TOUR NEWS: Suzie Stapleton returns to Australia

Sydney-born alternative artist Suzie Stapleton is heading to Australia in March for a long awaited homecoming tour. This is Stapleton’s first time back to Oz since relocating from Melbourne to London in 2015. Over the past three years she has been captivating UK & European audiences with her electric live performances, midnight vocal, and guitar-driven noir soundscapes whilst touring with artists such as Mark Lanegan, … Continue reading TOUR NEWS: Suzie Stapleton returns to Australia

Doubtful SoundsJanuary 30, 2018January 30, 2018Leave a comment

Folk, New Music, Video

NEW MUSIC: Jep and Dep – Lune Cassee Reve

Jep and Dep have started off 2018 with a video clip for ‘Lune Cassee Reve’, the fourth single from their album THEY’VEBEENCALLED. It finds them in some kind of sci-fi noir world where sand meets sea under a cosmic moon. Read our review of THEY’VEBEENCALLED From rich kids drowning to a captive’s lament, a city’s cultural decline to romance in jeopardy, there’s a gothic sheen … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Jep and Dep – Lune Cassee Reve

Doubtful SoundsJanuary 19, 2018January 30, 2018Leave a comment

Garage Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, Psych, Video

NEW MUSIC: No Age – Send Me

No Age made a splash early on with their two-piece garagey post-punk in the early 2000s. For my mind they went off the boil with their last few releases but now they’re back with a new LP called Snares Like a Haircut, due out on January 26, 2018 via Drag City. Here’s the first single ‘Send Me’. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: No Age – Send Me

Doubtful SoundsJanuary 17, 2018January 19, 2018Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, Pop, Post-Punk, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Machine Translations – Oh

J Walker returns with his first album in four years and it finds him in an eclectic yet economical mood. The Bright Door (2007) possessed polish and an ornate sheen while Oh replaces that with rougher edges and a subtle shift toward a lower-fi aesthetic. The opening track Made A Friend sounds like Beck in his melancholic balladeer mode before the first single Parliament Of … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Machine Translations – Oh

Doubtful SoundsDecember 15, 2017December 15, 2017Leave a comment

Experimental, Folk, Indie Rock, Interviews, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Video

INTERVIEW: Ben Salter

If there’s one thing that Ben Salter (The Gin Club, The Wilson Pickers) always appears to do, it’s to back himself. This time he’s even gone so far as to name his new solo album Back Yourself, and in the spirit of impromptu creativity and capturing songs on the fly he took a new and challenging approach to the writing and recording of the album. … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Ben Salter

Doubtful SoundsDecember 11, 2017December 13, 2017Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Guitar Rock, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: U2 – Songs Of Experience

U2 are a band that have always traded in grand gestures, yet at their finest and self-defining moments they’ve always tempered the pretension with mystery, mood or atmosphere. The spacious textures of the Daniel Lanois-indebted The Joshua Tree, the emotive post-punk chime and sparkle of those early singles and the dark grooves of Achtung Baby all showed a creative and experimental group who, on Songs … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: U2 – Songs Of Experience

Doubtful SoundsDecember 11, 2017December 11, 2017Leave a comment

Album Reviews, Pop, Psych, Soul, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Nic Cester – Sugar Rush

Eight years since the release of the last Jet album Shaka Rock, frontman Nic Cester has finally stepped out under his own name with his debut solo album. Sugar Rush isn’t a great stylistic departure from the band’s last record, but it does dial back the rock elements, instead taking a trip into a tantalising stew of soulful psych-pop and Black Keys-flavoured boogie rock grooves. … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Nic Cester – Sugar Rush

Doubtful SoundsDecember 4, 2017December 4, 2017Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Electronica, Indie Pop, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Destroyer – ken

Now up to album number twelve as Destroyer, Dan Bejar, one-time member of The New Pornographers, has fully embraced the world of lush and literate sophisticated synth pop. Think New Order’s primitive machine sound, the avant, collage-like work of The The and Morrissey’s lyrical twists and turns of phrase and you’re in the right region. Musically there are plenty of glorious post-punk melancholic moments with … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Destroyer – ken

Doubtful SoundsNovember 20, 2017November 20, 2017Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, New Release, Psych, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: The War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding

Adam Granduciel has called this album A Deeper Understanding but it could’ve quite easily been called A Clearer Understanding given the clarity he’s applied to his songs this time around. He approaches them with direct and confessional lyrics that sound unquestionably autobiographical but he’s also pared back some of the hazy, gauze-like qualities of the dreamy approach he’s taken to the music in the … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: The War On Drugs – A Deeper Understanding

Doubtful SoundsNovember 14, 2017November 14, 2017Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Folk, New Music, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Jep And Dep – They’veBeenCalled

This is album number two for Darren Cross (Gerling) and Jessica Cassar and it finds them expanding their monochromatic and ethereal world into darker corners where mystery slowly reveals itself and both hope and despair are around every slow bend. Their debut was clearly a interpretation of folk music but here they use even more swooning strings, piano and billowing reverb to add a ghostly … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Jep And Dep – They’veBeenCalled

Doubtful SoundsOctober 24, 2017October 27, 2017Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Electronica, New Music, Pop, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Beck – Colors

Beck’s much anticipated 13th album follows the lush and melancholic Morning Phase and though Colors is equally lush, it’s an album built on widescreen technicolor, bold sonic brushstrokes and a saturated pop aesthetic. On first listen it feels like the quirks and eccentricities that made Beck so iconic are absent on this album but dig below the pop-laminated surface and you’ll find an equally audacious … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Beck – Colors

Doubtful SoundsOctober 20, 2017October 24, 2017Leave a comment

Garage Rock, Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, Interviews, Post-Punk, Video

INTERVIEW: Protomartyr

LOUD NOISE AND FLOWING ALCOHOL Protomartyr’s frontman Joe Casey calls in from Detroit, MI to tell Chris Familton about the band’s new album, new record label and where that voice of his came from. Protomartyr are already four albums deep into their recording career, all in the space of five years. It’s the sign of a band riding a wave of creativity and a relentless … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Protomartyr

Doubtful SoundsOctober 6, 2017October 13, 2017Leave a comment