Gold Class release their second single, ‘Rose Blind’, from their new album Drum, out on Friday 18 August. ‘Rose Blind’ is accompanied by a dark and ambiguous video directed by Defero Productions, watch it below! ‘Rose Blind’ explores themes of personal and societal politics. Vocalist Adam Curley explains “We wanted to write something with a big, raging chorus. It’s a love song, really, but a love song to a friend. It’s about feeling that...
Perth duo Hamjam announce their new debut album a/s/l?, out 11th August, and share their first single ‘Lean’. The music video to ‘Lean’ is a pastel reflection on domestic decadence, and an unfounded pining after early morning TV aerobics. Watch it below! Hamjam is a collaborative project between Hamish Rahn and James Ireland, two creative individuals who make music they describe as “blissed out sadness”. a/s/l? is an earnest and unassuming collection of...
The xx release a brand new music video for ‘I Dare You’, directed by Alasdair McLellan in collaboration with The xx and Calvin Klein Chief Creative Officer Raf Simons. Watch it below! The video, filmed in Los Angeles, continues The xx’s longstanding visual collaboration with McLellan, who also directed the band’s ‘On Hold’ and ‘Say Something Loving’ videos, in addition to their collaboration on the It Could Be Love photo...
The National share new single ‘Guilty Party’, from their forthcoming album Sleep Well Beast out 8th September. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Reas, below! “The video is a dream about memory and the degradation of memory; it’s about distance in time and space,” says Reas. “Time moves forward, but then backward as memory. The image of the two-faced Roman god Janus, who can look into the past and future, is the...
Princess Nokia has released a brand new single ‘G.O.A.T’. This is the first time her music has been available on streaming services other than SoundCloud and YouTube. The accompanying video was produced by Wally West, directed by Destiny Frasqueri & Milah Libin, with cinematography by Travis Libin. Watch it below! Princess Nokia is the best-known project of New Yorker Destiny Frasqueri. She’s been rapping and releasing tracks on YouTube and SoundCloud since...
New York City based rapper Wiki, known for his role in Ratking, is back with a new song ‘Pretty Bull’. The music video for ‘Pretty Bull’ directed by Ben Solomon, sees Wiki in his element at home in downtown Manhattan, surrounded by friends for a party at the local bodega. Watch it below. Over the weekend Wiki made his Glastonbury debut, joined by Suspect OTB, Jesse James Solomon and Skepta,...
Widowspeak announce their new album, Expect The Best, to be released Friday 25 August, along with revealing a video for the first single, ‘Dog’, filmed and edited by musician/artist Otium, and filmed in Tacoma, WA. Watch it below! Widowspeak’s Molly Hamilton says the song is “about the compulsion to move on from things and places, even people, when you’re not necessarily ready to. Sometimes, I get caught up in ‘the grass is always...
Rescued from defunct formats, prised from dark cupboards and brought to light after two decades in cold storage… OK COMPUTER OKNOTOK 1997 2017 is out now and available on all digital formats, double CD, and triple 180g LP versions of the 23 track album. Coinciding in time for the release Radiohead have shared a new video to one of the previously unreleased tracks ‘Man Of War’. Watch it below! OKNOTOK features the...
Jen Cloher has announced her new self-titled album to be released Friday 11th August. Jen has also shared the first single from the album, ‘Forgot Myself’, and writes about the sacrifices and difficulties of maintaining a long-distance relationship. Listen and watch the accompanying video below! Of the song’s inspiration, Jen said “You want to be with your partner celebrating big moments in their life but at the same time you have your own life...
Gold Class have announced their new album, Drum, to be released on Friday 18 August. The band have also shared a video for their first single off the record ‘Twist In The Dark’. Watch it below! Drum is the follow-up to 2015 debut It’s You. Recorded at Melbourne’s Head Gap studios and Tropical Fuck Storm Studios and produced by Gareth Liddiard, Drum sees Gold Class explore new sonic territory. On the album...
Methyl Ethel share a new video for ‘Drink Wine’, directed by Paxi (behind the surrealism-flavoured visuals for ‘Ubu’) and filmed in Sydney, Australia. The new single opens their second studio album, Everything Is Forgotten, out now. Watch the video below. The band are currently in the middle of a run of European dates with fellow Perth band POND. After appearances at Boardmasters, Lowlands and Green Man festivals, Methyl Ethel will head to North...
Algiers have released new single ‘Cleveland’, taken from their forthcoming second album, The Underside Of Power, released Friday 23rd June. Listen below. While the song invokes Tamir Rice, as a reference and tribute, the lyrics summon Kindra Chapman, Andre Jones, Lennon Lacy, Sandra Bland, Roosevelt Pernell, Keith Warren and Alfred Wright, similarly victims of state sanctioned violence. It also makes a link with theorist Walter Benjamin’s work on divine violence, placing justice against...
Aldous Harding has revealed a new video for the single ‘Blend’, taken from her latest album Party, watch it below. The visuals for ‘Blend’ were created by Charlotte Evans, the New Zealand filmmaker also responsible for Harding’s previous videos for ‘Horizon’ and ‘Imagining My Man’. Disquieting in its nature, and inspired by Francis Ford Coppola’s legendary war film Apocalypse Now, Harding goes into further detail – “The concept is based on that awful...
Pixx shares a new spiralling pop song, ‘Waterslides’, from her debut album, The Age Of Anxiety, released Friday 2nd June. Watch it’s accompanying video below! Filmed in the futuristic cityscape of Bilbao, directors Alice Clingan and Louis Milner explain the premise behind its visual companion. “The lyrics to ‘Waterslides’ are inspired by a dream Hannah had, isolated on a waterpark in the middle of the ocean, surrounded by emotionless suited figures. We tried...
Benjamin Booker has shared a new track ‘Believe’ off his upcoming album Witness, out Friday 2nd June. To accompany the new track, Booker has also shared a stunning live video of him performing the song at Providence’s historic Columbus Theatre. Watch the video below. Witness is his biggest artistic leap to date – drawing on everything from the writings of James Baldwin to Freddie Gibbs to William Onyeabor’s 70s African psych-rock. Preorder...
After some mysterious teasers earlier in the week, The National announce their 7th studio album, Sleep Well Beast, set to be released on September 8th. The National debuts the track ‘The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness’, in this Casey Reas directed video you can watch below! Sleep Well Beast was produced by member Aaron Dessner with co-production by Bryce Dessner and Matt Berninger. The album was mixed by Peter Katis and...
