London-based artist Lucinda Chua has shared the new song and accompanying short film, ‘Echo‘ announcing her debut solo album YIAN, out March 24th via 4AD. If Chua’s 2022 release ‘Golden,’ written from the perspective of her younger self, was the meditative prelude to the world of YIAN, then her new single ‘Echo’ places us firmly in its first chapter. A pop song about ancestral trauma, ‘Echo’ is the antihero’s journey, walking the line between respect for the past and the freedom to carve out a new...
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Belle and Sebastian hit the ground running in 2023 with the release of their 12th album Late Developers, out now. It came as a surprise announce earlier in the week alongside first single ‘I Don’t Know What You See In Me’. One of the band’s most unabashedly infectious pop offerings to date, it is also their first co-write, featuring young pop composer Pete Ferguson first. Arriving almost back-to-back to 2022’s Top Ten...
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With the release of her second album on the horizon, Gena Rose Bruce shares one final insight in ‘Harsh Light’ before the full record release on Friday, 27th January. Her appearance at Meadow Festival in March will be one of the first chances to hear new album Deep Is The Way live. Centred around Gena Rose Bruce’s distinct vocals, ‘Harsh Light’ is one of the more up-tempo songs in the collection with Bruce confessing “Originally I wrote this song...
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The eighth album by U.S. Girls, the nom de plume of North American multi-disciplinary and experimental pop artist Meg Remy, will be released on 24 February entitled Bless This Mess. To celebrate, U.S. Girls releases the slow jam gem, ‘Futures Bet’ alongside a music video directed by Alex Kingsmill that explores the visual wonder and resiliency of trash. Watch below! A combination of traditional 3D animation and composited live action footage was fed into various Stable Diffusion deep learning models....
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Returning with their first studio album for seven years, Stereo Mind Game is a new chapter for Daughter. To be released on 7 April, the group’s third record follows Not to Disappear (2016) and soundtrack Music from Before the Storm (2017). After more than a decade spent depicting the darkest emotions, the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella present their most optimistic record yet. The album’s lead single ‘Be On Your Way’ is a longing but resilient song...
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The Lemon Twigs release poignant, ’60s-tinged rock song and first single ‘Corner Of My Eye’, accompanied by a wistful video set in a cemetery, directed by Hilla Eden and Brian D’Addario. Watch below! The release marks their first new music in two years, following the 2020 album Songs For The General Public. ‘Corner Of My Eye’ is a warm, guitar-led ode to a new love interest, written and produced entirely by The Lemon Twigs. On the release, The Lemon...
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Australian trio Telenova cap off another landmark year by unveiling their late-night alter ego – Telenoir – a beats driven side project delivering a deeper, darker take on the band’s shadowy brand of alternative pop. Telenoir has reworked the band’s lauded Stained Glass Love EP into a brand new project out today via Remote Control Records, reconstructing it with dark dance floors and smoky speakeasies as inspiration. Modern trip-hop, breakbeat...
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Jen Cloher reveals ‘Being Human’, the second single from their forthcoming fifth album I Am The River, The River Is Me – released on Friday, 3rd March 2023. A powerful anthem committed to truth telling and Indigenous sovereignty, ‘Being Human’ builds its intensity upon an urgent drum beat, driving bass line, angular guitars and synth. The track breaks down before bursting into an exclamation of haka chants from Naarm based Kapa Haka (cultural performance group) Te Hononga o...
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Off the back of their Australian Music Prize nominated album Rotsler’s Rules, Black Cab today reveal a reworking of their single ‘Superheroes’ by German producer-on-the-rise SHAN. The title-track from the band’s album has also just been nominated for ‘Song of the Year’ at the Music Victoria Awards. The remix arrives alongside news of Black Cab’s December resident shows at Colour Club in Melbourne. Based near Frankfurt, SHAN is perhaps best known for his work with Gerd Janson’s Running Back imprint on which he has released a...
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Overmono return to release brand new single “Walk Thru Water” alongside artwork by long-time collaborator Rollo Jackson. Overmono exhibit an introspective side of their intricate productions with new single “Walk Thru Water”. Bringing in a sample from ‘Greatness’ by St. Panther, Walk Thru Water propels their unique sound beyond the dancefloor. Stream Purchase ‘Walk Thru Water’ here.
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Benjamin Woods shares a new song from his upcoming GOLDEN DREGS album, On Grace & Dignity. ‘Sundown Lake’ is a coming-of-age song full of nostalgia where band leader Benjamin Woods –joined by Issie Armstrong on backing vocals –muses on hazy memories of teenage life in Cornwall. Founded in Falmouth, Cornwall in 2013, the GOLDEN DREGS is the project of Benjamin Woods, songwriter and producer currently residing in South London. From...
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Jenny Hval unveils the enchanting new single, ‘Buffy’. ‘Buffy’ began with Hval improvising on the synth, and the resulting chords express a hopeful loneliness, woven from a repetitive pattern. “Somehow I improvised some lyrics that referred to Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” says Hval, “probably just because I have watched it many times.I do like the idea that a TV series with many episodes, like Buffy, can be used as a creative...
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A note from Jen on ‘Mana Takatāpui’ out now: “In 2019 I typed the words ‘Māori word for Queer’ into Google. The word ‘takatāpui’ flashed onto my screen with this description: ‘Takatāpui is the Māori word meaning a devoted partner of the same sex. In Western terminology, a person who identifies as takatāpui is a Māori individual who is gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Takatāpui is used nowadays in response to...
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Today, Jeremy Nutzman, the Minneapolis-raised artist known as Velvet Negroni, releases ‘Pop Song 2 & 1’. Juddering and billowing with piano and flickering percussion, ‘Pop Song 2 & 1’ is taken from his upcoming second album, Bulli, out on 13 January 2023. Created during a particularly tumultuous time in Nutzman’s life that involved drug abuse, bank fraud, and a house fire, it’s unsurprising that Bulli would echo his present state of mind. Bulli feels anticipatory, often frantic and manic...
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Melbourne-based genre-melders Huntly announce the release of their most cohesive project to date – their sophomore album Sentimental Still out Friday, 3rd February. The omnibus news comes alongside the second single and video ‘It’s You I’m Here For’. On Sentimental Still, Huntly demonstrate new evolution as their work explores the nature of relationships and a dedication to intimacy in all its forms. It’s a stunning collection of music highlighting a myriad of influences from UK garage, breakbeat, electronic-pop and alternative R&B. Written between 2019...
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Dance-punks Special Interest today reveal their new album Endure out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. Endure was self-produced and recorded at HighTower in New Orleans with engineering by James Whitten, mixed by Collin Dupuis (Angel Olsen, Yves Tumor, Lana Del Rey) and mastered by Matt Colton in London at Metropolis. Special Interest describes the experience of recording Endure as “inverted,” since the pandemic obviously stunted the possibilities of live performance, resulting in a new period of experimentation and sonic exploration in which...
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