Multi-disciplinary Toronto artist Meg Remy has released her sixth full-length album as U.S. Girls, In a Poem Unlimited. In a Poem Unlimited was brought to life by an impressive body of talent – including Toronto collective The Cosmic Range and long-time collaborators Max Turnbull and Louis Percival. The album features dark meditations reflecting charged atmospheres that precede and follow acts of violence. Many of the songs are character studies of...
To celebrate the release of his debut album, Everything Is Recorded (aka musician, producer and XL Recordings co-founder Richard Russell) presents a video for new self-titled single ‘Everything Is Recorded’ (feat. Sampha & Owen Pallett). Watch below! The video has been created by friend, collaborator and acclaimed visual artist Toby Ziegler and builds on Ziegler’s work exploring the algorithms of online image search engines. From a series of over 3000...
Car Seat Headrest releases new album Twin Fantasy – the re-recorded, re-imagined new version of the 2011 self-released Bandcamp masterpiece of the same name. The band will tour Australia next week. Further tour details below. Will Toledo always knew he would return to Twin Fantasy. Will’s first love, rendered in the vivid teenage viscera of stolen gin, bruised shins, and weird sex, was an event too momentous for the medium assigned to record...
After a mysterious album teaser online and indie record stores worldwide unexpectedly receiving vinyl copies of a previously unheard song, Courtney Barnett announces her second studio album Tell Me How You Really Feel, and shares its scathing lead single ‘Nameless, Faceless’. Watch the video below! In Tell Me How You Really Feel Barnett has revealed a thrilling and unexpected shift. From its title (A question? An order?) to the cover image, Barnett...
Spellbinding indie-folk artist Ryan Downey releases the striking video for his new song ‘Running’, the title track to his debut album due April 13. Like a time-lapse flower, ‘Running’ reveals itself over the course of three gorgeous minutes. Watch below! Ryan and director Alex Badham took the video’s character into a half internal void, half real world space, drawing from the sensual aesthetics of Italian cinema to compliment the songs mix of...
On this day, Valentines Day, a day of love celebrated, remembered, and lost, “D” grade Sydney celebrity, recording artist and relationship guru Donny Benét serves up his latest offering ‘Santorini’. Watch the accompanying video below! Influenced by Giorgio Moroder’s Scarface and the only Ryan Paris hit La Dolce Vita, Benét is sure to offer you a tale of hope, begging and extinguished love. The music video was conceptualised and directed...
Lucy Dacus shares her new single ‘Next Of Kin’, from her second album Historian, out 2 March. It’s an album stand-out that highlights Lucy’s silky alto, crisp production, and intimate storytelling. Listen below! “’Next Of Kin’ is the thesis statement of the album,” says Lucy. “It’s a breaking point after a build up of difficult subject matter. It’s a song about accepting fate, forgetting fear, and allowing yourself to be incomplete always.”...
Iceage share new single, ‘Catch It’, their first new material since 2014’s Plowing Into The Field of Love. The song’s accompanying video was directed by Adam Hashemi and shot on 8mm film in Los Angeles. Watch below! Produced by the band – Elias Bender Rønnenfelt (vocals, lyrics), Jakob Tvilling Pless (bass), Dan Kjær Nielse (drums), and Johan Wieth (guitar) – and Nis Bysted, ‘Catch It’ was recorded all-analog by Mattias Glavå at...
Space Invadas share a new single and video for ‘Now That I Know’, from their newly announced album, Wild World, to be released on Friday 13th April. Along with previously released single ‘Wild World ft. Remi’ this marks the duo’s first new material since their debut record Soul-Fi in 2010. Watch it below! The accompanying film clip is a modern take on a traditional soul vibe, projecting Steve into a futuristic world...
When the Breeders reunited to release their first new music in a decade, the 2017 single ‘Wait in the Car’, they formed a series of limited 7” releases. On one, Kim Deal’s dreamy reimagining of Mike Nesmith’s ‘Joanne’ fills the B-side. And now, for the first time, the Breeders share an intimate video of Deal’s recording of that exact take in Steve Albini’s Chicago, IL studio with an appearance from Albini....
Portland, OR’s Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks release new single ‘Middle America’, the first new music to surface from the group since 2014. Listen below! On ‘Middle America’, Malkmus’s wry wordplay and sunny twang create an ode to underdogs everywhere, with bittersweet words of encouragement for the ramshackle character on their receiving end. Only SM & the Jicks can craft this kind of brightly low-key anthem, a perfect three-minute-thirty-second country-speckled...
Multi-disciplinary Toronto artist Meg Remy has released a fourth new U.S. Girls single, ‘Rosebud’, taken from her forthcoming album, In a Poem Unlimited, out Friday 16 February. Watch the clip below! A breathless synth anthem written by the legendary Rich Morel with Remy, ‘Rosebud’’s stunning accompanying video was directed by Alex Kingsmill, edited by Remy and stars Max Turnbull. In a Poem Unlimited, the sixth full-length album by U.S. Girls is...
Car Seat Headrest unveil another preview from forthcoming new album Twin Fantasy, out Friday 16 February. Listen to album opener ‘My Boy (Twin Fantasy)’ below! The song commences with the sparse declaration of “my boy, we don’t see each other much,” and blossoms into a towering climax, with the life-affirming mantra of “It’ll take some time, but somewhere down the line / We won’t be alone” standing as the statement-of-intent for the record’s...
Goat Girl announce their self-titled debut album to be released on Friday 6th April. The album was produced by Dan Carey in his South London studio in the Autumn of 2017. Watch the video to their new single ‘The Man’ below! Goat Girl creates a half fantasy world out of a very dirty ugly city reality. In the groups words: “Simply put, it’s an album that comes from growing up in...
The Bennies today release their new album Natural Born Chillers, on top of that they have shared one hell of an epic video to new single ‘Dreamkillers’ featuring the band on campaign trail. Watch it below! In a world gone mad, a nationwide scandal has emerged where people are now trying to ‘Ban the Beers’. With less than no experience, The Bennies garner the support of the people and are forced...
Jaye Bartell shares his video for new single ‘If I’m Only For Myself’ taken from his poetic album In a Time of Trouble a Wild Exultation which was released last October. Watch it below! The video is based off of artist Hollis Frampton’s short film ‘Nostalgia’ where you watch a black and white still of Bartell taken by photographer Erin Taylor Kennedy slowly burn away, go up in flames and...
