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Album Review: Steve Kilbey and Gareth Koch – Chryse Planitia
Living legend Steve Kilbey, the powerhouse behind one of Australia’s greatest exports – The Church – has just released an intriguing and delightful collaboration with Viennese-trained classical musician Gareth Koch called ‘Chryse Planitia’. The result is a beautiful set of 10 tracks that mix Kilbey’s deep sonorous vocals and his mystical lyrics with delicate and …
Track: The Proper Ornaments – Purple Hearts plus album news
The Proper Ornaments are an unashamedly guitar-driven band and the low-fi single ‘Purple Hearts’ is an absolute delight: a melancholic ramble infused with a sleepy bohemian rhythmic quality: There’s a sparseness and a majesty in this song – simple yet loaded with feeling. The song is off The Proper Ornament’s forthcoming album ‘Mission Bells’ due …
Album Review: Courtney Barnett – MTV Unplugged Live in Melbourne plus tour news
Australia’s iconic balladeer Courtney Barnett has just released an MTV Unplugged Live in Melbourne on the eve of an announcement that she will be supporting fellow Melburnian Nick Cave with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds UK and Ireland tour. Bringing together a host of music luminaries, with some covers, some golden oldies and a …
Say Psych: News: Fuzz Club Announce First Bands for 2020 Festival
This August Fuzz Club will return to Eindhoven’s Effenaar venue for the third edition of their two-day festival in the Dutch city and are today announcing the first five names on the bill. This time around the label–a curator of some of the finest international fuzz, reverb and drone–will also be teaming up with London …
News: Palaye Royale release statement about cancelled Glasgow gig
Palaye Royale have released the following statement regarding last night’s cancelled show in Glasgow: “We want to apologize to our fans for the abrupt cancellation of the sold-out show at the Garage in Glasgow tonight. Hoping the acoustic show and meeting you all made up for this. x We were approached before doors by the …
Track: Eilish Gilligan – I Just Want To Look At You
Melburnian singer/songwriter Eilish Gilligan continues to make a significant splash on the Australian indie music scene with her haunting brand of synth pop. We have been highly impressed by her output (see our earlier review of S.M.F.Y.) and her new single ‘I Just Want To Look At You’ is gorgeously produced pure dream pop. Gilligan’s …
Track: The Lazy Eyes – Cheesy Love Song
Everything old may well be new again – there is a degree of amusement that a fair percentage of popular contemporary music is very similar to stuff that has come before. But sometimes music is like Shakespeare: it’s not the about the story itself but the way it’s being told. Coming from Sydney, the debut …
Track: Cloning – All Rise
‘All Rise’ is the very exciting and extremely fresh sound from Western Australia’s Cloning. Ostensibly classic indie rock with a touch of shoegaze, there is a whiff of trip hop percussive stuttering among the chiming guitars and synths. A crisp and layered production with a pounding, pulse-quickening chorus and the expressive, emotive vocals of singer/guitarist …
News: China Crisis Announce First Ever Tour to Australia/New Zealand
Legendary Liverpudlians, China Crisis, have just revealed news of their first ever tour down under with gigs in Australia and New Zealand scheduled for August. While part of the new wave, new romantic explosion in the eighties, China Crisis were unique due to their concentration on music and lyrics as opposed to image, producing a …
Track: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – Reducer
Newcastle psychedelic doom metallers Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have unveiled ‘Reducer’, the first single from their upcoming third album, ‘Viscerals’. The song is an incredibly enjoyable full-pelt assault, faster than much of the material on second album ‘King of Cowards’ (2018). With riffs recalling such greats as Melvins, Red Fang, and Black …