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Track: Cardiff’s Inland Murmur release the delicate and fragile ‘Waterline’
The intricate layers and wistful air of ‘Waterline’ creates a delicately organic piece of music that is ethereal and dreamy. Created by Cardiff band Inland Murmur, the result is something that captures the essence of vulnerability and, indeed, anxiety that defines our current times. The band says the single was the product of the early …
Track: Yolŋu surf rock band King Stingray unveil the effervescent and incandescent track ‘Milkumana’
I saw King Stingray play live at the recent Dark Mofo Festival in Hobart (see my review here) without ever having heard of them before, and was instantly enraptured. One of the most gloriously joyous gigs I’ve ever seen, and those familiar with me and my writing will know I’m generally inclined towards the more …
News: Brighton’s indie rockers FUR announce debut album ‘When You Walk Away’, a tour, and unveil the chiming, glorious title track.
FUR are a very exciting light on the horizon, and their new single ‘When You Walk Away Pt 1’ is a jingle jangle harmonious delight that is bursting with melodic goodness and a sense of optimism and joy. It comes as the Brighton band announces the release of their debut album of the same name …
News: New Zealand’s French For Rabbits announce new album ‘The Overflow’ through Reckless Yes/AAA Records/A Modest Proposal Records, and release the sparkling single ‘Ouija Board’.
After delighting us with the single ‘The Overflow’ last month (see my review here), New Zealand dream popsters extraordinaire French For Rabbits have just announced the release of their new album ‘The Overflow’ for 12 November 2021 and sweetened the deal with another shimmering luminescent single, ‘Ouija Board’. ‘Ouija Board’ is a gentler, more reflective …
Track: New Zealand’s Nik Brinkman’s new single ‘Sugarland’ is a delicious shimmering wonder.
With a theme running to the sweeter side, New Zealand’s Nik Brinkman follows up ‘Candy’, premiered by us back in June with another languid, hazy delight, ‘Sugarland’. The crystalline guitars form a crisp, crunchy background to the dreamy haze of the song with its recurring riffs and floaty atmosphere. Brinkman’s magical vocals are evocative and …
Track: Melbourne’s Dull Reality’s imagination sparkles with the atmospheric single ‘Push Myself Away’.
Dull Reality – the work of Melbourne musician Ben Shields – follows up his single ‘Daffodil (reviewed by me here) with the new track ‘Push Myself Away’ – another sparkling, textural, multi-layered track. With a motorik syncopated beat and a synth wash, a hypnotic jingling in the far distance, this is a transfixing delight – …
Track: Lazarus Kane continue headspinning experimentation with ‘Williston, ND’
Like numerous other, similarly diverse acts, Lazarus Kane’s emergence through hallowed label Speedy Wunderground – via the vibrant bewilderment of Narcissus, a refreshing exploration into the superficiality of modern life – sent earthquake-like jolts through alternative music. The arrival of the gripping ‘Night Walking’ further illustrated the blurry space the band occupied between sincerity and …
Track: Bagful of Beez (The Meanies/Even) trip the light fantastic with whacky debut single ‘Syco’ and announce new album and launch date.
If you are in the mood for a bit of psychotic psychedelia with an infusion of chemical cocktails and a backpack full of barely suppressed chaos and self-deprecatory humour – and after all, who isn’t in the current climes – then Bagful of Beez has just the thing for you with the appropriately named single …
Track: Sydney’s Moody Beach swaggers in with the shoegaze blitz of ‘Plastic Love’
Sydney’s Moody Beach (the work of Melissah Mirage) has been catching the attention of Backseat Mafia this year with her dirty, scuzzy brand of shoegaze dream pop, delivered with a shot glass full of swagger and a black leather jacket draped attitude. Two earlier singles this year, ‘Chance’ and ‘The Other’, set the radar blinking, …
News: The legendary Australian punks The Hard-Ons announce You Am I’s Tim Rogers as new frontman, a new album and a single ‘Hold Tight’ to spark things off.
The shock announcement that veteran indie band You Am I‘s enigmatic Tim Rogers was joining venerable Australian punks The Hard-Ons as a permanent frontman is only matched by the immediate surprise release today of a new single and news of an album from the iconic band. The new album, amusingly entitled ‘I’m Sorry, Sir, That …