Natalie Imbruglia releases her new record – Algorithm
It would be easy for Natalie Imbruglia to spend the rest of her career trading on the legacy of “Torn”. Instead, Algorithm finds her doing pretty much the opposite: making…
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EP Review: A Very Special Episode – AVSE
A Very Special Episode share their brilliant new EP, AVSE. The five-track release showcases intense, evocative instrumentation, raw and immediate performances, and memorable songwriting that feels as visceral and urgent as…
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Say Psych: EP Review: Throw Down Bones – 4EP
4EP is the new EP from Milan/London experimental band Throw Down Bones, marking a deeper shift into dark electronic / IDM territory for a band that has long sought out…
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Album Review: Blind Yeo – ‘The Lemoine Point’: A fresh, inventive alignment of Psych-folk, Art-rock and Kosmische energies.
Listening to Blind Yeo’s ‘The Lemoine Point’ debut is a reminder that things may come and things may go but the art-rock dance goes on forever. Steeped in the cosmic…
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Album Review: What the ghosts left behind – Kaurna/Adelaide’s The Only Objects release the epic ‘An Excess of Haunting’, with a little assemblage required.
There’s a particular kind of record that doesn’t want to be understood so much as inhabited, and ‘An Excess of Hauntings’ is one of them. The second album from Adelaide’s…
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EP Review: Seasurfer – The Noise Is Ours
Hamburg trio Seasurfer return with The Noise Is Ours, a four-track EP that blends swirling electronics, ethereal atmospherics and fuzzy guitar textures into the intoxicating sound the band describe as “dream-punk”. While that…
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Album Review: fling ii – ‘3’: Expertly guiding Krautrock towards other possibilities.
Following Rich Aucoin and Kristen Roos, Toronto curators We Are Busy Bodies cornucopia of recorded sound bubbles over once more into the joys of synth music with fling ii. The…
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Album Review: Meanjin/Brisbane’s Ancient Channels electrify the darkness with the barbed-wire dream pop of ‘Static Spirit’
Ancient Channels are a supergroup of sorts, consisting of members from the myriad of talented bands operating in Meanjin/Brisbane( including Terra Pines, Apparitions, and Deafcult), many of whom have been enthusiastically…
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Album Review: Phoebe Bridgers Faces Love, Loss and Finality on ‘Lost Weekend’
Six years is a long time to disappear from your own solo career. Phoebe Bridgers returns with Lost Weekend, an album produced with a team including Jack Antonoff, Alex G,…
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Album Review: The Low Priorities put powerful pop perfection at the top of their list with extraordinary debut ‘Dice’
If you were ever to look up the meaning of power pop in a decent thesaurus or in Wikipedia, then in any accurate discussion, The Low Priorities would rate a…
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