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ALBUM REVIEW: THE MALADIES – With You Right By My Side, Baby The Deal Just Can’t Go Down

1 2 3 4 5 Reviewed for FasterLouder Sydney’s The Maladies have been playing together for a few years now,  taking their time getting around to recording an album. That has worked in the listener’s favour as the clumsily titled With You Right By My Side… is 40 minutes of consistently brilliant songwriting, lively playing and the exceptional voice of Daniele Marando. The thing that … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: THE MALADIES – With You Right By My Side, Baby The Deal Just Can’t Go Down

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REVIEW: DIMMER – Degrees Of Existence

1 2 3 4 5 Reviewed for FasterLouder Shayne Carter is one of those musicians who has an unbroken run of albums, not a dud or misstep among them. From his formative days in Dunedin punk bands Bored Games and Double Happys, through the golden years of Straitjacket Fits and more recently as Dimmer. Now onto his fourth album under that name he has produced … Continue reading REVIEW: DIMMER – Degrees Of Existence

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REVIEW: NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS – White Lunar

1 2 3 4 5 Reviewed for FasterLouder Over the last ten years Nick Cave and Warren Ellis have formed a tight musical partnership with Ellis becoming a lynchpin of The Bad Seeds and superseding Mick Harvey as Cave’s right hand man. Cave in turn has on occasion joined Ellis’s The Dirty Three on stage as accompanying pianist. This cross pollination of bands and music … Continue reading REVIEW: NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS – White Lunar

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REVIEW: ROWLAND S. HOWARD – Pop Crimes

1 2 3 4 5 Reviewed for The Dwarf Rowland S. Howard is one of those perennial Australian musicians that has survived a rock & roll lifestyle and like his contemporaries Nick Cave, Kim Salmon and Tex Perkins is still conjuring up life affirming and in most cases fantastic new music. Pop Crimes sees him tackling his second solo album and it is a cohesive, … Continue reading REVIEW: ROWLAND S. HOWARD – Pop Crimes

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REVIEW: ALICE IN CHAINS – Black Gives Way To Blue

1 2 3 4 5 reviewed for FasterLouder Reunions, reunions… They are a dime a dozen these days, ranging from the heavyweights like Pixies, Led Zeppelin, Blur and Pavement to those that don’t garner the same column inches but are just as important like Magazine and Gang Of Four. Alice In Chains are in a slightly different boat in that they lost their singer Layne … Continue reading REVIEW: ALICE IN CHAINS – Black Gives Way To Blue

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REVIEW: AFXJIM – Blackout Music

1 2 3 4 5 reviewed for Cyclic Defrost… Feral Media are up to number eight of ten releases in their POWWOW series of new music. This latest album is the work of Sydney’s Travis Baird who splits his time between his band The Woods Themselves and live and recording work for the likes of El Mopa and Sounds Like Sunset. Blackout Music sees him … Continue reading REVIEW: AFXJIM – Blackout Music

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REVIEW: SOULSAVERS – Broken

1 2 3 4 5 Broken hearts, broken minds and broken souls are the constant themes of Soulsavers second album Broken. The dark side is explored and despairs are aired on what is a dense and (for want of a better word) ‘gothic’ album. Helmed by the English duo of Rich Machin and Ian Glover it features an enviable line-up of musicians who have all … Continue reading REVIEW: SOULSAVERS – Broken

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REVIEW: WIFEY – Salt Sugar Fat EP

1 2 3 4 5 Sydney’s Wifey at first glance fit neatly into a hybrid of indie and americana with their strumming guitars and violin. On the evidence of their new EP Salt Sugar Fat they are much more than that. Homing is a gloriously catchy opening track that does fit the Okkervil River tag that some have attached to them. It rolls along, comfortable … Continue reading REVIEW: WIFEY – Salt Sugar Fat EP

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REVIEW: DAMIEN BINDER – While The Wind’s At Your Back

1 2 3 4 5 REVIEWED FOR THE DWARF. Damien Binder is a New Zealander now residing in Sydney who has been peddling his wares as a singer/songwriter for a decade now. In a prior musical life he fronted Auckland band Second Child who had were a different type of beast – louder and faster in a post punk, angular indie style. His progression to … Continue reading REVIEW: DAMIEN BINDER – While The Wind’s At Your Back

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