Patrick Holland releases ‘Losing Touch’, another preview of his self-produced debut album You’re The Boss, out July 29th. Featuring Holland’s bandmate, TOPS’ Jane Penny, the new single finds Holland vulnerable and grappling with self-doubt over a catchy and up-beat melody with a slick bassline. Alongside an official video from Erin O’Connor, the director behind previous videos for ‘Sinister Bell’ & ‘Nice Try’. Watch below! “This is the most embarrassing song I’ve written,” explains Holland. “Self satire in the...
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Following their appearance at The Great Escape (UK) and sold-out debut London shows, Telenova are thrilled to announce their brand new single ‘Haunted’, lifted off the Stained Glass Love EP to be released Friday 19 August. Listen below! ‘Haunted’ is a hypnotic tale of addiction, with echoes of Northern Soul amidst dark dub, all draped in dramatic synth strings. To celebrate the EP announcement and new single the band has shared a run of EP...
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black midi – the UK-based trio of Geordie Greep (guitar, vocals), Cameron Picton (bass, vocals) and Morgan Simpson (drums) – present a new single ‘Eat Men Eat’ from their upcoming album Hellfire, out July 15th. Watch its accompanying video, directed by Maxim Kelly below! Musically, ‘Eat Men Eat’ is a fusion of Rock and Flamenco, the latter being the working title found on early setlists. The lyrics, written by Picton, tell the story of a couple’s quest to overcome...
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London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have announced their hotly-anticipated debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B for release on 9 September. The announcement comes with the record’s lead single ‘Glasgow’ and its vlog-like, fantastical music video – featuring Taylor’s compelling portrayal of a mythical pixie-ish creature – which was shot, directed and edited by Jockstrap themselves. Watch below! On the album release, Jockstrap’s Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye said: “I Love You Jennifer B is a collection of Jockstrap tracks that have been...
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Last month Two Shell released ‘Pods’, a serious digital-rocker and another example of the big city rollers they make. Following their Boileroom set and ahead of their sold out Glastonbury debut, Two Shell return with ‘Dust’; a cruise-ship jet-engine and the second single on a new five track EP Icons! Danger! Out 30 June, Icons was designed in the nightclub but made for the airPods. From shell.tech to the real world these tracks started life in the mainframe and...
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The skies have opened and dropped on us a trio of kids from Geelong, Australia packing some seriously futuristic sludge: ORB. A heaping helping of proto-metal chops meets paranoid sci-fi fantastical ravings, replete with some tasty syntheisiser werk, and lovingly close mic’d to perfection by Total Control’s own Mikey Young. These epics swing with demonic swagger and crackle with the static of a menacing future, twisting and churning through loose-limbed...
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Remote Control Records, in partnership with Dot Dash, are pleased to share the new single from Melbourne’s Client Liaison. ‘World Of Our Love’ is the first taste from the duo’s forthcoming debut album and was World Premiered on triple j’s 2016 with Richard Kingsmill on Sunday night. With shareholder confidence at an all time high and strong yield from the 2015/2016 festival season, Client Liaison are also about to embark...
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Car Seat Headrest is excited to share the latest single ‘Fill In The Blank’ from his forthcoming record Teens of Denial out Friday 20 May via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. The track was named Best New Track by Pitchfork – read the review here. Teens of Denial is the thirteenth album in Car Seat Headrest’s (aka 23-year-old Will Toledo) oeuvre, second on Matador, and first to be recorded...
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Mourn are excited to announce Ha, Ha, He., the follow up to their critically acclaimed debut album which will be released on Friday 3rd June 2016 via Captured Tracks / Remote Control. With the announcement of Ha, Ha, He., Mourn have shared single ‘Storyteller,’ which goes on a trip through downtempo drudgery, into a melodic bridge, and concludes with anthemic sing-screaming. Listen to ‘Storyteller‘ below: Mourn’s self-titled 2014 debut LP gave the world an interesting idea: Catalonian teenage wunderkinds making authentically great...
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The irrepressible King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard have shared People-Vultures, the latest track to be taken from their forthcoming album, Nonagon Infinity. Amazingly their fourth album in 18 months, Nonagon Infinity is released on Flightless / Remote Control on Friday April 29th 2016 and the band previously announced its release with a free-wheeling video to album track, Gamma Knife. After the acid-flecked cosmic jazz of Quarters and the hazy,...
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Melbourne duo Oh Pep! have a HUGE year ahead of them. Having just signed to Dualtone Music Group(The Lumineers, Shakey Graves) in the US and announced a giant run of shows across Europe and America, they have now shared with us their incredible new single ‘Doctor Doctor.’ ‘Doctor Doctor’ is the first taste of an indie-pop masterpiece with the DNA of a folk record. Their obsession with great songs, regardless of genre, has led them...
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Car Seat Headrest is excited to announce the release of Teens of Denial out Friday 20 May via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Teens of Denial is the thirteenth album in Car Seat Headrest’s (aka 23-year-old Will Toledo) oeuvre, second on Matador, and first to be recorded in a proper studio with a full band and producer (Steve Fisk). On Denial, Toledo moves from bedroom pop to something approaching classic-rock grandeur and huge (if detailed and personal) narrative ambitions, with nods to the Cars, Pavement and William...
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Danish artist Søren Juul will release his new album This Moment on Friday 17 June via 4AD / Remote Control Records. This is his first album under his own name, having previously recorded under the moniker Indians. It’s a deeply personal account of Juul’s life over a tumultuous three-year period, and a first taste of the record can be heard today, the track ‘Dear Child’. As Indians, Juul scored the song ‘Oblivion‘ for the major motion picture The Fault In Our Stars, composed works for the...
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Tim Hecker, the pioneering electronic composer has today shared a second track, album closer ‘Black Phase’ from his eighth studio album Love Streams, out next Friday 8 April via 4AD / Remote Control. As with its predecessor, the cavernous ‘Castrati Stack’, the influence of 15th century choral scores strongly resonate on ‘Black Phase’, which showcases the voices of the Icelandic Choir Ensemble dissolving into a darkly hypnotic dissonance Listen to ‘Black Phase‘ on: Spotify | Apple Music | Google Play Buy on iTunes | Google Play Check out Hecker’s selection of his past and current collaborators on Spotify,...
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Future Of The Left are once again contractually obliged to tell you that their new album the peace and truce of future of the left will be released in Australia on the 8th April 2016 via Remote Control Records. Recorded by Anthony Chapman at Monnow Valley studios in Monmouth it contains thirteen songs (you are welcome to call them ‘tracks’, only not near the band) and is, once again, their best one...
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After teasing its release at SXSW this week, KAYTRANADA is back to share details of his highly anticipated debut album 99.9%. Due Friday 6th May via XL Recordings / Remote Control Records, the album finds the Haitian born, Montreal raised producer delivering on the promise of his early self-released EPs and remixes. Since the age of fourteen, when he first began to DJ and when his brother introduced him to...
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