Circuit des Yeux releases her new album Halo On The Inside. Warped and transcendent, darkly romantic and thrillingly alien, the album is Fohr’s boldest work to date. Watch the video to new single ‘Truth’ directed and edited by Cuan Roche, which was released ahead of its release earlier in the week, below! Bringing Halo to fruition involved numerous changes in Fohr’s typical methods of operation. She worked at night. “I...
In 2012, Gruff Rhys embarked on a solo ‘investigative concert tour’ through the heart of America following the route taken by his distant relative John Evans. Every night he presented songs augmented by a power point presentation that detailed his relative’s unbelievable history, along with any new piece of information that had come his way during the day. He was ultimately looking for Evans’s lost unmarked grave. Along with many...
The Hard Quartet – Emmett Kelly, Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, and Jim White – return with a brand new digital two-song single. The elegant Kelly-led shredder ‘Lies (Something You Can Do)’ was recorded last July in NYC, while the sprawling flip, ‘Coreopsis Trail,’ is an unreleased track from the S/T album sessions. The video for ‘Lies (Something You Can Do)’ was directed by Kevin Spanky Long. Watch below! “‘Lies (Something You Can Do)’ is a credo that states that...
Yaeji returns with a new single and music video for ‘Pondeggi.’ The title is an homage to Beondegi, a traditional intergenerational Korean street food made of silkworms, and schoolyard hand-clap game that serves as the foundation for the track’s beat. ‘Pondeggi’ is a striking evaluation of the toil within humanity, nature, and technology. Utilizing storytelling, humanity’s oldest technology and most radical form of expression, Yaeji uses innovation with the aim to invoke deeper examination. Directed by...
Car Seat Headrest announce The Scholars, a bold new rock opera that isn’t just a new chapter for the premiere standard bearers of young internet rockers but also a spiritual rebirth, and the band’s first studio album in five years. Watch ‘Gethsemane,’ an 11-minute, multi-part epic (directed by Andrew Wonder) that conveys the spiritual journey and yearning at the heart of the new album. Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the...
Tune-Yards, the dynamic duo of Merrill Garbus and Nate Brenner, share details of their sixth studio album, Better Dreaming, out 16 May via 4AD / Remote Control Records on standard vinyl, limited edition vinyl and CD. The album showcases some of their most effortlessly groove-filled music in their career. To kick off this new era, Tune-Yards unveiled the infectious single, ‘Limelight’. The song was born from dancing together as a family to George Clinton, and Garbus and Brenner’s 3-year-old can be heard singing on the track....
Today, Two Shell release their new single, ‘Oops…’, a cutting-edge club anthem. Fresh off the back of their critically-acclaimed eponymous debut album, ‘Oops…’ is their most in-your-face dancefloor banger yet. Bursting out of a vibrant world of electroclash and house, they remain faithful to their experimental ways whilst providing floor filler gold for the forthcoming parties of the year. The London duo have been touted as the heirs to hyperpop,...
Jim Legxacy enters 2025 with another spellbinding offering, ’father’. Having teased the track on socials in 2024, fan calls for its full release exploded with the latest snippet gaining 1M+ views across his platforms. The fervent anticipation for this song is palpable. ‘father’ is Jim’s latest track that continues to whet appetites for his forthcoming project, black british music (2025) and is a buoyant departure from previous more melancholic singles...
Everything Is Recorded, the collaborative music project centred around producer Richard Russell, releases Temporary. The record features an incredible roll call of collaborators including Sampha, Bill Callahan, Noah Cyrus, Florence Welch, Maddy Prior, Berwyn, Alabaster Deplume, Jah Wobble, Yazz Ahmed, Laura Groves, Kamasi Washington, Rickey Washington, Roses Gabor, Jack Peňate, Samantha Morton, Clari Freeman-Taylor and Nourished By Time. Created over four years from 2020 to 2024, Temporary was recorded in...
Out now, Nothing is the third album by DARKSIDE and the first that the group – founded by Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington – have completed as a trio with new drummer Tlacael Esparza. Nothing is nine transmissions of negative space, telepathic seance, and spectral improvisation. On their first two reinventions, Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington entered the studio with a clutch of scattered ideas and loose melodic fragments to...
Julien Baker & TORRES release new single ‘Tuesday’, offering another glimpse into their forthcoming collaborative album Send a Prayer My Way, out April 18. With a stripped-back Americana sound, the TORRES-fronted song centres on trying to overcome and heal from the guilt, shame and religious abuse that so many people experience discovering their identity and growing up Queer. Send A Prayer My Way has been in the works since Baker and TORRES played their first...
Indie-folk darlings Rowena Wise and Didirri release their stunning duet ‘No Cure For Love’ out through the exciting new partnership with Beloved and Remote Control Records. To celebrate, they announce an 11 date, dual coast Australia tour. Didirri, known for his masterful storytelling and dynamic live performances, joins forces with Rowena Wise, whose crystalline vocals and delicate songs have earned her a devoted following across the country. This national tour...
Fontaines D.C. launch into 2025 with brand new single ‘It’s Amazing To Be Young’. Produced by ROMANCE album producer James Ford, it’s Fontaines D.C. at their most anthemic and is set to soundtrack a huge year of live shows for the band. The single is accompanied by a video from acclaimed BAFTA-winning filmmaker Luna Carmoon, who previously directed the videos for Fontaines D.C.’s ‘Here’s The Thing’ and ‘In The Modern...
Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has released his newest single ‘No Front Teeth’ featuring New Zealand folk singer-songwriter Aldous Harding. The track is full of tension bolstered by time changes throughout the song and the haunting, ethereal chorus driven by Harding’s vocals. The music video is directed by Cody Critcheloe and is a fever dream-unhinged, sexually charged, hilarious and riveting, leaving the viewer questioning what is real and what is an aberration. It features Hadreas, Harding and longtime Perfume Genius band member...
Irish musician Maria Somerville announces her forthcoming second album and debut project on 4AD, Luster, due for release on April 25. To celebrate, she also shares the album’s second single, ‘Garden’, produced by Diego Herrera, aka Suzanne Kraft. The transportive track sinks her emotive siren-esque vocal stylings into a whirring, all-consuming merger of soaring feedback, airy percussion, and nostalgic guitar chords reminiscent of classic 4AD. Its release is accompanied by a music video filmed...
The Smile have today announced two new remixes of tracks from their critically acclaimed third album Cutouts, from James Holden and Robert Stillman. ‘Don’t Get Me Started (James Holden Remix)’and ‘Instant Psalm (Robert Stillman Remix)’ are out now digitally, each track accompanied by a ‘recycled video mix’ by audiovisual artist Weirdcore, who created videos for every track on Cutouts. Watch below! The remixes will also be released as a limited edition AA side 12-inch on 28th March. Stanley Donwood’s sleeve design...
