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Track: Meres are only ‘Building Humans’ – a passionate paean to vulnerability, ahead of album release and live dates.
Meres have turned down the volume a little on their third single ‘Building Humans’ from their forthcoming album ‘Worried Sick’, but the intensity and the passion remain high. According to singer/guitarist Mary Shannon, This one is a little self-indulgent and is one of the band’s collective favourites – Building Humans is aggressively sad and rough …
Track: They’re no ‘Quiet Australians’ – Lutruwita’s Meres unveil hyperactive new single ahead of album release.
Post punk rock boppers from down under, Meres, have been relatively quiet – understandable given front person Mary Shannon has also been active in the shoegaze giants Dvrkworld – but in a surprise return, they are back with the somewhat ironically titled single ‘Quiet Australians’. Meres have always been an exuberant entity featuring a punky …
News: Dark Mofo has risen again – a full return of the iconic Winter Festival including exclusive gigs from The Horrors, Lisa Gerrard and Crime & The City Solution
The gnarled bony fingers of the corpse of the ubiquitous Dark Mofo Festival have gently shoved aside the dusty lid of its sarcophagus and has sat bolt upright as the details of the program for 2025 have been released. The Nosferatu of antipodean winter festivals – the original and in my humble opinion the best …
EP Review: DVRKWorld’s self-titled debut EP is a delicious southern gothic blast of dark pop delight.
Fronted by Mary Shannon of Meres, Launceston band Dvrkworld deliver an icy, glacial form of shoegaze that seems intrinsically linked to the wild terrain and the weather in the southern isle at the very edge of the world. Formed in early 2023 by Mary Shannon and Drew Farrant-Jayet and later joined by Shawn Arnold and Ryan …
Track: It’s not a cover – Lutruwita/Tasmania’s go-to musician Jethro Pickett releases the shimmering and lush single ‘Jolene (not a cover)’
Jethro Pickett is the go-to guitarist in his home Lutriwitta/Tasmania – look at any recent release and you will find his signature chiming guitars sparkling somewhere in the mix (Claire Anne Taylor, EWAH and Christopher Coleman being recent examples). In his new single ‘Jolene (not a cover’ – which he is at pains to make …
Premiere: lutruwita/Tasmania artist Lasca Dry radiates some dazzling sunshine in ‘Sunset Baby’, ahead of live shows.
Lasca Dry is an exciting artist coming from the southern edges of the world in lutriwita/Tasmania with an established reputation for her sparkling form of iridescent pop. We are therefore truly honoured to premiere her new single ‘Sunset Baby’ which sets the expansive skies over Australia alight with its transcendent irrepressible bounce and sixties-flavoured bubblegum …
Track: lutriwita/Tasmanian duo Future State release the atmospheric single ‘Serve Yourself’ ahead of debut album ‘Everything Is Temporary’
Future State are an electronic trip hop duo from southern edge of the world in Tasmania, and their sound is suitably chill and Antarctic with its combination of thundering percussion, saxophone and lush synth layers. In their new single ‘Serve Yourself’, singer Ally Oliver’s voice recalls Portishead’s Beth Gibbons with its extraordinary range and distant …
Album Review: EWAH’s ‘Souvenir’ is a beautiful luminescent dreamscape.
Emma Waters, otherwise known as EWAH from EWAH & the Vision of Paradise, has just released the album ‘Souvenir’, her first solo album in fourteen years. After years of battling anxiety and bouts of depression, and ultimately procrastination, superstition and pedantry, EWAH says: …this is the album I kept trying to make for years. For a …
Track: EWAH (EWAH & The Vision of Paradise) releases the gorgeous anthemic track ‘Touch the Light’ ahead of solo album.
Emma Waters, otherwise known as EWAH from EWAH & the Vision of Paradise, has just released an absolutely shimmering solo track ‘Touch The Light’ ahead of the release of her first solo album in fourteen years on 3 December 2024, entitled ‘Paradise’. In ‘Touch the Light’, EWAH’s powerful vocals channels greats like Kim Gordon or …
Track: Immerse yourself in the über cool world of Dvrkworld’s ‘Sinking Ship’: a shimmering tour de force.
Dvrkworld have caught our attention for their muscular, visceral and atmospheric shoegaze/dream pop, born and bred in the farthest edge of the world in lutruwita/Tasmania. New single ‘Sinking Ship’ voyages on the cold Antarctic waters, antithetically buoyant and febrile with a fuzzy bass that eviscerates with malevolent intent before pounding drums and jangling guitars enter …