Track: Sydney-based singer/songwriter Maia Jelavic returns with delicate and ethereal new single ‘Spanish Moss’ ahead of launch date.
Sydney-based singer/songwriter and multi-disciplinary artist Maia Jelavic has followed up her last single ‘Solid and Human’ with a new track ‘Spanish Moss’. Driven by a rolling, sparkling piano, ‘Spanish Moss’ is a heart-achingly beautiful track, filled with vivid imagery and quiet reflection as Jelavic sings of the moss as a palimpsest for spirituality and permanency, where …
Meet: We chat to the living legend Robert Forster (The Go-Betweens and solo) about his renewed lease of creativity, the bands and the good old days, ahead of the release of his new album ‘Strawberries’.
Ahead of his new album ‘Strawberries’ due for release on 23 May 2025, I had a thoroughly entertaining chat via Zoom with living legend Robert Forster about the past, the present, creativity, the legacy of The Go-Betweens and his new Swedish band. But let’s get a couple of big questions out of the way. The …
Premiere: We exclusively unveil the new video for Karen Vogt’s (Heligoland) track ‘Spirit’, off the shimmering album ‘Haunted Woodland Volume 5’.
Earlier this month I reviewed the new solo album from Paris-based Australian artist Karen Vogt, part of the much vaunted band Heligoland. Today we are proud to premiere the video for the track ‘Spirit’ off the album. The track has a spiritual, dreamy tone as Vogt’s yearning vocals enter above echoed, delayed crisp guitars – …
Track: It’s not over for The Insufferable Paul Scott (ex-Pop Mechanix) as he releases sparkling new single ‘Extinct’.
I often bang on about the Marrickville Sound in the southern hemisphere: members of bands that basked in the spotlight in the eighties or nineties who in later years reform or create new bands that continue to create and innovate in their later years. Paul Scott is another prime example: for those who where there …
Track: The Petrov Affair make a welcome return with the silken melancholy of ‘White Out’, with launch date announced.
There is a crystalline delicacy to the new single ‘White Out’ from the enigmatic The Petrov Affair who make a welcome return after an absence of a few years. The track is threaded with a poignant melancholy but a soaring chorus bursts through like a ray of sunshine through the clouds. Indeed there is an …
Track: ‘This City’ – prodigious new talent ixaras releases a vibrant, exhilarating new single.
Meanjin/Brisbane-based DIY artist ixaras has just released a single ‘This City’ and indications are this is a prodigious rising talent. Using percussion, digeridoo and thundering synths, ‘My City’ is a vibrant slice of danceable pop with ixaris’s vocals soaring in the ether, ranging from delicate velvet to urgent exhortations over instrumentation that blisters with vivacity. There is …
News: Wolf Alice announce new album ‘The Clearing’ and lead off with explosive single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’.
Driven by hands claps and a rolling piano, the new single ‘Bloom Baby Bloom’ from north London band Wolf Alice is a driving, vibrant track with singer Ellie Rowsell’s vocals soaring across the surface, falsetto and urgent at times, raw and raucous at other times, with an extraordinary range. It’s a thrilling and dynamic blast …
Track: The Lemonheads release new single ‘Deep End’ (featuring J Mascis, Juliana Hatfield and Tom Morgan) with news of album, ahead of Australian/NZ tour.
The Lemonheads are about to embark on a tour of Australia and in anticipation have release a blistering single ‘Deep End’, with news of a new album ‘Love Chant’ that will be released on Fire Records later this year. ‘Deep End’ features Evan Dando’s trademark laconic delivery and pop sensibility, with the added frisson of …
Track: Tan Cologne raise anticipation for their new album with hypnotic new track ‘Infinity’.
Magnificent New Mexican dream pop exponents duo Tan Cologne recently announced their third studio album ‘Unknown Beyond’ for release on 20 June via Labrador Records, which is enough good news to put a spring in the step. To add to the anticipation, they have just released the second single ‘Infinity’ off the album and the upwards trajectory for …
Track: ‘Uh Oh’ – Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Romanie is back with a brilliant new single and tour dates.
Romanie (Romanie Assez) relocated to Naarm/Melbourne a few years ago from Belgium and has released a string of exquisitely beautiful tracks that showcase her velvet vocals and acute observations on life. She is back after a couple of years’ absence and her new single ‘Uh Oh’ continues this upwards ascendancy. ‘Uh Oh’ has grungy, thrilling, rich guitars …