Mdou Moctar ‘Afrique Victime’ out 21st May 2021

'Tala Tannam' Directed by Cem Misirlioglu Footage shot by WH Moustapha (Dynamique Image) & Mikey Coltun

Mdou Moctar immediately stands out as one of the most innovative artists in contemporary Saharan music with his unconventional interpretations of Tuareg guitar. In 2019, he was described by the Guardian as ‘the Hendrix of the Sahara’. With “Afrique Victime” out on Matador Records, the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky – boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and “rock music” by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field rec...

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Black Midi ‘Cavalcade’ out 28th May 2021

'John L' Director/choreographer - Nina McNeely with the The Entity Dance Company

The experimental UK band ‘black midi’ have announced their second album, Cavalcade (Rough Trade). To mark the occasion, they have shared the single ‘John L’ and a music video directed by choreographer and creative director Nina McNeely, whose previous projects include Rihanna’s “Sledgehammer” visual and Gaspar Noé’s Climax.

After initially recording “John L” with producer Marta Salogni in London, the band found themselves in the aptly named Hellfire Studios, in the Dubli...

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Lump ‘Animal’ Out 30th July 2021

'Animal' by Lump Director of Photography: Ailsa Aikoa

LUMP – a collaboration between London singer-songwriter Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay (Domino Publishing) of the band Tunng – return with their second album, ‘Animal’, on  Partisan/Chrysalis.

Half cute, half dark and creepy, the songs Marling and Lindsay create as LUMP are unlike anything from either of their respective other projects. Marling’s lyrics are spontaneous, immediate, and playful (she drew heavily on her interest in psychoanalysis). Meanwhile Lindsay creates an access...

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Villagers ‘Fever Dreams’ out 20th August 2021

The First Day Director Daniel Brereton

Conor O’Brien is announced Villagers‘ fifth studio album Fever Dreams. Escapism is a very necessary pursuit right now, and Fever Dreams follows it to mesmerising effect. It works like all the best records – it becomes a mode of transport; it picks you up from where you are and sets you down elsewhere.

“The First Day” was inspired by a trip to the fabled Another Love Story festival in County Meath – beginning as a snatched electronic doodle, it morphed into a widescreen, lushly cin...

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Tirzah ‘Send Me’

artwork and video for “Send Me” by Leah Walker.

“as i hold, i am held as you heal, i heal”

“Send Me” is a subconscious snapshot from across a year when Tirzah was playing live regularly for the first time. The track explores recovery, gratitude and new beginnings, presenting a singer having discovered the type of love that is shared between a mother and a child for the first time whilst simultaneously working as an artist.

The  single is the first new material from Tirzah under her own name since 2018’s critically acclaimed albu...

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Black Midi ‘Slow’

'Slow' Dir. Gustaf Holtenäs

“The  ‘Slow’  video was made to fit the oscillating dynamics of the song. Going from calm to chaos over and over again. The video tells the story of a character who creates AI-generated worlds. To emphasise this, I let real AI’s generate a lot of the backgrounds in these worlds. So they are partly AI-generated, but It isn’t long before an AI could create the whole deal and create endless iterations of fantasy worlds. It can already create a random beautiful landscape painting in ...

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Introducing Hard Feelings with Amy Douglas

'Holding on Too Long' Director: Katie Paul

2021 sees the birth of HARD FEELINGS, the brand new collaborative project between New York City’s singer/ songwriting powerhouse, Amy Douglas and Joe Goddard of Hot Chip.

After Joe having heard Amy’s work, the HARD FEELINGS project was birthed with one message from Joe reaching out publicly via Twitter; “Amy, can we make a thing?”. That “thing” became HARD FEELINGS, the ultimate immersive cinematic experience for your feet and ears, seated fluidly at the intersections of New Wav...

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Ragz Originale – WOAH (Live)

WOAH (Live) Creative Direction: CHAMU

brush u

mirrors featuring Laura Groves

nightcap

2.0 low frequency

Vocals by Ragz Originale & Laura Groves

Backing Vocals: Angelina Mavanza & Tahirah Andrews

Synth Keys: Jeauneil Baptiste

Synth Bass: Ragz Originale

 

 

Babii ‘iii’ EP out 27th March 2020

DiiRECTOR - BABii

BABii wrote and produced all the music for “SNAKE” as well as creating the concept, directing, producing, editing, styling and building the set for the video. Speaking about the meaning behind the song, BABii said “‘SNAKE’ is a vicious ode to a manipulative spiteful person who has caused me, and a lot of people who are close to me, so much emotional pain that it managed to manifest its self into this song. Making this song helped me heal and purge the poison, so I could m...

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Art School Girlfriend ‘In the Middle’

Director - Tom Dream

London-based producer, multi-instrumental musician and vocalist Art School Girlfriend shares her new single ‘In The Middle’ via Fiction Records/Wolf Tone.

Torn from the pages of a diary kept by Art School Girlfriend’s Polly Mackey in 2019, her forthcoming debut album chronicles the period following her US tour in support of The Japanese House where, after returning to the UK, Mackey would end her six year relationship, leave her home of Margate and return to London. While sleeping on a ...

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