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A strikingly different take on contemporary America—YELKA’s In A Rose Hat offers an artistic perspective far removed from stadium rock or trap trends. It’s an intimate, almost cinematic interpretation that upends expectations. “Crawl into your hibernation, don’t wait for a new sensation…” the opening, ´Colors Will Come´— begins the new album of the Berlin post-rock …

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So let’s get philosophical. In the mid-fifties Guy Debord developed the idea of ‘Psychogeography’, the influence a place has on its inhabitants, their attitudes, values and how they go about their day to day. If you put that into a pop music perspective could you imagine Joy Division without Manchester, Bjork from anywhere but Iceland, …

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In a performance that transcended the boundaries of genre and expectation, Sigur Rós, in collaboration with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, delivered a night of sonic transcendence that will linger in the city’s cultural memory for years to come. As part of the Vivid LIVE festival, this concert was not merely a musical event; it was …

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It was an evening of firsts, as Hobart’s post-rock supergroup, follow, took to the live stage for the very first time and played songs from their debut LP, Old Haunts (album review by Senior Editor, Arun Kendall, here), which was released back in May 2023. Formed by past and present members of Luca Brasi, Silver …

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Let’s start with some facts. Godspeed You! Black Emperor are a seminal alt rock, orchestral collective formed 1994 in Montreal. People who write about contemporary music see their early noughties trilogy (F♯ A♯ ∞, Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven and Yanqui U.X.O.) as definitive long form, instrumental statements. If you are reading …

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So the release of the Montreal post metal unit BIG|BRAVE’s eighth album ‘A Chaos Of Flowers’ is arcing steadily towards a conclusion (out 19th April via Thrill Jockey Records). This is a band whose momentum is grounded in consideration and integrity, no quick wins, no sell-outs, who’ve evolved their own unique approach to slow core, …

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You may have noticed a couple of quirky tunes drifting out from the home of Hive Mind Records at the back end of ’23. Delivered by ‘new’ singer songwriter Nino Gvilia, the tracks drifted illusively between the tropes of bedroom pop, eastern European folk and lo-fi experimentalism but with a real sense of purpose. These …

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Percussionist and producer Ben Sloan’s decade plus as collaborator and contributor, drumming with the likes of Moses Sumney, Beth Orton, WHY? and The National, testifies that here we have a musician with an exceptional range, pedigree and rhythmic sixth sense. Still that’s not the whole picture. March ’23 saw him step out confidently from the …

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Now here’s some news from the consistently beneficial We Are Busy Bodies to lighten up the post summer gloom. The Toronto label will be releasing the new album ‘There Is No End’ from experimental rock collective New Age Doom on 27th October. Centring around the core partnership of drummer Eric J. Breitenbach and guitarist Greg …

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Described by Rolling Stone magazine as the best Australian album of 2022, Forever Giving Handshakes by Melbourne’s upcoming garage-punks, Delivery, gets its well deserved UK release on May 19th, on Anti-Fade/ Spoilsport / Feel It Records. Ahead of the release the band have a single out, Poor To Middling Moneymaking, which mixes fast-paced, spiky, angular …

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