We’re thrilled to announce the signing of Donny Benét to Dot Dash Recordings. To celebrate the occasion, Benét has unveiled new single ‘Konichiwa’ — wafting from the quiet streets of Kyoto, a song as smooth as the silken tofu famous to the region. Watch the accompanied video below! ‘Konichiwa’ was recorded in the infamous Donnyland studios using the finest Japanese, American and Italian synthesisers and features Don’s brother Dan on saxophone....
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Front man of Brisbane’s Velociraptor, Jeremy Neale has announced his debut solo album Getting The Team Back Together, released Friday 3 November. To celebrate, he’s dropped the video for first single Dancin’ & Romancin’. Check it below! As Jeremy says of the track: “Dancin’ & Romancin’ is about how hard it can be to maintain a relationship when you and your partner have very different working schedules. When the stars eventually...
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Client Liaison share the new video for single ‘A Foreign Affair’ taken from their debut album Diplomatic Immunity, out now. Watch the video, directed by Tim White, below! Tina Arena says “It’s been a lot of fun working with Client Liaison, from recording the song last summer and to crashing their set at Splendour, this clip ties it all together nicely! Grab a gin & tonic and get ready for take-off.”...
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The National have shared their latest track ‘Day I Die’ from their forthcoming album, Sleep Well Beast, out Friday 8th September. The video, directed by Casey Reas, compresses the frenetic energy of performing with the grind of touring. Watch it below! The National will arrive in Australia in February 2018 as part of their world tour, playing shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. This will mark the first time Australian audiences...
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Widowspeak have released their full-length album Expect The Best, which sees the band finding their greatest balance between opposing forces: darkness and light, quiet and loud, tension and calm. At the heart of the band, there is a palpable duality, a push and pull between the delicate and the deliberate: the contrast of lead singer-songwriter Molly Hamilton’s strikingly beautiful voice and poignant melodies with the terrestrial reality of being a four-piece rock...
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South London four-piece Goat Girl share the video for ‘Crow Cries’ to celebrate the release along with ‘Mighty Despair’ on a limited 7″. Watch the video, written, produced and directed by lead singer Clottie Cream, below! The band’s furious sound represents how it feels to live in this current climate “There’s teenage angst in them,” says L.E.D “But I think that was inevitable, growing up in London over the last ten...
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Wiki is back with the release No Mountains in Manhattan, out today! To coincide, Wiki shared his video for ‘Mayor’. Watch below! On the new track, produced by Tony Seltzer and Alex Epton, Wiki recounts his journey from “little rapper” to “The Mayor,” as his music takes him around the world, but always back to the city that raised him. Directed by Matt Lubansky, the video follows Wiki on an unconventional campaign...
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“The title Villains isn’t a political statement. It has nothing to do with Trump or any of that shit. It’s simply 1) a word that looks fantastic and 2) a comment on the three versions of every scenario: yours, mine and what actually happened… Everyone needs someone or something to rail against their villain same as it ever was. You can’t control that. The only thing you can really control...
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King Krule shares video for ‘Czech One’, the first new music to surface from Archy Marshall’s acclaimed project since 2013. Watch it below! Directed by Frank Lebon, the video features Archy alone in his thoughts but surrounded by hundreds of strangers on a red-eye flight — as he contemplates his past, present and future. The visuals are a Noir-esque reverie, echoing the song’s atmospheric-downtempo-lounge-jazz-dream-state. ‘Czech One’ will be available as the...
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Renz shares ‘Anyting’, the first track to be released via New Gen’s newly created imprint on XL Recordings. The accompanying video serves to enhance the track’s summer vibe, it’s a recognisable street party but with a more subdued, mellow late-night London feel. Watch it below! Having executive produced the first New Gen record as well as creating one of the most popular songs on it (Flexin’), London’s Renz steps further...
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Jess Cornelius, frontwoman of Melbourne band Teeth & Tongue, released her searing first solo single ‘Jealousy’. Watch a live recording of ‘Jealousy’ in her room below! Cornelius says of the track, “Jealousy is one of those hideous emotions that stops us from being able to be happy, for others and ourselves. It’s insidious and destructive, and it’s also totally human.” Jess Cornelius is the New Zealand-born songwriter, singer and instrumentalist behind...
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The Black Seeds have shared a third new single from their forthcoming album, Fabric, out Friday 8 September. Listen to ‘Back To You’ below! Co-frontman of The Black Seeds, Daniel Weetman takes the lead in this heartfelt, summery track. ‘Back To You’ is a tribute to old relationships being revived – standing the test of time, being renewed and staying true. The band’s sixth studio album comes just a year...
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Julien Baker will release her second album Turn Out The Lights on Friday 27th October. An early preview can now be heard in first single ‘Appointments’, a viscerally moving track that culminates in a swell of Baker’s voice, guitar, and piano. Listen below! Turn Out The Lights was recorded at Ardent Studios in Baker’s hometown of Memphis, TN. Throughout the album, she reflects on experiences of her own and those closest...
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Gold Class have released Drum, their follow-up album to 2015 debut It’s You. Drum showcases a new side to the band. Recorded at Melbourne’s Head Gap and Tropical Fuck Storm Studios and produced by Gareth Liddiard, Drum sees Gold Class expand their sonic pallet. Drum stands to be both personal and political, as Adam Curley, singer and lyricist for Gold Class explained, “I wanted the album to be defiant and full of...
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Reptaliens, the Portland lo-fi pop band led by husband and wife Cole and Bambi Browning, will release their debut album FM-2030 on Friday 6 October. Listen to the first single ‘If You Want’ below! Reptaliens quickly evolved from a bedroom-recording project to a full-fledged band that explores fringe pop culture through analog synthesizers, electric guitars, melodic bass lines, and Bambi’s lulling vocals. The pair’s songwriting mirrors their strong connection. FM-2030 was recorded...
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Jess Locke has announced her new album Universe, out on Friday 20th October. She has also shared an accompanying video to the title track, made by friends of Jess, Marnie Vaughn (Bare Pictures) and Mim Montgomery at Monster House, an artist run studio space in Marrickville. Watch it below! Half stop motion animation and half video, the ‘Universe’ video shows Jess singing to the viewer through an old window as its panes are gradually...
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