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Hinds are back with a fun-loving cover of “Caribbean Moon”, originally a calypso-tinged 70’s gem by Kevin Ayers, of Soft Machine.

In the vein of their previous cover and live favourite “Davey Crockett (Gabba Hey)”, by Thee Headcoats, the Spanish quartet have injected some much needed vitality into the few remaining weeks of Summer with “Caribbean Moon”.

Hinds will be back in the UK next week for shows in Edinburgh and at Green Man Festival and have also recently announced a Spanish tour for this November.

“Caribbean Moon” is available to buy and stream from today, Friday 11^th August.

Samantha Urbani has been teasing us with sporadic drops of tantalising pop gems – from the urban strut of “U Know I Know”, to the sparkling, irresistible rush of “1 2 3 4” and, most recently, the RnB infused “Go Deeper”. Now, Urbani is about to unleash the full scale of her brilliantly skewed pop vision with her debut solo EP, Policies of Power.

“Hints and Implications” is the bold opener, a future anthem with a soaring chorus that is set to turn heads at sixty paces. Drawing on influences as varied as New Order and Nu Metal, the song itself, though insanely infectious, is a simmering tangle of barely contained frustration. Urbani explains:  “at its core its about the ontology of truth – whether interpersonal communication/“honesty” is even possible, considering the subjectivity of our individual reality-perception. but surface level its really about that breaking point where you stop trying with someone when you can’t even get a motherfuckin text back.”

Writing, recording and producing the EP with a number of key collaborators, including co-producer Sam Mehran, in several different bedrooms and basements in LA and NYC, “Policies of Power” is both a remarkably assured and sleek statement of intent for Urbani, as well as a sly clarion call for listeners to dissemble and question the dynamics of power and communication. With this EP Urbani has well and truly declared herself a force of nature on the pop landscape.

Hints and Implications is digitally available now. “Policies of Power” EP is to be released on Friday 18th August 2017 but is available to pre-order now, on a limited edition transparent coloured vinyl run of just 300 copies.

We are thrilled to introduce the debut release from Suzi Wu, aka 19-year-old Londoner Suzie McDermott. A cocktail of Ian Dury, Happy Mondays and Patti Smith, Suzi has clearly been hugely influenced by the visceral connection between pop, performance, personal empowerment and self-education.

Premiered last night by Beats 1 as their World Record, Suzi today now shares ‘Teenage Witch’, of which she says “Teenage Witch was inspired by the art works of comic book artist Simon Hanslemann. I was getting up at 10pm at night, I’d quit sixth form, my life was nocturnal and bizarre. A drive thru life, there is a poetry in that I think.”

It is the first single from her debut EP of the same name, to be released on Friday 8^th September 2017 but available to pre-order now, on a limited edition coloured vinyl run of just 300 copies, or digitally here.

Samantha Urbani, ex–front-woman for conceptual punk pop chart crashers Friends, is back!!  Previous, online-only tracks, “1 2 3 4” and “U Know I Know” have provided tantalizing tasters of what to expect but, with new full single “Go Deeper”, Urbani now cements her position as unparalleled pop contrarian bar none.   Watch her, Dazed premiered, self-directed video below.

On first listen it is a deliciously infectious homage to 80s Jam & Lewis Janet Jackson sprinkled with the gold dust of vintage 90s Max Martin productions – but scratch beneath its surface and you may hear nods to everyone from 90s boybands to melodramatic auteurs such as Jim Steinman and Vangelis.

Similarly, the pristine sheen of the track belies Urbani’s determinedly DIY production. Writing, recording and co-producing the track with a number of key collaborators, including co-producers Daniel Aged and Sam Mehran, in several different bedrooms and basements in LA and NYC, Urbani has somehow managed to make something that wouldn’t sound out of place on Jackson’s “Velvet Rope” – sleek and assured, poised and incisive.

And beneath the instantly hummable choruses and pop hooks is a deeper meditation on themes of power dynamics and communication. In Urbani’s own words, “Go Deeper” is about “how necessary visibility and accountability are – getting to the bottom of things, transformatively: the harder it is, the more worth it. The only way out is to go through”.

Go Deeper will be digitally available from Friday 30^th June. Further information and physical and digital release details for Samantha’s debut EP are to follow.  The EP will be released by ourselves in-conjunction with Samantha’s label URU.

Dream Wife have today announced a headline UK tour for October which includes a date at London’s Scala, their biggest headline show yet. Preceding the tour, Dream Wife will be appearing at a number of festivals throughout the Summer including Blue Dot, Benicassim, Latitude and Truck.

Full list of shows below and tickets for all shows are available via Dice FM or See Tickets

Tour dates (NEW):

15/06/2017   Les Inrocks @ Les Bains, Paris, France
30/06/2017   Festival Rockorama, Toulon, France
08/07/2017   Blue Dot Festival, Nebula Stage, Cheshire
13/07/2017   Benicassim, Spain
14/07/2017   Chauffer Dans La Noirceur, France
16/07/2017   Latitude Festival, Suffolk
21/07/2017   Truck Festival, Oxfordshire
12/10/2017   Magnet Bar, Liverpool  16+
13/10/2017   King Tuts, Glasgow  18+
14/10/2017   Hare & Hounds, Birmingham  18+
15/10/2017   The Cookie, Leicester  14+
16/10/2017   The Bullingdon, Oxford  16+
18/10/2017   The Wardrobe, Leeds  14+
19/10/2017   Band on the Wall, Manchester  14+
20/10/2017   Esquires, Bedford  14+
21/10/2017   The Haunt, Brighton  14+
22/10/2017   The Louisiana, Bristol  16+
24/10/2017   Old Fire Station, Bournemouth  14+
25/10/2017   Scala, London  14+