Early next year, Lifeguard will release a new 7” maxi single, ‘Ultra Violence’ / ‘Appetite’. Recorded at the band’s rehearsal space / studio, the music continues the unstable ethos of this year’s much-loved debut album Ripped and Torn – alternating high-velocity punk-energies with surreal dub-inflected interludes. The new single ‘Ultra Violence’ is out now. The physical 7” is available to pre-order via Matador Direct through Tuesday, January 13th. A digital...
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keiyaA unveils her highly anticipated sophomore album hooke’s law, along with the album’s final preview earlier in the week — the yearning new single and video ‘k.i.s.s.’ The third chapter in keiyaA’s ongoing collaboration with co-director Caity Arthur, the ‘k.i.s.s.’ video places her at the center of a sudsy, carwash fantasy encounter-where flirtation turns into choreography and reminiscence for late-’90s/early-’00s playful swagger of classic R&B videos while twisting nostalgia into...
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DARKSIDE release new single ‘One Last Nothing’ – an unreleased composition created amid sessions for the trio’s third LP, Nothing – the track finds the group at its most bass-forward, riding a tough groove into an elegantly spaced-out blend of krautrock, dub, and Fillmore-era psychedelia. This fall, the trio will perform at Miami’s III Points festival and will also headline a three-night residency at the Lodge Room in Los Angeles. Early shows...
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Dance music titan Solomun today releases two highly-anticipated remixes of Jamie xx’s ‘Waited All Night’ – a standout track from his acclaimed 2024 album In Waves. The song marked the first time Jamie had reunited with his The xx bandmates Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim on record since the group’s 2017 album I See You, and has since become a live highlight at Glastonbury, Jamie’s own LIDO festival and...
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Toronto-based producer, film composer, and author Meg Remy anticipates her intuitive and adventurous U.S. Girls album, Scratch It (out 20 June) with a new single ‘Like James Said’, an ELO-styled nugget of AM gold and nod to James Brown about the healing power of dancing alone. Remy’s own lyrical response to Brown’s ‘Get Up Offa That Thing’, the track showcases her great — and characteristically tragicomic — phrasing, notably on...
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Following last year’s critically acclaimed second LP, Stumpwork, London outfit Dry Cleaning announce Swampy, a new EP composed of two previously unreleased tracks, remixes and demos, out on 1 March. Today, the quartet release two new tracks, ‘Swampy’ and ‘Sombre Two’ of which the band says, “These two songs were recorded in the Stumpwork sessions and they feel like good companions to us. They share a dusty, desolate and spacey atmosphere.” Also featured on Swampy are remixes...
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Ireland’s Gilla Band today share a new single and video, ‘Sports Day’. Their ground breaking new album Most Normal, which featured highly in Albums of The Year lists at Fader, The Guardian, Pitchfork and Irish Times is out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. The video for ‘Sports Day’ was directed by Michael Speed who also directed their previous video ‘Post Ryan’ and follows previous singles ‘Backwash’ and ‘Eight Fivers’ which had videos directed and animated by Mortis Studios. Frontman Dara Kiely explains...
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Hailing from regional NSW, Wade Jackson is a creative polymath. Songwriter, musician and film director, he knows how to draw the observer and listener into an immersive sensory world of sound and vision. Across five albums he’s covered wide musical ground, from jangly folk-rock to indie guitar and psych-pop sounds. Now comes the next avant garde chapter in Wade’s musical career. ‘Limelight’ emerges twitching, writhing, pulsing and electronically convulsing. Like Bowie and Suicide in...
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Joy Orbison has released his new single ‘2M3 2U’, a catchy and futuristic sounding track that follows previous tracks ‘pinky ring’ and ‘red velve7’ and sees Joy O continue his journey towards the dancefloor. “I see this one as a bit of a UK take on hyperpop,” says Joy. “But with a bit of bass weight. the vocal part could be a sample of some garbled message of love in Bladerunner or the Fifth Element, and the main...
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Yo La Tengo will release their sixteenth album This Stupid World on February 10th. What’s more, you can listen to the new song ‘Fallout’ below! Yo La Tengo have raced time for nearly four decades and they just keep winning. The trio’s latest victory is called This Stupid World, a spellbinding set of reflective songs that resist the ticking clock. This music is not so much timeless as time-defiant. “I want to fall out of...
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Brooklyn, NY’s Scout Gillett has shared her vibrant new single ‘slow dancin’‘ from her forthcoming debut LP no roof no floor, due out on October 28th via Captured Tracks. Premiering at FLOOD Magazine, the song’s Matthew Lippman and Jordan Tetewsky-directed video was inspired by the Dennis Hopper film Out of the Blue: “In the movie, Cebe, a young girl, finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene. I related to this a lot,” says Scout. “This video was...
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The National have been playing a number of new songs live since returning to the road this May, and now the group has released one of them as a new single through 4AD / Remote Control Records, ‘Weird Goodbyes’ feat. Bon Iver. The single continues the tradition of Justin Vernon’s collaborations with the band in the studio and on stage. “It’s about letting go of the past and moving on, then later being overwhelmed by...
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On the anniversary of her ARIA nominated album 3 – and on the eve of her national tour – Sydney-based, Papau New Guinean future-soul artist Ngaiire reveals ‘F.U.’, taken from the album’s b-sides. The captivating artist also announces the supports for her lengthy tour this August/September. Stripped back to the bones of a single piano and spotlighting Ngaiire’s inimitable vocal alongside rousing choral harmonies, the single leaves a lasting impression as a delicate reminder of the importance of relying solely on yourself. On...
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Oliver Sim and Jamie xx – producer of Sim’s highly anticipated debut solo album Hideous Bastard – continue their longstanding creative partnership with the release of a rare Jamie xx remix. Jamie has only ever released a handful of official remixes (for the likes of Radiohead, Adele, Four Tet and Florence and The Machine) and, on his first remix in over five years, he stretches the Brian Wilson-sampling original into a near ten minute dancefloor epic. Featuring additional production from Floating Points, it’s...
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Daniela Lalita has announced the details of her debut EP Trececerotres, due out September 16th on Young. A direct reference to the apartment – 1303 – in Peru where Lalita grew up with her mother and grandmother, Trececerotres is rooted in magic, ritual, healing and the matrilineal relationship. The five-song EP features previously released single ‘Tenía Razón‘ and Lalita’s newest single ‘No Para.’ Premiering via a music video directed by Bradley & Pablo, ‘No Para’ sees Lalita dressed in her own hand-sewn garments, re-enacting...
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Leeds-formed art-rock outfit Drahla return with the contorted thrill of ‘Under The Glass’, their first new material since acclaimed debut LP Useless Coordinates and a cover of Psychic TV’s ‘Godstar’ landed in 2019. On the themes behind the new single, the band say “‘Under the Glass’ represents a moment of creative reconnection, almost a sense of euphoria in the darkest moments – an awaited, yet slight, respite from reality. The song is a collage, reworking early ideas...
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