Raw and unbridled, Carla Geneve offers further insight into her deeply personal forthcoming LP in the form of downtempo wonder ‘Drive Carefully’. Her second album HERTZ arrives on Friday, 27th October. ‘Drive Carefully’ finds Geneve embracing strength in vulnerability through her raw and honest lyricism. Over gentle strumming, her uniquely emotive vocals engulf before building to a cathartic, guitar-driven crescendo. Listen / Download Carla Geneve – ‘Drive Carefully’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save HERTZ here.
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Florentino announces Kilometro Quinze, a brand-new EP out 20 October. It includes the celebrated single ‘Constrictor (feat. BAMBII and KD One)’ and a newly released single ‘Pressure’ featuring the Mercury Prize-shortlisted multi-hyphenate, Shygirl. Premiering today, ‘Pressure’ sees Shygirl’s irresistible vocals fused with Florentino’s idiosyncratic production that combines the bass-heavy textures of UK soundsystem culture with the energy of the Bogotá club music. Stream / Download ‘Pressure (Feat. Shygirl)’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save Kilometro Quinze here.
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Sleaford Mods announce the release of a new six track EP, MORE UK GRIM, out on 20 October. Recorded at the same time as their 2023 album, UK GRIM, the freshly released songs not only continue Andrew Fearn and Jason Williamson’s current dancefloor dominance, but with a mix of insight and wit, outrage and compassion, they critique and celebrate our turbulent times. Lead single ‘Big Pharma,’ shares a ‘take no prisoners‘ lyrical approach with the band’s...
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bar italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. They will release their second full length of 2023, The Twits, on November 3rd via Remote Control, less than six months after their acclaimed album, Tracey Denim. The Twits was recorded by the trio over eight weeks from February 2023 in a makeshift home studio in Mallorca, and was mixed by Marta Salogni. It finds bar italia’s economical yet evocative songcraft taking raucous, mystic, unkempt, occasionally...
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The National release a surprise second album of 2023, Laugh Track, out now! The album is a companion to and features material originally started in the same sessions as First Two Pages of Frankenstein. The National also confirmed Australian shows next spring with support from longtime friends Fleet Foxes. Full tour dates below. Laugh Track is the band’s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+...
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Memphis LK returns with the instantly hooky, new dance-pop single ‘Closer To You’, alongside the deep instrumental track ‘Make Yourself At Home’. Both tracks will feature on a brand new EP True Love And Its Consequences, out Friday 27 October. Beginning as a dreamy soundscape punctuated only by Memphis LK’s sweet vocals, ‘Closer To You’ suddenly drops with an unflinching beat. Its hook-laden chorus gives way to Memphis’ sax solo, the highlight of the hyperthermia-inducing video clip. Watch below! Pre-order...
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Tahitian/Parisian 5-piece outfit 15 15 (FKA QuinzeQuinze) have announced their new EP ATAHEVA, out November 3rd via Remote Control. The monstrous shapeshifters keep pushing the boundaries of their expansive electronic-tinged music with new single ‘Perfect Heaven’ – which delicately merges sweet melodies with dark, grumbling basslines and sputtering r&b beats – the song depicts what the band calls “the landscape of a marvellous nightmare”. Pre-order / pre-save ATAHEVA here.Stream / download ‘Perfect Heaven’ here.
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Wild Nothing shares new single ‘Suburban Solutions’ from his forthcoming LP Hold, out October 27th. Featuring his wife Dana and Molly Burch in a faux choir, Tatum sells a plea for self-improvement: an anti-jingle atop unabashed 80’s throwback synthpop. Watch the accompanied video below! The video, directed by Tatum and Josh Burgess of Yumi Zouma, was filmed partially in the suburbs of Tatum’s very own Virginia upbringing, and satirises the incessant advertising Tatum experienced after having a child: imploring...
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Sampha announces his sophomore album LAHAI, out October 20th. Taken from his paternal grandfather’s name, which is also Sampha’s middle name, LAHAI revels in the awe and magic of our existence, synthesising the exquisite chaos that one experiences confronting the cycle of life and the beyondness. With contributions from some of Sampha’s closest friends, peers and collaborators including Yaeji, LéaSen, Sheila Maurice Grey (Kokoroko), Ibeyi, Morgan Simpson (Black Midi), Yussef Dayes, Laura Groves and Kwake Bass, LAHAI, in contrast to Process, is a communal affair...
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Romy releases her debut solo album Mid Air, an album about celebration, sanctuary and salvation on the dance floor. It’s an album that deals with love, grief, relationships, identity and sexuality and is a love letter to the queer clubs where Romy found community and connection. It’s a coming-out album in a way, although she came out in her personal life a long time ago, but it’s also a coming-through album...
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A new and gorgeous chapter from Courtney Barnett releases her first instrumental album End Of The Day. Comprised of 17 improvisations that were originally recorded in 2021 as part of the score to the film Anonymous Club, Barnett returned to these tracks a year later, remixing, re-ordering and reframing them into a seamless meditative collage. Barnett also collaborated with filmmaker Claire Vogel to create an album-length visual accompaniment to End...
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Anjimile releases his new album, The King – his debut release for 4AD / Remote Control and first full-length since 2020’s breakthrough Giver Taker. The record includes recently released singles: powerful title track ‘The King’, the gently emotive ‘Father’, protest song ‘Animal’, and the haunting new single ‘Black Hole’. The songs of The King document the range of complicated emotions of Anjimile’s lived experience – from the deep appreciation of parental support in ‘Father’, to the grief (‘Genesis’),...
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The prolific electronic duo, Overmono – Tom and Ed Russell – return with explosive new single ‘Blow Out’, which follows their long-awaited debut album Good Lies, released in May this year to huge acclaim (“UK rave history is distilled to perfection” – The Guardian). Debuting at #11 in the UK Charts, Good Lies is widely regarded as one of the greatest electronic records released in recent years. ‘Blow Out’ is rich in bass-heavy textures, and the infectious vocal hook makes...
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Today, we celebrate the 20th anniversary of Pretty Girls Make Graves’ sophomore album, The New Romance. Originally released in 2003, this was the Seattle punk band’s Matador Records debut. After more than a decade out of print, the album will return to us in a limited edition white vinyl pressing in stores on November 3. A deluxe digital version also lands and features two b-sides ‘Magic Lights’, newly available on...
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Molly Burch shares the third offering ‘Tattoo,’ from her upcoming album Daydreamer out September 29th. The song is dedicated to her late best friend, Lena, and is an ethereal ballad featuring sweeping harp and backup vocals from Hannah Kim (Luna Li). Watch the accompanying video created by Burch and Lena’s sister below! Having recently relocated to her hometown of Los Angeles, the beginnings of her latest album came together after Burch found her old diaries from age 13 and younger. Renowned for her captivating...
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Delicate vocals and breathtaking strings imbue the latest EP Lighting Up from singer-songwriter Gena Rose Bruce out now. Following her critically acclaimed album Deep Is The Way, Lighting Up features the brand new title track alongside reimaginings of album songs, new life breathed into them by the ethereal Budapest Art Orchestra. This weekend Bruce will mesmerise audiences in the UK appearing at End Of The Road Festival and then Reeperbahn...
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