August. Sharing a name with the beloved series of live events they launched in 2024, Pure Devotion is Overmono’s most ambitious project to date. It’s the sound of beautiful imperfections, machine malfunctions and happy accidents, harnessed by the unflinching confidence that Overmono – aka brothers Tom and Ed Russell – have gained through years at the vanguard of underground electronic music, and subsequent breakthrough as one...
London’s caroline share a new remix of their song ‘Beautiful ending’ by Giant Claw. The song is originally from their critically-acclaimed sophomore album caroline 2. caroline’s founding members Casper Hughes, Jasper Llewellyn and Mike O’Malley began playing together in 2017. As the band’s sound kept expanding, so too did their line-up, eventually becoming an eight-piece completed by Freddy Wordsworth, Magdalena McLean, Oliver Hamilton, Hugh Aynsley and Alex McKenzie. By the time the cast settled towards the end of 2019, the songs too were expansive...
Swedish artist Murex releases her debut single ‘Massacre’ via Young. Self-produced in Murex’s Stockholm studio, ‘Massacre’ is a piece of ethereal, amorphous, avant-pop that thrashes and glimmers in equal measures. Simultaneously brutal and beautiful, the song depicts hunger and the act of dragging oneself into destruction. Watch the accompanying video here. Artists making pop music today are expected to calcify as one easily consumable version of themselves, or capitulate wildly...
Aldous Harding releases her new album Train On The Island, out today. Ahead of the album Harding shared a third and final single this week with album closer ‘Coats’, following early singles ‘Venus In The Zinnia’ and ‘One Stop’. In addition, to celebrate Train On The Island, Harding adds southern hemisphere dates to her growing headline tour where she announced her live return to Australia this November, with four exclusive...
Five-piece 1000 Rabbits (FKA Rabbitfoot) release their debut EP Are we friends yet?, a six-track release that captures the band’s first two years in motion. Featuring recent singles ‘Virgin Soil’ and ‘Rubik’s Cube’, the EP arrives digitally and on 12” vinyl as a snapshot of a band defining themselves in real time. The project arrives alongside a brand new video directed by South London artist, Ché Deedigan, capturing it’s energy: a band in...
Māori & Samoan force Jamaica Moana brings her fierce edge to the social phenomenon that is Songs With Strings, collaborating with the quartet on her dance floor heater ‘TUGGAWAR’ taken from her recent debut EP, BUD & DENI. The now viral anthem – co-signed by SZA, Doja Cat and Sudan Archives – takes on a more dynamic edge, juxtaposing the hard hitting lyrics with the intricacies of the strings is now available digitally. The session was filmed in LA during her recent trip for SXSW, where...
My New Band Believe (the new band from former black midi bassist and sometime frontman Cameron Picton) today share a new video for ‘In the Blink of an Eye’. The video, something of a Japanese seafaring odyssey, was directed by Botsu_NGS (of Japanese experimental hip hop outfit Dos Monos) and features Hiroki Kaniya. As the bassist and sometime frontman of black midi, Picton and his bandmates practiced an explosive form of musical world-building, weaving complex story-telling...
In April, Zoh Amba announced their Matador debut album Eyes Full, out June 5th, an album of tough and soulful songs that feel like a pure transmission from the heart. Today, Amba shares the album’s pensive and darkly hypnotic title track, a song about what makes someone’s heart full and questioning why. It’s accompanied by a video directed by Grace Bader Conrad, featuring Amba and album musicians Jim White (drums) and Kevin Hyland (electric guitar),...
Singer, producer and songwriter Tommy Barlow is a distinctive new voice in UK music. While he playfully describes his sound as “farm grunge”, his work feels unmistakably contemporary – a kind of digital, half-lit world-building coalescing with the traditional folk music he grew up with in a musical family just outside Cambridge. Now signed to Young – home to the likes of Sampha, The xx, Isaiah Hull, Robyn, John Maus, Mechatok and John Glacier –...
GB, Gustav Berntsen, is an artist from Copenhagen who crafts texture-heavy, adventurous guitar music cut with a pop sensibility. Today, GB announces his second album, Herzsprung, out 21 August, and also shares the album’s first single ‘Adrenaline’, sending light from a world of zigzagging guitar, bubbly fretless bass, and rolling percussion. Herzsprung follows GB’s debut record, the collage-based cult hit Gusse Music, which was released on storied CPH label Posh Isolation in 2024 –...
Montreal trio Bye Parula share their atmospheric, velvety new single ‘Quand vient le soir’, the third from their forthcoming album Something Out Of Nothing, out June 5. Performed entirely in French, the native language of singer and bassist Loïc Calatayud-Sola, the track is enhanced by the vocal contribution of Adèle Trottier-Rivard of Bibi Club. Produced by Calatayud-Sola himself, the music video features Robbie Kuster, who also produced the album. ‘Quand...
Hot on the heels of their acclaimed 2026 album FREE SPIRITS, Argentinian boundary-pushers CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso step up to rework Robyn’s ‘Blow My Mind.’ The release sees two global musical icons coming together for a hugely-anticipated collaboration, CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso bringing their unpredictable energy and razor-sharp musicianship to one of the standout singles from Robyn’s acclaimed Sexistential album. Following genre-hopping Sexistential remixes from the likes of Jamie xx, Marlon...
Five-piece 1000 Rabbits (FKA Rabbitfoot) announce their debut EP Are we friends yet? a six-track release that captures the band’s first two years in motion. Featuring recent singles ‘Virgin Soil’ and ‘Rubik’s Cube’, the EP arrives as a snapshot of a band defining themselves in real time. Are we friends yet? is released digitally May 7th, and on 12″ July 24th. Written across living rooms, rehearsal spaces, and stages over...
Following a globally-heralded tour that was hailed as the live musical event of the year, and a momentous Coachella performance, David Byrne has released ‘¿Cuál Es La Razón?’ —a vibrant new take on his track ‘What Is The Reason For It?’ from his latest album, Who Is The Sky?. This version features the voice of legendary GRAMMY award winning Mexican singer Natalia Lafourcade, taking the place of the original’s Hayley Williams (Paramore). Produced by Mexican...
james K’s critically-acclaimed third album, Friend, has been reworked by electronic pioneers Objekt, Drew McDowall (Coil), Hesaitix (M.E.S.H), Roza Terenzi, and Arushi Jain, as well as collaborators and contemporaries Special Guest DJ, Priori (who both co-produced elements of Friend), JASSS, Yushh and Loidis. Friend Remixes is out now! Special Guest on his remix: “I made this remix while in Naarm for an extended stay last winter (march/april 2025) I was...
