Alex Izenberg ‘Caravan Château’ out 31st July 2020

Directed & Photographed by Juliana Giraffe and Nicky Giraffe

Weird World / Domino 

The beguiling 11-song reflection on the house of mirrors that is love—Izenberg creates a sophisticated world of his own. Songs that are somehow understated but lavish map the vagaries of our uncertain hearts, the way wrinkles chronicle a lifetime of experience.

Izenberg on Caravan Château:
“Today it is my pleasure to announce  that my new album Caravan Château is coming out via Weird World on July 31st. I’ve been working hard on it and I’m extremely proud ...

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Alice Jemima ‘Everything Changes’ out 28th February 2020

After a highly successful summer touring the UK with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Alice Jemima announced , ‘Everything Changes’ and revealed a new single video for  ‘Dancing In Love’, which she co-wrote with Sophie Ellis Bextor and producer Simon Byrt.

Alice’s new uplifting single ‘Dancing in Love’, is the second track to be revealed from her much anticipated second album. ‘Dancing In Love’  has an upbeat disco theme with retro synths and funk-infused basslines overlaid by Alice...

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Alison Mosshart releases first solo songs ‘Rise’ and ‘It Ain’t Water’

Directed, Edited & Produced by Alison Mosshart

Best known as one-half of acclaimed duo The Kills, when she’s not moonlighting as Baby Ruthless, the gnarly lead singer of blues-punk foursome The Dead Weather, Mosshart is a forever moving force. Over the years she’s collaborated with everyone from her Dead Weather bandmate Jack White to the Arctic Monkeys, Primal Scream, Gang Of Four, Cage The Elephant, Foo Fighters,  James Williamson and Mini Mansions.

Releasing the first solo single of her already impressive career. “Rise” is a...

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All We Are ‘Providence’ out 14th August

Director - Moon

All We Are’s most euphoric and propulsive work to date, underpinned with a warmth that runs through everything the Liverpool-based trio do. With Providence, All We Are have created an album celebrating the universal virtues of love, loss, sex, friendship and dance. “The celebration of the positive things was our focal point with this record”, says Rich, “We could never have known what sort of world we’d be releasing this record into but our goal was always to try to bring people joy...

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Animal Collective ‘Bridge to Quiet’ out 3rd July 2020

Lyric video by Jack Kubizne. Artwork by Brian DeGraw.

Animal Collective constructed Bridge to Quiet from recycled music they had been making pre-pandemic. As the band explains, “During April and May, we took a look at some of our improvisations from 2019 and early 2020. We remixed them, collaged them, and built them into songs, finding our way to Bridge to Quiet.”

Anna Calvi ‘Hunted’ out 6th March 2020

18 months after the release of Hunter, which explored sexuality and breaking the laws of gender conformity, Anna Calvi revisited her initial, more intimate recordings of those songs. The versions on Hunted find her masterful guitar playing and formidable vocals distilled to their bare essence, in the company of collaborators Courtney Barnett, Joe Talbot (IDLES), Charlotte Gainsbourg and Julia Holter. The tracks on Hunted shine under the light of a different lens, one that brings the in...

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Austra ‘HiRUDiN’ out 1st May 2020

Director M. Blash

Being in a toxic relationship can sometimes feel like being lost in a maze. Every attempt to turn a corner lands you back where you started. HiRUDiN is both a bold acknowledgement of such patterns of behaviour and a testament to the power of breaking them.

Named after the peptide released by leeches that is the most potent anticoagulant in the world, HiRUDiN is about the importance of healing the self, letting go of harmful influences, and finding the power to rebuild through exploring your i...

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Bob Moses ‘Desire’ out 28th August 2020

Directed By: Owen Brown Animation By: Airplan

Bob Moses (Tom Howie and Jimmy Vallance) have announced their next release: a concept record for the club. Presented over six continuously mixed tracks, Desire  on Domino—is a love tale for the digital age: all about the positives and pitfalls of humanity’s driving wants, especially in these technology-driven times.

The title track, a hypnotic late-night collaboration with Grammy-nominated electronic musician ZHU, is out now with an interactive animated video, directed by Owen Brown (c...

