Belle and Sebastian kick off 2018 with shimmering new single ‘The Same Star’. Taken from Part 2 of the band’s new trilogy of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems. Listen below! The Sarah Martin penned, Leo Abrahams produced song brings together breezy guitars, feel-good rhythm and Martin’s bittersweet vocals for another showcase of the infectious, inquisitive and timeless pop on the band’s latest offering. Recently adding an Australian leg to...
Brisbane duo Primitive Motion announce their third full-length, House in The Wave, released Friday 23 February. In addition, they share first single ‘Feed the Signals’. Watch the video below! Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig recorded the album across Sunday afternoons spent in Selig’s home studio in Brisbane. The result is a meditative suite of dreamy piano-based songs, captured live at the point of conception and teeming with the incidental sounds of both the studio...
Created by Matt Mclean of feeding | ear, the soundtrack for Rumu is out now, and the game now playable via Steam. A creation of Sydney-based game development company Robot House, Rumu joins a list of hit franchises brought to life by the team, including Warhammer 40K: Regicide and Hulabear. Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure game about a robot vacuum cleaner becoming self-aware. You are RUMU – a robot...
Without further ado, here are each of our Top Ten Releases of 2017, (and in no particular order). Happy Holidays. Steve Lost Souls of Saturn vs Mashrou – Bint El Khandaq Brooklyn Raga Massive – Purple Rain Harmony Byrne – Demise Aldous Harding – Horizon Nina Simone – Save Me Alice Coltrane – Om Shanti The Orbweavers – Cyclamen Christopher Coleman Collective – Spotify Suggests You Starry Starry Night Alain...
Lætitia Tamko is professionally known as Vagabon. She is a solo artist, a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, a peer of Porches, Mitski and Makkonen. The New Yorker, originally from Cameroon, released Infinite Worlds earlier this year. The album is now being re-released in AUS/NZ via Barely Dressed. She has also shares the video for ‘Cold Apartment’ made by assurgent Los Angeles animator Faye Orlove. The new video tells the crushing narrative of...
Jen Cloher announced that she will be commencing an Australian tour in March 2018. Check out full dates and details below! The tour will celebrate the end of a landmark 12-months for Cloher, releasing her self-titled album to unprecedented acclaim and unleashing her live show to rapturous audiences all over the world. These shows will likely be Cloher’s only run of Australian headline shows with a band in 2018 as...
Lucy Dacus has announced her new album, Historian, released on 2 March 2018. She also shares new song ‘Night Shift’ which boasts a devastatingly powerful vocal performance and scathing lyrics telling off a former lover, the only breakup song Dacus has ever written. Listen below! Historian is a 10-track record full of bracing realisations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that feel destined for countless yearbook quotes and...
Good Boy have shared their self-produced video for ‘1972 VW Superbug’. The track is the third single from their brilliant EP Shirk Life, out now. Watch it below! The song is a nostalgic sprawler, exploring regional life via bored late-nights in their hometown of Bundaberg, Queensland. Rarely does a punk band write with such romanticism. “We made this video from footage collected every time we returned to our home town of...
Goat Girl share new track ‘Scream’, released on the 15th December on Limited edition 7”, as an exclusive B Side with recent single ‘Cracker Drool’ as A Side. The track is available on all streaming services now. Listen below! Goat Girl head up an emerging set of groups from South London who have been inspired by the burgeoning local scene there. A classic sketch by the late great comedian Bill...
Tune-Yards have released a new single ‘ABC 123’, from their forthcoming album I can feel you creep into my private life, out January 19. Watch the companion video, directed by Dear Mr Quistgaard, below! Bandleader Merrill Garbus’ politically-infused lyrics set a foreboding scene, as she laments, “California’s burning down / Sitting in the middle of the sixth extinction.” I can feel you creep into my private life is the fourth studio album and...
Honey Hahs release their new single ‘Forever’. The accompanying video was filmed on their first visit to Paris to perform at LesInRocks Festival last month. Watch the clip below! Honey Hahs describe the meaning behind the song; “Forever was written about our Dad who was worried about the world coming to an end. He started buying loads of food in case you couldn’t buy it in the shops anymore. He...
Montreal staple, Jackson MacIntosh, announces his debut solo album My Dark Side, coming early 2018. He has also unveiled his first single ‘Lulu’, listen below! MacIntosh explains that “‘Lulu’ was the first song I’d written after a dry spell that lasted about a year, which is pretty unusual for me, because I usually can’t stop myself from writing. It was sort of an unusual song for me, and was a song that led...
Following on from his single ‘Anyting’,London’s Renz is back with ‘Want Me ft. Trinna Carter’, another laid-back summertime jam. Watch the new clip below! Filled with Renz’ blissed out approach to vocals and production, it’s an unassuming earworm. Bringing summer-vibes to the basement club of Birthdays in Shoreditch. Having executive produced the first New Gen record as well as creating one of the most popular songs on it (Flexin’), Renz steps...
The third & final EP in Overmono’s acclaimed Arla series, Arla III, is out now! Overmono have also shared a new video for ‘Phase Magenta’, watch it below! Arla III finds Ed & Tom Russell’s Overmono project again reinvigorating & reshaping rave culture, through a deep personal affection for UK electronic music’s past acting as fuel for the inexorable forward momentum of their music. Over the series’ 14 tracks, they have...
The National have released the video for ‘Dark Side Of The Gym’, directed, choreographed and starring NYC Ballet Resident Choreographer and soloist Justin Peck and executive produced by former Miami City Ballet dancer and current dance filmmaker Ezra Hurwitz. Also starring former Miami City Ballet mentor and Principal dancer, Patricia Delgado, the video finds the duo gracefully move around a balloon filled auditorium. Watch it below! The National will return to...
Smerz have released their third new track and video in as many months. The new single ‘Have fun’ is a groovier cut of their breathed vocals and minimal beats. Watch the clip below! The video was produced and directed by Smerz, and as with all Smerz music, the track was produced, programmed and sung entirely by the Norwegian duo. Prolific doesn’t even cover it. Henriette and Catharina, who comprise Smerz, were...
