Album Review: The Electorate – ‘You Don’t Have Time To Stay Lost’
We’ve already met and fell in love with Sydney band The Electorate after the release of their single ‘Decades in a Day‘. If life is a series of unrelenting miseries leavened by brief moments of sunshine, then The Electorate manage to capture the former and express them perfectly into the latter through their songs. ‘You …
Premiere: The Backlash premiere epic lyric video for track ‘My Wrong’ and announce spot on ‘In a State of Flux’ Festival
We are extremely delighted to premiere the lyric video for Italian indie shoegaze band The Backlash. And what a track it is. Shard-like chiming guitars soar over a spine-crushing rhythm section with an epic, cinematic intro before the song rushes full tilt into a driving, insistent and pulse-quickening pace. The song crashes and recedes like …
See: Marveline release video for single ‘Turpentine’
Give your aural and ocular entry points a thorough cleansing with the fabulous new single ‘Turpentine’ from Sydney’s marvelous Marveline. This is a song so infectious you will need to self isolate a lot more than the mandatory fourteen days. This is off Marveline’s tremendous album ‘Savoury-toothed Tiger’ reviewed by me earlier this year, describing …
Premiere: Wilding releases sublime pop single ‘Swipe Right’
We are very pleased to premiere the video for the single ‘Swipe Right’ from Wilding, the work of UK-born and Australian resident Justin Wilding Stokes. ‘Swipe Right’ is pop eccentricity at its best and the creative mind of Wilding is accentuated by the lockdown-shot video involving dating apps, philosophical stick insects and a delicious pop …
Album Review: A. Swayze and the Ghosts release the brilliant debut album ‘Paid Salvation’
Emerging from Hobart at the very edge of the settled world, A. Swayze and the Ghosts (AS&TG) are loud, noisy, abrasive, shouty, opinionated and – did I say loud? They are also, somewhat antithetically, the purveyors of some of the greatest intelligent pop songs around. ‘Paid Salvation’, their new album is a triumph – full …
Track: Eskobar – Living in the Sky
If there is one certainty, Swedish retro-rockers Eskobar are a gift that keeps giving. ‘Living in the Sky is their fifth single release this year and while there will be few secrets left on their forthcoming album Chapter 2, the band’s prolific output has not seen any dissolution in the quality of their material. ‘Living …
Track: Pirra – Limousine Lies
Based in Wollongong, south of Sydney, Pirra have released a driving new single ‘Limousine Lies’ that pelts along at an embracing pace with a synth spine and a haunting, melancholic vocal. There are echoes of eighties new wave and an M83 thrum throughout and even a hint of Lorde in the lyrics. Of the single, …
Album Review: Buddy Glass – Wow and Flutter
Buddy Glass is the nom-de-plume of Bruno Brayovic who plays in Sydney Peabody (a veritable institution). He has a colourful history – arriving as a refugee from fascist Chile with his family in 1983 and starting life in the infamous Villawood Migrant Hostel. This colourful past bleeds into his new album ‘Wow and Flutter’: a …
Meet: We chat with Johnny Hunter and find out about wasted youth, putting on a show and the soundtrack of their lives. Plus tour news.
Last month I was highly impressed by the debut EP ‘Early Trauma’ from Sydney band Johnny Hunter – it’s a new new wave for our times. So impressed was I that I had to find out more from the band – about how they got together, their influences, their favourite songs and their striking image. …
Meet: We have a chat with Babybird’s Stephen Jones about that hit single, his creative process and the music industry. Plus we review his new album.
While Babybird will always be associated with the global hit ‘You’re Gorgeous‘, the prodigious talent behind the name, Stephen Jones, has never ceased creating sublime indie pop over the course of his career. In a sense, the music industry may have moved away, but Jones’s songwriting magic has remained a constant. Jones might have the …