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Brigid Dawson & The Mothers Network ‘Ballet of Apes’ out 20th June 2020

'Is The Season for New Incarnations' Directed by Arturo Baston

Released by castle face

The striation of loss quicksilvered throughout provides weighty balance to her contralto lilt. Those familiar with her harmonic counterpoint from her time in Thee Oh Sees or in OCS know she can belt as well as lullaby but there’s a fresh and smolderingly heavy swing in her step on display here that we mightily dig. “Ballet of Apes” tapestries together sessions that read like a who’s who from outside our own castle walls – in Australia with Mikey Young (Total ...

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Buscabulla ‘Regresa’ out 8th May 2020

Director Claudia Calderón Pacheco

Buscabulla has released the single “Vámono”, with a music video directed by Claudia Calderon. Watch above.

It is the first song both written and conceived since the duo’s members, Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle, moved home to Puerto Rico, from New York. The song is a rally to those who have returned as well as those whom have left. It is an urgent reminder to connect with your history, your roots, your very own self. Buscabulla were born and raised in Puerto Rico. Yet ...

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Dan Deacon ‘Mystic Familiar’ out 31st January 2020

'The Making of 'Mystic Familiar' - Director Corey Hughes

Dan Deacon’s most emotionally open and transcendent record, Mystic Familiar’s 11 kaleidoscopic tracks of majestic synth-pop exponentially expand his sound with unfettered imagination and newfound vulnerability. It’s the first album where Deacon presents his natural singing voice, unprocessed and with only minimal accompaniment; a vulnerable shift in a songbook abundant with characters, metaphors, and distorted vocals.

 

Dan Deacon ‘Well Groomed’ out 13th November 2020

Snip Snip Director: Rebecca Stern

If you were making a documentary about people who dye their dogs neon hues and trim their fur into the shape of the Cheshire Cat, Dan Deacon would be the first person you’d call for the score. Since his arrival with 2007’s Spiderman of the Rings, the Baltimore producer has wielded candy-coated synthesizers and jewel-toned vibraphones with radiant joy, combining conservatory-honed classical minimalism with the all-night-rager energy of a Jersey Shore DJ. His music is bright, pastel-colored...

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Dirty Projectors ‘Windows Open’ EP out 27th March 2020

Search For Life (Official Lyric Video)

If you’ve seen Dirty Projectors live in the last two years (2018-2020), you no doubt saw Maia Friedman rocking the Silvertone and Stratocaster stage left – now she sings lead on all of ‘Windows Open’.

‘Search For Life’, a classic Projectors ballad with a stunning string arrangement from Oliver Hill (Vagabon, Dust Rider). In the context of this month’s global crisis, it seems to carry a different and deeper resonance.

Windows Open features  ‘Overlord’, a “tongue-in-cheek c...

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DISCOVER African Connexion ‘C’est La Danse’

African Connexion 'C'est La Danse' - Sleeve art by Sara Silcock

Released in 1984 on the late Charlie Gillett‘s Oval Records, this song is a joyful, brassy, celebratory anthem recorded at Mark Angelo Studio and produced by Niall Morosini.

Mwana Musa takes the lead vocal – a singer, guitarist, and composer based in London. His band, African Connexion, formed in 1983, had a series of singles in the mid-’80s before breaking up in 1986, after which, Musa began a solo career. Pan-African by name, African Connexion had no specific country to draw upon...

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DISCOVER François & the Atlas Mountains ‘Coucou’

Quelle joie de retrouver Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains avec « Coucou », un titre léger et chaleureux qui annonce la sortie de Banane Bleue, son nouvel album à paraitre le 26 Février 2021.

Frànçois y aborde avec simplicité la question de la communication émotionnelle après une rupture amoureuse.

Une douceur musicale qui introduit selon moi parfaitement la couleur de ce nouveau disque qui est soulignée par la pâte sonore de Jaakko Eino Kalevi qui a produit le disque ainsi q...

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DISCOVER King Creosote and Jon Hopkins ‘Bubble’

Directed By Elliot Dear (Blinkink)

“So who’s been unfair, Who causes you sorrow? And who’s been unkind, Who burst your bubble?”

