Category: Post-Punk

Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, Punk, rock, Stream, Video

CABLE TIES DIAL UP THE DECIBELS ON BRILLIANT NEW SINGLE ‘CHANGE’

Ahead of their new album All Her Friends (Friday 23 June via Poison City / Merge Records), here’s single number three for strident Naarm/Melbourne post-punk rock trio Cable Ties, who have just been announced as international tour supports for Superchunk and Amyl and the Sniffers. ‘Change’ is relentless, a churning mix of pounding drums and bass, and guitars that careen between the speakers like incessant sirens. Over the top … Continue reading CABLE TIES DIAL UP THE DECIBELS ON BRILLIANT NEW SINGLE ‘CHANGE’

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Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, rock, Video

RVG RELEASE NEW SINGLE, ALBUM OUT JUNE 2ND

RVG continue their stellar run of new singles as we hurtle towards the release date of their new album Brain Worms (June 2nd). ‘Midnight Sun‘ is a tumbling rush of clanging, chiming distorted guitars with a heady and gloriously anthemic rock chorus. It’s another sonic gem to whet the appetite for what is shaping up to be another superb long player from the band. ‘Midnight … Continue reading RVG RELEASE NEW SINGLE, ALBUM OUT JUNE 2ND

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Album Covers, Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, Video

PJ HARVEY RELEASES NEW SINGLE AND ANNOUNCES 2023 ALBUM

PJ Harvey is back with ‘A Child’s Question, August’, taken from the new album I Inside the Old Year Dying, out July 7th on Partisan Records. PJ Harvey’s tenth studio album I Inside the Old Year Dying marks her first release in seven years, following UK #1 album The Hope Six Demolition Project. On this album, which was recorded with long-time creative collaborators John Parish and Flood, PJ … Continue reading PJ HARVEY RELEASES NEW SINGLE AND ANNOUNCES 2023 ALBUM

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Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Psych, Punk, rock, Tour/Live, Video

NEW MUSIC: Gravel Samwidge – Long Distance Drive

To celebrate their upcoming opening slot (April 16th @ The Zoo, Meanjiin/Brisbane) on the Australian Mudhoney tour, Gravel Samwidge have released the video clip for the song ‘Long Distance Drive‘, taken from their 2021 album Complaints. The song features Matt Kennedy (Kitchen’s Floor) on guest guitar and nails a coruscating fast/slow dynamic, reminiscent of Girls Against Boys if they were a more irreverent, post-grunge noise … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Gravel Samwidge – Long Distance Drive

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Album Covers, Album Reviews, Audio Stream, Experimental, Jazz, krautrock, New Music, Post-Punk, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Stream

ALBUM REVIEW: Jamie Hutchings – Making Water

Like dust settling on the floor, disrupted by unruly primitive machines, the latest release from Jamie Hutchings takes shape and begins to gel and morph amid the clatter and klang of all manner of percussion. It’s never clear whether elements of a real drum kit have been sacrificed in the process of making this mostly instrumental album. A floor tom could be an empty container … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Jamie Hutchings – Making Water

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Electronica, Experimental, New Music, Post-Punk, Premiere, Soundtrack, Video

VIDEO PREMIERE: Ben deHoedt – Dianne’s Leaving

Over the last few months, Melbourne composer, songwriter and documentary film maker Ben deHoedt has been tantalising listeners with a selection of tracks from his forthcoming album City Lights Shimmer. ‘Divided Souls’ and ‘This Call May Be Recorded’ showed that deHoedt has created an exotic and evocative world of moody synths and melancholic guitars set in hi-res atmospheric soundscapes. A kind of neon noir with … Continue reading VIDEO PREMIERE: Ben deHoedt – Dianne’s Leaving

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Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk

RVG RETURN WITH A STELLAR AND STRIKING NEW 2023 SINGLE

I’m a big fan of RVG, their last album Feral was one of my favourites in 2020, so having a new single in the inbox this morning was a real treat. They deliver 100% too. ‘Nothing Really Changes‘ is a glorious slow-building rock track that glistens with retro synths over a muscular rhythm section. Frontperson Romy Vager is in exultant, brooding and defiant form, nailing … Continue reading RVG RETURN WITH A STELLAR AND STRIKING NEW 2023 SINGLE

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Electronica, Indie Pop, New Music, Post-Punk, Psych, Stream

WADE JACKSON STEPS INTO THE LIMELIGHT WITH NEW SINGLE

NSW songwriter and filmmaker (WAITING: The Van Duren Story) Wade Jackson has released his new single ‘Limelight’ (Broken Stone Records), his first new music since his 2020 album Sensationalized. ‘Limelight‘ emerges twitching, writhing, pulsing and electronically convulsing. Like Bowie and Suicide in hi-fidelity 4K, ‘Limelight’ is hypnotic, with waning vintage synths and tribal-esque drums, the latter evolving from the coal freight trains passing through regional NSW. The middle … Continue reading WADE JACKSON STEPS INTO THE LIMELIGHT WITH NEW SINGLE

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Electronica, Indie Pop, Indie Rock, News, Post-Punk

DEFINITIVE EDITION OF NEW ORDER’S LOW LIFE OUT NEXT FRIDAY

Definitive edition of their 1985 studio album Low-Life that includes the original album on 180g vinyl LP and CD – remastered. A second CD of unreleased audio, x2DVDs of live performances from 1984 & 1985, plus a hardback book.  The vinyl album and CD are both wrapped in the original tracing-paper sleeve – not available since the very first pressing, and the first time ever for the … Continue reading DEFINITIVE EDITION OF NEW ORDER’S LOW LIFE OUT NEXT FRIDAY

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Electronica, New Music, Pop, Post-Punk, Premiere, Video

VIDEO PREMIERE: Ben deHoedt – Divided Souls

Our final video premiere for 2022 and it’s a damn fine one to go out on. The glistening, synth slow-burn of Ben deHoedt‘s new single ‘Divided Souls‘. Seemingly with one foot in the 80s and one in the future, De Hoedt pays tribute to the iconic TV series Miami Vice, transforming it into a gritty, stylised noir that, as deHoedt explains, is “a re-imagining of … Continue reading VIDEO PREMIERE: Ben deHoedt – Divided Souls

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Indie Rock, Post-Punk, Psych, shoegaze, Video

TRISTAN COURTNEY-PRIOR TAKES A DARKLY SWERVING ELEVATOR RIDE

Tristan Courtney-Prior is stepping out for the first time as a solo artist with his single ‘Elevator‘. Best known as guitarist for Sydney bands Peabody and Shearin’, Tristan takes a darker, moodier swing into post-punk rhythms and guitar shapes on this track. A stately and stentorian vocal marches the song along, distorted guitars swaying and riding the propulsive bass and drums. It’s heady, hypnotic and … Continue reading TRISTAN COURTNEY-PRIOR TAKES A DARKLY SWERVING ELEVATOR RIDE

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Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, Video

SPLINT CREATE A HOLISTIC POST-PUNK WORLD ON NEW SINGLE ‘145’

I’m loving the sound of this new single from Manchester quintet splint. There are shades of Black Country New Road, Sonic Youth, Courtney Barnettt and Life Without Buildings in their sound. On ‘145‘, tumbling notes, both frantic and meditative unfurl over rock drums. The whole thing builds into a brisk melancholy with the vocal of Giulia Bonometti countering and balancing the nervy electricity of the guitars. … Continue reading SPLINT CREATE A HOLISTIC POST-PUNK WORLD ON NEW SINGLE ‘145’

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