Tune-Yards release a new song, ‘Heart Attack’ ahead of their forthcoming album I can feel you creep into my private life, out Friday 19th January. Watch the accompanying clip below! On the heart-rending bridge, bandleader Merrill Garbus pleads, “I’m only human,” as her voice dissolves into the digital, endlessly danceable abyss. The video is directed by Mimi Cave, choreographed by Megan Lawson and features improvisation by the cast of dancers. I can feel you...
U.S. Girls presents a new song, ‘Pearly Gates’, from her forthcoming album, In a Poem Unlimited out Friday 16 February. The single’s celestial companion video was directed by Chrissy Jones, who stars alongside Fizzy. Watch below! On ‘Pearly Gates’, Meg Remy describes a woman who wishes to seduce St. Peter to secure entry to the heavenly realm, with mixed results. Featuring vocalist James Baley and with music written by long-time...
Will Toledo’s 2011’s Bandcamp masterpiece, Twin Fantasy, has been re-recorded and re-imagined and will come out on Friday 16 Feburary. The album will be available on digital, vinyl and as a double CD including both Twin Fantasy (2017 version) and Twin Fantasy – Mirror To Mirror (re-mastered 2011 version). The announcement comes with the release of ‘Nervous Young Inhumans’ and its accompanying video. It is a frenetic, anthemic, split-screen choreographed...
Brisbane duo Primitive Motion announce their third full-length, House in The Wave, released Friday 23 February. In addition, they share first single ‘Feed the Signals’. Watch the video below! Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig recorded the album across Sunday afternoons spent in Selig’s home studio in Brisbane. The result is a meditative suite of dreamy piano-based songs, captured live at the point of conception and teeming with the incidental sounds of both the studio...
Lætitia Tamko is professionally known as Vagabon. She is a solo artist, a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, a peer of Porches, Mitski and Makkonen. The New Yorker, originally from Cameroon, released Infinite Worlds earlier this year. The album is now being re-released in AUS/NZ via Barely Dressed. She has also shares the video for ‘Cold Apartment’ made by assurgent Los Angeles animator Faye Orlove. The new video tells the crushing narrative of...
Good Boy have shared their self-produced video for ‘1972 VW Superbug’. The track is the third single from their brilliant EP Shirk Life, out now. Watch it below! The song is a nostalgic sprawler, exploring regional life via bored late-nights in their hometown of Bundaberg, Queensland. Rarely does a punk band write with such romanticism. “We made this video from footage collected every time we returned to our home town of...
Tune-Yards have released a new single ‘ABC 123’, from their forthcoming album I can feel you creep into my private life, out January 19. Watch the companion video, directed by Dear Mr Quistgaard, below! Bandleader Merrill Garbus’ politically-infused lyrics set a foreboding scene, as she laments, “California’s burning down / Sitting in the middle of the sixth extinction.” I can feel you creep into my private life is the fourth studio album and...
Honey Hahs release their new single ‘Forever’. The accompanying video was filmed on their first visit to Paris to perform at LesInRocks Festival last month. Watch the clip below! Honey Hahs describe the meaning behind the song; “Forever was written about our Dad who was worried about the world coming to an end. He started buying loads of food in case you couldn’t buy it in the shops anymore. He...
Following on from his single ‘Anyting’,London’s Renz is back with ‘Want Me ft. Trinna Carter’, another laid-back summertime jam. Watch the new clip below! Filled with Renz’ blissed out approach to vocals and production, it’s an unassuming earworm. Bringing summer-vibes to the basement club of Birthdays in Shoreditch. Having executive produced the first New Gen record as well as creating one of the most popular songs on it (Flexin’), Renz steps...
The third & final EP in Overmono’s acclaimed Arla series, Arla III, is out now! Overmono have also shared a new video for ‘Phase Magenta’, watch it below! Arla III finds Ed & Tom Russell’s Overmono project again reinvigorating & reshaping rave culture, through a deep personal affection for UK electronic music’s past acting as fuel for the inexorable forward momentum of their music. Over the series’ 14 tracks, they have...
The National have released the video for ‘Dark Side Of The Gym’, directed, choreographed and starring NYC Ballet Resident Choreographer and soloist Justin Peck and executive produced by former Miami City Ballet dancer and current dance filmmaker Ezra Hurwitz. Also starring former Miami City Ballet mentor and Principal dancer, Patricia Delgado, the video finds the duo gracefully move around a balloon filled auditorium. Watch it below! The National will return to...
Smerz have released their third new track and video in as many months. The new single ‘Have fun’ is a groovier cut of their breathed vocals and minimal beats. Watch the clip below! The video was produced and directed by Smerz, and as with all Smerz music, the track was produced, programmed and sung entirely by the Norwegian duo. Prolific doesn’t even cover it. Henriette and Catharina, who comprise Smerz, were...
2017 marks a decade of U.S. Girls. The multi-disciplinary artist, Meg Remy announces the release of her sixth studio album, In a Poem Unlimited, out Friday 16 February. Watch the video to new single ‘Velvet 4 Sale’ below! In a Poem Unlimited was tracked in collaboration with Toronto-based instrumental collective the Cosmic Range, and features arrangements by long-time contributors Maxmilian Turnball and Louis Percival. Following ‘Mad As Hell’, the album opener ‘Velvet 4 Sale’ concerns...
Smerz are on a roll at the tail end of 2017, with their second single ‘Half life’. Catharina and Henriette’s new track continues the duo’s penchant for minimalist beats and R&B vocals. Watch the video below! The video was produced and directed by Smerz, and as with all Smerz music, the track was produced, programmed and sung entirely by the Norwegian duo. The video is an off-kilter version of those classic R&B...
PicaPica announce their debut EP, Spring & Shade, to be released on December 8. To celebrate they have shared a video for new single ‘Small Time/Secret’. Watch it below! PicaPica features the vocal interplay of Josienne Clarke and Samantha Whates, dual front women who create powerful harmonies atop layers of texture created by Adam Beattie & Sonny Johns. Josienne and Samantha met on the London acoustic music scene several years...
Starcrawler announce their upcoming self-titled debut album to be released on 19 January 2018. Recorded by Ryan Adams on analog tape at his Pax-Am Studio. Starcrawler is now available for pre-order here. The first single from the album, ‘I Love LA’, comes with a video directed by music photographer Autumn de Wilde, a fun and feisty homage to the city of dreamers. Watch it below! Opening in a donut shop/Chinese food restaurant,...
