LIVE REVIEW: Peter Bibby, The Dandelion, Big Dingo @ Newtown Social Club (14/05/15)

I’m calling it now – larrikin rock. That mix of Australiana, slacker indie/garage rock that keeps getting better and better. Headliner Peter Bibby is a leading progenitor as is Big Dingo who played a short 6 song set as it was their first show in a year. Observational lyrics using colloquial language and sung in a rich accent is rightfully attracting more and more fans. … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Peter Bibby, The Dandelion, Big Dingo @ Newtown Social Club (14/05/15)

Doubtful SoundsOctober 6, 2015Leave a comment

Audio Stream, Indie Rock, New Music, News

NEWS: You Am I Announce New Album And Tour

You Am I are back with their tenth studio album and they’ll be celebrating its release with a December run around the country. Porridge & Hotsauce was recorded in New York and the first single ‘Good Advices’ sees them casting an ear back to their earlier albums with its sonic bristle and heady rush that is more Red Kross meets Sonic Youth than Kinks meets Faces. … Continue reading NEWS: You Am I Announce New Album And Tour

Doubtful SoundsOctober 1, 2015October 1, 2015Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Psych, shoegaze

ALBUM REVIEW: Flyying Colours – ROYGBIV

On their new EP Flyying Colours take their sound a step further, refining their songwriting into a near perfect collision of pop melodies and shoegaze textures. The expected touchstones of Ride, MBV and Chapterhouse are all there but they’re filtered through a gauze that is equal parts Smashing Pumpkins and dream pop. The songs are tight and the rhythm section drives the songs along with … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Flyying Colours – ROYGBIV

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 25, 2015Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Electronica, Indie Rock, Pop

ALBUM REVIEW: Anthonie Tonnon – Successor

New Zealand has always produced a high ratio of literate indie pop music, from the brightest corners of Flying Nun to Lawrence Arabia and The Phoenix Foundation. Anthony Tonnon is another in that lineage and on Successor he weaves fascinating tales of wit and tragedy without, importantly, ending up sounding twee and smug. Characters are established in all manner of situations as he sings their … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Anthonie Tonnon – Successor

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 22, 2015Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Audio Stream, Experimental

ALBUM REVIEW: The Necks – Vertigo

If you’re a fan of The Necks you already know what you’re in for – long improvised instrumental pieces of music that explore drone, repetition and texture. The trio deliver just that but this time the point of difference is the dark, unsettling mood and the subsequent feelings of tension and unease that it conjures up; across the shimmering drone of the first piece and … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: The Necks – Vertigo

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 16, 20151 Comment

New Music, New Release, Video

NEW MUSIC: Dan Kelly – Never Stop The Rot

The last time I saw Dan Kelly live was a few years ago at the ATP festival in Melbourne and he impressed with his full band hitting all kinds of indie rock, Krautrock and psychedelic angles. Kelly’s new album Leisure Panic is coming out via ABC Music on October 9th and this is the first single ‘Never Stop The Rot’. A freewheeling Pavement-esque slice of … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Dan Kelly – Never Stop The Rot

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 15, 2015September 15, 2015Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Indie Rock, Post-Punk

ALBUM REVIEW: METZ – II

When METZ hit the scene in 2012 with their debut album they felt like a breath of fresh air. Sure they were doing nothing new but they were doing mighty things with tried and true rock n roll elements. Hardcore intensity, punk attitude, post-punk rhythms and jagged, visceral riffing were all turned up to eleven and it reaffirmed that the next generation still had a … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: METZ – II

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 5, 2015Leave a comment

Audio Stream, News, Post-Punk, Tour/Live

NEWS: Gold Class Announce Tour And Preview Stream Debut Album

Gold Class came out of nowhere for me with their recent single ‘Life As A Gun’. Possessing a perfectly disaffected post-punk holler and tightly-wound dynamics it set the scene for a new promising act on the local Australian scene to right the balance and provide an antidote to the indie electro soul and generic radio-friendly indie pop and rock that has been polluting the airwaves … Continue reading NEWS: Gold Class Announce Tour And Preview Stream Debut Album

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 3, 2015Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Indie Pop

ALBUM REVIEW: Fall Electric – Interior

Perth trio Fall Electric have been working on this album since 2013 and with production from Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker they’ve concocted a set a of songs that swing from lightly psychedelic eclecticism to sweet, straightforward indie pop music. It feels very much a studio project, such is the layering of electronic and organic instrumentation and composition that constantly shape-shifts. Sometimes the sonic lightness causes … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Fall Electric – Interior

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 3, 2015September 3, 2015Leave a comment

Album Covers, Album Reviews, Electronica, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Django Django – Born Under Saturn

Three years ago another English electronic act added their name to the list that includes Depeche Mode, New Order and Underworld; bands that were able to harness futuristic sounds and marry them with a pop sensibility. They all wrote uber-catchy songs yet a common strain of melancholy coursed through most of their work. Django Django (and Hot Chip) in particular are continuing that legacy and … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Django Django – Born Under Saturn

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 2, 20151 Comment

Video

VIDEO: Jess Ribeiro – Hurry Back To Love

‘Hurry Back To Love’ is the second single from Jess Ribeiro’s great new album Kill It Yourself. You can read our review of the album over at our Americana music blog Post To Wire. Ribeiro has created an all encompassing mood on Kill It Yourself. It drifts on a dreamy plane, heavy-lidded at times, quietly strident at others. It’s a rewarding shift from the country sound … Continue reading VIDEO: Jess Ribeiro – Hurry Back To Love

Doubtful SoundsSeptember 2, 2015Leave a comment

Indie Rock, New Music, Video

NEW MUSIC: Street Chant – Pedestrian Support League

They’ve been quiet for a while now but finally Auckland trio Street Chant are back with a new song and video ahead of the release of their second LP. ‘Pedestrian Support League’ is an epic 5 minute track that ebbs and flows across wistful guitar, some great melodic basslines and some incisive observational lyrics from Emily Littler. Pedestrian Support League is a song loosely about Auckland … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Street Chant – Pedestrian Support League

Doubtful SoundsAugust 27, 2015August 27, 2015Leave a comment