Lyric to Bubble by King Creosote and Jon Hopkins (video)

Nothing quite like a pandemic to help your life flash before your very eyes but it occurred to us that 28th March 2011 marks the 10th anniversary of the release of Diamond Mine, a collaborative album from Domino and Double Six artists, King Creosote and Jon Hopkins. We’ve selected the song Bubble to share with you whilst we revisit...

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DISCOVER The Feelies ‘Crazy Rhythms’

The Feelies formed in New Jersey 1976, taking their name from Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’. They released their first album ‘Crazy Rhythms’ in 1980. The band, influential in the development of post-punk music, have a distinctive  sound which was very original compared to the punk/new wave scene of the time. Their music is known to have influenced the likes of R.E.M, and ‘Crazy Rhythms‘ was received extremely well by critics on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the album...

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Ela Minus ‘Acts of Rebellion’ out 23rd October 2020

megapunk Video by Dr.Me.

Ela Minus’ debut album is a collection about the personal as political and embracing the beauty of tiny acts of revolution in our everyday lives. Throughout, a sense of urgency and a call to arms is mixed with this love and appreciation for reality—because even revolutionaries need to leave space for simple human interaction.

Colombia-born/raised and Brooklyn-based musician Ela Minus debuts her new single, “megapunk”. It follows “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong”,...

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Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains ‘Banane Bleue’ out 26th February 2020

'Coucou'

“Coucou”, the quasi-Californian lead track, with its soft bassline and beaming guitars, sets the tone for Banane Bleue perfectly. With emotional connections and misunderstandings at its heart, it details the end of a failing relationship whilst exploring the nuances of the French language. “I hate this word, “coucou” (which loosely translates as ‘hey there’ in French)” Frànçois Marry notes, “because, for me, it expresses a form of indifferent, slightly fake naivety. What...

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Fuzz ‘III’ out 23rd October 2020

Album in full

Ty Segall started 2020 by unveiling a new noise project, Wasted Shirt, with Lightning Bolt’s Brian Chippendale, and he killed some quarantine time by recording an EP of skewed Harry Nilsson covers. Here the third album from Fuzz, the psych-metal power trio he formed in 2011 with longtime accomplice Charles Moothart. PITCHFORK

 

One only knows one.

Two is balanced therefore stagnant.

III both active and reactive.

Charles Moothart, Ty Segall and Chad Ubovich are FUZZ.

FUZZ is three.

And...

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Georgia ‘Seeking Thrills’ out 10th January 2020

Director Joseph Connor

Singles, “Started Out” and “About Work The Dancefloor” hit Radio 1’s A playlist, and propelled Georgia to headline shows across the globe, including dates in Europe, Latin America, the US, Australia, plus a goosebump-inducing one-woman-band set on Glastonbury’s Park Stage.

Seeking Thrills is a sharply paced and fascinating album, packed with injections of lightness and fun, pared with rich, bubbling melodies that makes listening to it an experience that takes you into the party, t...

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Georgia’s ‘Seeking Thrills’ shortlisted for 2020 Hyundai Mercury Prize

Hollie Fernando

Domino are delighted to announce that Seeking Thrills – Georgia’s second album – has been shortlisted for the 2020 Hyundai Mercury Prize ‘Albums of the Year’. Georgia’s response to the news is as follows:

“Thrilled to be included in this year’s shortlist. I so enjoyed making Seeking Thrills and seeing people’s reactions to it, especially during lockdown. I wanted Seeking Thrills to be a euphoric, uplifting and empowering record, in these times we all need this.”

Seekin...

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Hayden Thorpe ‘Aerial Songs’ EP out 16th October 2020

A Film by Fiona Jane Burgess

Written and self-produced by Hayden with additional production work from Nathan Jenkins (aka Bullion), long-time collaborator Richard Formby and 4AD producer Fabian Prynn, Aerial Songs was originally composed as part of Hayden’s time as artist in residence at Aerial Festival – an arts, music and performance event due to take place in his native Cumbria.

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Hen Ogledd ‘Free Humans’ out 25th September 2020

Stream 'Trouble' by Hen Ogledd

Consisting of Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington.

