The Sydney Festival has announced its official program for 2012 with an excellent music line-up as has become the norm over the last few years… Amiina AA Bondy Andrew Weatherall & Neville Watson Animagica Assembly Asa & Fefe Beth Orton CANT Clairy Brown and the Bangin’ Rackettes Dan Deacon Ensemble & John Maus Dan Sultan & Busby Marou with Kasey Chambers Deerhoof and DJ Yamantaka … Continue reading NEWS: Sydney Festival 2012 program unveiled…
written by Chris Familton Zola Jesus is one of a number of female singers with strong rich voices that have emerged in recent years. She shares similar vocal tonalities with the likes of Florence Welch, The Knife’s Karin Dreijer Andersson and Austra’s Katie Stelmanis yet she stands out above those and others as the strongest individual of the bunch. Following on from last year’s Stridulum … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Zola Jesus | Conatus
written by Chris Familton Melbourne’s Fabulous Diamonds set the mood of the evening with a set composed around drone and hypnotic repetition. Featuring just drums and keyboards the duo were in no rush to get anywhere in particular with songs that slowly evolved from metronomic drum patterns into gently pulsing waves of analog synths, grinding organ, sparsely decorated with vocals from drummer Nisa Venerosa. When … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Moon Duo @ OAF, Sydney 30/09/11
Mark Hollis and Talk Talk underwent a fascinating transformation from the synth pop of It’s A Shame and Dum Dum Girl to their exploratory and sparse sound on albums like Laughing Stock and Spirit Of Eden. Now labe Ba Da Bing are reissuing Laughing Stock and Mark Hollis’ subsequent solo record. Here is what Boomkat have to say about Talk Talk’s Laughing Stock: One of … Continue reading NEWS: Classic Talk Talk/Mark Hollis albums reissued on vinyl…
The Fall continue to surge along with a fairly stable line-up at the moment. The band will release Ersatz G.B via Cherry Red Records on the 14th November. It is already up on their site for pre-order. Tracklisting 1. “Cosmos 7” 2. “Taking Off” 3. “Kennedy” 4. “Mask Search” 5. “Greenway” 6. “Happy Song” 7. “Monocard” 8. “Laptop” 9. “I’ve Seen Them” 10. “Change” Continue reading NEWS: The Fall to release 29th studio album…
kind of what you’d expect – but still pretty good… Continue reading LISTEN: Bon Iver & James Blake debut The Fall Creek Boys Choir
the man is a genius… Continue reading WATCH: Tom Waits’ private listening party for new album…
written by Chris Familton Kirin J Callinan is one of the more eccentric musicians on the Sydney scene creating dark splashes of guitar as sidekick to Jack Ladder and as a solo artist. Tonight he was the latter, playing a set that was stark, noisy, brooding and caustic and ultimately intriguing. His guitar style was open and highly evocative of everyone from the experimental side … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Donny Benet @ GoodGod Small Club
It is only a sneak peek into one of the tracks on The Whole Love but man this sounds great… Six weeks to go kids. Continue reading WATCH: A teaser of the new Wilco album The Whole Love…
Just love the old skool jungle breaks at the end of this track. Video is directed by Michel Gondry. Continue reading WATCH: Bjork | Crystalline
THEORY OF EVOLUTION Heading down under to play Splendour in the Grass Wild Beasts bring with them a new album Smother that is already garnering critical acclaim for its further refinement of their literate and nuanced art pop. Hayden Thorpe talks Chris Familton through the changes. The UK quartet from the Lakes District have upped the ante with each of their previous two albums, peeling … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Wild Beasts
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