On Sunset Poem, experimental musician Claire Rousay reworks three songs from Circuit des Yeux’s otherworldly 2021 album, -io. The complete EP will be out on October 20th. Rousay’s work often utilises environmental recordings to cultivate rich and evocative ambience. Here, the composer unspools three -io compositions –’Vanishing,’ ‘Sculpting the Exodus,’ and ‘Argument’ – stripping back layers of instrumentation and sheltering Fohr’s voice amid a weave of hushed electronic textures. The results reveal a newly tender, meditative, and boundless space within the songs. Circuit des...
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Remote Control Records welcomes the GOLDEN DREGS, to the roster. Founded in Falmouth, Cornwall in 2013, the GOLDEN DREGS is the project of Benjamin Woods, songwriter and producer currently residing in South London. From piano-man, bar-band, baritone karaoke-crooner to an all-singing-all-dancing seven piece, all guises of the GOLDEN DREGGS serve as a platform for Woods’s different musical output. Under the moniker he has released two albums in quick succession, Lafayette...
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New Orleans no-wave punks Special Interest are sharing ‘Foul’ a new track from their upcoming album Endure, out Friday, November 4th, 2022. “This call and response tune is a working class anthem,” Special Interest’s guitarist Maria Elena explains of ‘Foul’. “Alli and I co-wrote the lyrics and sing it together with Ruth adding a classic line – foul! Ever so foul. It’s a dispatch from the dish pit! An ode to all beleaguered workers! Minimum balance savings account blues!” Purchase / Stream...
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More than a quarter century since its primal emergence from the Desert, Queens Of The Stone Age has elected to give three of its landmark albums the upscale re-release treatment, including limited edition colour vinyl pressings, exclusive new and restored artwork, and more. First up is the one that started it all: Back in print after a long, long decade, Queens Of The Stone Age’s self-titled 1998 debut album has been resurrected digitally, with a vinyl release...
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Brooklyn-via-Kansas City artist Scout Gillett today shares her sultry, hypnotic new single ‘444 marcy ave‘ from her forthcoming debut album no roof no floor, due out on October 28th via Captured Tracks/Remote Control Records. It arrives alongside a self-directed video that feels like a sci-fi fever dream, finding Scout at the ‘Space Odyssey’ room in a New Jersey motel wearing a disco ball helmet handmade by her fashion designer friend Katy...
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Two of the UK’s most highly respected forces in electronic music, Joy Orbison and Overmono, come together once again to release brand-new single ‘Blind Date’, out today, Friday 23 September. Their debut collaboration ‘Bromley‘ was released to huge acclaim in 2019 (“it’s precisely their ability to conjure a roomful of wonder that makes [Bromley] the tentpole tune the season needed” – Pitchfork) and is one of the most celebrated dance tracks in recent times. ‘Blind Date’ – Joy...
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Today Chicago-based percussionist, composer and producer Makaya McCraven has released his new album In These Times via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records. Also released today is a music visualizer for ‘So Ubuji,’ the third in a series (‘Seventh String,’ ‘Dream Another’) directed by Nik Arthur, featuring hand-drawn, digital and photographic animations composed and laser-etched into stone in the style of a “zoopraxiscope.” In These Times is a collection of polytemporal compositions...
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Lucifer on the Moon is the anti-gravity companion to Spoon’s Lucifer on the Sofa. A top-to-bottom rework of the Austin band’s tenth album, it was created by On-U Sound founder and UK dub icon, Adrian Sherwood. The album will be released November 4th on LP and digital. Moon first took shape as a few heady remixes for the singles from Lucifer on the Sofa. Frontman Britt Daniel offered Sherwood two suggestions: “Avoid things that would not be possible on tape” and “Add whatever you...
