London-based artist Lucinda Chua has shared the new song and accompanying short film, ‘Echo‘ announcing her debut solo album YIAN, out March 24th via 4AD. If Chua’s 2022 release ‘Golden,’ written from the perspective of her younger self, was the meditative prelude to the world of YIAN, then her new single ‘Echo’ places us firmly in its first chapter. A pop song about ancestral trauma, ‘Echo’ is the antihero’s journey, walking the line between respect for the past and the freedom to carve out a new...
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Kosaya Gora (English translation; Oblique Mountain), a new indie project from acclaimed electronic producer/singer Kedr Livanskiy and experimental producer/visual artist Flaty, have announced their first full-length album Kosogor today. Kosaya Gora is an entirely new sonic direction for them both. The debut is a multilingual foray into guitar-based folk, haunting dream pop, and moody synth, underpinned by Livanskiy’s signature hypnotic vocals. Kosogor’s album centerpiece ‘Motorcyclists Die’ features several lines from...
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Lisa O’Neill, one of the most evocative songwriters in contemporary Irish music today, is sharing a new track with accompanying video, ‘Silver Seed’ from her upcoming album, the beautiful, resonant All of This Is Chance, out February 10th, 2023. ‘Silver Seed’ follows earlier album singles ‘Old Note’ and ‘Goodnight World’. A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, O’Neill is a five time BBC Folk Award nominee and her previous album Heard a Long Gone Song was...
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The eighth album by U.S. Girls, the nom de plume of North American multi-disciplinary and experimental pop artist Meg Remy, will be released on 24 February entitled Bless This Mess. To celebrate, U.S. Girls releases the slow jam gem, ‘Futures Bet’ alongside a music video directed by Alex Kingsmill that explores the visual wonder and resiliency of trash. Watch below! A combination of traditional 3D animation and composited live action footage was fed into various Stable Diffusion deep learning models....
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Returning with their first studio album for seven years, Stereo Mind Game is a new chapter for Daughter. To be released on 7 April, the group’s third record follows Not to Disappear (2016) and soundtrack Music from Before the Storm (2017). After more than a decade spent depicting the darkest emotions, the trio of Elena Tonra, Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella present their most optimistic record yet. The album’s lead single ‘Be On Your Way’ is a longing but resilient song...
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The Lemon Twigs release poignant, ’60s-tinged rock song and first single ‘Corner Of My Eye’, accompanied by a wistful video set in a cemetery, directed by Hilla Eden and Brian D’Addario. Watch below! The release marks their first new music in two years, following the 2020 album Songs For The General Public. ‘Corner Of My Eye’ is a warm, guitar-led ode to a new love interest, written and produced entirely by The Lemon Twigs. On the release, The Lemon...
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Kicking off Matador’s Revisionist History Series for 2023, we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Bettie Serveert’s debut album, Palomine. Heralded in its original four-star review by Rolling Stone as “untamed and free as pop gets,” this 1993 classic will see its first pressing by Matador since the album’s original release on June 23rd on limited-edition translucent orange vinyl, accompanied by the ‘Brain-Tag’ 7”, which was included with the original pressing. A deluxe digital edition of the album is out now on streaming services, featuring...
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Jen Cloher reveals ‘Being Human’, the second single from their forthcoming fifth album I Am The River, The River Is Me – released on Friday, 3rd March 2023. A powerful anthem committed to truth telling and Indigenous sovereignty, ‘Being Human’ builds its intensity upon an urgent drum beat, driving bass line, angular guitars and synth. The track breaks down before bursting into an exclamation of haka chants from Naarm based Kapa Haka (cultural performance group) Te Hononga o...
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Romy — of The xx —unveils a new single, ‘Strong’ featuring Fred again.., alongside a video directed by her wife, the filmmaker and photographer Vic Lentaigne. ‘Strong’ came from a moment in my life when I was processing past grief,” says Romy. “Whilst writing the lyrics I was thinking about my cousin Luis, we both have the shared experience of our mums passing away when we were young. I recognise in him the same trait I have which is to...
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London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have today shared the video for ‘Greatest Hits’, taken from their critically acclaimed debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B – out now via Rough Trade / Remote Control Records. The video, directed by FKA Twigs’ Caprisongs visual collaborator Aiden Zamiri, charts a fictitious show trial between two eccentric pop icons and features a cast of cameos close to the Jockstrap project. Jockstrap have also announced their first shows in Australia for February and March...
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A note from Jen on ‘Mana Takatāpui’ out now: “In 2019 I typed the words ‘Māori word for Queer’ into Google. The word ‘takatāpui’ flashed onto my screen with this description: ‘Takatāpui is the Māori word meaning a devoted partner of the same sex. In Western terminology, a person who identifies as takatāpui is a Māori individual who is gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. Takatāpui is used nowadays in response to...
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Patrick Holland shares a brand new single and his first new material since releasing his debut record. Holland explains that ‘Years In The Ground’ is “a discussion between a shoulder angel and devil on how to spend your time and money.” Watch the accompanying video below! He continues, “I made this video with my best friend Geoff (Meugens). We woke in the early hours of summer 2021 to catch the sunrise on...
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Meg Remy, the experimental alt-pop chameleon U.S. Girls enters her diva era with the ballad, ‘Bless This Mess’. Released today, the song follows her synth anthem, ‘So Typically Now’ and is accompanied by an extraordinary music video created by Remy and artist Evan Gordon. “Before camera phones, the family camcorder was often the mirror tool used to capture selfie-like performances of teenage daydreams and insecurities. Recently I unearthed a VHS tape housing footage of my...
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jade imagine take a journey through dizzying, upbeat jams and melancholic retrospectives with the release of their sophomore album Cold Memory. The album arrives alongside a film clip for ‘I’ll Guess We’ll Just Wait’ and a string of live shows. See below! Written and recorded between Melbourne, Warrnambool and Fremantle, Western Australia, Cold Memory offers ten songs that explore notions of connection – to self, to nature, and to others – across a stunningly diverse collection of...
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Lucinda Chua presents ‘Golden’: a self-produced song about identity and representation, accompanied by a short film co-created with director Tash Tung. Written from the perspective of her younger self, ‘Golden’ is an intimate and heartfelt meditation on identity in the absence of a role model. Watch below! “Who do I turn to, when I don’t look like you?”, Chua whispers softly, a quiet, uncertain call to the universe. “When the sunlight hits me /...
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HAWA releases ‘PROGRESSION’, the second single from the genre-bending singer/rapper/producer’s debut album HADJA BANGOURA which arrives on November 4. Produced by Anthoine Walters and WAVES, ‘PROGRESSION’ is a stirring piano ballad about moving on and thriving in the wake of heartbreak. The accompanying visual opens with an intimate conversation between HAWA and her long-time friend and collaborator, the iconic designer Telfar Clemens. Written and directed by Alex Huggins, it sees...
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