Artist, producer, DJ and cultural icon Peggy Gou returns with her first new music in nearly two years. Inspired by the eclectic house and pop classics that defined the Balearic sound, alongside 90s and 2000s dance anthems and Peggy’s own inimitable contemporary club production, ‘(It Goes Like) Nanana’ makes an early claim to to soundtrack sunsets and sunrises the world over. ‘(It Goes Like) Nanana’ is released via XL Recordings / Remote Control, her first release for the label....
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On July 7th, Matador / Remote Control Records will release Crowd Can Talk / Dressed in Trenches, a composite of two EPs by Chicago trio Lifeguard. Today, listen to the new single ‘Alarm’ and watch the band blaze through the song in a live session recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio. Formed in 2019, Lifeguard are Asher Case (bass, vocals), Isaac Lowenstein (drums, percussion), and Kai Slater (guitar, vocals). At...
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2023 has been a transformative year for the young artist and producer, not dvr, who recently moved to London from his hometown of North Berwick in Scotland. This year, he has released the acclaimed single ’emptyhouse’, follow-up ‘prettynames’ and stripped-back ‘wishuwerehere’. not dvr returns to release the next chapter in his coming-of-age story with a new single, ‘darkroom’. Drawing inspiration from a film of captured memories in his new city, ‘darkroom’ offers an uplifting blend of lo-fi acoustic productions,...
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Tahitian/Parisian 5-piece outfit QuinzeQuinze have shared their first single of 2023 ‘KODEK’. They’re making music like no one else, conjuring up epic soundscapes coated in Moombahton and club-ready jaunts of the underground that’s been lauded by Crack, Dazed, Pitchfork, Resident Advisor and NPR. The group have been making music shaped by their Tahitian heritage (two of the groups five members are from the South Pacific Island in the French Polynesia) while also bringing together ancestral ōrero (Polynesian...
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Acclaimed Nashville musician Becca Mancari (they/them) announces the release of their third album, Left Hand, due out this August 25th via Captured Tracks/ Remote Control Music. Left Hand came out of a dark period in Mancari’s life, yet the self-produced album is anything but. Wide-open and welcoming, the music beckons all listeners, encouraging community among strangers. To that end, Mancari surrounded themself with some friends and long-time collaborators for the making of Left Hand. On Left Hand, Mancari offers the listener a collection of songs that should...
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Still reeling from the ecstatic reaction to the recently released ‘Emotion Sickness,’ a triumphant return that “finds them at their sinister, bar-band-on-acid best” per New York Magazine, Queens of the Stone Age now unveil ‘Carnavoyeur,’ the latest offering from their epic eighth album, In Times New Roman… available across all platforms on June 16th via Remote Control Records. In contrast to its predecessor, ‘Carnavoyeur’ finds QOTSA weaving more subtle shades of sinister: Mesmerizing washes of strings cascade atop the band’s trademark rock solid foundation, while Joshua Homme’s mellifluent...
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After a slew of collabs, HANDSOME announces there’s more on the horizon with the forthcoming release of HANDSOME GANG: Every Second We Try. The project featuring HANDSOME’s friends and family will be released on 23 June via Dot Dash Recordings / Remote Control Records. Another teaser dropped alongside the announcement in the form of ‘Pulse’ featuring Boorloo producer St. South, an uplifting, ambient tune punctuated by a solid pulsating beat – really elucidating its name. The track gathers steam before bursting into a dance-floor heater challenging any...
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XO SKELETON is the supple, steady, uncanny new album by La Force: a mixture of haunted pop and hot-blooded R&B that glistens at the meeting-point between life, death, and love. The album, co-produced by La Force and Warren Spicer (Plants and Animals), will be available everywhere in digital and LP format on September 29 via Remote Control Records. Available as of today is the first single and opening track ‘condition of us’, the portrait of adoration, a love-affair...
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Following the recent upload of Ed Kuepper’s debut record to streaming services, it’s time to introduce The Exploding Universe of Ed Kuepper, the first live band experience of Ed Kuepper’s solo material since 2009. Today, Kuepper announces a national tour for this September in celebration of his lauded classic Honey Steel’s Gold being made available on streaming services from Friday, 9th June. Featuring Ed’s legendary sparring partner Mark Dawson on drums, Sunnyboys bassist Peter Oxley, plus celebrated pianist Alister Spence and brass maestro Eamon Dilworth, The Exploding Universe will tackle the best of Kuepper’s recent vinyl reissues Electrical...
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Texas-bred singer/songwriter and Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek announces his new album, Haunted Mountain, out Friday, 25th August. His first release for 4AD / Remote Control, Meek also shares the lead single and title track, ‘Haunted Mountain’, a song co-written alongside his friend and long-time hero Jolie Holland. Following his beloved 2021 album, Two Saviors, Haunted Mountain marks Meek’s third solo album. Haunted Mountain is about love and… something other. Something bigger than love, something that doesn’t challenge love exactly but stands in contrast to it. Lead single...
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Anjimile Chithambo, better known as Anjimile, announces his new album, The King, out September 8th, his first full-length since 2020’s breakthrough Giver Taker. To herald the announcement, he shares lead single, ‘The King.’ Highlighting the artistic shift from Giver Taker to now, ‘The King’ opens with a lofty, melodic choir, an intro that belies the song’s motives. Suddenly, sinister arpeggios interrupt the reverie, and the voices grow darkly serious. Deeply steeped in the confusion, grief, and rage...
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Jeremy Dutcher is a Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist, and ethnomusicologist from Tobique First Nation in Eastern Canada. Dutcher’s 2018 debut — Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa — vaulted him into the upper echelons of Canadian performance, from the Polaris and Juno Award stages to the judges’ panel on Canada’s Drag Race. Dutcher — a classically trained opera tenor and pianist that has been singing the songs of his ancestors since he was a child — returns with his first new solo work since...
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King Krule shares a new single and video for ‘If Only It Was Warmth’, the latest piece of new music from the highly anticipated forthcoming new album Space Heavy, out Friday, 9th June via XL Recordings / Remote Control. The wistful, stripped-back instrumentation of ‘If Only It Was Warmth’ comes alongside a self-directed music video that sees King Krule journey across vast waters, with a cactus. Along the way, he is confronted by thoughts of love and lost connection,...
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British electronic duo Overmono are proud to release their highly anticipated debut album, Good Lies out now via Remote Control Records. Good Lies is a comprehensive realisation of the innovative sound the duo have cultivated over the last few years. Vocal samples that were once directly about love are remoulded into a series of multi-genre electronic sounds that are as powerfully euphoric as they are melancholic depending on the listener’s mood that day. Purchase / Download Good Lies here.
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bar italia, the London trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, have released their new album Tracey Denim digitally and on CD via Remote Control. The album will be available on vinyl September 8. Tracey Denim was recorded and produced by bar italia with mixing from Marta Salogni. It features the single ‘Nurse!’ which was released in March to acclaim, and described as “a hypnotic post-punk ballad” (The Guardian) and “narcotically arresting” (Pitchfork). Stream / Purchase Tracey Denim here.
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Last month, Interpol launched Interpolations, a series of collaborations that finds songs from the band’s latest album, The Other Side Of Make-Believe, reworked by artists Daniel Avery, Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker, Jesu, and Water From Your Eyes. Today, you can hear the second instalment, an interpolation of ‘Passenger’ created by guitarist and composer Jeff Parker. “When asked to make a remix for Interpol, I was intrigued and initially excited to make something from the drum breaks on the original version of ‘Passenger,’” explains Parker. “However, the muse had other plans...
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