LIVE REVIEW: The Apartments @ The Famous Spiegeltent, Sydney Festival (24/01/16)

This was a show that had a touch of ‘the artist returns’ about it due to Peter Milton Walsh’s rare live shows and that he is currently celebrating his first album in 18 years — No Song, No Spell, No Madrigal. The briefly one-time member of The Go-Betweens and the Laughing Clowns has carved out an intermittent yet critically acclaimed career as The Apartments and … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: The Apartments @ The Famous Spiegeltent, Sydney Festival (24/01/16)

Doubtful SoundsFebruary 20, 2016February 20, 2016Leave a comment

Album Reviews, Metal/Hard Rock, New Release, Post-Rock / Instrumental, Soul, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Tindersticks – The Waiting Room

Tindersticks have traveled their own considered career trajectory with intermittent suspensions of activity and then a return to active duty, always with the same ear for detail in their nuanced and ornate, soulful baroque pop music.The Waiting Room is yet another excellent entry to their discography. It’s measured and draws on found sounds, field recordings, guest vocalists, jazz, post-rock, pastoral psychedelia and just the right … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Tindersticks – The Waiting Room

Doubtful SoundsFebruary 11, 2016Leave a comment

Electronica, Indie Rock, New Music, Video

NEW MUSIC: Primal Scream – Where The Light Gets In

Primal Scream are set to release their album Chaosmosis on March 18th. Here’s the clip for the single ‘Where The Light Gets In’ featuring Bobby Gillespie duetting with Sky Ferreira. It suggests the new album may have a more polished electronic sound, indeed here they’re showing acts like New Order and Depeche Mode how to keep making fresh sounding music with one’s trademark qualities intact. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Primal Scream – Where The Light Gets In

Doubtful SoundsFebruary 2, 2016February 2, 2016Leave a comment

Guitar Rock, Post-Punk, Psych, Video

VIDEO: The Holy Soul – There’s A Hair On The Soap

Taken from their excellent new LP Fortean Times, here’s the video clip for The Holy Soul’s single ‘There’s A Hair On The Soap’. Filmed in a shower, it’s a disconcerting concoction of hair, noodles, painted toenails, blood and grinding guitars. Continue reading VIDEO: The Holy Soul – There’s A Hair On The Soap

Doubtful SoundsJanuary 23, 2016January 23, 2016Leave a comment

Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, New Release, Post-Punk, Video

NEW MUSIC: The Drones – To Think That I Once Loved You

The Drones are about to unleash their new album Feelin Kinda Free on March 18th and ahead of that they’ve just released the video clip for their new 6 minute single ‘To Think That I Once Loved You’, an epic woozy ballad with dissonance emotionally scattered across it. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: The Drones – To Think That I Once Loved You

Doubtful SoundsJanuary 18, 2016January 18, 2016Leave a comment

Live Reviews

LIVE REVIEW: Dirty Three, Mirel Wagner @ State Theatre, Sydney Festival (15/01/16)

I’d heard great things about Mirel Wagner and she played a good if slightly disconnected set that, for the types of songs she writes (acoustic gothic ballads), lacks an element of menace or otherworldly spookiness to match her visceral lyrics. The talkers in the lobby were a complete distraction too. I can never understand why people shell out close to $90 for a show and … Continue reading LIVE REVIEW: Dirty Three, Mirel Wagner @ State Theatre, Sydney Festival (15/01/16)

Doubtful SoundsJanuary 16, 2016April 3, 2024Leave a comment

Album Covers, Indie Rock, New Music, Video

NEW MUSIC: Damien Jurado – Exit 353

Damien Jurado has a new LP called Visions Of Us On The Land coming out on March 18h via Secretly Canadian/Inertia. It once again features producer Richard Swift and carries on the themes established on the excellent preceding albums Maraqopa and Brothers and Sisters of the Eternal Son. ‘Maraqopa’ the album introduced a character – deliberately unnamed, intended to represent anyone feeling that way – who stumbles … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Damien Jurado – Exit 353

Doubtful SoundsJanuary 13, 2016January 13, 2016Leave a comment

Album Covers, Audio Stream, New Music, Post-Rock / Instrumental

NEW MUSIC: Explosions In The Sky – Disintegration Anxiety

Texan post-rockers Explosions In The Sky return in 2016 with their new album The Wilderness on April 1st. Released locally on Spunk Records, The Wilderness is the band’s sixth album, and first non-soundtrack effort since 2011’s Take Care, Take Care, Take Care. TRACKLISTING 01 Wilderness 02 The Ecstatics 03 Tangle Formations 04 Logic of a Dream 05 Disintegration Anxiety 06 Losing the Light 07 Infinite Orbit 08 … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Explosions In The Sky – Disintegration Anxiety

Doubtful SoundsJanuary 12, 2016January 12, 2016Leave a comment

Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, Video

NEW MUSIC: Savages – Adore

Savages return with their second LP Adore Life, on January 22, 2016. Here’s the video clip for the new single ‘Adore’. We weren’t sold on the earlier release ‘The Answer‘ but this slower, moodier track hits the spot perfectly. Adore Life will be out via Matador Records / Remote Control Records. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Savages – Adore

Doubtful SoundsJanuary 7, 2016January 7, 2016Leave a comment

News, Tour Posters, Tour/Live

NEWS: Thee Oh Sees Announce Australian Tour

Thee Oh Sees have announced they’ll be returning to Australia in January for a run of shows on the back of their latest album Mutilator Defeated At Last along with a brand new lineup consisting of John Dwyer (vocals, guitar), Timothy Hellman (bass) and double drummers, Ryan Moutinho and Dan Rincon. They’re also releasing a new limited edition deluxe vinyl pressing of Mutilator Defeated At Last on November 20th. You can pre-order the release HERE Continue reading NEWS: Thee Oh Sees Announce Australian Tour

Doubtful SoundsOctober 26, 2015Leave a comment