Track: Song Sung – The Mind’s Eye
Hazy waves of reverb and chorus soak through the new song from twin sister duo Song Sung to create a dream pop epic that is quite mesmerising. There are Beach Boy harmonies, layers of instrumentation that are sunny and bright despite the achingly melancholic tone and distant, haunting vocals. Of the themes of the song, …
See: A. Swayze and the Ghosts – Cancer, plus album news
Tasmanian stars A. Swayze and the Ghosts have highly impressed us earlier this year with their post punky single ‘Mess of Me‘ released in February. With a US tour unfortunately cancelled as a result of the COBID 19 crisis, the band has just released a fantastically bizarre and creative video for their new theatrical glam …
Track: Moscow Apartment – New Girl
We were highly impressed by Moscow Apartment‘s single ‘Halfway‘ released last month and their new release, ‘New Girl’ is a clear indication of the songwriting strength and sustainability of this talented Canadian duo. While ‘New Girl’ continues the same delicate musical vulnerability of ‘Halfway’, it incorporates within itself a muscular spine with its heartfelt themes …
Album Review: The Spitfires – Life Worth Living
In my formative years I was madly in love with what is termed as the second wave of ska – bands like The Specials, Madness and The Beat. There was a third wave which didn’t move me much, but if The Spitfires represent a fourth wave, then welcome back. ‘Life Worth Living’ is quite frankly …
Track: Eskobar – Behind the Sun
Our favourite Swedish retro rockers Eskobar are back with another anthemic thundering single, ‘Behind the Sun’, off their forthcoming album ‘Chapter 2’. And what a jolly enjoyable cathartic piece of indie rock it is, with its fuzzy intro and cinematic entrance. Eskobar mix a studied insouciance with dedication to their craft. Crunchy guitars over a …
Track: Tempesst – On the Run plus album news
‘On the Run’, the new single from Tempesst, is a very cool slice of indie psych, with singer Toma Banjanin’s voice a deep and sonorous delight and shimmering walls of guitar and harmonies. Louche, studied and melodic: this is a great song imbued with a certain poise and attitude that bursts in to celestial choruses. …
Feature: Tim Wheatley – Lying Low plus Australian Playlist
Tim Wheatley is an Australian expatriate living in London who has just released a fantastic new single – ‘Lying Low’ – with incredibly prescient themes of isolation. Like many Australian songwriters, Wheatley’s ‘Lying Low’ somehow captures the widescreen horizons of Australia best from afar, as if it is wired in his genetic code: razor-sharp, observational …
Track: Idles – Grounds, plus album news
The brutal and eminently vital IDLES have just released a video for a new song – ‘Grounds’ – and announced details of the release of their third album – ‘Ultra Mono’ – out on 25 September 2020 through Partisan Records. ‘Grounds’ is pure IDLES – swiftly moving, aggressive and sharp yet leavened by a poetic …
EP: Jade Imagine – You Remind Me of Something I Lost
Melbourne’s Jade Imagine continue to forge a cool and eclectic path with the release of their new EP ‘You Remind Me of Something I Lost’. Sitting somewhere between shoegaze/dream pop and something more sparse and muscular it is a fantastic and unique journey from beginning to end that defies a label. Opening track ‘Coastal Pines’ …
Track: The Ghost of Helags – Chemistry
Ghosts of Helag have released an absolutely gorgeous slice of sweet synth pop in their new track ‘Chemistry’. Layers of bubbling synth stream under melancholic, mesmerising vocals, evoking a sense of a dreamy dark landscape and endless, restless movement. Indeed, according to singer Teresa Woischiski, the track was born out of a night time journey: …