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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Manchester-Colombian Producer and DJ Florentino debuts on XL Recordings under the iconic house-bag series with brand new single ‘Constrictor‘. A true celebration of Florentino’s roots, ‘Constrictor’ combines the darker, robust, low-end tones central to British sound systems with the irresistible rhythms of Latin American dance sounds. Featuring multi-hyphenated Dancehall artist Bambii and Dominican Urbano vocalist KD One, ‘Constrictor’ gives a flavour of some new sounds from a producer that has been blazing a trail of cross-cultural club sounds over the past few...
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THUS LOVE recently announced their debut album Memorial, out on Captured Tracks digitally October 7th & physically November 11th. The Vermont trio have now dropped the beat-driven, new-wave-post-punk inspired single ‘Family Man,’ with accompanying video. Watch below! “Family Man is a playful commentary on internalized capitalism and the mutual hardships of the working class in a binary world,” says THUS LOVE. “This song hints at an inevitable systemic collapse relieving all anguish.” Listen / purchase ‘Family Man’ here.Pre-order / Pre-save Memorial here.
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SOHN releases ‘M.I.A.’ from his upcoming album Trust, released digitally on September 2nd, with vinyl to follow on November 4th. It is propulsive and ominous from its first chords and accompanied by a striking video from Brazilian director duo Vira-Lata. Watch below! “’M.I.A.’ is dedicated to the partners of those with depression – the ones who hold it down while their loved ones may be missing-in-action whilst suffering,” SOHN explains. “I speak from experience of having...
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In July of 2021, Welsh Producer Lewis Roberts aka Koreless released his highly-anticipated debut album Agor. An album over five years in the making, Agor was released to critical acclaim, and to this day is widely regarded as one of the best electronic records of 2021. Unlike any other record you’ll hear, Agor straddles the worlds of ambient and contemporary classical while not sounding like an example of either. The album was regarded as one of the best electronic...
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Last month, Chicago-based percussionist, composer, and producer Makaya McCraven announced the details of his new album In These Times, out September 23rd via International Anthem / Nonesuch / XL Recordings. The second offering from the new album is out now: ‘Dream Another,’ which McCraven wrote and recorded in his home studio in Chicago. The track features Brandee Younger on harp, Junius Paul on bass, Matt Gold on guitar/sitar, and De’Sean Jones on flute. An accompanying music visualizer, directed by Nik Arthur, features hand-drawn, digital, and photographic animations composed...
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JayWood – Winnipeg musician & songwriter Jeremy Haywood-Smith – presents a new single ‘Thank You’, from his forthcoming album Slingshot, out July 15th. Pre-order here. ‘Thank You’ was co-produced with Jacob Portrait of Unknown Mortal Orchestra & Blouse and features string arrangements by Johan Lenox. The charming accompanying video, directed by Chantel Simpson, shows Haywood-Smith passing out flowers across Harlem. Watch below! The song brings JayWood’s sound full circle, offering something reminiscent of Haywood-Smith’s earliest recordings while flaunting that “the...
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Chicago band Horsegirl – Nora Cheng (guitar, vocals), Penelope Lowenstein (guitar, vocals), and Gigi Reece (drums) – unveil a new single/video, ‘Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty),’ from their debut album, Versions of Modern Performance, out June 3rd. Watch below! ‘Dirtbag Transformation (Still Dirty)’ is a scuffed up, guitar-driven piece of garage-pop. The tracks’ lyrics brim with alliteration and slanted rhymes, and as the instrumentation rises, the song rides out with a chorus of “oohs.” As a band who do everything as a...
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New Orleans no-wave punks Special Interest are sharing their first music on Rough Trade Records, a dynamic new track called ‘(Herman’s) House’ which comes with a video directed by Special Interest vocalist Alli Logout. Watch below! Special Interest is a four piece punk band emerging from New Orleans, Louisiana. Combining elements of No-Wave, Glam and Industrial, they create a frenetic and urgent revisioning of punk and electronic music for a modern world gone mad. Propulsive analogue drum machines, a swirling layer...
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Men Seni Suyemin (Kazakh for “I love you”) is the solo electronic project of St. Petersburg-based musician & producer Minona Volandova, whose arrangements toe the line between experimental electronic and atmospheric post-rock, centered around elegant guitar melodies that reflect her classically-trained background. June 24th, 2022 will see the release of the EP HOPE, a genre-defiant, multilingual collection of irresistible tracks. With the announcement of HOPE comes the release of lead single ‘NOZH’ (which translates to “knife”). ‘NOZH’ begins delicately, with Volandova singing...
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British producer and songwriter SOHN returns after a four-year absence with an emotive new single ‘Figureskating, Neusiedlersee’. Inspired by the Tom Waits song ‘Alice’ and named for a lake in Austria, ‘Figureskating…’ is a wistful look back at past relationships and the pressure to sustain the intensity of early romance. “The metaphor of skating a love’s name, etching it into the ice, really struck me – the danger of falling...
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Part Time Records have unearthed two new discoveries from regional Australia who will feature on the next instalment of their 7” vinyl subscription service, PTR Singles Club – Mount Monda (VIC) and Manor (SA). A chance encounter at the foot of Mount Monda seemed a bit like a cosmic conspiracy. Producer and multi-instrumentalist Luke Postill worked on Matt Walters’ very first EP back when he was signed to the major label. Luke and Matt hadn’t seen each other since recording that EP. Then they...
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Jess Ribeiro has cemented herself as one of the Australian underground’s most engaging and unpredictable creative forces and her evolution is only just beginning. A shape-shifting musical enigma, the near-untouchable quality of Ribeiro’s recorded output is astonishingly consistent and the wait for new music is always worthwhile. Ribeiro’s new single, ‘In Love With This Place’, is a Synth doom pop song written in the Otways on the Great Ocean Road at the start of...
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Later this month on June 25th, Lucy Dacus will release her new album, Home Video, via Matador / Remote Control Records. Today, she presents ‘Brando‘, the album’s fourth track in a string of emotive singles – ‘VBS‘, ‘Hot & Heavy‘, and ‘Thumbs‘. Continuing to showcase Dacus’ incredible storytelling and songwriting, ‘Brando‘ weaves together Old Hollywood references with frank observations of a temperamental relationship. “‘Brando’ refers to a very dramatic friend I had in high school whose whole personality was the media...
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