Jaye Bartell has released his new album In a Time of Trouble a Wild Exultation. To celebrate, he has shared the Angel Olsen-assisted video for ‘Give Erin A Compliment (So Kind)’. Watch below! “’Give Erin a Compliment (So Kind)’ was written as a birthday present for Erin Kennedy” Bartell states. “The title itself comes from a poker chip one of Erin’s friends found that said, “give Erin a compliment” on it. It’s...
Cults have released their new album Offering, an exciting collection of songs exploding with heart, confidence, shimmering melody and buzzing life. At the same time, it goes places Cults haven’t gone before. Offering marks the band’s first LP since the 2013 album Static. It also marks the beginning of a more collaborative phase for Cults. The duo have always traded ideas, but for the first time they sat down to jam...
Following the recent video to ‘I Took Your Picture’, Cults have shared new single ‘Right Words’ from their forthcoming album Offering, released on 6 October. Listen below! Of the track they note, “We are excited to share ‘Right Words,’ the fourth track off of Offering. This song was like the nebula of the album. We worked on it forever because it kept breeding new parts that would go on to be...
Jaye Bartell has announced his new album In a Time of Trouble a Wild Exultation, to be released Friday 20 October. Jaye Bartell has also offered up first single ‘The Wilderness’ which you can listen to below! Bartell returned to his former home of Asheville, NC in April. With friends from recordings past – Angel Olsen, Shane Parish, Michael Libramento, J Seger, Emily Easterly, Ryan Oslance and Noel Thrasher – brought together by producer and engineer...
Cults share their latest video for single ‘I Took Your Picture’ from their upcoming new album Offering, out on October 6. Watch it below! The video, directed by Elliott Sellers, was shot in Piermont, NY, where Cults first recorded Go Outside and their first EP. The ending scene was shot on top of Brian Oblivion’s roof in NYC. ‘I Took Your Picture’ follows the release of the title track from the...
‘I Took Your Picture’ is another taste of what’s to come from Cults’ new album Offering, out October 6. Listen to the second single below! The band note, “I Took Your Picture was inspired by falling into a deeper love with 80’s power pop bands like The Motels and The Cars. It’s a song about fleeting moments and how we let past feelings interrupt the possibility for good things to happen. ‘Tinge...
The Fresh & Onlys share their second single from their new album Wolf Lie Down, out Friday 25th August. Listen below! Singer Tim Cohen tells us, “Impossible Man came from a song I came up with called “Invisible Man”, based loosely on Ralph Ellison’s sole but legendary novel. In it, I fancied myself figuratively invisible, like Ellison’s protagonist, but realising it would be construed as either a pure homage to another,...
Cults announce their return with a new album, Offering, out Friday 6 October. The album marks their first since 2013’s Static, and with that have shared the LP’s title track ‘Offering’. Listen below! On the single, the band note, “We had been working on a lot of songs for a long time and when this one came together it felt like a release. We were trying to make a jam about finding...
San Francisco’s psych-blasted, starry-eyed weirdos The Fresh & Onlys return with the announcement of new album, Wolf Lie Down, out Friday 25th August. For a taste, they have shared the opening title track. Listen below! Wolf Lie Down strips back the layered feel of the last few records to reveal singer Tim Cohen and guitarist/producer Wymond Miles full of passion, imbued with an uplifting romanticism, and their trademark wry sense...
Meet Walter TV! What is there to be said that hasn’t already been said about the old Walter TV band? Our main men in the group (Joe McMurray, Simon Ankenman, Pierce McGarry) are either aged 30 or close to. They do their best to make music that is meaningful, interesting, and…danceable? Emotionally razed these bad boys are pumping out of the ashes, instruments in hand. Simon is a canoe guide in the Northwest...
Vaguess have released their second album Guilt Ring, out now on Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records. Guilt Ring is the second helping from the acid tongued punk rock smashers from Vaguess (pronounced “Vegas”) which is the moniker of one Vinny Vaguess. It is the follow-up to his 2015’s compilation The Bodhi Collection. With the new album Vinny successfully peels back the sun dappled, “surf’s up” lies of the California tourism board to reveal scenes of domestic discord that would look...
Vaguess have released a second track ‘Can’t Hang’ from their second album Guilt Ring that’s out this Friday 3rd March on Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records. Guilt Ring is the second helping from the acid tongued punk rock smashers from Vaguess (pronounced “Vegas”) which is the moniker of one Vinny Vaguess. It is the follow-up to his 2015’s compilation The Bodhi Collection. With the new album Vinny successfully peels back the sun dappled, “surf’s up” lies of the California tourism board...
London quartet Novella have released their sophomore album Change of State via Sinderlyn /Remote Control Records. On Change of State, the plasticity behind the meaning of the title was no fortuitous afterthought. Rather, it is very idea on which the album was built. Following the band’s debut album the band toured extensively, traveling from one country to the next, and they have watched their home country of Britain change dramatically in social...
Vaguess will be releasing their sophomore album Guilt Ring on 3rd March 2017 via Sinderlyn / RemoteControl Records. Ahead of its release the band are happy to share the album’s title track which premiered via CLRVYNT – “The latest single is ‘Guilt Ring,’ an urgent, minute-plus ripper (from the album of the same name) that recalls Devo, the Spits and more; it keeps the emphasis on melody over muscle while...
Italy’s Matteo Vallicelli has shared Primo, out now via Captured Tracks / Remote Control. The drummer and composer is best known as the live drummer of The Soft Moon, Death Index and as a founding member of many renowned Italian punk bands. Primo is result of three years of experimentation and ultimately an exercise in self-limitation and discovery. In 2013, Vallicelli relocated from the ancient neighborhood of Trastevere in Rome to the ever-changingKreuzberg district in Berlin. This dramatic uprooting...
Fresh Air, the new album from Homeshake is out today via Sinderlyn / Remote Control Records. Previously released single ‘Call Me Up‘ was praised by The Fader as “push[ing] his bedroom R&B in a slightly funkier direction..a strong sense of hospitality is the track’s most defining characteristic” and I Heart Moosiq said it, “envelops us in buttery smooth, swirling warm R&B pop, leaving us in a divinely relaxed state of mind.” Latest single ‘Khmlwugh’...
