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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: 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: …
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 …
Track: Cardiff’s Inland Murmur release the delicate and fragile ‘Waterline’
The intricate layers and wistful air of ‘Waterline’ creates a delicately organic piece of music that is ethereal and dreamy. Created by Cardiff band Inland Murmur, the result is something that captures the essence of vulnerability and, indeed, anxiety that defines our current times. The band says the single was the product of the early …
Track: Yolŋu surf rock band King Stingray unveil the effervescent and incandescent track ‘Milkumana’
I saw King Stingray play live at the recent Dark Mofo Festival in Hobart (see my review here) without ever having heard of them before, and was instantly enraptured. One of the most gloriously joyous gigs I’ve ever seen, and those familiar with me and my writing will know I’m generally inclined towards the more …
News: Brighton’s indie rockers FUR announce debut album ‘When You Walk Away’, a tour, and unveil the chiming, glorious title track.
FUR are a very exciting light on the horizon, and their new single ‘When You Walk Away Pt 1’ is a jingle jangle harmonious delight that is bursting with melodic goodness and a sense of optimism and joy. It comes as the Brighton band announces the release of their debut album of the same name …
News: New Zealand’s French For Rabbits announce new album ‘The Overflow’ through Reckless Yes/AAA Records/A Modest Proposal Records, and release the sparkling single ‘Ouija Board’.
After delighting us with the single ‘The Overflow’ last month (see my review here), New Zealand dream popsters extraordinaire French For Rabbits have just announced the release of their new album ‘The Overflow’ for 12 November 2021 and sweetened the deal with another shimmering luminescent single, ‘Ouija Board’. ‘Ouija Board’ is a gentler, more reflective …