Category: Stream

Album Covers, australia, Experimental, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Psych, Stream, Video

DIRTY THREE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND AUSTRALIAN TOUR

The Australian instrumental post-rock trio Dirty Three have announced their long-awaited return, with a new album, Love Changes Everything, set for release physically on June 14th and digitally on June 28th. “What joy to kick off the tour for our new album “Love Changes Everything “ in Melbourne Australia for the Rising Festival. Recorded in 5 days. Mixed in a year. Nothing has changed. Older … Continue reading DIRTY THREE ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND AUSTRALIAN TOUR

Doubtful SoundsLeave a comment
Indie Rock, New Music, new zealand, Post-Punk, Stream

AOTEAROA’S FAMILY BAND RELEASE POST PUNK/NOISE ROCK SINGLE AHEAD OF NEW EP

Formed in 2023 while all three members were flatting together in Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, Aotearoa/NZ, Family Band take influence from Chicago noise rock and late 00’s Trans-Tasman post-punk.  Today they share ‘Large Dirt Piles’, the first single from their debut EP The Dog Box (out digitally on April 30 via Sunreturn). It’s a minimal, repetitive and visceral slab of post punk, rock deconstruction that brings to mind Big Black, Die! Die! Die!, METZ and some of the … Continue reading AOTEAROA’S FAMILY BAND RELEASE POST PUNK/NOISE ROCK SINGLE AHEAD OF NEW EP

Doubtful SoundsLeave a comment
australia, Indie Pop, Indie Rock, New Music, Stream

DUMB THINGS RELEASE A REWARDING HIT OF ‘INSTANT COFFEE’

Brisbane band Dumb Things have a new single out called ‘Instant Coffee‘ and it certainly has an immediacy in terms of bittersweet hooks, jangly guitars and a gentle surge of energy that effortlessly lifts this way above generic indie fare. Once it hits the chorus the guitar notes spiral off like chemtrails as the rhythm section takes a free range approach. Lovely stuff! Singer, songwriter … Continue reading DUMB THINGS RELEASE A REWARDING HIT OF ‘INSTANT COFFEE’

Doubtful SoundsLeave a comment
australia, Electronica, Experimental, Metal/Hard Rock, New Music, Stream, Video

BEN FROST RELEASES VISCERAL NEW SINGLE ‘CHIMERA’

Ben Frost today releases his third studio single in seven years, ‘Chimera‘, setting the stage for his much-anticipated album, Scope Neglect, due via Mute on March 1, 2024.  As one would expect from Frost, it’s a brutalist and unsettling composition that injects heavy power metal chords (courtesy of Greg Kubacki of  Car Bomb) into screes of digital static, synths and detonating beats. “There is always a shape and a sense of … Continue reading BEN FROST RELEASES VISCERAL NEW SINGLE ‘CHIMERA’

Doubtful SoundsLeave a comment
Audio Stream, australia, Indie Pop, Indie Rock, New Music, Pop, Stream

Brisbane’s Dumb Things release new single ‘Self Help’

Dumb Things first made a marker on the wider Australian indie-pop scene with their 2019 album Time Again and now the Brisbane/Meanjin group are back with the first single and title-track from their forthcoming 2024 LP Self Help (Coolin’ By Sound). The song’s wonderful laidback shuffle and strum harks back to the heyday of Flying Nun guitar pop and their trans-Tasman contemporaries such as The … Continue reading Brisbane’s Dumb Things release new single ‘Self Help’

Doubtful SoundsLeave a comment
Electronica, Experimental, New Music, new zealand, Post-Punk, Reggae / Dub, Stream

HALLELUJAH PICASSOS RELEASE AGILE AND POLYRHYTHMIC NEW SINGLE ‘TAX THE RICH’

Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Hallelujah Picassos continue to impress with their renewed activity and renaissance in recent years. Always a band to ignore genre limitations, they’ve explored hardcore, reggae, dub, indie rock, rockabilly and electronic styles – always with intriguing results. If you’re new to the band, make sure you head back and check out the Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland band’s brilliant 18 song retrospective compilation Rewind The Hateman … Continue reading HALLELUJAH PICASSOS RELEASE AGILE AND POLYRHYTHMIC NEW SINGLE ‘TAX THE RICH’

Doubtful SoundsLeave a comment
Americana / Alt-Country, Experimental, Indie Rock, New Music, News, Psych, Stream

NEW SPARKLEHORSE ALBUM COMING IN SEPTEMBER!

Anti- have announced they’ll be releasing a new posthumous Sparklehorse album called Bird Machine on September 9th. The record was being worked on by Mark Linkous when he committed suicide in 2010 and has been completed by his brother Matt and sister-in-law Melissa. As Mark began work on what he planned to be the fifth Sparklehorse album in 2009, he and Matt would talk through … Continue reading NEW SPARKLEHORSE ALBUM COMING IN SEPTEMBER!

Doubtful SoundsLeave a comment
Electronica, New Music, Soul, Stream

WADE JACKSON CROONS A DREAMY LOVE SONG DEDICATION

NSW artist Wade Jackson‘s voice always conjures so many wonderful reference points every time I hear it. Following his album Sensationalized, ‘The Sweetheart‘ (Broken Stone Records) is the next opening chapter of his always fascinating musical journey. Rich and evocative, the song possesses a sublime sense of restrained grandeur. Swelling synthetic strings, melodic bell-like intonations and a wide open stereoscope provide the perfect backdrop for … Continue reading WADE JACKSON CROONS A DREAMY LOVE SONG DEDICATION

Doubtful SoundsLeave a comment
Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Interviews, rock, Sonic Kicks, Stream

Sonic Kicks: Damien Binder

Perth-based New Zealand songwriter Damien Binder has just released his fifth solo album Bright Side. It’s a widescreen indie pop-rock vista populated by sparkling guitar lines, the warm glow of synths and Binder’s astute take on the world around him. Damien first came to fame in the late 80s and through the 90s on the alternative rock scene in Auckland, NZ, as frontman for the … Continue reading Sonic Kicks: Damien Binder

Doubtful SoundsLeave a comment
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’

Doubtful SoundsLeave a comment
Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, Punk, rock, Stream, Video

BEN LEECE COMES OUT SWINGING WITH STRIDENT NEW 2023 SINGLE

Newcastle’s Ben Leece is back with a brand new single featuring his band Left Of The Dial and guest vocals by William Crighton, Liz Stringer and Julieanne Crighton. Following his recent Marrow Gold/Skywatching double EP release he’s put a stake in the ground with the visceral polemic sound of ‘Big Black Red‘ (Stanley Records). It’s important nation healing stuff he’s addressing as he sings “The … Continue reading BEN LEECE COMES OUT SWINGING WITH STRIDENT NEW 2023 SINGLE

Doubtful SoundsLeave a comment
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

Doubtful SoundsLeave a comment