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Arun Kendall

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Writer/ Senior Editor for Backseat Mafia (UK) and Backseat Downunder (Australia and New Zealand). Singer/guitarist/songwriter with Australian band The Hadron Colliders.
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Track: The Novus get all psychedelic on us with the brilliant single ‘Castaway’, and announce tour news

  • June 2, 2021
  • Arun Kendall
Last time we heard from The Novus, they ripped up the tarmac with a blistering, angry blast of ‘I Serve Not’ (see my review here). Now, in advance of the…
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News: New Zealand’s Womb announce EP ‘Holding a Flame’, out through Flying Nun Records, and tour dates

  • June 2, 2021
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Shoegaze/dream pop exponents extraordinaire, Womb, from Pōneke (Wellington) have just announced the release of a new EP – ‘Holding a Flame’ – on 23 June 2021 through the inestimable and…
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Album Review: Steve Kilbey & the Winged Heels soar into another celestial sphere with double album ‘The Hall of Counterfeits’, plus tour news

  • June 2, 2021
  • Arun Kendall
It is difficult to comprehend that in the space of a little over twelve months, Steve Kilbey has released three monumental albums under various guises (read my reviews of ‘Chryse…
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Premiere: New Zealand’s Nik Brinkman produces a languid and dreamy ‘Candy’, infused with a psychedelic haze

  • June 1, 2021
  • Arun Kendall
New Zealand artist Nik Brinkman has the languorous, snarling indifferent vocals of The Jesus and Mary Chain mixed with a dreamy, multicoloured haze that, in his new track ‘Candy’ that…
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See: The enigmatic Second Idol unveils gritty video for the thumping single ‘Out of Time’

  • May 31, 2021
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Second Idol‘s powerful EP ‘Defence Mechanism’, reviewed by me here, is a refreshing blast of indie rock, and the band has just released a video for the brilliant track ‘Out…
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Track: Make a montage release the evocative dreamy instrumental ‘Horizon Blur’.

  • May 31, 2021
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There is an indelible feeling of euphoria emanating from the new instrumental track by Brisbane band Make a montage. The track surges and recedes and flows with a sparkle and…
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Premiere: Ipswich instrumental magicians Coalfalls provide us with an exclusive listen to their new EP ‘Pieces’: a shimmering sonic temple

  • May 29, 2021
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Ipswich band Coalfalls achieve something remarkable for a band that plays instrumentals: they create the most evocative and lush soundscapes that speak volumes without words. We introduced the band last…
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Track: Brisbane artist Edith Thomas Furey unleashes the evocative post punk slasher ‘Evenings in the Park With Charles (Part 3).

  • May 28, 2021
  • Arun Kendall
Like some dark demonic apparition, Edith Thomas Furey‘s new track ‘Evenings in the Park with Charles (Part 3)’ looms in the darkness of the night with a brooding, foreboding prowl,…
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Album Review: Allday’s ‘Drinking With My Smoking Friends’ is an atmospheric masterclass in dreamy, melancholic indie pop

  • May 27, 2021
  • Arun Kendall
Adelaide born but now Melbourne resident Allday (the moniker of Tom Gaynor) magnificent album ‘Drinking With My Smoking Friends’ has been anticipated by a series of stunning singles that have indicated the presence…
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Track: All India Radio emits another bright ray of sunshine with the shimmering atmospheric track ‘El Cielo’

  • May 27, 2021
  • Arun Kendall
Martin Kennedy’s All India Radio released the magnificent album ‘Afterworld’ earlier this year and it still resonates with a shimmering and haunting aura – read my effusive review here. All…
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