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Album Review: Fcukers’ Ö is a 28-minute rush of sweat, speed and downtown chaos

Fcukers Ö album review – There’s no gentle way into Ö. Fcukers don’t open a door, they flick the lights on and drop you straight into the middle of it. The debut album…

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Album Review: Truly great – The Great Emu War Casualties unveil their soaring debut album ‘Public Sweetheart No. 1’

The brilliantly, if rather enigmatically, named band The Great Emu War Casualties have just released their debut entitled ‘Public Sweetheart No. 1’ after a series of EPs and singles released since the…

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Album Review : Benjamin Herman – ‘The Tokyo Sessions’ : A high energy trip to Japan with the Dutch jazz legend and his dynamic band.

Much celebrated Dutch alto-saxophonist, Benjamin Herman, sounds like the right kind of music obsessive. Not the drill-down, detail driven, relentless refiner of his craft but a musician who restlessly seeks…

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EP Review: Big League unveil the anthemic swagger of ‘Windanswagger’ ahead of Australian/New Zealand tour

We had the privilege of premiering Big League‘s single ‘Neverlandfill’ towards the end of last year and the band has now delivered an EP entitled ‘Windanswagger’, filled with the pulse…

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EP Review: The Night Packers’ ‘Invisible Ink’ shines with a pop sensibility and a wry humour.

The Night Packers are literally one of those The Marrickville Sound bands I always go on about – based around the very same inner city suburb of Sydney and still…

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EP Review: STAHR interrogate memory and momentum on debut EP BLIP

There’s a particular elasticity to memory that STAHR tap into on BLIP, their debut EP that treats emotional upheaval less as permanence and more as distortion. What once felt seismic now flickers in…

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Album Review: Pan•American – ‘Fly The Ocean In A Silver Plane’: An intricate set of guitar blessed ambience which steer the emotions.

It’s sobering to think that Mark Nelson aka Pan•American has been diligently considering and creating musical radiance for over twenty-five years now. Guitarist, vocalist and founder member of post-rock, ambient…

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Album Review: Matthew Sigley’s The Daytime Frequency releases ‘Colorgravure’: a glittering and euphoric sonic journey.

Matthew Sigley is constant star in the antipodean indie musical firmament, providing a range of musical talents from bass to keyboards to a number of iconic bands ranging from The…

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Album Review: New Age Doom & H.R.– ‘Angels Against Angels’: Metal experimentalists meet Bad Brains legend and shape one massive rock/dub prophesy.

Experimental rock duo New Age Doom, drummer Eric Breitenbach and guitarist Greg Valou, thrive on collaboration and collectivism. Since the early drone metal improv of their debut, their approach has…

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Album Review: Fabels create a mystical sonic storm in their new album ‘Ophera’.

The sounds of Fabels have always been wrapped up in a sort mystical pagan fugue, mysterious, raw and, incongruous given the electronic delivery, organic. Fabels are Hiske Weijers from Berlin…

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