Music
Premiere: Montmartre Remix of Tim Ayre’s Mexican Holiday is out today via Kitsuné; hear it here first
French producer Montmartre has just released (today no less) his new remix of ‘Mexican Holiday’ the recent release from Australian indie pop artist Tim Ayre, on Kitsuné Musique. It ahead of an anticipated second album from the Frenchman, a follow on from his debut, Hope, which has contributed to his impressive 120,000,000 streams online. Of …
Meet: Beautiful Machines on new single Control, their forthcoming album, and recording during a pandemic
After hearing the dark, yet beautiful, synth-pop of their single Control, out now via Republic of Music, we knew we wanted to try and track down its creators, duo Beautiful Machines. With an album to follow, theres a sense of the dystopian, and a journey, inspired as it is by Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’. With the …
Track: Jake Whiskin wraps us up in the delicate whisper of ‘Cold Morning’ – a song of loss and dawn rising
LEEDS singer-songwriter Jake Whiskin, a man of considerable and empathetic talent, knows not only the horrible cold of a dank mid-December morning, but the terrible soul-deep chill of awaking into loss from that respite, sleep; count one, two, three and plunge from your dreamworld into a waking, aching nightmare. Out today, is the tender, sparse …
Track: Washington’s Weeed bring an opulent flute sway to the psych of ‘Do You Fall?’
WEEED are a psych-stoner quartet who began hanging out and rocking the weirder, spliffy end of music together as teenagers, growing up so near yet quite separately to one of America’s big guitar band meccas, Seattle; they hail from across the water in Bainbridge Island, immersed in the glow from the lights from the city, …
News: Violent Soho announces their first Sydney headline show in 2 years.
Brisbane goliaths Violent Soho are one of those bands that every Australian just needs to see live. The group’s longevity has been incredible to say the least, having written and released immeasurable records in the last decade, and traversed every inch of the country, making appearances at nearly every festival under the sun. The band …
See: Telefís – ‘Falun Gong Dancer’: Cathal Coughlan leads us round the weary world in sparse, grandstanding piano
CATHAL COUGHLAN has always been the straight-As kid with the (slightly demonic) pearly white smile and the pocket of stinkbombs in the school hall of indie music; he can’t resist pulling things sideways, to see how they look from somewhere to left of where they might otherwise or properly be. But he does it with …
See: Alyssa Gengos shapes up for her 2022 album as a pretty awesome ‘Cheerleader Of The Universe’
LOS ANGELINO bedroom pop genius Alyssa Gengos is basically someone to completely watch in 2022. We’ve already nailed our colours to that mast on the back of her last single, the effortlessly excellent “Gothenburg English” – see our swooning coverage of that, here; and making us feel a whole lot more like we haven’t made …
Track: Heligoland teams up with She Owl to cover John Martyn track ‘Please Fall In Love With Me’ with a delicious dream pop sparkle.
Paris-based Australian dream pop outfit Heligoland have teamed up with Italian dark folk duo She Owl to cover a lesser known John Martyn track ‘Please Fall In Love With Me’, and the result is something quite splendid. Karen Vogt from Heligoland came across the track while undertaking a deep dive of John Martyn’s oeuvre and …
Track: Alisa Xayalith (from New Zealand’s The Naked and Famous) unveils anthemic and powerful debut solo single ‘High Fidelity’.
One of New Zealand’s most fabulous exports, The Naked and Famous, exploded on to the international scene with some stunning indie pop singles and albums and some blistering live shows (see video for ‘Young Blood’ here). While the band is currently in hiatus, singer Alisa Xayalith (now based in Los Angeles) has just released a …
News: Tame Impala announce a cornucopia of delights for the new year as well as a new breezy single ‘No Chance’
The radiant sunshine from Western Australia includes in one of its incandescent beams the brilliant Tame Impala: those world conquering psychedelic wonders jet propelled by the stupendously talented Kevin Parker. And given it is the festive season, news has just been released that the band will be unleashing a wonder package of gifts for the …