NEW MUSIC: Holy Void – I Will Never Be Again
Rising out of the sonic mist come Holy Void (Canada) with this heavyweight piece of psych rock that lumbers and sways along. It’s heavy without being HEAVY, has melodies that drip from it like sickly sweet toffee and possesses enough rust and peeling paint to make it sound like it was beamed in from another time. Great stuff and an intoxicating introduction that will drag … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Holy Void – I Will Never Be Again
NEW MUSIC: Shiva & The Hazards – Angkor Wat
Recommended if you like The Verve, The Charlatans and Deep Sea Arcade. Melbourne/London four piece Shiva & The Hazards will be supporting RIDE on their East Coast Australian tour next month and on the sound of this single they’ll be a great sound to complement the headliners. They’ve got an assured UK indie rock sound – doused in the kind of dreamy psychedelia that bands … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Shiva & The Hazards – Angkor Wat
NEW MUSIC: The Klubs – Loosen The Crown
For fans of Protomartyr, METZ, Viagra Boys, Pissed Jeans Lay down a rhythm section that has the heft and swing of Jesus Lizard, guitar that scissors and slashes across the speakers and a suitably belligerent and unhinged post-punk vocal and you’ve got a damn fine song from South African band The Klubs. It’s a hell of a bass line that drives this thing, leading it … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: The Klubs – Loosen The Crown
NEW MUSIC: Donny Benét – Second Dinner
The smooth sailing prince of low-slung synth pop and disco funk is back with a new single Second Dinner’. It’s another winning slice of coy 80s electronic pop with shades of Bryan Ferry fronting a sultry disco house band with Giorgio Moroder producing. TOUR DATES: 04 Oct – Fat Controller, Adelaide, SA 10 Oct – The Zoo, Brisbane, QLD 11 Oct – Beach Hotel, Byron … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Donny Benét – Second Dinner
NEW MUSIC: Domiciles – Sinking Sun
Domiciles (Fife, Scotland) have released this new seven minute slab of hypnotic psych rock. ‘Sinking Sun’ is the second single taken from debut album This Is Not a Zen Garden, set for release this Friday (16/08/19) via Last Night From Glasgow. The vocals are subdued, buried in the shadowy corners of the song as the rhythm section does the heavy lifting, laying the foundation for guitars that … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Domiciles – Sinking Sun
NEW MUSIC: TOVE – Gin & Lemonade
This track from TOVE caught our ear recently with it’s sweet, warm and mellifluous feel. There’s a breakbeat anchoring it, some lush shoegaze guitar, atmospheric sliding guitar moans and across it all is the beautiful voice of Sweden’s Tove Tejlar with her hypnotic, circling melodies. Lovely stuff. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: TOVE – Gin & Lemonade
NEW MUSIC: Dope Lemon – Give Me Honey
This is a curious and intriguing new track from Australian sonic trip merchant Dope Lemon (Angus Stone). ‘Give Me Honey’ is a psychedelic country song, a musical mirage of a psilocybin-drenched lock-in at a sleazy saloon. It sounds like Beck and Jason Pierce from Spiritualized facing their demons in a smoked-out house of mirrors, to a soundtrack by DeMarco and Vile. ‘Give Me Honey’ comes from … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Dope Lemon – Give Me Honey
NEW MUSIC: Cross Dog – Scars
Cross Dog are a self-described heavy, noisy, feminist punk band from Peterborough Ontario, Canada and man they deliver a blistering slab of noise/punk metal on this track from their new album Hollow. There’s the raw, unbridled fury of the first Hole album bleeding into the hardcore of a band like Refused. It’s unrelenting and built on only bass, drums and vocals but the dynamics they … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Cross Dog – Scars
NEW MUSIC: Charcoal Burners – Winged Bird
Taken from their album The Best Day You Could Imagine, released earlier in 2019, here’s Charcoal Burners‘ excellent song ‘Winged Bird’. The Dunedin, New Zealand band (the vehicle for songwriter Andrew Spittle) blend some fine dense and distorted guitars into lacerated and weary indie rock music that recalls Sebadoh, Husker Du and Swervedriver and JPS Experience. The brilliance of the song lies in its cascading … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Charcoal Burners – Winged Bird
NEW MUSIC: Slowcoaching – Between The Walls
Here’s a nice new slice of sophisticated indie guitar pop out of Melbourne, Australia. Slowcoaching (the project of Dean Valentino) have a touch of Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever in their music through they mix it up with a sun-kissed and prettier melodic approach. This track sparkles and shines quite wonderfully and it follows their 2017 debut EP. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Slowcoaching – Between The Walls
NEW MUSIC: Paso Viejo – Kitsune
We’re always on the hunt for great post-rock that settles in that sweet spot between textural exploration and epic sweep, without heading too far into metal territory or getting too technical at the expense of heart and soul. Argentinian band Paso Viejo definitely caught our ear in that respect, with this track ‘Kitsune’. It sparkles and swells, painting details in the shadowy, mood corners and … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Paso Viejo – Kitsune
NEW MUSIC: Bensnburner – Meanwhile
Deep rhythms, warm tones and hypnotic glitches collide with hypnotic synth mantras and smears of post-rock guitar on this track from German composer Bensnburner. It comes from his new album (late September release) which was recorded in an empty 400 square metre hangar with a 30 metre high ceiling that created a seven second reverb. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Bensnburner – Meanwhile
Doubtful Sounds 