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Track: Ron S. Peno & the Superstitions release brilliant double singles ‘The Strangest Feeling’/’Everything Has Changed’ and announce new album ‘Do The Understanding’ for 26 July 2021

It is difficult to express what a profound and integral influence singer/songwriter Ron S. Peno has had on the Australian independent music scene. As co-songwriter writer and frontman for the…

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Premiere: Brisbane-based David Rylands’s atmospheric new single ‘Get Heat’ blisters with a haunting euro-disco beat

We are very honoured to premiere the title track of the new EP ‘Get Heat’ from Brisbane artist/songwriter/producer extraordinaire David Rylands, out through that purveyor of good taste, False Peak…

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Track: Melbourne’s Holy Holy deliver a shimmering, sparkling track ‘Believe Anything’ and announce new album ‘Hello My Beautiful World’ for August

‘Believe Anything’, the new track from the formidable duo Holy Holy, is a gurgling brook of a song – an electronic thrumming provides a bubbling undercurrent over which effervescent synths…

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Premiere: Sydney’s pop punk magicians A Swift Farewell set up a ‘Mousetrap’: an effervescent and thumping delight of a track.

We are honoured to premiere the new track from Sydney’s A Swift Farewell – an ebullient and effervescent indie rock track with an inherent vibrancy and scaling choruses. There is…

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Track: Perth’s delightful smol fish release the low-fi charmer ‘Like A Lemon’ and announce debut EP for August

Imbued with so much melancholy and angst you could cry, smol fish‘s ‘Like A Lemon’ is impossibly endearing and utterly disarming. Laced with an unashamed Australian accented laid back and…

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Meet: We put the spotlight on Nocturnal Animals and hear their explosive new single ‘Outside’

Adelaide’s Nocturnal Animals are by no means your average indie rock band. They have garnered a lot of attention not only for their unique full throttle angular attack but also…

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Album Review: Quivers unveil the epic, jangling, melancholy indie pop masterpiece of ‘Golden Doubt’ and announce Australia-wide tour.

Starting in the tiny southern capital of Hobart at the edge of the world before moving, as bands often do, to Melbourne, Quivers have caught global attention with their unique…

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Album Review: Restless Leg lay out an enticing ‘Dream Buffet’ and announce tour

I’m going to call it right now, and you heard it first here (maybe). I’ve been alluding to it in a number of reviews I’ve written over the past 18…

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Premiere: The legendary Even As We Speak provide us with an exclusive look at the stunning and exquisite video for their moving new single ‘Child’

Even As We Speak‘s glorious and incandescent album ‘Adelphi’ (released through Shelflife Records) made it to my list of the best albums of 2020 from Australia and New Zealand. It…

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Track: Lorde makes a welcome return fuelled by ‘Solar Power’

After quite a lengthy absence since her last release, New Zealand’s Lorde has made a forceful and powerful return with the track ‘Solar Power’. A languid and liquid track, ‘Solar…

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