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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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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Interpol release their seventh album The Other Side Of Make-Believe, including a new single and video ‘Gran Hotel’. Watch the Malia James-directed video below! Paul Banks says: “The lyrics to Gran Hotel tell a story of grief and heartbreak, of a character processing loss. Working with a fantastic camera crew and with the help of two very talented actors, Malia created a powerful video that conveys the events that lead to that loss. It’s a...
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Montreal-based artist, producer, engineer and remixer Patrick Holland recently announced his self-produced debut album, You’re The Boss, out this summeron Sinderlyn. Following the album’s earworm of a first single ‘Sinister Bell,’ ‘Nice Try‘ is out today. Featuring sunny guitars and velvety vocal harmonies, courtesy of Holland’s bandmate Jane Penny of TOPS, ‘Nice Try’ receives an incredible Erin O’Connor directed video. Holland has been known in the past for his electronic releases under aliases such as Project Pablo and Jump Source, and just as this album showcases another side of his...
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Hideous Bastard, the debut album from Oliver Sim is set for release on Friday 9 September. Pre-order here. Produced by bandmate Jamie xx, Hideous Bastard is the culmination of two years of writing and recording, inspired by Sim’s love of horror movies and his own life experience, unpacking themes of shame, fear, and masculinity. These themes are front and centre on new single ‘Hideous’. Enlisting the help of lifelong hero and “guardian angel”...
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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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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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The Smile have today released their brand-new, stop-motion animated video for ‘Thin Thing’, taken from the band’s upcoming debut album A Light For Attracting Attention, which is out this Friday 13 May digitally and 17 June physically, via XL Recordings / Remote Control. Watch below! The video was directed by Cristóbal León and Joaquín Cociña and took the pair six months to make. Speaking about the video, they say: “Hearing the song for the first time, we imagined a frenetic fluid that...
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black midi – the UK-based trio of Geordie Greep (guitar, vocals), Cameron Picton (bass, vocals) and Morgan Simpson (drums) – announce their third album, Hellfire, out July 15th on Rough Trade. In conjunction with the announcement, they share the album’s lead single/video, ‘Welcome To Hell.’ Written in isolation in London after the release of last year’s Cavalcade, Hellfire builds on the melodic and harmonic elements of its predecessor, while expanding the brutality and intensity of their debut, Schlagenheim. As Greep describes it: “if Cavalcade was a drama, ‘Hellfire’ is...
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Ece Era (pronounced “Edge-eh”) is the artist name and electronic project of Turkish musician and filmmaker Ece Eryavuz. From Istanbul to NYC to Belgium, Ece has consistently been on a mission to explore her creative and philosophical interests. After landing in Belgium to focus her studies on film, she discovered the freedom of making electronic music through her peers who grew up in the local music scene. She recently signed...
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Belle and Sebastian have released their 9th studio album, A Bit Of Previous. Marking the occasion comes a new video and single ‘Talk To Me, Talk To Me’. The video was written and directed by 15-year-old south London siblings Freya and Rosalie Salkeld. Watch below! A Bit of Previous was recorded in Belle and Sebastian’s hometown of Glasgow when plans to fly to Los Angeles in spring of 2020 were scrapped due to the pandemic. Says frontman Stuart Murdoch in the...
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Gabriella Cohen has shared her new video to ‘Beaches’ just ahead of her final Australian headline show before she tours internationally. Cohen will play at The Toff in Melbourne on Friday 10th March. Purchase tickets to Cohen’s final Australian show here. Cohen has also announced she will play her first full North American tour alongside Foxygen as well as showcase at SXSW in March. She will then head to Europe to play The Great Escape, London Calling Festival, Vida Festival and End of the Road Festival. The announcement comes off...
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Today, self-produced American songwriter London O’Connor officially releases the re-mastered version of his debut album OΔ via True Panther Sounds / Remote Control. To coincide with the album release, London also shared his self-directed music video for his melancholy ode to the smart phone-obsessed internet generation, ‘Nobody Hangs Out Anymore’. Watch it below! Upon self-releasing OΔ on SoundCloud and as a free download, London’s diary-like accounts and immediate pop songs wooed both critics...
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The Lemon Twigs share their new video for ‘I Wanna Prove To You’, taken from their debut album Do Hollywood, out now via 4AD / Remote Control Records. In the cinéma vérité clip directed by Nick Roney in Utah, the brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario visited Roney’s real-life grandparents for the four-day shoot, eating and sleeping under the same roof while exploring the concept of love. “The song is about proving your love...
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Grimes shares the official video for ‘Venus Fly’. The video, directed and edited by Grimes, also features Janelle Monáe. ‘Venus Fly’ is now live on Grimes’ YouTube; watch the video below. “We used the Phantom cameras to create a feeling of time suspended,” said Grimes of the inspiration behind the video. ‘Venus Fly’ is taken from Grimes’ critically-adored album ‘Art Angels’ (4AD) which had prime placement on basically every End...
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