Music
Track: Hatchie takes a ‘Nosedive’ into a darker, frenetic world as new US and Australian tour dates are announced.
Brisbane’s Harriette Pilbeam – as Hatchie – has just unveiled a new, darker slice of shoegaze dream pop in new track ‘Nosedive’, in the midst of her US tour. Out through label Secretly Canadian, ‘Nosedive’ pulls on a hoodie and pogoes with a degree of gothic-fringed menace and aggression – stabbing fragmented instrumentation drives through …
Track: Sand Brothers unveil a delicious serving of antipodean indie pop in ‘Adelaide’, ahead of new album ‘Too Much Sky’.
Sand Brothers have just released a jangling, sparkling slice of antipodean summer with their single ‘Adelaide’. Containing a genetic core that tips its cork-ringed Akubra hat at bands like The Go-Betweens and The Chills, with an added pure pop sixties-inflected guitar shimmer, ‘Adelaide’ positively glistens and trembles with a twelve-string brilliance and mountainous melodies. The …
EP Review: Wish unveil the jangling, atmospheric instrumental EP ‘Becoming’ and announces launch date.
I always say that the greatest challenge for instrumental music is to convey thoughts and feelings without words, and in the EP ‘Becoming’ by Naarm/Melbourne outfit Wish, they have done just that. A core instrumentation of just guitars , bass and drums delivers something quiet raw and evocative. Wish is essentially the solo work of …
Track: Maxine Gillon To Release New Track ‘American Coffee’ Plus We Talk To Her!
Maxine Gillon’s new track courageously explores the Americanisation of our lives.
Live Review: The Wannadies – Islington Assembly Hall, London 03.11.2022
The 1990s felt like the Swedish decade. Scandinavian style social democracy dominated politics whilst bands like The Cardigans and The Wannadies provided the songs for the CDs we so neatly stacked in all those IKEA shelf units. The Wannadies, led by cheeky, curly-haired scamp Pär Wiksten provided one of the ready assembled, rom-com songs of …
Album Review: The Paradox – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival
With the release of The Paradox: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival, techno legend Jeff Mills and keyboard wizard Jean-Phi Dary embark on an exciting, ground-breaking musical trip that takes Techno and electronic dance music to a new level. In the past Jeff has spoken of the need to, “take a few steps back and try …
Gallery & Set List: Lyra / Saibh Skelly – 3Olympia, Dublin 08,11,2022
Cork electropop sensation Lyra made her 3Olympia Dublin headline show debut! which was a sold-out show and taking up the job as support slot was Dublin’s Saibh Skelly armed with just an acoustic guitar. Saibh Skelly: Gallery. Lyra: Gallery & Set List. We Are BeautifulNever Let GoWhiteladyRabbit in the HeadlightsEmeraldMy Heart Is BeautifulMotherLoversChessLose My MindNew …
News: Jen Cloher Releases New Track & Video Off Long-Awaited Upcoming Album
Jen Cloher releases joyful new track and video off upcoming album.