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Track: ‘Like An Animal’ – Lutruwita’s TEENS are back roaming the streets to create delicious mayhem ahead of album release and live date.
It’s a normal teenage occupation isn’t it? Rioting in the streets, vandalising telephone booths and mugging little old pensioners? Not this lot. TEENS (who may in fact be outside the actual demographics) spend their time creating delicious sonic mayhem with an arched eyebrow and a thousand yard stare. Their new single ‘Like An Animal’ is …
Track: Lutruwita/Tasmania’s Abby Wallace releases the achingly beautiful track ‘Atlantic Blue’
With an immersive video to match, there is something of the wild and beautiful environment of Australia’s southern isle in the new single from Lutruwita/Tasmanian artist Abby Wallace. ‘Atlantic Blue’ swirls with a hypnotic eddy as Wallace’s yearning vocals thread their way through: a hint of melancholy and blue, immersive and heartbreakingly beautiful. Wallace says …
Premiere: Tasmania’s magnificent Verticoli are back with smashing new single ‘Home’, with new album ‘Silverlinings’ on the way.
Ahead of their new album ‘Silverlinings’, Lutruwita/Tasmanian trio Verticoli release their new single ‘Home’ tomorrow, and it’s great to have them back. We are honoured to bring you an early listen. Delivering their usual visceral and vibrant sounds, ‘Home’ contains scything guitars and a driving rhythm with singer Sam Hunn’s huge vocals: a sound that …
Album Review: Christopher Coleman & the Soft Knees Band release the gorgeous ‘Live At The Chapel’.
The poet laureate of the southern hemisphere Christopher Coleman & the Soft Knees Band collectively dispense heart rending lyricism over the most ethereal instrumentation in their new album ‘Live at the Chapel’, just released through Coleman’s label Oscar Treehouse Records. The combination of Coleman’s silken, yearning, aching vocals with the delicacy of the music and his …
Album Review: Lutruwita’s Meres unveil the excoriating and blistering sonic tornado of debut ‘WORRIED SICK’
Meres, fronted by the enigmatic and creative force of Mary Shannon (also in the magnificent Dvrkworld) have just released their debut album ‘WORRIED SICK’ and it has the sonic effect of a tornado with its scything guitars and explosive delivery. It is a far stretch from the more languid shoegaze approach of Dvrkworld, filled with …
Track: Tasmanian-based duo Yulan & Blaise release the beautiful, ethereal track ‘Falling 花火落’.
‘Falling 花火落’ is an epically beautiful track from Australian/American duo Yulan & Blaise which shimmers and sparkles with a haunting presence. There are elements of artists as diverse as Mono (the UK electronic duo), Björk and Portishead, replete with an ethereal, ghostly presence that shimmers like a mirage in the desert. At the heart of …
Track: Meres are only ‘Building Humans’ – a passionate paean to vulnerability, ahead of album release and live dates.
Meres have turned down the volume a little on their third single ‘Building Humans’ from their forthcoming album ‘Worried Sick’, but the intensity and the passion remain high. According to singer/guitarist Mary Shannon, This one is a little self-indulgent and is one of the band’s collective favourites – Building Humans is aggressively sad and rough …
Track: They’re no ‘Quiet Australians’ – Lutruwita’s Meres unveil hyperactive new single ahead of album release.
Post punk rock boppers from down under, Meres, have been relatively quiet – understandable given front person Mary Shannon has also been active in the shoegaze giants Dvrkworld – but in a surprise return, they are back with the somewhat ironically titled single ‘Quiet Australians’. Meres have always been an exuberant entity featuring a punky …
News: Dark Mofo has risen again – a full return of the iconic Winter Festival including exclusive gigs from The Horrors, Lisa Gerrard and Crime & The City Solution
The gnarled bony fingers of the corpse of the ubiquitous Dark Mofo Festival have gently shoved aside the dusty lid of its sarcophagus and has sat bolt upright as the details of the program for 2025 have been released. The Nosferatu of antipodean winter festivals – the original and in my humble opinion the best …
EP Review: DVRKWorld’s self-titled debut EP is a delicious southern gothic blast of dark pop delight.
Fronted by Mary Shannon of Meres, Launceston band Dvrkworld deliver an icy, glacial form of shoegaze that seems intrinsically linked to the wild terrain and the weather in the southern isle at the very edge of the world. Formed in early 2023 by Mary Shannon and Drew Farrant-Jayet and later joined by Shawn Arnold and Ryan …