Track: Sydney’s Bellwether may be ‘Halfway Happy’, but they’re creating a lot of good fun punky pop joy. Debut EP and live dates announced.
On the back of two already very impressive singles (‘Charade’ and ‘Shortsighted’), Sydney pop punksters Bellwether are again leading the field with their new single ‘Halfway Happy’. This is all in the build up to the release of their debut EP ‘Impermanence’ on Friday, 8 April. ‘Halfway Happy’ incorporates chiming and ringing guitars that seem …
Premiere: From The Tiger’s Mouth, ‘Morning News’ is a broadcast of urgent positivity amongst the gloom.
Former Bengal Lancers member Harry Sullivan has made the most of the horrors of the past few years to create the From The Tiger’s Mouth project, and we are very pleased to premiere the result: the motorik beat of ‘Morning News’. This is a synth-based syncopated and urgent track with protest folk genes, where Sullivan …
Track: A. Smyth returns with the lush and atmospheric single ‘Long Night’ and news of live dates.
Last year’s ‘Lost Animals’ from Dublin troubadour A. Smyth (reviewed by me here) was a gorgeous collection of delicate musings and lush vibrant instrumentation. Smyth is back with a new single, ‘Lost Night’, which continues this lush sonic journey. Smyth’s melancholic delivery reflects the song’s serious themes, and yet there lies a sense of hope …
News: Resurrection – the best festival in the world, Dark Mofo Festival, resumes abnormal services.
There is a light at the end of the tunnel – a flickering ember of hope – as the organisers of the iconic Dark Mofo Festival in Hobart announced the return of a full two week program for the brilliant event in 2022. Early announcements of music and events herald something quite exciting. After a …
Premiere: Sydney’s Winter Starlings alight with the jangling statuesque single ‘Arise’ and announce launch date.
We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Arise’ from Sydney group Winter Starlings. ‘Arise’ has a warm veracity with raw and visceral guitars that jangle into the stratosphere, replete with yearning vocals and delicate harmonies. There is a subtle folk/americana in the delivery, a Byrdsian jingle jangle with a Teenage Fanclub pop spine. However, …
News: Dreamy popster Annie Hamilton announces debut album with release of the hypnotic and psychedelic ‘Night Off’ as well as dates in Europe.
A psychedelic fugue permeates the sparkling new single ‘Night Off’ from multi-talented Australian musician, visual artist and fashion designer Annie Hamilton. It comes as a tasty appetiser for Hamilton’s newly announced debut album ‘the future is here but it feels kinda like the past’, out on 20 May 2022 through [PIAS] Australia. Our ears were turned …
Not Forgotten: We revisit Augie March’s stunning debut ‘Sunset Studies’ from 2000 – still an essential antipodean sonic milestone – which gets a belated 21st birthday party.
By 2000, by the time Y2K anxiety had dissipated and, before the events of 9/11 cast a pall everywhere, post grunge was solidifying its place in the world and the vestiges of Britpop were bouncing along in ever decreasing circles. The Australian indie scene towards the end of the previous decade was mostly typified either …
Track: Sydney vibrant pop punksters A Swift Farewell reconnect with another visceral anthemic blast in new track ‘Stressed Out Ft Clay J Gladstone’.
More infective than a global pandemic (but infinitely far more enjoyable), the new single ‘Stressed Out’ from those punk pop maestros A Swift Farewell is a hyperactive, hyperkinetic bouncy blast of pure goodness. Featuring punk act Clay J Gladstone and the archetypal quiet/loud ethic, the track launches from reflective melancholic verses into the stratosphere with …
News: Chicago’s coolest trio Horsegirl announce debut album ‘Versions of Modern Performance’ through Matador Records and unveil the utterly brilliant single ‘Anti-glory’.
With an attitude that recalls The Jesus and Mary Chain and scuzzy, fuzzy drone attack, Horsegirl have just delivered a stunning single ‘Anti-glory’ – filled with a certain cognitive and sonic dissonance, brutal drums, sweet doo wop backing singing straight from the sixties and a raw visceral guitar attack. This is utterly compelling and marvellous …
Track: Royel Otis, with new single ‘Oysters in My Pocket’, have emitted a cheeky ray of joyous light. Plus tour news,
With the joyous swagger of unruly schoolboys and a barely repressed incandescent sense of joy, the new single ‘Oysters in My Pocket’ from Sydney duo Royel Otis is like an intravenous shot of pure happiness. Think of an antipodean Supergrass. There’s shouty, rowdy delivery skipping over a riffy layering of guitars and a whole heap …