To celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated third album, After You, Jack Peñate releases a stunning live video of ‘Loaded Gun’. Directed by Daniel Castro Garciaand filmed at north London’s legendary The Church studios, the intimate black and white live recording sees Jack stripping back the song to just piano and vocal to beautiful effect. Watch below! Featuring the singles ‘Prayer’ and ‘Murder’ (and their accompanying Eddie Peake-directed videos), After...
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Announcing the return of iconic songwriting supergroup Dyson Stringer Cloher – Mia Dyson, Liz Stringer, and Jen Cloher. ‘Falling Clouds‘ is out now. A return as monumental as this requires a video to match. Read Cloher’s comments on it below. “Drag has always been a fun way to explore gender through performance. ‘Falling Clouds’ examines how the rules and privileges of gender have shaped the careers of women and non...
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‘Kill Some‘ is the third single released by talented young artist HAWA, complete with its own video. HAWA explained that ‘Kill Some‘ “is a love song about a toxic relationship inspired by a true story.” The song follows that journey from its hopeful beginning to the end of the “fairytale,” presenting the “challenges of being in love with a gorgeous woman who you know could never truly be yours.” Check...
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Another taste of the debut album from Gena Rose Bruce, ‘I Don’t Think I’ll Ever Get Over You.’ It comes with a beautiful lyric video created by Kate Adams and Alex Badham. Gena explains – “We wanted to create a meditative, surrealist-inspired video for this song. The imagery hints at the concept of being buried, in this case by the thoughts or memories of someone you can’t let go of. It’s quite...
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Katz is back! His first new music since last year’s collaborative debut EP Waterfall – ‘Back From Nothing‘ is out now everywhere via Dot Dash Recordings. Written and produced in Katz’ Collingwood home studio with Melbourne based songwriter Janeva Burrill, the track features powerful, soaring vocals that are both rich and intimate. “It’s a song about being grateful for someone’s friendship and guidance, particularly through difficult times,” says Katz. It...
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How good were Huntly‘s album launch shows? To celebrate their signing to US label House Arrest, and the re-release of their debut album Low Grade Buzz in North America, Huntly have shared their video for ‘Giving Circle.’ Huntly share “Giving Circle is about the mess left in the aftermath of a break up. The moments you look around your friendship group and want to extricate yourself from the whole scene...
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Thrilled to announce we’ll be releasing the third album from Palehound – Black Friday. Out 7 June. Preorder here. Fronted by Ellen Kempner, the Boston trio’s new album is a finespun exploration of all the forms of that love can take: love between friends, love for people no longer in your life, love in the face of self-hate, love that endures through major life changes or through many tiny catastrophes. Watch...
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Melbourne’s Sunbeam Sound Machine (Nick Sowersby) has shared his new video ‘Seems Like You’ve Made Up Your Mind‘ – premiering via Document Journal. Following on from ‘Talking Distance,’ the track is a second taste of Sunbeam’s second LP Goodness Gracious, out 3 May via Dot Dash. Here are some of Nick’s favourite things about the making of the video (dir. Clancy Walker, shot by Sean T. Barnes, starring Terry Yeboah). 1....
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Art of Fighting have shared a beautifully affecting new track and video – ‘Your Love.’ Premiered by Triple R Breakfasters and The Music, ‘Your Love’ is “about that feeling when what you fear the most in the world is the inability to contain and rationalise your love for someone. How that makes all the other genuinely terrifying things in both the internal and external world seem completely insignificant,” says Ollie...
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LA based artist, Hand Habits (aka Meg Duffy) has released their new album placeholder via Milk! Records. Meg Duffy grew up in a small town in Upstate New York, and cut their teeth as a session guitarist and touring member of Kevin Morby’s band. The name placeholder stems from Meg’s fascination with the undefinable. Their songs serve as openings, carved-out spaces waiting to be endowed with meaning. As a lyricist, Meg is drawn to the in-between, and...
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2Methyl Ethel – Triage (Dot Dash) Here it is, the (already) critically acclaimed third album from Methyl Ethel: Triage. It’s out now everywhere – digitally, on CD, vinyl, and cassette via Dot Dash Recordings. Purchase here. Receiving 5 Stars by the Herald Sun, featuring on triple j, RTR and more, Triage marks a sense of closure. It’s a reflective album, one that explores the notion of coming of age. In...
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SOAK has unveiled beautiful new track ‘Valentine Shmalentine’. Together with new single ‘Knock Me Off My Feet’ and returning track ‘Everybody Loves You’, ‘Valentine Shmalentine’ is taken from Bridie’s second album Grim Town, out on April 26. Grim Town follows SOAK’s debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream, and an extraordinary period of invention and self-discovery for the still-just-22-year-old Derry native. Haunting, atmospheric and brutally honest, Bridie says ‘Valentine Shmalentine’ is “the result...
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Sunbeam Sound Machine, the recording project of Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick Sowersby, releases his second LP Goodness Gracious, Friday May 3rd. ‘Talking Distance’ is the first offering from the album. Watch the accompanying video, by cinematographer Clancy Walker, below! Goodness Gracious is a self-produced affair, written, recorded and mixed by Sowersby in his home studio before being mastered by John Lee at Phaedra Studios. Sonically, Goodness Gracious is intimate and expansive, full...
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After 24 months of touring and toiling, four piece kiwi band Soaked Oats release the first single ‘Shuggah Doom’ from their forthcoming EP! The single is accompanied by a music video that sneakily combines both literal and deeper meanings to the easy-going manoeuvres of the track. Watch below! The song was produced alongside Tom Healy at The Lab in central Auckland, and the video was shot by Jake Munro in the south Auckland Bombay Hills featuring...
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Los Angeles-based artist Hand Habits has shared ‘can’t calm down‘, the latest single from their upcoming album, placeholder, out Friday 1st March. The song features vocal contributions from Elizabeth Powell of Land of Talk. Watch the accompanying video below! Duffy says “this song took the longest lyrically for me to finish. i started it about 3 years ago and kept it in progress throughout different cycles of feeling. ‘ancestral damage’ and learned behaviours and conditioning to react/hold and place certain emotions are...
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Chris Cohen announces his new self-titled album to be released March 29th. His third solo album is about accepting loss, written and recorded in his Lincoln Heights studio and at Tropico Beauties in Glendale, California over the course of the last two years. Cohen also shares new single and video ‘Green Eyes’, watch below! Cohen says, “[It’s about] the men in my family and how they passed their worldview along to each other from great emotional...
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