After touring for Bluesfest and completing a sold out Australian tour, the Mountain Goats have shared album opener ‘Rain in Soho’ from their new record Goths, out Friday 19 May. The lyrics of ‘Rain in Soho’ constitute a jeremiad of vanished things: friends, places, safe harbors. Goths was recorded at Blackbird Studios, Nashville; produced by Brandon Eggleston; and mixed by Scott Solter. Woodwinds were arranged and played by Matt Douglas. The Mountain Goats are John Darnielle, Peter Hughes, Jon Wurster, and...
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Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly and James McAlister have launched a new song to celebrate the release of their forthcoming, collaborative album Planetarium. ‘Mercury’ is the second track to be released from Planetarium, out Friday 9 June. Watch the video below! Planetarium unites Stevens’ vocals, McAlister’s beats, Dessner’s guitar performance, and Muhly’s instrumental compositions: from lush piano ballads to rock anthems, classical cadenzas to electronic beats with Stevens’ distinctive vocals providing a centre of...
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Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius has dropped the second song from his forthcoming album No Shape, out Friday 5th May. Listen to ‘Go Ahead’ below! No Shape was recorded in Los Angeles, produced by Blake Mills, mixed by Shawn Everett. Of the album, Hadreas says: “I pay my rent. I’m approaching health. The things that are bothering me personally now are less clear, more confusing. I don’t think I really figured them out with...
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Benjamin Booker has shared ‘Right On You,’ the opening track from his upcoming LP Witness out June 2nd. Booker describes the song as being “about the selfish, lonely and hedonistic nature of modern life, where death is ‘right on you’ but seems ‘hard to imagine’.” Listen below. The album’s ten new, original tracks were all written by Booker, produced by Sam Cohen, mixed by Shawn Everett, and recorded at The Isokon studio...
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Car Seat Headrest appeared on Conan O’Brien last night and during their performance they rolled out a new version of their Teens of Denial track ‘Unforgiving Girl (She’s Not An)’. The more condensed version has been updated to ‘Unforgiving Girl (She’s Not A Single Version)’, check it out below! Car Seat Headrest are currently between their two weekend performances at Coachella, and Will Toledo recently shared an acoustic cover of the Smiths’...
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John Moreland has shared a new song, ‘Sallisaw Blue’. The Americana opener is taken from his upcoming album Big Bad Luv, out Friday 5th May. Listen below! Big Bad Luv is an honest, bruising experience. A record about love, faith and the human condition, it’s John’s debut for 4AD and his first full-length released worldwide. Moving from Kentucky to Tulsa when he was 10, John fronted hardcore and punk bands throughout high school years before feeling the...
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Melbourne’s Jim Lawrie, returns with the shimmering title-track from his new album Slacker of the Year, a gorgeously finger-picked daydream ballad which entertains the idea that a bedroom-bound slacker could somehow be celebrated as hero to the masses. Jim has also shared his video for the song, directed & produced by James Ruse. Watch it below! The video features a forlorn Lawrie travelling around Melbourne during peak-hour in nothing but a pair...
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Kamasi Washington today debuts ‘Truth’, the sixth movement from Harmony of Difference, a new EP set for release this winter via Young, who Kamasi has signed to. ‘Truth’ is accompanied by a new short film from director A.G. Rojas, watch it below. The EP is an original six-movement suite, featuring artwork by Kamasi’s sister Amani Washington. Amani created five paintings focused on raw shapes and colours, each inspired by one of the first five movements of...
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Stockholm duo Jaja Saine and Leo Smith, known as Saine & Smith, are excited to release their debut 12″ – Laughing Kids. Listen to ‘Lord Vanlig’ b/w ‘Sir Viktig’ below. In 2015 2MR founder Mike Simonetti played a gig with Jaja and was drawn to his DJ style (not being afraid to mix genres and take chances). A friendship was born and he soon asked Jaja for tracks. Enlisting Leo, Saine & Smith was...
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With under a month to go until Mac DeMarco’s new release, This Old Dog, out Friday 5th May. Mac offers up another taste of what’s to come with ‘On The Level’, listen below! Following the more acoustic-minded ‘This Old Dog’ and ‘My Old Man’, Mac revels in the high-gloss synth-pop of ‘On The Level’ showing once again that he’s at his best with the slower jams. It’s another number giving a further glimpse...
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Arca reveals a video for ‘Desafío’, the stunning track – taken from his new self-titled third album, out now – is perhaps one of the Venezuelan artist’s most accessible works to date. Watch it below! Arca (aka Alejandro Ghersi) has again teamed up with longtime visual collaborator Jesse Kanda for the video. Cathartic, provocative and sensual in equal measures, it completes a trio of Arca music videos (see also Anoche and Reverie)...
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Spoon have shared a new video for the title track of their new album Hot Thoughts. The video shows atmospheric footage of Spoon performing at their three day residency at SXSW taking over The Main, captured through the lens of lo-fi yet vivid VHS style cam. Watch it below! Spoon recently performed ‘Hot Thoughts’ on Jimmy Kimmel and ‘I Ain’t The One’ on The Late Show with James Corden, and last month were...
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Baltimore trio Future Islands have released their fifth studio album The Far Field. Catch the band performing at this year’s Splendour In The Grass. The Far Field refines and builds on the breakthroughs of their 2014 album Singles, written by Samuel T. Herring (vocals, lyrics), William Cashion (bass, guitars) and Gerrit Welmers (keyboards, programming). Future Islands brilliantly expresses the band’s central themes they’ve been exploring for the last decade: that there is power in...
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Arca has released his third full-length album. The self-titled record is the first to feature the Venezuela-born, London-based producer’s untreated singing voice. It was recorded at home in north-east London throughout 2016. Arca’s long-time visual collaborator Jesse Kanda once again directed the videos, and shot the album artwork. The heightened theatricality was inspired by Greek tragedy: “I’m representing this album performatively, extremely, dramatically. Myth can reach into the deep cortex of the...
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Pool House Records and Remote Control are thrilled to announce the signing of Melbourne’s Jess Locke, she’s the first addition to the Pool House family. To celebrate, Jess has shared a new single ‘Better/Bitter’, taken from an album due for release later this year. Watch the video below! Pool House Records’ Chris Cowburn says of Jess: “We have loved and admired Jess Locke for some time now. We were all...
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Aldous Harding announces her second album Party to be released Friday 19th May. She has shared a new single ‘Imagining My Man’ to celebrate, it’s taken from the upcoming album, followed from the first single ‘Horizon’. Check out the accompanying video below! Party was produced with the award-winning John Parish in Bristol, a world away from Harding’s New Zealand home. As well as contributions from Parish, Perfume Genius’s Mike Hadreas lends vocals to ‘Imagining My Man’...
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