Inspired as much by ABBA as the work of 12th century mystic-composer-naturalist-visionary Hildegard von Bingen, touched equally by the spirits of radical philosophical plumber Mary Midgley and PC Music star Hannah Diamond, as quiet as the paintings of Agnes Martin yet bombastic like a Werner Herzog documentary, it’s an album of seamless, glorious contradictions. Tackling themes of love, friendship, Gaia theory,...

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Jaakko Eino Kalevi ‘Dissolution Remixes’ EP out 31st July 2020

Finland’s master voyager Jaakko Eino Kalevi eases out of lockdown with a look back to a simpler time: late November 2019, to be precise, and the release of his fine mini-album Dissolution.

In keeping with that record’s wayward spirit, Jaakko has now called on friends and continental colleagues to remix some of its songs, resulting in the Dissolution RemixesEP. The five tracks present take Jaakko’s music in tantalising new directions.

“It is always interesting to hear how other people ...

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The Kills ‘Little Bastards’ out 11th December 2020

"I Put A Spell On You" (cover - originally performed by Screamin' Jay Hawkins)

The Kills have compiled an extraordinary career spanning b-sides and rarities album titled, appropriately, Little Bastards. The songs date back from the band’s first 7-inch singles in 2002 through to 2009.

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La Priest ‘Gene’ out 5th June 2020

Directed and produced by LA Priest

LA Priest is the name Sam Dust, late of Late of the Pier, adopted to release his beguiling space-pop-psyche solo work following the demise of the band he founded when still in his teens.

Arriving four years after the iconoclast variously known as Sam Dust, LA PRIEST and L.A. Priest thrilled the world with the cosmic pop of his debut album Inji, GENE is named after a brand new modular drum machine Sam dreamt up and built alone. Working in isolation for more than two years, soldering iron in ha...

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Lamps ‘People with Faces’ out 13th November 2020

Full album stream

These days, good news is hard to come by, but here’s some: Lamps, LA’s notoriously unprolific noise-merchant trio, are ready to release their spectacular fourth album called People With Faces, out on In The Red Records. Produced by Ty Segall at Val’s, Lamps’ first recorded output since 2012’s landmark LP Under The Water, Under The Ground finds them breaking adventurous new terrain. I’d say they’ve matured, but I’d only say it behind their backs. Stalwarts Monty Buckles (guitar...

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Myrkur ‘Folkesange’ out 20th March 2020

Myrkur - Lyre / Video Demonstration (Leaves of Yggdrasil)

It’s a binding of the otherworldly and the earthy that echoes the the subject matter of many of the tales Amalie Bruun has always paved her own path, challenging underground preconceptions of heavy metal ever since the release of her debut Myrkur EP in 2014. Her first two full-length studio albums, 2015’s M and 2017’s Mareridt, recast black metal in the most personal yet expansive of terms, their blending of Amalie’s Danish folk roots with tempestuous internal struggles breathing new ...

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Nothing ‘The Great Dismal’ out 30th October 2020

Full album stream

The Great Dismal, NOTHING’s new full-length album explores existentialist themes of isolation, extinction, and human behavior in the face of 2020’s vast wasteland.

Closing in on the band’s ten-year mark, frontman Domenic Palermo finds himself stringing together songs of misanthropic tales of Philadelphia with a refined and refreshed take on NOTHING’s classic sound.

“The Great Dismal refers to a swamp, a brilliant natural trap where survival is custom fit to its inhabitants,” Paler...

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One True Pairing ‘Dawn at the Factory’ out 3rd September 2019

The third single to the album  One True Pairing aside singles “One True Pairing”, and recent single “I’m Not Afraid”. Over looming synths, Tom emphatically sings “Where the strip lights shine, I give you my life”.

Talking about the song, he says: “2019’s satanic mills – zero hours, suicide nets, universal credit, cheap labour. The blue-white glow of the factories out on the gyratory and the plastic clad office blocks of the town centre. I wanted to strip the romance back...

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One True Pairing ‘Golden Arches’ out 28th August 2020

Released globally as an Amazon Original exclusive as part of their ongoing Originals series.

