Track: Haiku Hands drop the hectic banger that is ‘Eat This Bass’ (IPON remix)
Rapturously defiant alt-dance trio Haiku Hands have shared an IPON remix for their aggressively danceable track, Eat This Bass. About the remix, the group say: “I remember listening to the ‘Eat This Bass’ remix for the first time in a festival transport van on our way to Groovin the Moo in Perth… Mad Decent had …
News: Black Marble announces new album ‘Fast Idol’ out 22 October – hear first single ‘Somewhere’ and catch live tour dates
Black Marble (aka Chris Stewart) has announced his new album titled Fast Idol, which is due out October 22 via Sacred Bones Records. He’s also sharing the first single and video for Somewhere, alongside the announcement of UK/US tour dates this October and November. On the track itself, Chris Stewart shares: “‘Somewhere’ describes a place …
Track: Banoffee shares new single and video for ‘Idiot’ with new album ‘Teartracks’ out 8 October
Animated pop maven Banoffee has released new single Idiot with its accompanying lush, love-heart bed video, directed by Phebe Schmidt. This follows previous single Tapioca Cheeks and comes with the announcement that the eagerly awaited album Teartracks will be out on 8 October. Idiot, unlike the singer’s other wistful, mutated pop gems, is honest in …
Album Review: He’s still here – a refined and redefined Chet Faker checks us into ‘Hotel Surrender’- out now via Details Records/BMG
Five-time ARIA-award winning producer, songwriter and artist Chet Faker (aka Nick Murphy) has delivered his highly awaited sophomore album, Hotel Surrender via his own label Detail Records, in partnership with BMG. Six years after stepping away from the Chet Faker identity, Melbourne-raised, New York-based Murphy revived the project last October and created a reintroduction of …
News: It’s the collab you need to hear – Tycho x Benjamin Gibbard on new single ‘Only Love’
Grammy Award-nominated artists Tycho and Benjamin Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service) have released a landmark, anthemic new collaboration Only Love, available now via Mom + Pop Music/Ninja Tune. The track powerfully and meticulously fuses Tycho’s transcendent production and signature arrangements with Gibbard’s cathartic, deeply humanist lyricism. This is the first major electronic …
Album review: Merpire’s debut album ‘Simulation Ride’ is beautifully crafted rock serving to soothe the lost and lonely
Purveyor of sensitively insightful indie, Melbourne’s Merpire has just released her long-awaited debut album Simulation Ride via Warner’s ADA. The record is a heartening and satisfying culmination of the artist’s favourite songs, taken from the ‘video store of her mind’ and written over the course of the past few years. Merpire also co-produced with partner …
Track: Xeno + Oaklander drop new single and video for “Infinite Sadness” – New album ‘Vi/deo’ out 22 October via Dais Records
New York dark wave duo Xeno & Oaklander have announced their impending full-length release, Vi/deo, due out on 22 October via Dais Records. The album promises to further distil the group’s iconic noir synth-pop and is inspired by ideas of synaesthesia, scent, star worship, and obsolescent technologies. Duo Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride conceived the …
Track: Toronto’s Bad Waitress share a second taste of their debut album due September, hear rambunctious new single ‘Delusions of Grandeur’
Gritty, Toronto punk rock four-piece Bad Waitress have shared the second single from their riotous debut album, No Taste, out September 3rd via Royal Mountain Records. Delusions of Grandeur is as rambunctious as it is energetic and follows the release of last month’s first single Strawberry Milkshake. The band explains, “When the wrong people get …
Track: ‘Chorusing’ shares the unplugged ambience of new single ‘Midday Sun’ with debut album ‘Half Mirror’ due August 13
North Carolina based songwriter/producer Chorusing has shared atmospheric new track, Midday Sun, the second single from his forthcoming debut album, Half Mirror, which will be released on 13 August via Western Vinyl. And in the artist’s opinion the song is a moodily stripped back ode to Nirvana Unplugged, with “stripped-down drums and bass providing a …
Track: We Were Promised Jetpacks change trajectory with new album ‘Enjoy the View’ and share their latest positivity-infused single ‘Fat Chance’
Acclaimed Edinburgh indie trio We Were Promised Jetpacks will release their much-anticipated, brand new album Enjoy the View on 10 September via Big Scary Monsters. Along with this announcement is the release of single Fat Chance. Following on from previous single If It Happens – released via 7” – these new tracks signify a change …