trip hop
News: Morcheeba Mark 30 Years of Trip-Hop Majesty with 2026 Australian Tour
Morcheeba return to Australia in 2026 to celebrate 30 years of genre-bending brilliance, joined by UNKLE’s James Lavelle for a night of hypnotic grooves, nostalgia and visual splendour.
Live Gallery: The Singular, Spellbinding Beth Gibbons at the Sydney Opera House 30.05.2025
A rare appearance, a timeless voice — Beth Gibbons stuns at Vivid LIVE.
Track: lutriwita/Tasmanian duo Future State release the atmospheric single ‘Serve Yourself’ ahead of debut album ‘Everything Is Temporary’
Future State are an electronic trip hop duo from southern edge of the world in Tasmania, and their sound is suitably chill and Antarctic with its combination of thundering percussion, saxophone and lush synth layers. In their new single ‘Serve Yourself’, singer Ally Oliver’s voice recalls Portishead’s Beth Gibbons with its extraordinary range and distant …
Album Review: Earthen Sea –‘Recollection’: Blissful ambient techno with a deeper trip-hop flow.
Jacob Long’s musical journey has wound from seminal Dischord post-hardcore band Black Eyes through the deep dub rhythmics of Mi Ami to arriving, around 2014, in more greyscale/ambient landscapes with his aka Earthen Sea. From this point Long’s sound documents have mapped a pathway from home studio sketches to his first album ‘Ink’ on Lovers …
Track: Restless ambient artist Earthen Sea announces new album ‘Recollection’ with a luscious and loose double preview.
You may recall the name Jacob Long as a member of the seminal Dischord band Black Eyes, a group who defined post-hardcore’s in-built non-conformity. Such a starting point inevitably embedded unorthodoxy in his music making and his next excursion with the deep dub rhythmics of Mi Ami only underlined his disinclination to stand in line. …
Live Gallery: Morcheeba at the Enmore Theatre, Sydney 14.03.2023
Morcheeba mesmerise Sydney crowd with their iconic trip-hop grooves.
Track: French duo Overland Inn provide a dreamy pop repose with new single ‘Martingale’
Signed to the magnificent Brisbane label False Peak Records, French/Czech duo Overland Inn open up their fair doors for the first time since early last year with another swoon-worthy dreamy single entitled ‘Martingale’. As I’ve mentioned before, this duo have taken the ghost of Serge Gainsbourg and wrapped it up in a contemporary cloak of …
Track: Beth Orton releases new track ‘Weather Alive’ with album to follow
Beth Orton returns with a new track and album after an absence of six years.
Album review: Sam A La Bamalot – Reminisce –
“How does it feel to reminisce? That was something I wanted to try to capture in soundwaves. I tend to reminisce a lot. About the good and bad parts in the past, and everything in between. I try to remember which specific parts in my life made me who I am today. Thinking about those …
Album Review: Earthen Sea – Ghost Poems: subtle, sensitive, soulful electronica.
Jacob Long (aka Earthen Sea) has a musical provenance that inevitably draws you in to take a look. He’s been a member of the Dischord endorsed, post-hardcore agitators Black Eyes, injected sax and bass to the electro-dub, No-wave work-outs of Mi Ami and since 2014 released less abrasive sounds as Earthen Sea, probing ever deeper …