Sydney
Premiere: It’s all ‘Black & White’ for Sydney singer/songwriter Charlie Gradon – a thundering anthemic world. Plus live shows anounced.
We are honoured to premiere the scything, visceral single and video for ‘Black & White’ from Sydney singer/songwriter Charlie Gradon today. This is an epic and grand track – Gradon’s voice is high and impassioned with a searing quality, driving a dynamic melody and thundering rhythms in a relentless onslaught. Gradon has a mesmerising enigmatic …
Album Review: Troubadour extraordinaire Jo Meares releases the atmospheric classic ‘Dream Hotel’ and announces launch date.
Over the last year, Sydney troubadour extraordinaire Jo Meares has been releasing the most mesmerising and dynamic series of singles with producer Anth Dymke: each one a sparkling enigmatic jewel, interspersed, in the depth of COVID last year, by the release of a french language version of an earlier EP ‘Back To The World‘ (which …
Track: The fabulous Mako Bron makes a spectacular return with ‘Hit The Road’: a poignant and yet buoyant pop wonder.
Mako Bron hit us with the pop masterpiece of the EP ‘cloudbites‘ late last year, a release so profound and inspiring we gave it a 9.2 out of 10, making it one of the best 2021 releases (see my review here). ‘Hit The Road’ sees the return of Mako Bron and his ascendant songwriting and …
EP: Salarymen bring a ray of heady sunshine with their ‘Head In The Sand’.
Salarymen have perfected a luminescent sixties-infected pop sunshine buzz in their songs, which have been collected in a dazzling array in their new EP ‘Head In The Sand’. Opening track ‘Summer’s Coming’ is blinding with its light headed optimism and positively bounces as it extols the virtues of sunshine and holidays with tongue-in-cheek anodyne lyrics: …
Album Review: The magnificent Key Out make a triumphant return with ‘afterville’- a glorious, delicate and ethereal set of sparkling jewels.
Key Out for me are one of the unsung heroes of the indie music scene in Australia and indeed the world. Newly signed to the magnificent False Peak Records, they have burst back in to our lives with the magnificent ‘afterville’, a follow up to 2020’s ‘anthropomorphia’ (described by me as ‘stunning’ and ranked in …
Premiere: Mac The Knife insert a sliver of punky gold into our ears with ‘Labour In Vain’ and announce launch gig.
We are very honoured to premiere the fantastic new single ‘Labour In Vain’ from inner west of Eora/Sydney residents Mac The Knife: a zesty, shouty reverberating and thunderous piece of punky rock that echoes inside the skull and does a little slam dance. The thoroughly enjoyable and cathartic wall of sound is augmented by the …
Track: ‘A Funny Thing Happened’ to the enigmatic Laura Jean – the ethereal third single from her forthcoming album ‘Amateurs’ is released today along with tour news.
Eora/Sydney chanteuse Laura Jean has just released the third single from her forthcoming album ‘Amateurs’ entitled ‘A Funny Thing Happened’, and it is another deliciously cool and ethereal track, showcasing her unerring ear for melody and velvet soft vocals. The song evocatively and poignantly explores the idea of unrealised dreams – as Jean explains: My …
Premiere: Sydney’s indie pop grunge exponents GRXCE calls out the ‘Pretty Boy’ in a floor busting, skyscraping debut single, with launch date announced.
We are very honoured to premiere the debut track from Eora/Sydney-based outfit GRXCE entitled ‘Pretty Boy’ – a driving track about superficiality and image delivered over a quiet/loud tone and singer Jamila Grace’s evocative, sardonic vocals that lay a soft velvet cloak over the scything guitars. This is grunge pop at its very best – …
Premiere: Key Out go for an endless, shimmering and breathtaking ‘Drive’ ahead of new album out through False Peak Records and launch gigs.
We are immobilised with excitement at being able to bring you an exclusive listen to the new single from Sydney’s magnificent Key Out: one of the most exciting outfits in the antipodean scene at the moment. ‘Drive’ has that indefinable Key Out sound: mesmerising shimmering folds of instrumentation that daub brushstrokes from a colourful multi-layered …
Track: Sydney’s The Nagging Doubts address class and advancement in the funky, anthemic track ‘The Pearl’.
We are very pleased to be able to bring you an early listen to the new single ‘The Pearl’ from one of the most exciting bands coming out of Sydney at the moment, The Nagging Doubts, out through the brilliant Scenic Drive Records. Last year’s EP ‘Autocalm‘ made my list of favourite albums of 2021, …