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News: Beirut to release a double set of early and rare material, ‘Artifacts’, in the spring; delight in ‘Fisher Island Sound’
ZACH CONDON’s gorgeous Beirut are set to release an overview of their early years next spring – a project whch has burgeoned from a collection of early EPs into a full-on, 26-track set. The collection, Artifacts, began to grow in ambition as Zach went digging through the archives. He picks up the thread: “When the …
News: Cheval Sombre to release a new EP, including a Dead cover – see the video for ‘Althea’
CHRIS PORPORA, the artist whose twin album releases from earlier this year, Time Waits For No One and Days Go By, are the gentlest, brittlest sucker punches to the heart and so should be in your turntables if not your Christmas list, isn’t done with dirty old 2021 yet; he’s looking to round off a …
News: Anita Lane’s ‘Sex O’Clock’ gets a 20th anniversary reissue come December; hear her Gil Scott-Heron cover, ‘Home Is Where The Hatred Is’
BAD SEEDS founder member and smouldering, potent artist in her own right, Anita Lane left us far too young this April, at the age of 61; her on-off solo career had never really received the sales it should’ve been accorded, and she remained underappreciated, seemingly having slipped from view in recent years. But Mute are …
Track: UK’s Modern Error release the visceral and the raw ‘The Truest Blue’, and announce debut album
Like a love child from the loins of Nine Inch Nails and an abandoned industrial complex, raised by Depeche Mode and nurtured with pop, ‘The Truest Blue’ from Modern Error is an impressive explosive, cathartic synth blast. Raw, visceral, studied and poised, and in the process so enjoyable. With Himalayan-sized walls of of synth riffs, …
Track: Bandicoot continue to entice with their new single ‘Life Death and Other Things’, and reveal news of debut album for 2022.
Proving themselves to be in my opinion one of the most dynamic and exciting bands around at the moment, Bandicoot‘s new single ‘Life death and Other Things’ takes them in another theatrical direction, softened by smooth swinging horn toots accentuating the rumbling flow of the track. The slightly discordant, teetering on the brink of chaos, …
Track: The sparkling Jacob Fitzgerald returns with another shimmering pop delight ‘Lonely’ and announces new EP ‘Pretend I’m Cool’.
Jacob Fitzgerald‘s inherent ability to write perfectly formed pop songs that sparkle and shimmer is proven yet again with his new track ‘Lonely’. Pressing gently on the brakes after the fizzy pop of earlier single ‘Pretty Good For My Mind‘, ‘Lonely’ has a slower paced trot and a faint touch of americana in its yearning …
Premiere: The Aerial Maps (including members of seminal bands Crow, Disneyfist and The Hummingbirds) unveil video for the glorious track ‘We All Need to Know There’s Someone Out There in the Night’ ahead of surprise album release.
We are very honoured to premiere the first video off the surprise new album ‘Intimate Hinterland’ to be announced tomorrow by the Sydney indie supergroup The Aerial Maps and set for release on Friday. The members of The Aerial Maps reads like a who’s who of the Sydney indie scene. Originally formed with the late …
Track: Perth’s Psychedelic Porn Crumpets release thunderous single ‘Lava Lamp Pisco’ and announce extensive Australian and European tour dates
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have made themselves known in their vivid, exuberant careers as one of Perth’s finest exports and most inventive bands. With just enough breathing space after their fourth album ‘SHYGA! The Sunlight Mount’, they have returned with their new single ‘Lava Lamp Pisco’, a euphoric explosion of fuzz-laden guitars and intoxicating polyphony that …
News: Yen Strange signs label and publishing deals with Liberation Records/Mushroom Group and releases new single ‘Go Away’
Hailing from regional New South Wales, multi-talented writer, singer and producer Yen Strange has asserted her ones-to-watch eminence with the release of the euphonious new single ‘Go Away’ – a track that converts and manifests emotions in three-dimensional propensities with all the elements for an emo-anthem. The lyrical flow is effortless and endearing, as a …
News: Supergroup Springtime (Drones, Dirty Three, The Necks) announce release of self-titled debut album and video for the thundering track ‘Will To Power’
With Gareth Liddiard (The Drones, Tropical Fuck Storm), Jim White (Xylouris White, Dirty Three, PJ Harvey) and Chris Abrahams (The Necks) as members, the term supergroup is without exaggeration for Springtime who have today announced their debut self-titled album on 26th November via Joyful Noise Recordings and TFS Recordings. The mix of iconic members promises …