Oliver Sim unveils his debut album Hideous Bastard. Produced by bandmate Jamie xx, and featuring lifelong hero Jimmy Somerville. Taking inspiration from his love of horror films and his own life experience – exploring fear, shame, sexuality and masculinity. Music from the album also soundtracks the queer horror short film Hideous, starring Sim and directed by Yann Gonzalez, which made its world premiere as part of the Semaine de la Critique at this year’s...
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Dry Cleaning share ‘Gary Ashby’. The new single, from their second album Stumpwork (out 21 October), follows the travails of a beloved family tortoise lost in lockdown (“Have you seen Gary?”). Loaded with melodious hooks, the 2-minute jangle pop song is “a lament about a pet tortoise, escaped as a result of family chaos,” explains the band. “We wrote it in December 2020, one of the first new songs after the New Long Leg session.” To support the...
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Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) release their hotly-anticipated debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B. Last week, Jockstrap released a documentary by Rosie Marks on the orchestral recording session they did for the new record. Watch below! Featuring amazing behind the scenes content, the four-minute piece demonstrates the musical prowess and dedication to detail and complexity that have earned the duo well-deserved worldwide hype as the next big thing. Additionally, last Friday they released a sample...
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As Mess Esque continue on their tour of the UK and Europe, they now reveal ANOTHER new single! Scraped delicately from the embers of internal passions and rendered as music in their separate studios. Mess Esque clearly desire to share some space in our souls: ‘Liminal Space’! Helen’s plaintive and private vocal delivery – accentuating Mick Turner’s guitaristic accents and nuances – draws focus into the unique cocktail of feels...
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Following her first BIGSOUND performance last night on the triple j Unearthed stage, and a first play on triple j’s Good Nights, today Melbourne DnB purveyor Memphis LK reveals the pop-tinged, energy fuelled ‘Whip’. Opening with sparse synths, ‘Whip’ quickly picks up the pace with high intensity beats underpinning Memphis LK’s euphoric vocals. On the dynamics, Memphis LK shares “Making dance music, I’m drawn to sounds that have conflicting moods, contrasting...
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Patrick Watson’s critically acclaimed album Better in the Shade will be available everywhere in LP and CD formats October 7. The singer-songwriter also shares a brand-new video for the single ‘Height of the Feeling’ featuring La Force. Watch below! Director, Arizona O’Neill reveals ”after two years of feeling isolated during the pandemic…we wanted to make a video that reflected how jarring it is to return to social activities. In the black and white sections of the video, Patrick and La Force are singing while standing...
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After the release of her anthemic electro-pop EP BLAME, Sydney-based, multidisciplinary artist HANDSOME returns with an equally euphoric remix of the title-track by Perth denizen St. South. Morphing and building throughout the track, St South makes it their own culminating in light, swirling distorted vocals and production giving a brighter edge to the song’s themes of shame and fear. Recently ‘BLAME’ was used in the trailer for the upcoming Heartbreak High reboot which has already had over 410k views – the perfect track to accompany teen anguish. On...
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Tama Gucci announces details for his latest project, Almost Blue (After Hours Deluxe), set for release on September 27th via Sinderlyn. The EP features remixes of several tracks originally found on his widely praised 2021 Almost Blue EP. The new project from the New York City-based, Miami-raised musician, vocalist, and electronic composer aka Kymani Floyd features a cover of Britney Spears’ ‘Toxic’ and six remixes from Autow Nite Superstore, Swami Sound, Phyzical Trax, Indigo Heaven, Peter Fonda and SONIKKU, whose new take on Tama’s ‘Show Me’ is available now. “The updated...
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New Orleans no-wave punks Special Interest announced that they will release Endure, their third album and Rough Trade Records debut, on Friday, November 4th, 2022. The announcement was accompanied by lead single ‘Midnight Legend’ featuring iconic rapper, performance artist, poet and activist Mykki Blanco, and complete with a stunning music video directed by Special Interest vocalist Alli Logout. ‘Midnight Legend’ is described by Special Interest front person Alli Logout as “a love...
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Sunbeam Sound Machine reveals ‘Paradise’, the second sonic dreamscape lifted from his third album Possum out on Friday, 7th October. The single is accompanied by an exquisitely shot film clip, watch below! Multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick Sowersby explains “This song is about the transience of true love, and there’s no better way to express that than by dancing in front of a 1985 Toyota Corolla out by the airport.” The bright new track plays between sparse,...
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Kenny Beats releases his debut solo album, LOUIE. Though best known for producing seminal full-length albums for some of the world’s most exciting artists (including Vince Staples, IDLES, Rico Nasty and Denzel Curry), on LOUIE, Kenny subverts expectations with an almost entirely instrumental artist record that acts as a deeply personal tribute to his ailing father. Set for release on XL Recordings next week, the first solo album from Kenny Beats is a spontaneous burst of creativity spurred by an avalanche of despair...
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Detroit-based singer and producer John FM releases new single ‘White Science’, featuring fellow Detroit artist ZelooperZ. It’s the first piece of new music since the release of his EP American Spirit, which exemplifies the unique, dismantled Hi-Tech Soul music that John FM has globally become known for. Listen to ‘White Science’ here, which John FM explains is about “a high school puppy love gone south after her parents found out I was black.” White Science by John FM feat....
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Fresh from taking out Best Breakthrough Artist at this year’s AIR Awards, Telenova release their sophomore EP Stained Glass Love. In celebration, the band will take to the road travelling around Australia and New Zealand this August, September and October. Full tour info below! Widescreen pop music, cinematic in scope and ambitious in design. The tracks on Stained Glass Love delve into self-destruction, heartbreak, addiction, desire, anxiety, isolation, and – eventually – rebirth. There’s...
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Ireland’s Gilla Band release new single ‘Backwash’, taken off their upcoming album Most Normal, out October 7. Watch the video directed and animated by Mortis Studios below! Singer Dara Kiely shares “We didn’t really stick to the brief but it lead us down different sonic avenues. ‘Backwash’ is one of the few tracks where the words represent a dream-like circumstance. The track is about attraction – fancying someone and not knowing what to say exactly. It’s an indirect love...
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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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‘Everyone Is Lying To You For Money’ is the second single from The Smith Street Band’s forthcoming sixth album. It is a short, loud, angry song about misinformation. This is The Smithies at their most creative yet, blending their finely honed pub rock sound with samples and robot voices all wrapped around lead singer Wil Wagner’s frustrated and vulnerable lyrics. The chaotic film clip accompanying the new single was animated...
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