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Track: Joe Ramsey – Another Day
Northern singer-songwriter Joe Ramsey has shared the lead single and first release from his upcoming EP ‘Making Notes’, supported by Help Musicians’ Do it Differently Fund. Talking about the new release, Joe Ramsey shares: “’Another Day’ is about enjoying the simple things in life that I once took for granted. Through lockdown, I was given …
Track: Robert Plant And Alison Krauss – High And Lonesome
After sharing the first single ‘Can’t Let It Go’ Robert Plant and Alison Krauss return with another teaser of their forthcoming album ‘Raise The Roof’ with next track ‘High And Lonesome’ written by Plant and T Bone Burnett. A cool vibe and a cool voice dominate this laid back blues track that vibrates with a …
Album Review: Anika – Change
It’s been eleven years since the release of the debut album by Berlin-based DJ, musician and former political journalist Anika Henderson, known professionally just by her first moniker. The new album is called Change, and it couldn’t be a more appropriate title; how different a world it has become in the decade and a bit …
Track: Louie Short – Sweeter Than Clover
Toronto/LA-based artist, Louie Short has shared his new single, ‘Sweeter Than Clover’ which is taken from his forthcoming second record, Omw 4ev, due 12th November via 444%. The new single finds its story in a walk that Short – who was ill at the time – and his girlfriend took when she told him of the healing power of a clover. “I was taking a walk and feeling …
Album Review: Sydney’s Dominic Breen sets the controls for intergalactic with the glorious shimmering ‘Blue Volume’
Dominic Breen‘s new album ‘Blue Volume’, out today through Double Drummer, is certainly a cinematic experience – both in the sounds it creates and the visions it brings forth. And by cinematic, I’m talking widescreen with ultra vivid colours and an immersive surround sound sparkle that shimmers like stars in the firmament. At the very …
Track: Self Esteem – Moody
Self Esteem has shared another track from her forthcoming album ‘Prioritise Pleasure’ due 22nd October via Fiction records. Titled Moody, it will be the fourth track taken from the album. Self Esteem says: “Moody is a song about reclaiming being a moody cow. My whole life I’ve been referred to as mardy (northern for moody) …
Album Review: Youth Group’s Toby Martin’s solo album ‘I Felt the Valley Lifting’ is an uplifting amalgam of mystical realism and the minutiae of everyday life.
Toby Martin (Youth Group) has a distinctive angelic voice and astute ear for indelible melodies, but more than anything his new solo album ‘I Felt The Valley Lifting’ reveals in greater focus on his ability to weave vivid and fascinating tales: reaped from the ennui of everyday existence as well as drawing on folklore and …
Track: Jack River releases a powerful spine-tingling anthem advocating change ‘We Are The Youth’.
Jack River (real name Holly Rankin) has just released the energising, anthemic ‘We Are The Youth’, with its spine-tingling call for positive change in the face of climate change, First Nations struggle and violence against women. This single has all the emotional impact of a classic like Peter Gabriel’s ‘Biko’: barely restrained, seething anger against …
Track: Sydney’s A Swift Farewell are welcomed back with another anthemic blast of ‘Sunburn’
Following the release of the effervescent ‘Mousetrap’ (premiered by Backseat Mafia) , Sydney outfit A Swift Farewell are back with another sparkling piece of pop/punk joy. While eschewing the blast of their last release, A Swift Farwell showcase their ability to switch moods and tones, providing quiet reflective interludes with an anthemic chorus – all …
See: The effervescent Jacob Fitzgerald releases heartwarming romcom visuals for his poptastic single ‘Pretty Good For My Mind’
We wrote recently that Jacob Fitzgerald‘s single ‘Pretty Good For My Mind’ fizzes like a shaken bottle of carbonated pop opened while trampolining, with a quite sprightly bounce and a style of its own. It is a track that is infectious with no vaccination needed (although, please, get one anyway). Fitzgerald has now released a …