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Track: Sydney’s Magnetic Heads unveil the gorgeous and graceful track ‘Time of Your Life’, and announce new album ‘Moral Outage’ for August
There is a sparse and melodic grace to the new single from Sydney band Magnetic Heads (the work of singer/songwriter Des Miller and producer/musician Liam Judson (Belles Will Ring, Lewis Goldmark)). Open, thrumming and celestial instrumentation provides a comforting bedrock for Miller’s elegant vocals, sometime soaring, sometimes speaking, always enigmatic and posed, replete with backing …
Track: The Novus get all psychedelic on us with the brilliant single ‘Castaway’, and announce tour news
Last time we heard from The Novus, they ripped up the tarmac with a blistering, angry blast of ‘I Serve Not’ (see my review here). Now, in advance of the release of their EP entitled ‘Thaleia Standing’ on 18 June 2021, The Novus have maintained the rage but in a much more restrained and very …
See: The enigmatic Second Idol unveils gritty video for the thumping single ‘Out of Time’
Second Idol‘s powerful EP ‘Defence Mechanism’, reviewed by me here, is a refreshing blast of indie rock, and the band has just released a video for the brilliant track ‘Out of Time’. It’s a simple performance piece that reinforces the fact that this is a band with an enormous presence and enigmatic style. Cool, louche …
Track: Hayley Mary unveils the effervescent and sparkling track ‘The Drip’ ahead of EP release and tour news.
Hayley Mary‘s capacity for writing pulse quickening and powerful rock is on full display in the wry and effervescent track ‘The Drip’, the title track from her forthcoming EP due out on 18 June 2021 . Replete with Mary’s passionate vocals and jangling guitars, the track perfectly compliments her wry and self-deprecatory lyrics forming a …
Premiere: Jessica unveils the lush and gorgeous video for the haunting track ‘Apparition’
We are very honoured to premiere a new video from Sydney’s Jessica, for the track ‘Apparition’. Last year we reviewed the quite frankly astonishing debut album from her called ‘The Space Between’ in which we wrote it was: …impossibly beautiful – quiet, reflecting vignettes filled with a haunting sadness and an aura that could only …
News: Sydney’s legendary indie giants RATCAT announce 30 year anniversary gig
RATCAT will always have a special place in any indie band’s heart in Australia for the way they muscled their way into the general commercial charts in the early nineties through sheer people power and without any marketing. But then, they were so good. With an insouciant attitude, stunningly good looks, a thundering three chord …
See: Restless Leg unveils evocative video for ‘The World’s A Room’ and announces tour dates
Last month we premiered the glorious jingle jangle pop of Restless Leg‘s ‘The World’s A Room’: an archetypal antipodean indie rock classic with its lilting melodies and indelible refrain. Now the band has put some vision to the sound and released a charming video featuring the band performing in the interior of a crumbling mansion …
Track: Charlie Clark releases the gloriously delicious buzzsaw grit of ‘No Big Deal’
You know when an artists is hitting the sweetest notes when you look forward to that moment just before you press play on a new track: the delicious tang of anticipation. And so it is with Charlie Clark. And what joy when expectations are exceeded. Clark’s newest track, ‘No Big Deal’ is just that – …
Track: The Sherlocks release the anthemic blast of ‘The End of the Earth’ ahead of huge summer tour schedule
‘The End of the Earth’ by Sheffield’s The Sherlocks is a blistering indie pop anthem with an indelible melody and a satisfying swagger. It combines a lyrical intelligence – a self-deprecating sense of humour – and a stadium-filling rock’n’roll attitude with scything guitars and a pounding, insistent rhythm. It is really quite a joy – …
See: Huck Hastings releases rich and evocative video for track ‘The Clincher’
Huck Hastings‘s album ‘Cheers To Progress’ was released earlier this year to great acclaim – in my review I summed it up as being ‘a collection of beautiful personal observations on relationships and love, floating across shimmering instrumentation: intelligent and arch’. And as time passes, this view remains steadfast: it is truly a gracious and …