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Track: Melbourne’s Jacob Fitzgerald opens a bottle of spirited, sparkling pop with ‘Pretty Good For My Mind’.
Jacob Fitzgerald‘s new single ‘Pretty Good For My Mind’ fizzes like a shaken bottle of carbonated pop opened while trampolining, with a quite sprightly bounce and a style of its own. The vocoded backing singing and the slinky sinuous saxophone add a certain frisson to the mix, but it is Fitzgerald’s innate ear for melody …
Premiere: Melbourne indie popsters Telescreen return with another widescreen, shimmering delight ‘Onward (To You)’.
‘Onward (To You)’ has a bittersweet melancholic thread that runs through the celestial synth sounds, evidence that Melbourne’s Telescreen is a massive shining star in the indie pop firmament. There is without doubt an eighties sparkle with the washes of synths that bubble and sweep across the wide horizons of this band’s scope. Backseat Mafia …
Premiere: Melbourne’s Anna Smyrk unveils the dynamic, anthemic single ‘The Excavator’.
We are proud to premiere the new single from Melbourne artist Anna Smyrk. ‘The Excavator’ is a folk-tinged indie rock anthem that starts off with a slow burning fuse before sparking into an intense and dynamic anthem. The thundering, pounding rhythm section provides a beating pulse while Smyrk’s voice is passionate and delicate as she …
Premiere: From the mystical Blue Mountains, T. Wilds unveils the most gorgeous and evocative video for the glorious track ‘Curious Moon’.
Due for release this Friday, 27 August, ‘Curious Moon’, the new single from Blue Mountains artist T. Wilds (aka Tania Wilds, the nom-de-plume of Tania Bowers) is a mesmerising ethereal track that seems to float on air, with Bowers’s voice an enchanting softly billowing cloud infused with an air of longing and melancholy. We are …
Track: Ministry Cover The Stooges Track ‘Search And Destroy’
With four decades under their belt and spawning a whole new genre of music, Ministry are also well known for a series of memorable cover songs from Black Sabbath’s ‘Supernaut’ to Bob Dylan’s ‘Lay Lady Lay’. The newest tribute is a take on The Stooges’ ‘Search And Destroy’ which will appear on Ministry’s upcoming 15th studio album Moral Hygiene, due 1st October via Nuclear Blast Records. Recalls Jourgensen: “We rehearsed …
Track: The Zephyr Bones Give Something A Little Special With New Track ‘Afterglow’
Barcelona’s psych-rock quartet, The Zephyr Bones have shared their new track, ‘Afterglow’. This new track is taken from their forthcoming second album, ‘Neon Body’ due 22nd October via La Castanya. A punch of electronic, some 80s bass and cool melodic guitar work. A wavering delicate vocal that sounds so good through headphones. There is a taste of Al Stewart in …
Track: Lily Konigsberg – That’s The Way I Like It
Lily Konigsberg, from art rock band Palberta, is announcing her solo debut LP, ‘Lily We Need To Talk Now’ due 29th October via Wharf Cat. The title is taken from a text she received from the album’s producer Nate Amos of the band Water From Your Eyes. Along with the announcement Konigsberg release of the album’s first single ‘That’s The Way I …
Track: Sydney-based indie rockers Bellwether release the anthemic ‘Shortsighted’
Bellwether have released a dynamic slab of indie rock with their single ‘Shortsighted’, incorporating a Pixies-style quiet/loud ethic and a huge anthemic blast of melody. What is even more impressive is that this is their debut single. Based in Sydney, the band has grown from a number of local acts into something of some stature: …
News: Tiny Little Houses drop latest single ‘I’m Doing Just The Best That I Can’: October tour dates confirmed
Ahead of the release of Tiny Little Houses’ upcoming album Misericorde (out on 19 Nov via Ivy League records), the band have shared their latest lo-fi indie offering, I’m Doing Just The Best That I Can. The song provides a totally relatable message for current times and is also a fitting theme for the Melbourne …
Track: Auckland’s Silk Cut unveil an immersive shoegaze dream pop debut in ‘Getting In Close’ and announce new EP
Andrew Thorne has graced these pages under a few different guises. He first came to my attention in Modern Chair– a collaboration between him and another veteran of the NZ music scene, Wayne Bell. Modern Chair can best be described (and indeed have been) – as dirty, stomping squalls of pure joy laced with a …