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Album Review: We are given ‘The Fuzzy End of the Lollipop’ by the ever glorious the black watch and it’s another outrageous delight.

the black watch, steered with a delicate and melodious craft by the prestigious and proliferate John Andrew Fredrick, are back to delight our senses with the cutely titled album ‘The…

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Album Review: Josefin Öhrn’s ‘Cherry’ is a sensual, sun-dappled second adolescence that shimmers with beauty.

Josefin Öhrn has made an album about falling headlong into desire again, and she isn’t the least bit coy about it. ‘Cherry’, her solo debut, was written during a period…

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Album review: Wasia Project release an album that embraces the beauty of the in-between

Preview: Wasia Project release an album that embraces the beauty of the in-between

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Album Review: What the ghosts left behind – Kaurna/Adelaide’s The Only Objects release the epic ‘An Excess of Haunting’, with a little assemblage required.

There’s a particular kind of record that doesn’t want to be understood so much as inhabited, and ‘An Excess of Hauntings’ is one of them. The second album from Adelaide’s…

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Album Review: The Low Priorities put powerful pop perfection at the top of their list with extraordinary debut ‘Dice’

If you were ever to look up the meaning of power pop in a decent thesaurus or in Wikipedia, then in any accurate discussion, The Low Priorities would rate a…

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Album Review: Marlophone’s debut– ‘Remembered Adventures in Widescale’ is a stunning cinematic debut

Ten years from now, when someone asks what the Marrickville Sound actually was, point them here. Patrick Haid spent a decade and a half fronting Key Out, a band that…

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Album Review: Bicycle Thieves and Dunedin Dreams – Ōtepoti’s Bunchy’s Big Score top the league with ‘Wanda’s Bicycle’

Bunchy’s Big Score have one foot planted firmly in the storied soil of Ōtepoti and the other kicking gleefully at the future. On their second album ‘Wanda’s Bicycle’, the New…

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Album Review: ‘Totally Sick!!’ Kim Salmon’s Smoked Salmon provide a delicious, restorative fare for our consumption.

With a national tour on the cards and a series of fabulous singles to wet the appetite, Australia’s king of grunge and all round legend Kim Salmon and his merry…

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Album Review: Things We Did on Earth – The Kilbey/Kennedy sonic spaceship alights in our universe, and they’re better than ever.

Over the years, writing about Steve Kilbey and Martin Kennedy has become a little like tracing constellations across different skies. Whether reviewing latter-day albums by The Church or previous Kilbey…

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Album Review: Dave Graney and Clare Moore do a delicate pirouette with rock and an arched brow in their new album ‘Laburnam of the Mind’

There’s always been something gloriously unbothered about Dave Graney and Clare Moore — a sense that the rules of engagement (hits, trends, relevance) are for other people. ‘Laburnum Of The…

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