Swedish psych folk rock band GOAT have announced their new album Requiem will be out on October 7th. Here’s the first taste – the droning, hypnotic Try My Robe, which digs a Tinariwen-like hole in your synapses. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: GOAT – Try My Robe
Sydney band The Laurels are back with a brand new single, the first off their forthcoming new LP Sonicology, due out October 14th via Rice Is Nice Records. Reentry finds the band exploring more groove and more psychedelia with shades of Primal Scream and a baggy Manchester vibe in its loping rhythm. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: The Laurels – Reentry
Here we are again, the mid-point of another year. It’s always a good time to take stock of the albums that have been released in the last six months, review the long list of records we’ve heard and dissed or praised. We’re always listening to a wide range of styles here at DS but from looking at this particular list it seems we’ve been embracing … Continue reading Favourite LPs of 2016 So Far
Marcus Whale (Collarbones) has made an impressive artistic statement with his debut solo album. Released digitally, with an accompanying physical book, Inland Sea explores queer and colonial Australian history through a dark and oblique gauze of minimal electronica. It veers between militant tech-heavy drums and glitchy whirs of atmospheric sounds that can draw a timeline back through artists such as Bjork and Photek. There’s an … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Marcus Whale – Inland Sea
Swans have a new album called The Glowing Man, their last in this iteration, coming out on June 17th via Mute & Create/Control. Here’s the first track to be released from it, When Will I Return – a haunting ands ominous 5 minutes featuring the vocals of frontman Michael Gira’s wife Jennifer Gira. The song was written by her husband specifically for her to sing, as a “tribute to her strength, … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Swans – When Will I Return
Shayne P Carter (Bored Games, The Doublehappys, Straitjacket Fits, Dimmer) has been working on his first solo LP for quite a while now. In fact it’s been nearly 2 years since he ran a crowdfunding campaign to get some money to finish off the album which he hoped, at the time, would be out at the end of 2014. The word was that it was … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Shayne P Carter – We Will Rise Again
Inspired by the dramatic stories of the 100,000 men who travelled from across Europe after the war to work on the Snowy Scheme, Mikelangelo and his band of accomplices mix humour, Weimar cabaret, Gypsy music, dark folk and jazz on this intriguing album. There are clear nods to the theatrical side of Tom Waits, the exotic flavours of C.W. Stoneking and the drunken, swaying shanties … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Mikelangelo & The Black Sea Gentlemen – After The Flood
Victorian songwriter Matt Malone deals in dark, heavy and sombre music on his debut album. The pace is leaden, his voice a gothic, stentorian and preacher-like baritone. There are obvious touchstones like Nick Cave, Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Johnny Cash who he absorbs into his death blues soundtrack of rattling strings, ghostly sounds and strummed wasteland ballads. “Now I caress your throat with the lips … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Matt Malone – S .I. X
Currently split between Auckland and Sydney, Trust Punks have been focusing their time recording their second album. Double Bind is out on July 22nd via Spunk Records. Below you can check out two tracks from the new LP, the driving, catchy and speed-changing political commentary of Paradise/Angel-wire and the lurching, clatter and ominous chanting of Leaving Room For The Lord. https://soundcloud.com/wharf-cat-records/trust-punks-paradise-angel-wire https://soundcloud.com/trust-punks/leaving-room-for-the-lord-1 Continue reading NEWS: Trust Punks Announce New LP ‘Double Bind’
This is the first solo project for Step-Panther main man Steve Bourke and it finds him shelving the noise and sci-fi surf rock of that band for a gentler, pastoral approach. The nervous energy and frantic flailing has dissipated into six lazily strummed and finger-picked songs that bring to mind Kurt Vile and Christopher Owens. There is still a stoned vibe to Bourke as the … Continue reading REVIEW: S M Jenkins – Out There In The Zone EP
Surgical Meth Machine is the latest warped incarnation from Al Jourgensen (Ministry, Lard, Revolting Cocks) with his longtime producer Sam D’Ambruoso and in many ways it acts as a summary document of all his musical explorations. From his early electronic days, through the industrial speed-freak sound of Ministry and the sample-laden diversions of other projects, Jourgensen has always revelled in the sublime and the … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Surgical Meth Machine – Surgical Meth Machine
Jamie Hutchings (Bluebottle Kiss, Infinity Broke) is playing another of his solo, career spanning shows this Thursday at Camelot Lounge in Marrickville. The solo format of the evening is a great one where he takes a swing at prominent songs from his catalogue plus fan requests and a bit more insight into the songs than you might get at a regular gig. Camelot Lounge is … Continue reading LIVE IN SYDNEY: Jamie Hutchings Solo @ Camelot Lounge
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