Music
Track: Anna B Savage shares new single ‘Since We Broke Up’ from new EP ‘These Dreams’ out 24 September
Following the release of her highly praised debut album A Common Turn earlier this year, Dublin-based multi-faceted singer/songwriter Anna B Savage returns with a new EP, These Dreams, set for release on 24 September via City Slang. The first single from the record, Since We Broke Up is now available everywhere to stream, with Savage …
EP: Romanie’s ‘Little Big Steps’ is an ethereal and glowing paean to resilience and hope.
Originally from Belgium, Romanie relocated to Melbourne a few years ago and found herself in the midst of the COVID pandemic and a number of lockdowns: events that can create anxiety and uncertainty for locals, feelings that can only be even more exaggerated if you are far from home. Romanie’s EP, ‘Little Big Steps’ is a shimmering …
Track: New Zealand’s Nik Brinkman’s new single ‘Sugarland’ is a delicious shimmering wonder.
With a theme running to the sweeter side, New Zealand’s Nik Brinkman follows up ‘Candy’, premiered by us back in June with another languid, hazy delight, ‘Sugarland’. The crystalline guitars form a crisp, crunchy background to the dreamy haze of the song with its recurring riffs and floaty atmosphere. Brinkman’s magical vocals are evocative and …
Track: Melbourne’s Dull Reality’s imagination sparkles with the atmospheric single ‘Push Myself Away’.
Dull Reality – the work of Melbourne musician Ben Shields – follows up his single ‘Daffodil (reviewed by me here) with the new track ‘Push Myself Away’ – another sparkling, textural, multi-layered track. With a motorik syncopated beat and a synth wash, a hypnotic jingling in the far distance, this is a transfixing delight – …
Album Review: Polish Club’s ‘Now We’re Cookin” is a delicious banquet of pop, flavoured with a hint of darkness.
Australia’s Polish Club have just released their album ‘Now We’re Cookin”, and it’s a very pleasant ray of sunshine when all else around is dark. And yet this bright ray of colour is a little more nuanced and layered than is expected. This is a band with a presence and diverse sonic textures: a veritable …
Meet: We chat with Holy Holy’s Tim Carroll about the new album, writing and recording songs and setting the studio on fire.
Australia’s sparkling pop duo Holy Holy’s forthcoming album ‘Hello My Beautiful World’ is due out on Friday, 20 August 2021 through Wonderlick Recording Company. Recorded in Victoria and Tasmania, Tim Carroll, part of the duo with Oscar Dawson, says of the album: We were given all the freedom in the world to do whatever we wanted, …
Track: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Reunite For New Album And Share New Track ‘Can’t Let Go’
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss have announced the release of their new album Raise The Roof, due 19th November via Warner Music. Reunited after some fourteen years, following the release of their first collaboration Raising Sand in 2007, which reached #2 on the Official UK Chart. The duo have teased us by sharing the track Can’t Let Go. Produced by T Bone …
Track: Steve Conte – Dog Days Of Summer
New York City guitarist, singer and songwriter Steve Conte is all set to release his first solo album in five years – ‘Bronx Cheer’, due 5th November via Wicked Cool Records. His new single “Dog Days of Summer” hits streaming sites today. Of the latest single, Conte explains: “It started with the title, which is a phrase I always liked, …
Meet: We chat to Mr Williamz about his new album, his inspirations and his thoughts on Reggae today
Mr Williamz, real name Micah Williams, was born in London and moved to Jamaica as a small boy with his Dad. It is in Jamaica where he first picked up a microphone on sound system at the age of 8 years old and in doing so won a clash contest against another young deejay. Moving back to …