Kamasi Washington debuts a new song, ‘The Garden Path‘, and performed it for the first time ever, making his late night television debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “The world feels turned upside down,” says Washington of the song. “There’s so much push and pull in every direction, from everyone you meet—no one knows what to think, who to believe, or how to approach life right now. No matter how smart you are, it’s hard not to...
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Five years ago Sampha released his debut album Process via Young / Remote Control Records. The seminal album was met with widespread critical-acclaim and went on to be named the 2017 Mercury-Prize winner. Celebrating the project’s five-year anniversary, Sampha releases a special 12-track bonus edition of Process which includes two newly available songs ‘Inbetween and Overseas’ and ‘Answer’. Process, which features singles ‘(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano’, ‘Timmy’s Prayer’ and ‘Blood On Me’, is an emotionally raw and achingly...
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Songwriter, beatmaker, and multi-instrumentalist-maverick Ethan P. Flynn announces the release of his first “finished” project Universal Deluge; a purposefully curated seven-track EP set to be released digitally and as a 12” vinyl on Friday 11 March 2022 via Young / Remote Control Records. The announcement is made in line with the release of the visual for the lead single ‘Father of Nine’, a striking music video shot by Aliyah Otchere and directed by London-based visionaries ethan&tom. Speaking on the...
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Songwriter, beatmaker and multi-instrumentalist Ethan P. Flynn releases his new single ‘The Universal Deluge’ – out now via Young / Remote Control Records. Accompanied by a pensive new visual directed and shot by Aliyah Otchere which places Ethan at the centre of a vastly desolate and unworldly landscape; reflective of the emotive new single. Ethan says of its creation, “The film of me walking was taken just after a sandstorm, I still feel like I have sand in my ears...
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Following the release of singles ‘White Picket Fence’, ‘Joy Squad’ & ‘Black Rainbow’ Welsh producer Lewis Roberts aka Koreless releases his much-anticipated debut album Agor via Young / Remote Control Records, an album over five years in the making. There is an idea of hidden depths suggested by the title of Koreless’ debut album. Agor is the Welsh word for open and it’s an apt name for a recording which exists at sensory thresholds, helping guide the listener from one realm to another less visited. Agor is unlike any...
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Two of the UK’s most exciting and original new acts, Ethan P. Flynn and Black Country, New Road have come together to record a live version of Flynn’s ‘Television Show‘ out now via Young / Remote Control Records. The original version featured on Ethan P. Flynn’s debut mixtape – 2020’s highly acclaimed B-Sides and Rarities Volume One – and this live version is the first time Black Country, New Road have featured on an official Ethan P. Flynn release following a...
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Today Welsh producer Lewis Roberts aka Koreless announces his much-anticipated debut album Agor, due for release July 9 via Young / Remote Control Records. An album over five years in the making, Agor is announced with the single ‘Joy Squad’, a track that has a life of its own already. Played by Caribou, Jamie xx and TNGHT in their BBC Radio1 Essential Mixes and with further support from Oli XL and HAAi,...
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Welsh artist Koreless returns with ‘Black Rainbow’, a pumping, anthropomorphic electronic jam that has blood and guts where the wires should be. Koreless’ first solo material in 5 years, ‘Black Rainbow’ is served with a video originally conceived and shot in a ravine in Rachub, North Wales during lockdown 2020. The video for ‘Black Rainbow’ is inspired in equal parts by cult 70’s coming of age BBC drama Penda’s Fen, soft orthopedic foam and slow-motion bullet time videos of the...
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Ethan P. Flynn has released an expanded version of his debut compilation and career retrospective B-Sides & Rarities Volume 1. Originally released via Bandcamp, B-Sides & Rarities Volume 1 is an evolving body of work featuring a collection of songs recorded between 2015 and 2018. Showcasing a deft songwriting flair and touching on musical inspirations that run the gamut from Sparklehorse to Madlib, Julia Holter to Danny Brown and Tom...
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In L.A, April 2018, In the midst of emerging adulthood and in the transitional period between amateur and professional musician, Ethan P. Flynn wrote and recorded what would become his debut single: ‘Everybody’s Dying To Meet You‘. It’s out now via Young. The songwriter, beatmaker and multi-instrumentalist stars in the accompanying video in which we flick back and forth through time catching snapshots of Flynn’s wild life. Beneath the more...
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“For the woman who gave me everything I needed to be strong…” 1010 Benja SL New single out called ‘Dobby’ via Young. A love song, a ride or die anthem written for his partner and the first track from a new body of work, ‘Dobby’ perfectly showcases 1010 Benja SL’s modern soulful sound. Having seemingly come out of nowhere to release his delightfully perplexing single ‘Boofiness’ in 2017, 1010 Benja...
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Here it is, the new album from FKA twigs – MAGDALENE. Out now everywhere through Young. MAGDALENE is the follow up to FKA twigs’ critically acclaimed Brit Award and Mercury Prize-nominated debut LP1 (2014, Young). Created in a period where her confidence was knocked following heartbreak and laparoscopic surgery, MAGDALENE is the sound of twigs reconfiguring, emotionally and physically. As she sings on ‘Mary Magdalene’, the album track that opened her highly-praised, sold-out live shows earlier in the year, “A woman’s time...
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As anticipation mounts for the release of her second album MAGDALENE (released Friday 8th November via Young / Remote Control Records), FKA twigs has revealed more brand new music from the record. ‘home with you’ is another stunning statement from a truly multi-faceted artist, with FKA twigs producing and writing (with Ethan P. Flynn) the track as well as directing and starring in the accompanying video. It follows the release of previous MAGDALENE tracks ‘cellophane’ and ‘holy terrain’, her collaboration with Future that also featured an incredible FKA twigs-directed video. “You can take the...
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“I never thought heartbreak could be so all-encompassing. I never thought that my body could stop working to the point that I couldn’t express myself physically in the ways that I have always loved and found so much solace. I have always practiced my way into being the best I could be, but I couldn’t do that this time, I was left with no option but to tear every process...
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Kamasi Washington today debuts ‘Truth’, the sixth movement from Harmony of Difference, a new EP set for release this winter via Young, who Kamasi has signed to. ‘Truth’ is accompanied by a new short film from director A.G. Rojas, watch it below. The EP is an original six-movement suite, featuring artwork by Kamasi’s sister Amani Washington. Amani created five paintings focused on raw shapes and colours, each inspired by one of the first five movements of...
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New York artist NOLIFE has released his debut EP, YOU WON’T SURVIVE THE STATE OF NEW YORK, via Young / Remote Control Records. The project of 25 year old Sean Engvold, NOLIFE is a project deeply rooted in chaos. It is anxiety, doubt, and isolation at a breaking point it is the noise of post industrialism and the affective bond with one’s environment. NOLIFE reaches beyond the state it was...
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