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Track: Soaked Link Up With Charity BEAT For New Single ‘Simple Little Things’
Southend trio Soaked return this month with a single that feels both musically sharp and socially urgent. ‘Simple Little Things’ lands after a string of high-profile festival appearances at SXSW London and Wilderness Festival, and arrives alongside a campaign with Beat, the UK’s leading eating disorder charity. The partnership includes a music video, a merch …
News: Dream Pop Queen Hatchie returns with the epic, glittering single ‘Lose It Again’ and announces new album ‘Liquorice’.
It feels like eons since we heard from Meanjin/Brisbane Queen of Dream Pop Hatchie but in fact it was only in April last year that she released ‘Kiss Me (Kill Me)‘ with RINSE (partner Joe Agius). These days based in Naarm/Melbourne, Hatchie (the nome de plume of Harriette Pilbeam) has made a sneak return with …
Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne instrumental band Badinage engage in a little exclusive and expressive ‘Banter’ with us.
We are very honoured to bring you an early listen to the new single ‘Banter’ from Naarm/Melbourne instrumental ensemble Badinage. Rolling guitars and a pattering drum herald an almost flamenco sound with a driving stabbing instrumentation, a stop start heartbeat that sparkles and flounces with gleeful abandon. The track drifts off into a reverie – …
News: Peter Milton Walsh’s The Apartments announce new album ‘That’s What the Music is For’ with shimmering new single ‘A Handful of Tomorrow’ a glorious amuse bouche.
The Apartments‘ magnificent album ‘In And Out Of The Light’ was one of the brief rays of light of the grim 2020 – one of my favourite albums of that year. With one of Brisbane’s greatest singer/songwriters, Peter Milton Walsh (briefly an early Go-Between), The Apartments are possibly one of the most underrated bands coming …
Track: The enigmatic Parisian-based band SCHØØL release ‘OK <3’ from their forthcoming album ‘I think my life has been OK’.
Ūber cool Parisian-based band SCHØØL, consisting of members from France, the US and Australia, today release their final single ‘OK <3’ off their forthcoming album ‘I think my life has been ok’. Already promising much in their previous singles, ‘NSMLYD‘ (already a contender for single of the past few years for me), ‘The End‘ and …
Track: Clint Wilson Shares New Single When I Find Somebody New
Clint Wilson has released his new single When I Find Somebody New, recorded in Melbourne and produced by Kevin Bennett, offering the first preview of his upcoming fourth album.
News: Enigmatic Naarm/Melbourne duo HighSchool announce self-titled debut album with new single ‘Dipped’.
Naarm/Melbourne postpunk maestros HighSchool have been enticing us with a series of stunning singles over the past few years and they have announced the release of their self-titled debut album slated for 31 October 2025 through [PIAS] Australia. This follows up their magnificent EP ‘Accelerator’ last year (see my 9/10 review here), and as an added …
Track: It’s ‘Friday Night’ and SELVE revel in a dose of spine tingling romanticism ahead of album release.
Gold Coast (Yugambeh/Kombumerri)-based six-piece SELVE, continue to exponentially explode with their new single ‘Friday Night’ – a sweet and gentle paean to the exquisite feelings of love. It’s a whole different side to this band – a track that is ethereal and floating, coasting on a yearning emotional wave with subtlety and a melodic delicacy. It …
Track: Drape yourself in the exquisite folds of ‘The Gown’ as The Bats circle above, ready to land their new album in October.
It’s the prefect time for The Bats again as they release the single, ‘The Gown’, as we hit the home stretch to their forthcoming new album ‘Corner Coming Up’ on 17 October, through Flying Nun Records. ‘The Gown’ is the the third release off the new album which has to be one of the most …
Track: San Francisco Duo chokecherry Release Transitional Track Secrets
chokecherry’s Secrets began as a jam in Los Angeles before being finished in the studio with producer Christopher Grant.