WATCH: The new video for Jamie Hutchings’ Gimme Failure
Gimme Failure comes from Hutchings’ recent album Avalon Cassettes and the video was made by brother Scott Hutchings. Continue reading WATCH: The new video for Jamie Hutchings’ Gimme Failure
LISTEN: Hear three new Morrissey songs…
Morrissey has debuted three tracks at a live session for the BBC. They come from a forthcoming LP that is finished but without a record label to release it. Morrissey has stated that “My talents do not lie in DIY” hence no plans to self-release the album. Surely that has to be the title of the record! Continue reading LISTEN: Hear three new Morrissey songs…
VIDEO: Bon Iver | Calgary
I’m not sure about Bon Iver releasing music videos. For a sound so visual and emotive it would be hard for anything to match the imaginative and stellar qualities of their music. This one looks great in parts but doesn’t pull it off, Judge for yourself.. Continue reading VIDEO: Bon Iver | Calgary
PHOTOS: Pajama Club / Glass Towers @ OAF (13/06/11)
Pajama Club / Glass Towers @ OAF (13/06/11), a set on Flickr. Neil Finn introduced his new band Pajama Party featuring wife Sharon, Sean Donnelly (SJD) and Alana Skyring (ex-The Grates) to Sydney with a set of songs filtered through funk, pop and post rock electronica landscapes… Continue reading PHOTOS: Pajama Club / Glass Towers @ OAF (13/06/11)
INTERVIEW: Wild Beasts
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
ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Ladder | Hurtsville
written by Chris Familton It wasn’t long after Jack Ladder began touring his last album Love Is Gone that he began a transition to the sound that pervades his latest full length Hurtsville. That sound is one that embraces big open spaces with soaring effects-laden guitars and a sparse and more textural rhythmic approach. Ladder (Tim Rogers) has shorn his music of the bluesy soul … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Ladder | Hurtsville
ALBUM REVIEW: Fink | Perfect Darkness
written by Chris Familton Fink inhabit a musical netherworld where straightforward categorisation of their sound is a hard thing to nail down. Fin Greenall draws equally on folk, blues, electronic and dub forms and can blend them into a singular sound seemingly effortlessly. Perfect Darkness digs a little deeper into Greenall’s repertoire but the recipe stays much the same as its predecessor Sort Of Revolution. … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Fink | Perfect Darkness
ALBUM REVIEW: Chad VanGaalen | Diaper Island
written by Chris Familton Album number four finds Chad VanGaalen concocting his most complete full length set of songs and eschewing much of the willful disorientation and quirkiness that characterised some of his earlier releases. VanGaalen also moved into a professional studio to record these songs which has resulted in a lush aural embrace of sound to get lost in. Diaper Island still manages to … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Chad VanGaalen | Diaper Island
ALBUM REVIEW: White Denim | D
written by Chris Familton Texans White Denim are onto their fifth album if you include the free LP they released last year and here they continue the endless cascading deluge of ideas, riffs and melodies that have become the hallmark of their eclectic sound. This album is significant in that it is their most cohesive album to date. Previously they would swing from dub to … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: White Denim | D
PHOTOS: Kisses / Betty Airs / The Rubens @ The Gaelic (10/06/11)
Kisses / Betty Airs / The Rubens @ The Gaelic (10/06/11), a set on Flickr. Great show on Friday night as part of Purple Sneakers’ Last Night series. We’ll have a review up soon. Betty Airs in particular killed it… Continue reading PHOTOS: Kisses / Betty Airs / The Rubens @ The Gaelic (10/06/11)
LIVE REVIEW: Joan as Police Woman @ Factory Theatre, Sydney (09/06/11)
written by Chris Familton With each new album Joan Wasser releases she seems to be loosening the reins and allowing more of herself to emerge in her music. Live she is clearly doing the same with this show on her The Deep Field Tour surpassing her last visit to Australia a few years ago. The promoters were clearly over-ambitious with the original venue – Enmore … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Joan as Police Woman @ Factory Theatre, Sydney (09/06/11)
LIVE REVIEW: Jebediah @ Factory Theatre, Sydney (27/05/11)
written by Chris Familton Perth’s Young Revelry have been gaining attention of late, particularly on the back of their stellar single You And I which was the strongest song of their short opening set. They inhabit a post punk space that allows for a caustic smears of guitar to flail over a watertight rhythm section. As a three piece they delivered a big sound to … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Jebediah @ Factory Theatre, Sydney (27/05/11)
Doubtful Sounds 