Client Liaison share the new video for single ‘A Foreign Affair’ taken from their debut album Diplomatic Immunity, out now. Watch the video, directed by Tim White, below! Tina Arena says “It’s been a lot of fun working with Client Liaison, from recording the song last summer and to crashing their set at Splendour, this clip ties it all together nicely! Grab a gin & tonic and get ready for take-off.”...
The National have shared their latest track ‘Day I Die’ from their forthcoming album, Sleep Well Beast, out Friday 8th September. The video, directed by Casey Reas, compresses the frenetic energy of performing with the grind of touring. Watch it below! The National will arrive in Australia in February 2018 as part of their world tour, playing shows in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne. This will mark the first time Australian audiences...
South London four-piece Goat Girl share the video for ‘Crow Cries’ to celebrate the release along with ‘Mighty Despair’ on a limited 7″. Watch the video, written, produced and directed by lead singer Clottie Cream, below! The band’s furious sound represents how it feels to live in this current climate “There’s teenage angst in them,” says L.E.D “But I think that was inevitable, growing up in London over the last ten...
Wiki is back with the release No Mountains in Manhattan, out today! To coincide, Wiki shared his video for ‘Mayor’. Watch below! On the new track, produced by Tony Seltzer and Alex Epton, Wiki recounts his journey from “little rapper” to “The Mayor,” as his music takes him around the world, but always back to the city that raised him. Directed by Matt Lubansky, the video follows Wiki on an unconventional campaign...
King Krule shares video for ‘Czech One’, the first new music to surface from Archy Marshall’s acclaimed project since 2013. Watch it below! Directed by Frank Lebon, the video features Archy alone in his thoughts but surrounded by hundreds of strangers on a red-eye flight — as he contemplates his past, present and future. The visuals are a Noir-esque reverie, echoing the song’s atmospheric-downtempo-lounge-jazz-dream-state. ‘Czech One’ will be available as the...
Renz shares ‘Anyting’, the first track to be released via New Gen’s newly created imprint on XL Recordings. The accompanying video serves to enhance the track’s summer vibe, it’s a recognisable street party but with a more subdued, mellow late-night London feel. Watch it below! Having executive produced the first New Gen record as well as creating one of the most popular songs on it (Flexin’), London’s Renz steps further...
Reptaliens, the Portland lo-fi pop band led by husband and wife Cole and Bambi Browning, will release their debut album FM-2030 on Friday 6 October. Listen to the first single ‘If You Want’ below! Reptaliens quickly evolved from a bedroom-recording project to a full-fledged band that explores fringe pop culture through analog synthesizers, electric guitars, melodic bass lines, and Bambi’s lulling vocals. The pair’s songwriting mirrors their strong connection. FM-2030 was recorded...
Jess Locke has announced her new album Universe, out on Friday 20th October. She has also shared an accompanying video to the title track, made by friends of Jess, Marnie Vaughn (Bare Pictures) and Mim Montgomery at Monster House, an artist run studio space in Marrickville. Watch it below! Half stop motion animation and half video, the ‘Universe’ video shows Jess singing to the viewer through an old window as its panes are gradually...
Queens Of The Stone Age share the video to their first single from upcoming album Villains,’The Way You Used To Do’, created by Joshua Homme, directed by Jonas Akerlund and produced by Serial Pictures. Watch below! Homme says “Dancing and headbanging are truly individualistic expressions of losing oneself fully in appreciation of music—who better to combine these things into a singular vision than someone who’s directed Madonna and Lady Gaga videos–and also happens to...
Banoffee has shared a new video for her single ‘Ripe’. Created alongside ‘I’m Not Sorry’ video collaborators, Coco and Maximilian, and featuring performers Aisha and Briana, watch it below! Banoffee says “I wanted to showcase the friendships I’ve made and the light heartedness that comes with making clanky pop music.” The video is also a reflection on the current, new state of Banoffee: “This video works to express the polarities...
Perth duo Hamjam have released their new album a/s/l? along with sharing the video for ‘Sippin’ Rosé All Alone.’ Watch the clip below! Hamjam is the collaborative project between Hamish Rahn and James Ireland, two creative individuals who make music they describe as “blissed out sadness”. Distinguishing themselves as a band, and only sometimes as a bizarre type of food yet to be invented. Their debut full length, a/s/l?, is a collection...
Gold Class have released yet another stirring and urgent single, ‘Get Yours’, from the new album Drum, out on August 18. The accompanied video, directed by Defero Productions, was filmed at the band’s sold out Corner Hotel show last month. Watch it below! ‘Get Yours’ has been described by the band as the centerpiece of Drum. “It was the first of the songs we wrote for the album” said singer Adam...
Total Giovanni have returned with new single ‘Your Light’. The first new music from the band since 2015, watch their new video below! “It was the first time we’d recorded with a live drummer instead of using drum machines and samples,” the band say, “we wanted the song to have a warm organic feel that reflected the sentiment and tone of the song.” “The song got written around the time my...
Jim Lawrie has shared shared a new video for ‘Lost on Earth’, taken from his new album Slacker of the Year. Teamed up with filmmaker James Ruse to create the clip, ‘Lost on Earth’ captures the magic of unearthing something new and exciting in someone else. Watch it below! As Jim explains; “The majority of this planet is accounted for by Google maps. This song is about the fact that, even when every...
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Purity Ring’s debut LP Shrines, Megan James and Corin Roddick have released a new song, ‘Asido’. Accompanied by an animated lyric video written and directed by Megan and illustrated by Tallulah Fontaine. Watch it below! Tallulah took videos of Megan walking and falling, then traced the movement to create the character frame by frame. In order to situate their meaning, Megan had her mother...
With her forthcoming self-titled LP, Jen Cloher plays it fearlessly close to the bone, with raw, unflinching dissections of her life, love, and home of Australia. With her first single ‘Forgot Myself’, a deceptively upbeat track about the sacrifices and difficulties of maintaining a long-distance relationship with a high profile partner. Cloher turns that unfiltered lens onto her complicated relationship with Australia in ‘Regional Echo’, a title inspired by legendary Australian poet...
