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Live Review: Lytham Festival 28/06/23-02/07/23
This year, Lytham Festival has lined up a stellar list of artists for the annual 5-day festival featuring a myriad of music genres ensuring there’s a little bit of something for everyone. Originating in 2009, historically the festival was more of a classical music event however over the years it has evolved and diversified incorporating …
EP review: Safety First are asking ‘Why Is Being Successful So Hard?’ in a sparkling debut EP that radiates with wit and melody, with launch date announced.
Sydney band Safety First perfectly project with great style and panache a quirky and fey stance in their EP ‘Why Is Being Successful So Hard?’, an EP that is so packed with perfect pop vignettes that it sparkles with a delicate high-stepping joy. Singer/songwriter Lexi Green has a dispassionate observant style that recalls an antipodean …
Track: Oscar The Wild are ‘Unafraid’ – a melodic and cathartic thunderstorm of a track. Launch date announced as well.
Kaurna/Adelaide indie quartet Oscar The Wild today have released their thunderous track ‘Unafraid’, an utterly anthemic blast of melodic punk pop filled with swagger and attitude. Singer Ruby says of the track: The lyrics in the first verse of ‘Unafraid’ is a mantra I use to calm my existential anxiety. I figured if I put …
Track: Mathilde Anne displays an effervescent swagger in the slow burning fuse of ‘Way Up There’.
There is nothing better to brighten up a dullard of a day than a little bit of effervescent pop that fizzes with more sparkle than a shaken bottle of Champagne. Naarm/Melbourne-based artists Mathilde Anne has just released a firecracker of a single ‘Way In There’, along with an explosive video, that has more zest than …
Track: Dexys – My Submission
Storied pop-rock band Dexys have shared the video for their stunning new single ‘My Submission’ – the fourth track to be taken from their eagerly anticipated new album ‘The Feminine Divine’ due out the 28th of July via 100% Records. Shot by Patrick King, the video sees lead singer Kevin Rowland submit himself to his lover. “In the previous …
News: Spellling & the Mystery School Share Double Single ‘Cherry’ and ‘Under The Sun’
Today Bay Area experimental pop mastermind Spellling (the performing name of Chrystia Cabral) announces ‘Spellling & the Mystery School’, her new collection due the 25th August on Sacred Bones. The collection of richly envisioned new versions of songs are taken from throughout Cabral’s critically-acclaimed discography. From her 2017 breakthrough debut ‘Pantheon Of Me’, to 2018’s multidimensional synth-based project ‘Mazy Fly’, and her expansive third album, 2021’s ‘The Turning Wheel’. …
Track: La Mere – Cherry-Coloured Funk (Feat Johnny Marr)
Massachusetts based musician / singer-songwriter Meredith Sheldon, aka La Mere, returns with a brand new track ‘Cherry-Coloured Funk’, featuring Johnny Marr. The track follows her recent single ‘Devil In The Day’, continuing La Mere’s musical evolution and paying homage to 4AD Records with a heady concoction of hazy indie-pop-led melodies. Meredith says: “This Cocteau Twins’ song …
Premiere: It’s going to take a ‘Whip Around’ for Life Strike ahead of their second album ‘Peak Dystopia’ – we have an exclusive peak at the new video.
Melbourne outfit Life Strike, signed to Stable Label in Australia and Bobo Integral internationally, will be releasing their forthcoming album ‘Peak Dystopia’ this week, and we are honoured to premiere the stunning video for the track ‘Whip Around’, a track which indicates something very special is afoot. ‘Whip Around’ is the purest indie pop imaginable …
Premiere: Emily Victoria exclusively unveils her atmospheric, Lynchian video for the shimmering single ‘Memorise’.
We are honoured to bring you a exclusive look at the luscious and enigmatic new video for the track ‘Memorise’ from Naarm/Melbourne multi-instrumentalist Emily Victoria. ‘Memorise’ enter the world with a massive anthemic rumble – creating an atmosphere and scope bigger than the outback and just as breathtakingly beautiful with its ambulant thundering bass and …
Live Review: Lucy Dreams / Happy Athletic / Blood Stained Reputation – Sydney And Matilda, Sheffield 23.06.2023
By Phil Wright Friday the 23rd of June the Sydney and Matilda Sheffield turned in to dreamland with the arrival of ‘LUCY DREAMS’ The trio from Vienna consisting of David Reiterer and Philipp Pruecki, bringing there electro pop world to Sheffield. Yes…….. I know I said a trio but this amazing show could not have gone …