VIDEO: ALT-J ‘TESSELLATE’

Directed by Alex Southam, “Tesselate” is a twist on Italian Renaissance painter Raphael’s ‘The School of Athens’, set in a modern day gangster’s paradise. The incredible ‘Tessellate’ will be released on 16 July 2012 through Infectious Music. The track is lifted from their stunning debut album ‘An Awesome Wave.’ Get debut album ‘An Awesome Wave’ […]
Guillemots are giving away a free download of their stunning album track ‘Fleet’. The track is taken from their most recent album ‘Hello Land!’, which is the first of four albums to be released this year by the band! They like a challenge. They’ve also posted a rather beautiful video of a live performance of Fleet which can […]

NEWS: GUILLEMOTS – FREE ALBUM TRACK ‘FLEET’ + SEE THE LIVE VIDEO

NEWS: SCRAPS – DOWNLOAD ‘1982’ FROM THE FORTHCOMING EP

Brisbane’s enigmatic synth pop songstress Scraps (AKA Laura Hill) is to release the EP ‘Secret Paradise’ containing single ‘1982’, on July 23rd. Laura wears her obsession with 80’s synth rock on her sleeve, citing The Human League, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Flock of Seaguls, OMD, Gary Numan and Devo as influences. The 80’s loom large in […]
With their debut album, ‘Gone’ ready for release on the 25th June via Downtown Records, Vacationer continues to share a number of remixes that they’ve been keeping under wraps, including a reworking from MMOTHS, and their own remixes of Tennis and Deleted Scenes tracks. “I was really excited to hear MMOTHS take on our track […]

NEWS: VACATIONER – DOWNLOAD REMIX OF ‘TRIP’ BY MMOTHS

VIDEO: THE CHANTEUSE & THE CRIPPLED CLAW – REWORK OF M83’S REUNION

Sheffield’s premiere Eccentronic Popgroup THE CHANTEUSE & THE CRIPPLED CLAW have reworked M83’s track ‘REUNION’ features Philly Chanteuse on lead vocals. TCCC say “Was going for a Janet Kay(Silly Games) via Althea & Donna Sheffield Dub Eccentronic Lovers Rock sound.”
Following on from the release of his universally acclaimed debut EP ‘With U’ in 2011, Holy Other is now ready to unveil his debut album ‘Held’. Working with the same blend of R&B, UK garage and house sounds that influenced the funereal pop sounds of ‘With U’, Holy Other found another significant influence during the […]

NEWS: HOLY OTHER – DEBUT ALBUM DETAILS + STREAM ‘LOVE SOME1’

NEWS: DAVID BYRNE & ST. VINCENT – ALBUM DETAILS + DOWNLOAD SINGLE ‘WHO’

David Byrne & St. Vincent have confirmed the September 10 release of their album, ‘Love This Giant’, to be released worldwide by 4AD under exclusive license from Byrne’s label Todo Mundo. Recorded over two years largely at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ, the album is a collaboration in the truest sense of the word, with […]
Bella Union records are thrilled to announce the signing of Wild Nothing who returns this summer with second album ‘Nocturne’, the follow-up release to his acclaimed debut ‘Gemini’. Ask Jack Tatum what ‘Wild Nothing’ means and he’ll answer: ‘a contradiction’. In 2010, 21 year old Tatum released one of the finest cult pop records of […]

NEWS: WILD NOTHING – VIDEO FOR NEW SONG ‘SHADOW’ + 2ND ALBUM DETAILS

NEWS: FLAMING LIPS – NEW ALBUM & NEW LABEL

Bella Union are truly thrilled to announce the signing of one of our all-time favourite bands The Flaming Lips. The Flaming Lips’ first release for the label will be a project that’s shaping up to be one of the most talked-about releases of the year: THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS. In between one-off shows […]
The reviews are in. The second album by silver-plated songstress Cate Le Bon, CYRK, is a bona fide critical hit. The cavalcade of comparisons that crop up in every review – John Cale, Nico, Malkmus et al – give you an idea of the regard in which Le Bon is currently held. So it’s with […]

NEWS: CATE LE BON – ‘CYRK II’