Lyric “(2 min 59) Hope is All I know … (3 min 20) … you’re my inspiration“

Moving back into the deeper sonic tones of his debut album but always working with his charming Vulnerability, Tom’s made an ode to the grey of today with as much heart as tongue-in-cheek.

Some words from him to you…

We’ve all been dreaming of escape and having fantasies about what was once mundane. I’m...

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One True Pairing ‘I’m Not Afraid’ remixes out 1st November 2019

I'm Not Afraid (Clarence Clarity Remix)

Having toured with Local Natives and following the release of his acclaimed debut album, One True Pairing aka Tom Fleming – former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist – shared remixes of “I’m Not Afraid” by Clarence Clarity and Ed Nash (Bombay Bicycle Club).

Watch the visualiser for Clarence Clarity’s remix of “I’m Not Afraid” here.

Watch the visualiser for Ed Nash’s remix of “I’m Not Afraid” here.

Clarence Clarity works “I’m Not Afraid” ...

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One True Pairing ‘Zero Vulnerability’ EP out 24th April 2020

One True Pairing aka Tom Fleming released his eponymous debut album in 2019. The record was shaped by class frustration and self-despair, and continued the exploration of masculinity that made his previous band Wild Beasts so unique.

Zero Vulnerability is a phrase Tom coined on his UK tour at the end of last year as he found himself for the first time in his career solo, front and centre facing the crowd, alone but finding solace and strength from its simple mantra.

One True Pairing live stre...

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One True Pairing album out 20th September 2019

'I'm Not Afraid' Director: Ewan Morris

Former Wild Beasts songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Tom Fleming, shared the first taste of his new direction with single “One True Pairing”, the titular track of the upcoming record. With its refrain – “We’ve been kicked our whole lives and I’m not afraid, But I won’t go back down to that place again” – Tom sets his intention for One True Pairing. The second single from the self-titled album, “I’m Not Afraid” punches out with the refrain – “We’ve ...

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One True Pairing single out 4th July 2020

Director: Clarence Clarity

The first song from his new guise, “One True Pairing”. Amidst discordant guitar and aggressive synth, Fleming’s inimitable voice calls out: “And I’m not some kind of white knight, I was burning all my hope and all my life”. 

Explaining the moniker, Fleming says: “One True Pairing is a name taken from internet fan fiction, where you write the perfect relationship you always wished existed. The idea of Prince Charming and Helpless Princess living happily after is no fun at all”...

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OSEES ‘Protean Threat’ out 18th September 2020

Zebulon Session - Director Brian Lee Hughes, Cinematographer Brandon Kelly & Producer Enrique Tena Padilla

Osees (a new iteration of Oh Sees) have announced a new album. The record is called Protean Threat and it’s out  via Castle Face. This here fantastic rehearsal video is generously provided by the band.

A fantastic write-up of the album appears here on the Rough Trade site.

Oh Sees released Face Stabber last year. Earlier in 2020, Oh Sees frontman John Dwyer released the new record Bug on Yonkers under his Damaged Bug alias. Next month, Dwyer and his new group Bent Arcana will release thei...

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Owen Pallett ‘Island’ out 22nd May 2020

Directed by Vincent René-Lortie & Brittney Canda

Island, the latest album from Oscar-nominated composer and songwriter Owen Pallett, is out on Domino / Secret City Records (Canada).

VIDEO SHOWN: conceived and filmed during the pandemic by director Vincent René-Lortie, and choreographed by Brittney Canda. The dancers—ranging in age from 6 to 72—were filmed with no physical contact, entirely through windows and doorways, including a care facility on strict lockdown.

“Honestly, at first I wasn’t sold on the concept,” says Pallett....

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Porches ‘I Miss That’ out 7th October 2020

Single & Lyric Video shot by Dev Hynes (Blood Orange)

‘I Miss That’ from the fourth album by Porches, ‘Ricky Music’. The album featured contributions from Dev Hynes.  Porches, the one-man-band project of New York-based musician Aaron Maine, single ‘I Miss That’ has been supported by a lyric video shot by Dev Hynes. On top of a galloping pop tune carried along by bright, taut snare hits and warbling synths, Maine laments in his signature honey-coated raspy vocals, “I couldn’t believe what I had / So I threw it away I was bad / Ju...

