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Track: Bobby Oroza and Cold Diamond & Mink – Strange Girl
Finish artist Bobby Oroza has teamed up with Timmion Studios house band Cold Diamond and Mink to record a cover of The Shacks tune “Strange Boy” giving it that signature Bobby sound and flipping the title to “Strange Girl” via Big Crown Records Gentle soul from the heart, Strange Girls pairs Oroza’s vocals with softly …
Track: EWAH and the Vision of Paradise return with single Vanishing Point
The arctic and chiming sounds of EWAH and the Vision of Paradise somehow echo and reflect the geographical landscapes of Tasmania and the southern climate – wild, unpredictable and ever so cool. The new single ‘Vanishing Point’ is delectable: mesmerising, hypnotic and crystalline with such a posed sense of style. Guitars scythe their way through …
Track: Dumb Whales release another great indie pop single ‘Communication’
Proving that their chiming single ‘The Great Divide’ (premiered by Backseat Mafia last month) was no fluke, Melbourne based indie pop maestros Dumb Whales are back in town with their new blistering single ‘Communication’. Blasting open with a Pixies-blast of guitars and a driving infective beat, this is magnificent indie fare: melodic, sparkling with a …
Meet: We interview Nic Dalton, owner of Sydney’s legendary Half a Cow Records
As a reviewer, from time to time you come across small boutique labels whose enthusiasm and dedication to the music scene is utterly magnificent and completely inspiring. Over the past few years, I’ve reviewed a number of brilliant bands with one common denominator – they were all on the Half a Cow Record label. This …
Track: Benjamin Lazar Davis releases new track ‘What if I’
You may have picked up on Benjamin Lazar Davis from his 2018 debut ‘Nothing Matters’, an impressively carefree collection of contemporary song-writing, rhythmic heartbeats and lush musical landscapes. Or maybe you latched onto the surging electronic soul pop of his earlier ‘Let it be You’ collaboration with Joan Wasser (Joan As A Policewoman). Or you …
SEE: Richie Hawtin – ‘Time Warps’: the original plastik man returns to the dancefloor
THE CANADIAN techno wizard who climbed into all our minds on a perforated sheet of blotting paper back when as Plastikman, Richie Hawtin, has decided to make a return to a properly dancefloor-focused set of bangers after far too long. He’s just released a new EP, Time Warps, his first missive of tunes bound for …
SEE: The lyric video for Horsey’s ‘Sippy Cup’: as if The Lemon Twigs were transposed into Brit culture
WELL, you gotta hand it to ’em; they picked their ingredients, they simmered them down, and they arrived somewhere bewitchingly odd. South London four-piece Horsey are as square a peg in as round a hole of British music culture as anything you’ll hear in a good while; and they’ve thrown themselves back into the spotlight …
TRACK: Melin Melyn – ‘Rebecca’: announcing Cymru’s latest quirk-psych crackers
GORKY’S. (There’s never any escaping Gorky’s, and how great they are, let’s face it. If you were really lucky, you actually could’ve seen them at the Hacienda.) Meilyr Jones. Gulp. El Goodo. The river of brilliant and wayward Welsh quirky, psych-inflected bands floweth ever on; and rounding this bend in our canoe, we come across …
Neutrals release new video for ‘Personal Computing’
Out right now is the new single from Bay Area indie pop / post-punk group Neutrals. Out on legendary Slumberland Record, it marks the end of the SLR30 series; sign up for the SLR30 Subscription Series here. Allan from the band says of the track “It may come as a surprise, but I was a nerdy …
TRACK: listen to James Bailey’s new track, ‘Cinema’
HIPHOP/R&B artist James Bailey, who hails from Los Angeles, has released a brand-new track, “Cinema”. Bailey wrote “Cinema” during a long-distance relationship in which he and his lover found themselves going through the motions, subsequently fantasising about his co-star/love interest in a rom-com style flick, that starts with dreams and sadly ends in heartbreak (spoiler …