Music
Album review: Orla Gartland lays it bare beautifully with debut album ‘Woman on the Internet’ – Catch her UK/Ireland tour this October/December
Dublin-born, London-based singer/producer Orla Gartland has released her long-awaited debut album, Woman On The Internet via her own label New Friends. The beautifully flowing collection charts the artist’s emotional journey with fervour and introspection in equal measure, proving an incisive debut that is big on both feelings and sound. The culmination of years of music …
Album Review: Children Collide’s ‘Time Itself’ is a cathartic, thundering, heavy metal psychedelic trip, plus tour details announced.
Melbourne’s Children Collide have been a vital beating heart of the Australian indie music scene, and after a nine year break are back with swagger and style with their new album ‘Time Itself’, out now through Spinning Top Records. With a deceptively tamed jangling start, ‘Man of the People’ erupts into a mountainous riff-laden fuzzy …
Track: Onlooker – Hard Work
Northern post punk band Onlooker. Their brand new single ‘Hard Work’ is the second of four singles leading up to their debut album release later this year. A garage rock sound thats made special with a twin guitars attack. One cleaner and one more overdriven, they both add to the catchy almost hypnotic rhythm created …
Album Review: Holy Holy say ‘Hello My Beautiful World’ with an elegant and sparkling collection of jewels, plus tour news.
It is an unusual situation to find myself lauding an album that just debuted at number 4 on the Australian music charts in the company of what could be loosely described as commercial pop artists (not the kind of milieu I generally write about). But then that just about sums up Holy Holy‘s universal appeal. …
EP: Bangalore’s dream pop exponents Us and I release their shimmering debut EP ‘Loveless’
Having enticed us with the single ‘Fragile’ last month, Bangalore dream pop duo Us and I have just dropped their debut EP ‘Loveless’, four dollops of exquisite dream pop delights. The band beautifully express their inspirations: In a world doused with melancholia, there is no dearth of inspiration. A lot of ideas were being developed …
Track: The Plane Sailors soar high with release of new single ‘Strikeout’
Brisbane indie four-piece The Plane Sailors have spent the last two years hard at work, trying on new sounds, fleshing out new ideas and bringing new creative vision to life, which culminates in the debut of their new single, Strikeout. Together since 2018, the song serves as both an introduction for some and a reintroduction …
Track: Ferocious Dog – Broken Soldier
Ferocious Dog release the moving single ‘Broken Solider’ the second single from their forthcoming new album ‘The Hope’, which is released on 15th October via Graphite Records. With the release of Broken Solider Ferocious Dog want to raise money and awareness for Combat Stress, the UK’s leading charity for veterans’ mental health. For over a century, Combat Stress have helped former servicemen and …
Track: Snafu Sign To Nuclear Blast And Share New Track Bring Suffering
Hardcore thrash/punk outfit SNAFU (Situation Normal All Fucked Up) will release their long-anticipated new full-length record Exile//Banishment on 15th October via their new label home of Housecore Records in North America and Nuclear Blast in Europe. In advance of the release of Exile//Banishment, SNAFU unveils a video for ‘Bring Suffering’. The band comments: “‘Bring Suffering’ puts a paranormal twist on the classic tale of selling your soul to …
Track: Collapse Of Colour – Freefall
Northern metalcore band Collapse Of Colour have shared their new single ‘Freefall’ as they once again bring the often overlooked subject of mental health to the forefront. The band comments: “Freefall is a song we’ve been excited about for a while. It’s packed full of hooks and carries a real punch with a message that …
Album Review: Leprous- Aphelion
Leprous were like many bands during the pandemic who had their touring plans put on hold, they band used the time to re-enter the studio to create their seventh full-length album. Titled Aphelion it comes on the heels of their previous album ‘Pitfalls’. Pieced together in three different studios, Aphelion is a collection of dynamic …