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Porches ‘Ricky Music’ out 13th March 2020

Directed by Nick Harwood & Aaron Maine

Featuring contributions from Zsela and Dev Hynes, with co-production by Jacob Portrait, ‘Ricky Music’ expands on the Porches discography (The House, 2018; Pool, 2016; Slow Dance In The Cosmos, 2013) by delivering 11 emotionally open, cracked-glass pop songs.

About his album, Aaron Maine says:
“My new album, Ricky Music, was written and recorded between Dec 2017 and the spring of 2019.  Mostly in New York at my apartment, but some of it in Chicago, Los Angeles, and various cities while tour...

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Protomartyr ‘Ultimate Success Today’ out 17th July 2020

'Processed By The Boys' Director: David Allen

Ultimate Success Today is Protomartyr‘s fifth album. Following the release of Relatives In Descent, the band’s critically acclaimed headlong dive into the morass of American life in 2017.

The video for ‘Processed By The Boys’, directed by David Allen & Nathan Faustyn and produced by HLPTV & LooseMeat.Biz, is a play on a bizarre Brazilian TV clip the band became infatuated with. A man sings to a studio audience, while a member of the audience becomes enraged by a puppet, le...
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Real Estate ‘The Main Thing’ out 28th February 2020

Directed by Nick Roney for Stink Films & Callen

Over the last decade, Real Estate have crafted warm yet meticulous pop-minded music, specialising in soaring melodies that are sentimentally evocative and unmistakably their own. ‘The Main Thing’ dives even further into the musical dichotomies they’re known for—lilting, bright guitar lines set against emotionally nuanced lyrics, complex arrangements conveyed breezily— and what emerges is a superlative collection of interrogative songs as full of depth, strangeness and contradictio...

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Richard Dawson ‘Republic of Geordieland’ out 7th August 2020

"Two Halves" from the album '2020'
“I found it ok at first but a couple of months into lockdown I started to feel quite down about all the unplayed gigs and lost moments, a bit more anxious than usual and pretty disconnected. So I wanted to make something small (but proper) to try and reconnect. I hope this collection might be something hopeful, or at least a useful distraction.
I had the title ‘Republic of Geordieland’ in my head for years and always envisaged it would be some grand overblown quadruple-vinyl prog-folk o...
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Rustin Man ‘Clockdust’ out 20th March 2020

Director Edwin Burdis

Paul Webb is Rustin Man. He was once a member of the legendary Talk Talk and collaborated with Beth Gibbons of Portishead on the memorable ‘Out of Season’. The debut solo Rustin Man album ‘Drift Code’ was born of recording sessions in the deep English countryside, during which contemplation was as necessary as microphone placement. The result is Timeless British Music.

Having waited 17 years for ‘Drift Code’, some may be surprised at ‘Clockdust’s swift arrival, but the album...

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Seamus Fogarty ‘A Bag Of Eyes’ out 6th November 2020

'Jimmy Stewart' dir. Dah Dit Dit

A Bag Of Eyes is Seamus Fogarty’s third album — a wholly different sonic prospect to 2017’s much-lauded The Curious Hand. Weary of the guitar, and seeking something darker than its predecessor, he chose to lean more heavily on synths and drum machines, and additionally, to self-produce.

The album was recorded across London, Kent and East Sussex and features Fogarty’s partner Emma Smith, Meilyr Jones, long-time collaborators Leo Abrahams, Aram Zarikian & John Fogarty, as well as s...

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Shirley Collins ‘Heart’s Ease’ out 24th July 2020

Director: Grant Gee

Heart’s Ease , her second album for Domino follows 2016’s Lodestar ; which on its arrival, seemed like a musical miracle — an enthralling new album from a woman who is widely recognized as England’s greatest female folk singer, but who had not recorded an album for 38 years.

Shirley delivers a record even stronger than Lodestar , having completely regained her confidence, and singing so well that you can’t believe she was away for so long. As Shirley put it, “ Lodestar wasn’t to...

