Out May 26, Everyone’s Crushed is the Matador / Remote Control debut from Brooklyn duo Water From Your Eyes. Second single ‘True Life’ teams ping-ponging guitar riffs with drop-tuned bass and an unexpected shoutout to Neil Young. “‘True life’ is our Neil Young-inspired quasi-nu metal stomp,” explains the band. “It is also intended to be our ‘Short Skirt / Long Jacket.’ The bridge was initially meant to contain lyrics from ‘Cinnamon Girl,’ but Neil Young’s lawyers wouldn’t let us use them. Now...
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This Is The Kit, the group led by Paris-based band leader Kate Stables, today announced the band’s new album Careful of Your Keepers – produced by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) – will be released on June 9th, 2023, via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. The album’s propulsive yet introspective lead single ‘Inside Outside’ finds Stables as magnetic as ever, joined once again by her stalwart band of Rozi Plain (bass/vocals),...
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HANDSOME is back with her first release for 2023 – ‘Dumb It Down’, this time working with producer and songwriters Chloe Dadd, and Olive Rush from EGOISM. Gang vocals and wicked heavy bass-line dominate this dance-floor ready pop anthem, while HANDSOME, Chloe and Olive exchange barbs. On the track’s theme, HANDSOME shares “To me, this song is about the breakdown in understanding between two people. Trying to catch someone’s eye at...
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The Lemon Twigs release ‘In My Head,’ the third single off their upcoming album Everything Harmony that arrives May 5. It was produced and mixed entirely by the brother duo, Brian and Michael D’Addario, with Michael playing guitar, bass and the drums on the track. ‘In My Head’ is accompanied by a vintage-tinged beachside video directed by The Lemon Twigs and Paul D. Millar, AKA Slugbug. Of the release, The Lemon Twigs say, “The song’s about the disconnect between your inner and perceived self.” Pre-order /...
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The Forest In Me, the forthcoming LP from Xylouris White, is actually the work of a musical triumvirate: Giorgos Xylouris and Jim White, of course, as well as their long-time producer, Guy Picciotto. Recorded in isolation in 2020, the trio conjured cinematic sounds while physically remote from each other, yet these songs were constructed with a unique psychic connection unbound by location. ‘Long Doll,’ the latest single from The Forest In Me, is music for a day...
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In celebration of their 10 year anniversary, Milk! Records proudly announces Milk! Records Remixed Vol 1. The label’s first remix compilation will be released on Friday, 12th May and filled with Milk!’s most beloved songs, crafted into something fresh by a collection of their favourite Australian musicians, artists and producers. The first cut is a re-imagining of Liz Stringer’s ‘First Time Really Feeling’ by the team-up of renowned contemporary guzheng artist Mindy Meng Wang – who’s credited with collaborations with the Gorillaz and Regurgitator – and the Australian Music Prize-nominated Tim Shiel....
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Bartees Strange releases ‘Daily News’ to streaming services for the first time. The song was previously available as a bonus track on the physical formats of his 2022 album Farm To Table. Released digitally in June 2022, Farm to Table is the second album from Washington D.C. resident Bartees Leon Cox Jr. Where his 2020 debut record Live Forever introduced the experiences and places that shaped Bartees (Flagey Brussels, Mustang Oklahoma), Farm to Table zeros in on the people — specifically his family...
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bar italia, the London based trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, have joined the Matador Records roster and released new single ‘Nurse!’. Over the last couple of years, bar italia have released two albums and an EP on Dean Blunt’s World Music label, as well as several singles. Throughout 2022 they have performed at festivals including Pitchfork Music Festival London, by:Larm, OUT.FEST, Le Guess Who?, and End Of The Road, in addition to their own headline shows. Stream / Purchase ‘Nurse!’ here.
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Multi-award-winning artist and Milk! Records co-founder Jen Cloher releases their fifth album I Am The River, The River Is Me. I Am The River, The River Is Me is an honouring of Jen’s Māori heritage, the indigenous people of Aotearoa, New Zealand and the first time they have woven the Māori language through their songwriting. These are fiercely political songs that never feel heavy. It suggests that home is not found in a place or a politic, but in the community you...
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Swampy, the new EP from Dry Cleaning, is out now. Serving as a companion release to last year’s critically acclaimed second LP, Stumpwork, the five-track EP includes recent singles ‘Swampy’ and ‘Sombre Two’, a demo of song ‘Peanuts’ and remixes from Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul and Nourished By Time (who supported Dry Cleaning on their recent North American tour). Of the remixes and remixers, Dry Cleaning said: “We asked Marcus (aka Nourished by Time) to remix his choice of song from Stumpwork as we are big fans of his...
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Today we announce the release of ‘Love Story (vs Finally) – Paul Woolford 2023 remix’. Released this year to celebrate the original track’s 20-year anniversary, this “floor ready remix proves that classics never die; Paul Woolford breathes new life into a track that “changed the course of dance music history” (DJ Mag). Grammy nominated producer, remixer, songwriter and DJ Paul Woolford has been redefining and reinventing all shapes of dance...
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On the follow-up to the Brooklyn duo’s 2021 breakthrough, Structure, Everyone’s Crushed – to be released on May 26th – sees Rachel Brown (they/them) and Nate Amos (he/him) find silliness and fatalism dancing in a frantic lockstep, using heart palpitating rhythms and absurdist, deadpan lyrics to convey stories of personal and societal unease. ‘Barley’ is a dance-rock track sequenced in alien tonality, with Brown speaking garbled transmissions (“One two three/Counter/You’re a cool thing count mountains”) over a bed of...
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Daughter share another single ‘Swim Back’ from their upcoming album Stereo Mind Game, out on 7 April. Elena Tonra isn’t a keen swimmer, but oceans pervade Stereo Mind Game. On ‘Swim Back’, deep feeling comes from the bows of the 12 Ensemble, the London-based string orchestra, arranged by Haefeli, and orchestrated by Josephine Stephenson. The track is accompanied by another Tiff Pritchett-directed video. Stream / Purchase ‘Swim Back’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save Stereo Mind Game here.
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Yaeji returns to share the second single and music video ‘Done (Let’s Get It)’ from her upcoming debut album With A Hammer, out April 7th On Yaeji’s latest single she reflects on the patterns, modes of thought and traumas we inherit from our ancestors, taking on the mission of smashing these inter-generational cycles as a path toward healing herself and the world. Accompanied by a music video directed and edited by Yaeji, ‘Done (Let’s Get It)’ stars Yaeji alongside her...
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I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool (Expanded Edition) by Kate Fagan, legendary punk and ska pioneer from Chicago is out now. Originally a coveted self-released single put out in 1980, the release is a full-length remastered collectible white vinyl album featuring four previously unreleased tracks from Fagan’s 1986 ‘Kissing Concept’ rock opera. ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool’ was engineered by Mike Rasfeld at Southport Records in Chicago with multi-instrumentalist Ron Rutherford. Fagan played bass. The B-side ‘Waiting For The Crisis’ remains relevant as a...
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The National have unveiled ‘New Order T-Shirt,’ the second pre-release track from its ninth studio album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, due Friday, 28th April Accentuating the album’s layered meditations on the rupturing of connection, ‘New Order T-Shirt’ is a warmly hypnotic track that shifts between singer Matt Berninger’s brightly detailed memories of someone he misses and heavy-hearted resolution. Aaron Dessner says. “There’s a simplicity to ‘New Order T-Shirt’ that reminds me of our earlier records, but...
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