NEW MUSIC: Loomer | Bolt
Brisbane’s Loomer will shortly release their debut LP Ceiling which will be out on vinyl at the end of May via Lost Race Records. It is a limited release of 100 copies so if you favour records over digital and you like what you hear below then get in quick. The track Bolt staggers and swoons … Read more
NEWS: R.E.M. release 25th anniversary edition of ‘Green’.
Out this week is the latest of R.E.M.’s reissues that have been released on a regular basis since the band officially called it a day in 2011. Green was released in 1988 and here at DS we rate this as our favourite R.E.M. LP with Automatic For The People pushing hard for the same honour. … Read more
ALBUM REVIEW: Palma Violets | 180
by Chris Familton Palma Violets fight a gallant fight and show flashes of exciting talent but ultimately this feels like a band trading on raw energy and still finding their songwriting feet. 180 is one of those albums that comes laden with tabloid music press hype so it was always going to be hard to … Read more
ALBUM REVIEW: Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze
by Chris Familton Kurt Vile’s last LP Smoke Ring For My Halo made good all the promise he had showed in flashes on his earlier albums and so, with expectation hanging heavy in the air he has gone and taken that template, tightened its sound and expanded its possibilities on the superb 69 minute Wakin … Read more
LIVE REVIEW: Public Image Ltd @ The Enmore Theatre, Sydney (10/04/13)
by Chris Familton With a sound comprised of vocals, guitar, bass and two keyboards Death Mattel swung wildly between urgent 90s electro pop and punk with impassioned, earnest vocals to a closing track that was easily the pick of the bunch. Its subtle snaking keyboard melody showed that an understated approach suits them best but … Read more
NEW MUSIC: Beaches | Send Them Away
Melbourne quartet Beaches return with their second album She Beats, out May 3rd on the ever excellent Chapter Music label. Their debut was a brilliant mix of bittersweet psychedelic rock woth shades of krautrock and jangly guitar pop. They’ve refined that mix even further on their new single Send Them Away which sounds very reminiscent … Read more
NEW MUSIC: Footy | Sea Home
Footy are an experimental electric piano duo out of Melbourne who are about to release their debut album Mobile Cemetery on May 3rd via The Lost And Lonesome Recording Co. label. The album can be pre-ordered on CD and vinyl HERE. Here is the shimmery, aquatically pulsing Sea Home for your listening pleasure…
ALBUM REVIEW: PVT | Homosapien
by Chris Familton PVT have seemingly been a band in transition for their last couple of albums. Primarily that sense of flux has arisen from the necessity of a name change to avoid conflict with another Pivot and also due to the nature of the evolution of their songwriting and the increased focus on the … Read more
LIVE REVIEW: Robert Plant & The Sensational Shape Shifters @ Sydney Entertainment Centre (28/03/13)
by Chris Familton Everyone heading to the Sydney Entertainment Centre would have been sure of one thing – that they were about to experience arguably the greatest rock vocalist of the last forty years. For many there would have also been doubts about whether they were going to get a trip down Led Zeppelin memory … Read more
NEW MUSIC: Iron & Wine | Joy
Following the swampier sounds of the last Iron & Wine album Sam Beam seems to have head for more soul-infused pastures from what we’ve heard of the new LP Ghost On Ghost. Here is the first video to come from the album for the song Joy. The album is out now via Nonesuch Records. … Read more
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On The Turntable Today…
IRON & WINE - Ghost on Ghost
MUDHONEY - Vanishing Point
DEPECHE MODE - Delta Machine
BRYAN ESTEPA - Heart vs Mind
OOGA BOOGAS - Ooga Boogas
