London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have shared their brand new single and video ‘Concrete Over Water’; another hint at a still-to-come TBA debut full-length record on their new label home Rough Trade / Remote Control. ‘Concrete Over Water’ received its first national airplay from Lauren Laverne on her BBC Radio 6 Music Breakfast show. Watch the video below! Commenting on the new single – which comes complete with hugely inventive and ambitious storytelling visuals, directed by the band themselves...
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Following their syrupy bop ‘Sugar’ and lush single ‘Sister’, Dorsal Fins share ‘Criminal’, their third single from their long-awaited third album Star of the Show, out Friday May 13. Watch the accompanying animated video by artist and illustrator Eleanor James below! ‘Criminal’ came together from a demo that Jarrad Brown had hidden in his vault, initially titled ‘Spirit Gambler’. Channeling the power of three in the name of the magic of collectivism. Brown’s sweet spy jazz/funk instrumental forming the basis, they rode...
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Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK shares ‘purgatory’, the second single from their third album If I Never Know You Like This Again. Listen to ‘purgatory’ and watch the accompanying video shot by Ellius Grace below! Bridie explains “’purgatory’ is about the weight of time and the perpetual fear of reaching the end of your life, unsatisfied with how you’d spent it. The song came out of a slump phase, I wasn’t really a fan of myself and honestly just felt...
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The Smile (aka Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner) share their newest offering ‘Pana-Vision’, along with an animation by Sabrina Nichols of artwork from artist Stanley Donwood. Watch below! Featured in BBC’s broadcast of Peaky Blinders, ‘Pana-vision’ was likely identifiable to sonically savvy viewers as the latest from The Smile, the same episode premiered a sublime, Satie-esque instrumental piece that the keenest of ears might recognise as the work of Thom Yorke: ‘That’s How Horses Are’, out now here. ‘Pana-vision’ follows last month’s release of ‘Skrting on the Surface’....
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Oliver Sim unveils a new Jamie xx-produced single, ‘Fruit’, a joyful celebration of queer identity and self-acceptance penned to his younger self. Watch the accompanying video directed by French director Yann Gonzalez (Knife + Heart) below! ‘Fruit’ follows Sim’s solo debut single, ‘Romance With A Memory,’ which debuted last month with a lyric video starring artists and drag performers Charity Kase, HoSo Terra Toma, Gena Marvin and more. Both tracks will feature on a forthcoming limited edition vinyl 12” available only...
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Interpol share ‘Toni’, the first single from their 7th LP The Other Side of Make-Believe, out July 15th. The album breaks fresh ground for the group: parallel to exploring the sinister undercurrents of contemporary life, Interpol’s new songs are imbued with pastoral longing and newfound grace. ‘Toni’ arrives as the first instalment of a two-part dance film directed by Van Alpert (Post Malone, Machine Gun Kelly), with the second chapter to follow soon. Van Alpert says: “I...
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Late nights, sweaty bodies, blue smoke and beer-fuelled dance freak-outs over a gravely wailing saxophone – think New Orleans processionals meets Twin Peaks. Another crazy year and JAZZPARTY are here on the ropes with you, putting out a new album for all the lovers and haters of jazz. Following singles ‘Higher With My Love’, ‘Nobody Gets Away’ & ‘Hearts Gonna Leave’, the Melbourne cult party outfit today release their new album Nobobody Gets Away via Remote Control Records. Alongside its release comes a new video for...
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Future Islands have shared ‘Moonlight’, the third new song from forthcoming album As Long As You Are out 9 October via 4AD. The song is paired with a video directed by Will Mayer (BADBADNOTGOOD) and starring Matthew Gray Gubler (Criminal Minds, 500 Days of Summer) and Callie Hernandez (La La Land, Alien). Samuel T. Herring says of the song, “’Moonlight’ is a song about love in a depressive state. It’s...
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Melbourne group Black Cab have released new single and video for ‘Hanna.’ The single comes from a brand new Cab album. Keep your eyes peeled for more release details soon. The single ‘Hanna’ is an ode to the cosplay community. The song is pulsing and uplifting, filled with vibrant synths and features both GL’s Graeme Pogson on drums plus Lowtide’s Lucy Buckeridge on backup vocals. “She’s a dress up girl...
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‘Green Light‘ is the new single from Melbourne/Narrm-based artist, producer & vocalist, Memphis LK. As premiered by triple j & triple j Unearthed, ‘Green Light’ is Memphis’ first offering of 2020 – a powerhouse bass-driven anthem accompanied by an endearing homemade video created during isolation. Memphis says “Green Light is like driving round in fast cars or being out at a club and dancing with your friends, and these are...
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Los Angeles-based musician Jess Cornelius releases a new single/video, ‘Body Memory,’ from her debut album, Distance, out July 24th via Part Time Records. It follows the Roy Orbison tinged rave-up, ‘Kitchen Floor.’ On ‘Body Memory,’ the last song she wrote for the record, Cornelius intones over a calming electro-rhythm “When we met I used to make you laugh/then we lost the baby and it broke my heart,” adding later: “My...
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Joshua Homme’s Desert Sessions collective is proud to unveil the first fruits of its expansion into visual collaboration: Homme’s recent meetings with students at the New York Film Academy’s Los Angeles campus have resulted in unique works by two filmmakers, each of whom was given a production budget to translate the music and lyrics of the Desert Sessions into their own vision. Italian filmmaker Gabriele Fabbro took on the acoustic...
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Perth artist Carla Geneve is back with another belter. Check out the new single and accompanying video titled ‘Don’t Wanna Be Your Lover‘. The track is the first taste of her debut full-length due later this year. The track is an exploration of the grey areas between platonic and romantic relationships and “how two people might want different things but knowing that that doesn’t undermine the connection you have,” says...
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King Krule has released ‘Alone, Omen 3.’ It’s the second single from his forthcoming album Man Alive! out Friday 21 February. The track comes with a video directed by Archy Marshall’s close friend Jocelyn Anquetil and was co-written by the artist and director. Featuring Archy surrounded by his friends, band mates and collaborators, the video backs up the message that “you’re not alone”. “I felt like I had gotten out...
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“Jeffrey Lebowski, it is “The Dude”, Donny Benét, it is “The Don”. Quite simply.” Donny Benét is back with a new single and video, ‘Girl Of My Dreams.’ Watch it below. He explains… “Some songs just write themselves – when it happens you’re a passenger and a vessel to the whole process. Girl of My Dreams was exactly this – as I was feverishly recording instrumental parts I felt that...
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The grind is tough. We’re all just trying to get by – but at what cost? You can chase a dream but if you’re in the working class – everything else suffers for it. In ‘Still Want You Around Me’ Jeremy Neale explores the sentiments not often shared with those closest to us when we’re strung out or snowed under – featuring the feel-good sing-a-long chorus of the summer! The video is a lighthearted clip,...
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