Backseat Downunder
Album Review: Allday’s ‘Drinking With My Smoking Friends’ is an atmospheric masterclass in dreamy, melancholic indie pop
Adelaide born but now Melbourne resident Allday (the moniker of Tom Gaynor) magnificent album ‘Drinking With My Smoking Friends’ has been anticipated by a series of stunning singles that have indicated the presence of a special artist. Known more for rap, this album is a new turn – melodic dream pop that is sparkling. Opening track ‘Void’ is …
Track: All India Radio emits another bright ray of sunshine with the shimmering atmospheric track ‘El Cielo’
Martin Kennedy’s All India Radio released the magnificent album ‘Afterworld’ earlier this year and it still resonates with a shimmering and haunting aura – read my effusive review here. All India Radio has now released a new single from this epic album, ‘El Cielo’, with maestro Gareth Koch on board. Gareth Koch is a multi-talented …
EP Review: Oceans washes a dream pop shoegaze fugue over us with the epic ‘Come So Far’
‘Come So Far’ is an immersive and epic debut from Melbourne’s Oceans (the moniker of Thomas Lee): four tracks that shimmer and sparkle with an iron spine and a dreamy disposition. Lee says of the EP: This is my debut EP recorded for my solo project Oceans. It encapsulates the last 5-7 years of my …
Premiere: Damien Binder lights a slow burning fuse with the gloriously transcendent track ‘Everything But’.
There is a delicious expansiveness about Damien Binder‘s work – he is an uniquely antipodean troubadour whose songs sparkle like the bright stars over the great southern land. Originally from New Zealand, Binder now lives in Perth and he has somehow combined elements of the spark of creativity from both places into an impressive body …
Track: Children Collide unveil the smashingly uber cool track ‘Uh Oh’ and announce tour
Melbourne’s Children Collide‘s new single ‘Uh Oh’ is a slamming, dynamic piece of pounding rock’n’roll with its insistent rhythms and cool and louche vocals. All inflected with a psychedelic fugue. A hybrid of razor-sharp synths and fuzzy guitars and the cool, wry vocals, a stop/start spine and a swag bag full of attitude make for …
Track: Banoffee makes ethereal return with new single and video of air-bending emotion for ‘Tapioca Cheeks’
Melbourne singer-songwriter and producer Banoffee returns with a shimmering new single Tapioca Cheeks and accompanying video. The track was written just before the COVID-19 pandemic, during her last LA studio session with PC Music’s French, synth-pop, shoegazers Planet 1999. ‘Tapioca Cheeks’ is a post-relationship love dedication of a sort, to someone who is seemingly unlovable. Banoffee …
Track: Hayley Mary unveils the effervescent and sparkling track ‘The Drip’ ahead of EP release and tour news.
Hayley Mary‘s capacity for writing pulse quickening and powerful rock is on full display in the wry and effervescent track ‘The Drip’, the title track from her forthcoming EP due out on 18 June 2021 . Replete with Mary’s passionate vocals and jangling guitars, the track perfectly compliments her wry and self-deprecatory lyrics forming a …
Premiere: Skybelly’s ethereal ‘The Rhino, The Tiger, The Emerald Dragonfly’ is a silky, sensual dream pop reverie with a message.
We are pleased to premiere the new single ‘The Rhino, The Tiger, The Emerald Dragonfly’ by Melbourne’s Skybelly, the nom de plume of artist Sara Nelson. This is a slinky, smooth and textural piece of music is off Skybelly’s forthcoming EP ‘The Drama of a Lava Lamp’ due out on 4 June 2021. Skybelly has …
Premiere: Brisbane’s loulou’s ‘Depend On Me’ is a scuzzy low-fi shining gem filled with an antipodean garage charm
We are delighted to premiere the new track by Brisbane (or to be precise, Naarm/Meanjin) band loulou entitled ‘Depend On Me’. This is a scuzzy, shambling treasure of a song with its genetic origins traceable to a diverse range of very acceptable source codes – a Brisbane sound with a little of The Go-Betweens, The …
Track: Melbourne’s Maple Glider releases the fragile and beautiful ‘Baby Tiger’ and announces news of debut album ‘To Enjoy Is The Only Thing’
Melbournian Maple Glider ( the artist Tori Zietsch) has announced the release of her debut album ‘To Enjoy is The Only Thing’ out on 25 June 2021 through Partisan Records and has unveiled the single ‘Baby Tiger’ in anticipation. ‘Baby Tiger’ is fragile and beautiful: Glider’s voice a delicate whisper across a simple acoustic guitar …