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Having made a long-awaited return in the middle of this year, Sunbeam Sound Machine offers another slice of his forthcoming third album with the reveal of his breezy ‘Two Summers‘. The globally recognised multi-instrumentalist also announces Melbourne and Sydney launch shows for the release of Possum on Friday, 7th October via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. ‘Two Summers‘ is reminiscent of ‘In Your Arms’ (20M+ single streams) and showcases the heavily layered signature sound that Nick Sowersby has been known for. Dreamy, yet melancholic;...
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Building on the success of April’s acclaimed ‘LET’S DO IT AGAIN‘ single – his first new music in over two years – Jamie xx quickly returns with a brand new single. Premiered as BBC Radio 1’s Clara Amfo’s “Hottest Record In The World”, ‘KILL DEM‘ was created with Notting Hill Carnival in mind, inspired by the energy of the parties and sound systems Jamie experienced there since first attending as a teenager. This August, he...
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Genre-bending singer/rapper/producer HAWA announces her debut album HADJA BANGOURA. HADJA BANGOURA is named for HAWA’s great-grandmother who passed away last year. Hadja’s spiritual presence on the album forms a vessel for healing as HAWA crafts a letter to herself through which to work past her toxic relationships. The announcement of the album is accompanied by lead single ‘GEMINI‘ which was produced by Tony Seltzer and Inef Coupe with a sole feature from ascendant experimental artist Eartheater. The song highlights HAWA’s silky smooth-yet-versatile...
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Following their sophomore album announcement, jade imagine offer further insight into Cold Memory with ‘Instinct I Wanna Know’. The album by the Melbourne indie-stalwarts is due out October 21st. Blending synths and muffled beats, ‘Instinct I Wanna Know’ is a departure from their recent ominous release. An ode to ESP (Extra-sensory perception) – feeling spiritually in sync with those closest to you – the track builds with Jade’s dreamy vocals before erupting in a lush dance-floor worthy chorus. On the theme, front...
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Algiers return with new track ‘Bite Back’, featuring Backxwash and billy woods. Born in the band’s hometown of Atlanta, the six-minute opus sees Algiers front person Franklin James Fisher trading verses with contemporary hip hop innovators Backxwash, aka Montreal Zambian-Canadian rapper & producer Ashanti Mutinta, and NYC rapper and Backwood Studioz label founder billy woods, on Black resistance, PsyOps and police oppression. Multi-instrumentalist/producer Ryan Mahan said: “Shit’s been so real the past few years, we really needed to grow our community of collaborators and make solid the bonds we’ve always felt, particularly with...
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The countdown begins! We are mere weeks away from the debut full-length release from THUS LOVE. Memorial is out on Captured Tracks digitally October 7 then physically November 11th . The band have now released the latest single, ‘Repetitioner’ – a song that could be on a soundtrack of your favourite 80s cult film never made. Post-punk with indie-sensibility, the band says of the track: “Repetitioner is a recognition of patterns–a look...
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Ireland’s Gilla Band are sharing a new track and video, ‘Post Ryan’ today off their upcoming album Most Normal, out October 7, 2022 on Rough Trade Records. ‘Post Ryan’ was directed by Michael Speed and follows earlier singles ‘Backwash’ and ‘Eight Fivers’, which were accompanied by videos directed and animated by Mortis Studios. ‘Post Ryan’ is the album’s electrifying closer, in which the beat has been taken from ‘I Ran’ by Flock of Seagulls, the band quote saying “We thought, that’s a really great, immediate pop-sounding beat, let’s start there and go somewhere else’ –to have that immediacy, and then abstract...
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Minneapolis-raised artist Jeremy Nutzman, the brainchild behind Velvet Negroni, has announced details of a second album. Bulli will be released on 13 January 2023 and its lead single ‘Sinker’ is out now. Whirring with a strutting positivity and rich instrumentation, ‘Sinker’ is accompanied by an official video directed by Casey Anderson. Watch below! Created during a particularly tumultuous time in Nutzman’s life that involved drug abuse, bank fraud, and a house fire, it’s unsurprising that Bulli would echo his present state of mind. Bulli feels...
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