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Album Review: Adalita’s 3rd solo album, Inland, pops the cork today after a long 9 years between drinks, and unearths arresting new film-clip.

Australian rock icon, Adalita, has today unveiled her latest album, Inland. Her third LP sees the culmination of a near-decade of artistic endeavour, soul-searching and redemption delicately wrapped up into…

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Album Review: The glorious Charlie Clark is indulging in a little ‘Late Night Drinking’ and the results are something quite spectacular.

Charlie Clark has a fascinating story to tell – a part of vital Scottish indie music history in indie band Astrid before decamping to lead another life in LA as…

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Album Review: Alannah Russack’s Entropy Band (The Hummingbirds, Aerial Maps) radiates stately beauty in the epic ‘As Memories Pass Each Other’.

The Hummingbirds have a permanent place in the annals of indie rock history in Australia, shining brightly but altogether too briefly for a period in the late eighties early nineties (check…

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Album Review: The Golden Hour – Lives Like The City

Following the release of the sparkling new single ‘Postcard Summer’, The Golden Hour is now releasing the vibrant new album ‘Lives Like The City’ Jam packed with 80 synth pop…

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Album Review: Back of the net – Blackbirds F.C. are on target with the shimmering landscapes of ‘Magiclands’

Melburnian musical magicians Blackbirds F.C. have been tempting us in a lascivious and wanton manner all year with series of sparkling singles leading up to the release of their album…

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Album Review: ‘Dave Graney & Clare Moore in a mistLY’ reverberates with a delightful, playful sense of a drunken fin de siecle wake.

There is a clattering, chaotic stately grace about the songs created by the legendary duo Dave Graney and Clare Moore: born in a rock’n’roll cradle of unadorned guitars and pattering…

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Premiere: We get early access to the brilliant Verticoli’s thunderous new album ‘The Echo’, ahead of Australian tour news.

nipaluna/Hobart’s post punk powerhouse Verticoli have provided Backseat Mafia with an exclusive listen to their new album, ‘The Echo’, and it is a gorgeous, cathartic cataclysm of sound and fury.…

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Album Review: Troubadour extraordinaire Jo Meares releases the atmospheric classic ‘Dream Hotel’ and announces launch date.

Over the last year, Sydney troubadour extraordinaire Jo Meares has been releasing the most mesmerising and dynamic series of singles with producer Anth Dymke: each one a sparkling enigmatic jewel,…

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Album Review: Tanya-Lee Davies is in ‘Dreamland’: a wonderful realm of slow burning vignettes that simmer with a melodic intensity.

The music of Melbourne’s Tanya-Lee Davies has a sixties beehive velvet blush about it – a sort of Dusty Springfield/Nancy Sinatra slow waltz to something powered by Burt Bacharach or…

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Album Review: The magnificent Key Out make a triumphant return with ‘afterville’- a glorious, delicate and ethereal set of sparkling jewels.

Key Out for me are one of the unsung heroes of the indie music scene in Australia and indeed the world. Newly signed to the magnificent False Peak Records, they…

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