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Porcelain Raft (Mauro Remiddi) is in the studio, hard at work on the follow-up to last year’s excellent debut full-length, Strange Weekend. While we’re still waiting to find out what form that will take, the sessions have already yielded fruit in the form of a new EP called Silent Speech. (via Listen: Porcelain Raft - “Silent Speech” EP | Under The Radar)

We’re big fans of Porcelain Raft around these parts, so anytime Mauro Remiddi up for sharing something, you better believe we’ll be listening/watching/waiting. (via media | Under The Radar)

The eighth annual Great Escape Festival took place last weekend in Brighton, U.K., with many amazing bands gracing the local stages in the charming seaside English town. Check out a full gallery of photos from The Great Escape here, including photos of Grimes, EMA, Beth Jeans Houghton, Django Django, Slow Club, When Saints Go Machine, Porcelain Raft, and others. Photos by Wendy Lynch Redfern. (via Check Out Photos from The Great Escape Festival 2012 - Grimes, EMA, Django Django, and more | Under The Radar)

Porcelain Raft getting ready to play at the Great Escape festival. (Taken with instagram)

South by Southwest’s Canadian brother North by Northeast has announced its return on June 11-17 in Toronto. (via NXNE Announces 2012 Lineup | Under The Radar)

Just as he’s demonstrated with previous music videos, Porcelain Raft’s Mauro Remiddi has a clear stylistic direction when it comes to his songs’ visual pairings. (via Watch: Porcelain Raft - “Drifting In and Out” Video | Under The Radar)

Each week, the titans of the mediasphere give Nerve their music recommendations. This week’s edition is brought to you by Laura Studarus of Under the Radar. (via Five Albums You Should Be Listening to Right Now: Under the Radar | Nerve.com)

Next week on Feb. 21 Porcelain Raft will release a 7” vinyl of his Strange Weekend single “Unless You Speak From Your Heart.” Featured as a B-side to the release is the “Something In Between,” which Porcelain Raft Mauro Remiddi has given another one of his hazy video treatments. (via Watch: Porcelain Raft - “Something In Between” Video | Under The Radar)

Under the guise of Porcelain Raft, Mauro Remiddi makes gauzy bedroom pop—constructing dream-laden choruses from loops of gently strummed guitars, drum machines, and tape hiss. Impressed with the several EPs he already has to his name (including last year’s excellent Gone Blind), Under the Radar spoke with the Italian troubadour on the eve of the release of his first full-length Strange Weekend (out via Secretly Canadian). Remiddi told us about simplifying the process, the marriage of image and sound, and what he really wanted to do with his life. (via Porcelain Raft: Devil in the Details | Under The Radar)