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Premiere: The fabulous Tanya-Lee Davies checks the room for exits on ‘Valentines Day’, in a glorious new track that prowls with a lascivious glow.

Every 14 February runs on the same fuel: cheap wine, expensive expectations, and a stiff upper lip bracing for whatever the night decides to hand out. The enigmatic chanteuse Tanya-Lee…

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Track: The Great Emu War Casualties are on ‘Cold Food Ave’ with a bang, and that’s alright for sure.

Earlier this year, The Great Emu War Casualties (TGEWC) released their debut album ‘Public Sweetheart No. 1’ to great acclaim (reviewed by me here, and described as being an album…

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Track: ‘I Know What This Is’ – it’s the luminescent Kat Greta with another pop masterclass.

Kat Greta has long been a favourite here at the antipodean outpost of Backseat Mafia, and her new single ‘I Know What This Is’ is a reminder of exactly why.…

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News: After decades of singles, The Cat’s Miaow will finally be heard in full with their debut album ‘When You Smiled And Turned Away’ due in October, with title track out now.

Thirty-plus years, a handful of gigs, a stack of 4-track cassettes and 7″s scattered across compilations — and only now, with ‘When You Smiled And Turned Away’, do The Cat’s…

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Premiere: The Hunter Express slink into view on atmospheric new single ‘Easier’.

There’s a particular kind of songwriting that only arrives when you stop trying to write it. That’s the space The Hunter Express found themselves in with ‘Easier’, the Melbourne outfit’s…

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Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne-based artist SRU confronts self-abandonment on new single ‘be ur girl’

There’s a particular kind of song that doesn’t announce its darkness — it just lets you sit in it. Melbourne artist SRU‘s new single ‘be ur girl’ is exactly that…

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Premiere: Flame to Grey – Billy Peril Premiere the Jangling ‘Tornado’

Melbourne’s Billy Peril have been quietly building one of the more compelling debut album rollouts of the year, and ‘Tornado’, the third single lifted from that forthcoming record on Cheersquad…

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Track: Zipper tune into another hypnotic triumph with ‘Ear’.

There are some bands you instinctively know are building something special, and Zipper continue to confirm that feeling with every release. Following the dazzling ‘Hiko’ (read my review here), new…

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Premiere: Naarm/Melbourne’s Hannah Potter finds her way home in the haunting ‘Judith’s House’

Back in April we wrapped ourselves up in the warm melancholic embrace of Hannah Potter‘s debut single ‘Snow Day’, a song so assured it barely felt like a first outing…

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Premiere: After a challenging year, Kat Greta is back and showing a little ‘Audacity’

It’s been said before but I’ll say it again: Kat Greta is a prodigious, seriously underrated talent whose releases are like golden rays of sunshine when all else around is…

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