Tag: 2019

Album Covers, Electronica, New Music, Stream

NEW MUSIC: Reunion Island – Erasto Dream

Texans Reunion Island (now based in Brooklyn and Dallas) deliver a finely tuned and sparkling synth swathe on this track of instrumental electronica, recorded at Soma Studios with John McEntire (Tortoise), who also contributed drums to the album the song comes from – Collapse.  There’s a Krautrock and kosmiche vibe to the song with it’s metronomic rhythm but over the top of that digital sounds spark and … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Reunion Island – Erasto Dream

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Album Covers, Album Reviews, Experimental, Folk, Video

ALBUM REVIEW: Aldous Harding – Designer

Aldous Harding Designer 4Ad / Remote Control Aldous Harding’s artistic trajectory continues to billow skyward on her third album, the second produced by John Parish for the 4AD label. Long gone is the stark and fragile folk of her debut, though it still lurks under the surface of what is now lush and detailed avant chanteuse pop music. The quirkiness of Harding’s vocal delivery has … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Aldous Harding – Designer

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

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

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Indie Pop, Indie Rock, New Music, Psych, Stream

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

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Guitar Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, Punk, Stream, Video

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

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Electronica, Funk, New Music, Pop, Soul, Video

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

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Guitar Rock, Indie Rock, New Music, Post-Punk, Psych, shoegaze, Video

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

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Indie Pop, Indie Rock, New Music, Psych, shoegaze, Video

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

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Indie Rock, New Music, Psych, Video

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

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Guitar Rock, Metal/Hard Rock, New Music, Punk, Stream

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

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Album Covers, Indie Rock, New Music, Psych, shoegaze, Stream

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

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Indie Rock, New Music, Stream

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

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