With her take on a protest song, Jess Locke shares ‘Rocket To Ride’ from her forthcoming omnibus Real Life out Friday, 3rd May. She’ll continue her in-store run at Clarity Records in Adelaide on Sunday, 7th April before hitting Fremantle and Melbourne. Full of fuzzed out guitars and an ironic tone, ‘Rocket To Ride’ asks questions of wealth inequality, environmental devastation, slimy politicians and the absurdity of luxury space travel all wrapped up in a tight sub-three minutes. Stream...
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For their first album in over a decade – yep, it’s been ten years since 2012’s Toward the Low Sun – Dirty Three flew in, got together and started playing. End of story. Music’s their true love; they never stop listening to that. And like the title says, Love Changes Everything. Arriving physically on Friday, 14th June and digitally on Friday, 28th June, Love Changes Everything expands on their rumbling, wide-open instrumentals that pull you in like oil-painted landscapes. There’s...
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When she was just seven-years-old, Jamaica-raised, Kansas City-based singer-songwriter Treanne dreamed that she would one day go to America and become a star. Just over a decade later, her soulful voice and striking lyricism caught the attention of Young, who will release her debut EP 20/20, out May 10th. Last month Treanne subtly released the project’s first single ‘Please,’ to which The FADER noted that “Treanne sings with a world-weariness beyond her years” and WONDERLAND described as a “stripped-back piece of sonic delicacy,...
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SAM MORTON, the musical duo comprised of singer, songwriter and acclaimed actor and director Samantha Morton and music producer and co-songwriter Richard Russell, today announce details of their highly-anticipated debut album. Titled Daffodils & Dirt, the album will be released on 14th June via XL / Remote Control Records. To celebrate the news, SAM MORTON today also release new single, ‘Let’s Walk In The Night,’ from the album. A kind of spectral, otherworldly reimagination of UK street soul, ‘Let’s Walk...
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Men Seni Suyemin (MEN SINNY SOO-YEH-MEN) is the nom de plume of Minona Volandova – a classically trained guitarist and producer from Kazakhstan. On her new single ‘Dark Waves,’ Men Seni Suyemin conjures a sense of impending danger. Based on an ancient melody from the Belgorod region in Russia, co-writer and featured guest vocalist Kristina Li adeptly grasps the mood of the song. Sung in Surzhik, but reinterpreted and enriched with Kazakh flavour and modern sound, this fashion of...
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Mdou Moctar have released new single and video ‘Imouhar’, taken from the group’s forthcoming album, Funeral For Justice, out May 3rd on Matador / Remote Control. A hypnotic rock song building to a feverish crescendo, ‘Imouhar’ calls on the Tuareg people to which the band belong to preserve their Tamasheq language – it’s at risk of dying out, and Moctar is one of the few in his community who knows how to write it. “People here are...
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The Toronto-born-and-raised singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Day Wilson releases ‘Canopy’, the third single from her highly-anticipated sophomore album, Cyan Blue out May 3rd. Premiering on Apple Music’s New Music Daily with Zane Lowe, ‘Canopy’ is stripped and poignant, addressing the shadowy burden of animosity. The piercing single comes alongside an equally sleek and monochrome video, filmed by cinematographer Sylvain Chaussée and styled by Mellany Sanchez. The video features Wilson, a star hockey player in her own right, skating with a hockey stick in hand...
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The Lemon Twigs release theatrical epic ‘A Dream Is All I Know,’ the titular track and latest taste of their forthcoming album, A Dream Is All We Know, out May 3rd. Meshing ripping guitars, zig-zagging harmonies, and bittersweet nods to love and loss, the single captures those sort of spacey, fleeting moments in our everyday experience. “This song is about impermanence and the dreamlike nature of our day to day lives. It was written when...
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Fabiana Palladino releases ‘I Can’t Dream Anymore’ the latest single taken from her highly anticipated self-titled debut album which is out on 5th April. Premiered during the Radio Fabiana show on NTS, ‘I Can’t Dream Anymore’ is released alongside a music video conceptualised by Fabiana and directed by Josh Renaut and Caroline Waxse. It places Fabiana aboard Radio Caroline ship – the world’s most famous pirate radio station during the 60s and 70s – where her sense of longing exists in her isolation as she broadcasts out to...
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Kamasi Washington today confirms his new album, Fearless Movement, is set for release May 3rd via Young / Remote Control. A new song, ‘Prologue,’ debuts today alongside a video directed by longtime collaborator AG Rojas. Washington calls Fearless Movement his dance album. “It’s not literal,”Washington says. “Dance is movement and expression, and in a way it’s the same thing as music—expressing your spirit through your body. That’s what this album is pushing.” Pre-order / Pre-save Fearless Movement here. Stream / Download ‘Prologue’ here.
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Out May 3rd, Funeral For Justice is the new album by Mdou Moctar. Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, it captures the Nigerien quartet in ferocious form. The music is louder, faster, and more wild. The guitar solos are feedback-scorched and the lyrics are passionately political. Nothing is held back or toned down. The songs on Funeral For Justice speak unflinchingly to the plight of...
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Emotive storyteller Jess Locke follows up the announcement of her forthcoming album with another new single in ‘The Place’. Locke’s fourth omnibus Real Life will be released on Friday, 3rd May through Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. Unhurried in pace, ‘The Place’ is buoyed by acoustic guitars and a metronomic bass line, while Locke’s yearning vocals drive home the themes of adulthood and nostalgia. It follows her “punchy” (Rolling Stone) lead single ‘Uncomfortably Happy’ which was added to heavy rotation at KEXP, and received love from Double...
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The Toronto-born-and-raised singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Day Wilson announces her sophomore album Cyan Blue out May 3rd. First single ‘I Don’t Love You’ is a stark and devastatingly beautiful confessional, highlighting Wilson’s immaculate production skills and chill inducing vocals laid atop smooth groove piano chords and soft drums. The track also arrives with a visual directed by Dani Aphrodite featuring layered low-fi footage of the artist and producer performing at home, living every day...
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Signing to XL Recordings / Remote Control, Nourished By Time returns to announce his new EP Catching Chickens will be released on 22 March digitally and on 12” vinyl. With tracks like ‘Hell of a Ride,’ in which Nourished By Time contemplates the fall of the American empire and late-stage capitalism loneliness, and ‘Had Ya Called’, which deals with the frustrations of growing distance in friendships, Nourished By Time chronicles his own test of agility as he weaves through the motions of his...
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Today, Leeds-based art-rock experimentalists Drahla share ‘Second Rhythm’, the second single from angeltape, their long-awaited second full-length album due out April 5th via Captured Tracks / Remote Control. The release of ‘Second Rhythm’ comes with a video created by the band. According to vocalist and guitarist Luciel Brown: “’Second Rhythm’ is the twisted reprise to our 2019 release ‘Primitive Rhythm.’ It simultaneously represents the link and disconnect between the two albums Useless Coordinates and angeltape. From reaching the handsome landscape to no...
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Adrianne Lenker shares a new single ‘Fool’ from her upcoming album, Bright Future, out on 22nd March. With bent, plucked, and trembling strings, ‘Fool’ chases its tail for answers with softened beach glass geometry. Accompanying the single is another video directed by Adrianne’s brother, Noah Lenker, featuring Adrianne’s family and their dogs. “I feel like I can hear her laughing and smiling when I listen back to this song. The joy is palpable,” says producer Philip Weinrobe. “It’s easy to forget that Adrianne can do unbridled ecstatic...
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