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Sorry ‘925’ out 27th March 2020

'Perfect' Director: Asha Lorenz and Flo Webb

Together with co-producer James Dring (Gorillaz, Jamie T, Nilüfer Yanya), best friends Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen have woven 925 like a dreamscape in which idyllic and hellish scenes intermingle, forcing the question of what is real and what is make believe. Inspired by everything from Hermann Hesse to Dean Blunt and old-school crooner Tony Bennett, the duo’s experimental and holistic approach marks them out as a thoroughly 21st century band. Includes the singles “Starstruck”, “...

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Spinning Coin ‘Hyacinth’ out 21st February 2020

Directed by Joseph May. Original artwork by Rob Churm.

Spinning Coin are Sean Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Jack Mellin (vocals, guitar), Rachel Taylor (bass, vocals, keyboards) and Chris White (drums).

Via the Domino Record Co imprint Geographic, ‘Hyacinth’ is an album full of poetry, light and warmth of heart, and presents a band holding nothing back. It registers a number of changes for the group since their debut LP ‘Permo’ in 2017: personnel changes, geographical changes, a new context, an ever-changing world outside.

The quartet both...

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Thao & the Get Down Stay Down ‘Temple’ out 15th May 2020

Phenom- Directed by Erin S. Murray and Jeremy Schaulin-Rioux

Tthe San Francisco-based band fronted by singer and songwriter Thao Nguyen, is set to release their fifth studio album.

“I have divided myself into so many selves. I am nervous, but hopeful that in belonging to myself, I can still belong to my family, and my Vietnamese community, especially the elders.” She continues, “I believe that shame has made my work more general, when I’ve always wanted to be specific. This record is about me finally being specific. If you listen to my music, ...

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Valkyrie ‘Fear’ out 24th July 2020

Album Stream

‘Fear’ finds VALKYRIE sounding more progressive and diverse than ever before. Tracks such as “Feeling So Low”, “The Choice”, and “Evil Eye” showcase VALKYRIE expanding their sound, infusing their take on classic hard rock with a penchant for remarkable melodies and creative hooks.

Recorded at Earth Analog in Illinois, Fear showcases the tone-rich, organic songwriting process VALKYRIE honed in on over the course of their career. A warm analog sound permeates throughout each of ...

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Wilma Archer ‘Western Circular’ out 3rd April 2020

Western Circular - album preview

Within A Western Circular lies an exciting and varied crew of guest artists including MF DOOM, Samuel T. Herring (Future Islands), Sudan Archives and Laura Groves, all contributing vocals to Wilma Archer’s rich, dextrous compositions. Supple and multi-layered, honouring his acoustic heritage and influence, A Western Circular builds a sonic universe that commands contemporary references to everything from Frank Zappa to Yasuaki Shimuzu, Robert Wyatt to Arthur Russell.

Within A Western Circ...

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Yorkston/Thorne/Khan ‘Navarasa : Nine Emotions’ out 24th January 2020

'Sukhe Phool' Directed by Jack Barraclough Dance. Casting Kadam Dance. Choreographer/Dancer Kali Chandrasegaram. Dancer Parbati Chaudhury

James Yorkston, Jon Thorne and Suhail Yusuf Khan represent a continuum of the forward-thinking, musically distinctive power trio. Each individual contributes vocals to material both original and reimagined as Khan, on sarangi, Thorne, on double bass, and Yorkston, principally on guitar, improvise within their mutual space. Perhaps the greatest strength of Yorkston/Thorne/Khan is a shared spirituality, one revealed by the honesty and conviction at the heart of this universal, beautiful music....

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ZOMBI ‘2020’ out 17th July 2020

'Earthscraper' Directed by Tony Balko

Relapse Records – Their first new album in 5 years, 2020 showcases the songwriting prowess that has pushed the duo of Steve Moore (synthesizers, guitars, bass) and A.E. Paterra (drums) to evolve throughout their storied, 20 year career. ZOMBI has strived to build upon and expand their sound with every release. Now more than ever, the band stays true to their ethos.

From the pulse-pounding, dramatic opener “Breakthrough & Conquer”, to the melodic bass whirls found in “XYZT”, 20...

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