Indie
Track: Dear Doonan’s new single ‘Papaya’ is a scintillating slice of world music
‘Papaya’s is a fascinating new single from the Sunshine Coast (Queensland) band Dear Doonan – it has a world music tone delivered in a mostly instrumental bed with a melodic and effervescent flow. A song of many movements, there is an Indian flavour to the sounds with the use of Sitars, and vocals mixed with …
Track: Musical prodigy flowerkid’s single ‘Miss Andry’ is an epically beautiful and deeply personal reflection on childhood pain
At only nineteen, Sydney musician flowerkid‘s single ‘Miss Andry’ shows a power and stature way beyond his age. Imbued with a sense of deep pain, there is a sweeping dream pop element that is underpinned by deeply personal struggles evinced in the lyrics and emotive vocals. Flowerkid is the nome de plume of Flynn Sant …
Track: Giant Sky release ‘Snow’, the dreamy paean to human connections in the face of adversity
‘Snow’ was written in tribute to the care and love given to London band Giant Sky‘s singer during the trials and tribulations of lockdown – it is a deeply romantic declaration of eternal love in the face of adversity. The delivery is cinematic and monumental: walls of crashing guitars and mountainous melodies. There is the …
Animal Collective reveal new video for ‘Sand that Moves’, taken from Crestone movie soundtrack
Out right now is the debut feature film Crestone, written and directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler in partnership with Memory. Hertzler enlisted the services of experimental indie act Animal Collective to provide the score to the movie, which will be out physically on April 23. From it the band have revealed a new video for the …
Premiere: Woody and Jeremy reveal new album plans and lyric video for Rolling in the Basement
You might have caught the first album from Vulfpeck keyboard player Woody alongside musical partner Jeremy’s first album, in which case you’ll know no to miss its follow up – the forthcoming Gravy In My Coffee, out in June. If you didn’t, don’t just take our word for it, because alongside the album announcement the …
Track: Ryley Walker’s ‘Axis Bent’ is a baroque and complex glory; his new album’s out soon
TROUBADOUR genius touched by the hand of the Tim Buckley, collaborator on some very fine albums, sole architect of yet other records that fall very much in that same category, and one of the funniest tweeters in music, Ryley Walker has just dropped a new track, “Axis Bent”, from his early April album Course In …
Her Voice : A playlist for International Women’s Day 2021
Although it has it’s beginnings way back in 1911, International Women’s Day has an increasingly important role to play in our society. Every March 8th, the day is an important day to celebrate Women’s achievements, equality, gender parity and also to fundraise for female-focused charities. This year the focus of the day is #choosetochallenge – …
Album Review: Huck Hastings unveils a sparkling and gorgeous album ‘Cheers to Progress’, draped in love, loss, longing and optimism.
Huck Hastings is a Sydney based singer/songwriter whose new album ‘Cheers to Progress’ is a cinematic sweep full of longing, love and loss – a vivid and beautifully expressed series of personal vignettes that are endearing, optimistic and heart-breaking at the same time. This a collection of beautiful personal observations on relationships and love, floating …
See: Tashaki Miyaki – ‘Castaway’: yearning, leftfield LA guitar pop
THE LA dreampop trio Tashaki Miyaki have dropped a a single and accompanying video of the title song from their forthcoming second album, Castaway, which will be released on July 2nd; and you can watch that below. Singer, drummer and producer Paige Stark says the song “… is about the challenges of romantic love and how …
See: Jordan Klassen – ‘Golden Ladder’: hushed Canadian alt.folk songcraft
VANCOUVER’S self-styled fairy-folk singer-songwriter Jordan Klassen released an album, Tell Me What to Do, last May, which he hopes connects people organically, drawing upon their shared experiences lyrically and conceptually; and, he hope, making them feel less alone in a crazily paced, hyper-connected world. It explores what’s it’s like to be in a world where …