BADBADNOTGOOD release ‘Poeira Cosmia’, a new single featuring Brazilian singer-songwriter, composer and producer Tim Bernardes, with additional contributions from the legendary composer Arthur Verocai. The song premiered live at BADBADNOTGOOD’s sold-out, eight-night Blue Note residency in September, when Bernardes joined the ensemble for a series of songs including ‘Poeira Cosmia’, and a cover of Milton Nascimento’s ‘Tudo O Que Vocé Podia Ser’. The trio struck up a friendship with Bernardes...
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Liz Stringer returns with triumphant new single ‘Coming Home’, following a premiere on Double J Mornings. The single is a driving, indie-pop satirisation of the so-called perfect relationship. “I wrote ‘Coming Home’ about the ludicrous idea that we’re fed since we’re small children; that a romantic relationship will be the salve for all that ails in a lifetime. And that, without a romantic partner, we will forever be adrift, unfulfilled...
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Best-selling, prizewinning novelist and member of legendary sadcore band Art of Fighting, Peggy Frew shares her debut album Dial-Up. It drops just ahead of her launch show in Melbourne at the Bergy Bandroom on 9th November. Dial-Up is Frew’s first solo album. Luminous and ominous, the songs on Dial-Up are full of both vulnerability and bravado. Silver days, thunderstorms, broken-down cars and lonely winter train rides. The fraught sweetness of...
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SAM MORTON, the musical duo comprised of singer, songwriter and acclaimed actor and director Samantha Morton and music producer and co-songwriter Richard Russell, reveal their first new music since the release of their acclaimed debut album Daffodils & Dirt earlier this year. New single ‘Never Understand’ sees the pair putting their own unique twist on Ibrahim Hesnawi’s 1980’s cult classic; a drum-heavy, melancholic dub-inspired rendition that acts as an experimental...
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Planet Rami graces us with new single ‘Another Day At Home’, which follows Rami’s recent announcement that he has signed to Pointer Recordings. ‘Another Day At Home’ is a lush, melancholic indie tribute to the dull days produced by Julian Sudek, and is accompanied by a tongue-in-cheek, gorilla-filled music video directed by film maker Luke Hackett. Watch below! Planet Rami says, “’Another Day At Home’ is about the stagnant nature...
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After releasing her debut album earlier this year, Fabiana Palladino returns with new single ‘Drunk’. Self-written and produced, ‘Drunk’ was recorded at London’s iconic Abbey Road Studios in August of this year alongside Ellis Dupuy (Drums) and Joe Newman (Guitar), with her father and the legendary Pino Palladino later adding his signature bass to complete the track. The new single sees Palladino shift from the silky, polished production on her debut album to a more raw, immediate sound. It captures the energy of live performance...
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This Halloween, Bartees Strange shares a new single ‘Too Much’, from his upcoming album Horror (out on 14 February), a sonic and lyrical love letter from Strange to himself, growing from a deflated ego into a feral giant. As the opening salvo for Horror, ‘Too Much’ sets the tone for the Baltimore-based genre-shifter’s third outing with nods to early hits by the Isleys and the Brothers Johnson. Watch the accompanying...
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Gus Englehorn invites listeners into the twisted world of One Eyed Jack to celebrate Halloween — ‘One Eyed Jack Pt. I and Pt. II (The Interrogation/The Otherside)’, followed by ‘One Eyed Jack Pt. III (The Epilogue)’, giving listeners the urge to dive deep into the gripping storyline and vivid inspiration behind the fictional character invented by Gus himself. Englehorn describes One Eyed Jack as “a railroad song, of the kind that...
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Having been friends and labelmates since their teens, Romy and Sampha make their long-awaited first appearance on record together with the collaborative new single ‘I’m on your team’. The pair wrote the song during sessions for other artists before finally recording it together in London following the release of their acclaimed 2023 albums LAHAI and Mid Air, alongside co-producer and composer Thomas Bartlett. It’s a startlingly beautiful song that documents...
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The National recently announced the 13 December release of Rome, a 21-track digital and two-LP and CD set recorded live on 3 June 2024 at Cavea of the Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone. Now, they have shared another four song EP titled NTL RM EP II, featuring album highlights ‘Smoke Detector’, ‘Fake Empire’, ‘Mr. November’, and ‘Terrible Love’. Rome spans the band’s 20-plus years of songwriting and reveals how...
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Now ready to step into the spotlight, Ruthven releases his hotly-anticipated debut album Rough & Ready. Across 12 tracks, which feature collaborations with A.K. Paul and Francis Anthony ‘Eg’ White, Ruthven seamlessly blends classic songwriting with lush, modern instrumentation. Earlier in the week, Ruthven revealed ‘Thru The Walls’, a captivating blend of sensuality and funk. Featuring smooth, sultry melodies intertwined with groovy, infectious rhythms — all elevated by Ruthven’s flawless...
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DARKSIDE have released new song ‘Graucha Max’. Completed during sessions last year, the track is loose and live – at once evoking vintage Tropicalia, digital dancehall, and krautrock. It is the first studio composition that the band have released as a trio and a preview of things to come. DARKSIDE is an American rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island in 2011 by Chilean electronic musician Nicolás Jaar and American...
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Circuit des Yeux, the moniker of singer and multi-instrumentalist Haley Fohr, releases new song ‘God Dick’. A connective sonic link between Circuit des Yeux’s last album, -io, and a new one to follow in the new year, ‘God Dick’ morphs from symphonic swells and staccato strings to a spiralling 170 BPM drum machine cliffhanger, narrated by Fohr’s sonorous vocal. “God Dick serves as a sort of chrysalis function,” says Fohr,...
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Jesse Mac Cormack announces a brand-new EP GRIP, to be released November 25th. He also shares a new single from the EP, ‘La Vérité’ featuring both Toronto’s singer-songwriter Charlie Houston and French artist BRÖ. ‘La Vérité’ is of a virtual quality, it asks you to feel it all for a last time with an invasive and up-tempo melody. The project is entrenched with memory while always stringing you forward into...
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On her vibrant and expressive electronic debut, Ece Era challenges cultural ideologies, identity structures, and her difficult past with tracks crafted during introspective moments before sleep or upon waking. Ece Era’s debut Bedside Tunes is rich with emotion, blending hazy moments with vibrant beats, all while offering an unpretentious, unfiltered glimpse into her psyche. Ece seeks to reveal her inner self. Beyond the conditioning of her childhood and the culture...
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Interpol celebrate the 20th anniversary of their iconic sophomore album, Antics with a newly expanded reissue – out now on limited-edition red vinyl at record stores. And, on all digital platforms which includes the record, the new-to-streaming b-side ‘Direction’ (digital-exclusive), and a complete live recording and video of the band’s legendary 2005 performance at Mexico City’s Palacio de los Deportes, “never before heard or seen”. Listen / buy Antics (20th Anniversary Edition) here.
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