Fat Freddy’s Drop Special Edition Part 1 is available digitally and on all streaming services now. Chur. This very special record, the band’s fifth studio album will be available on CD and double vinyl in December. Part 2 is out in the latter half of 2020. Fat Freddy’s Drop means different things to different people. Hundreds of thousands of fans have seen this internationally renowned live and recorded band play over the last two decades and four...
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Three years since the release of their shambling classic, Mid Thirties Single Scene, Scott & Charlene’s Wedding announce the release of six-track EP When in Rome, Carpe Diem ahead of their performance at Meredith Music Festival this year. First single ‘Back In The Corner‘ out now. The band will also be returning to Adelaide for a hometown performance in the weekend prior to Meredith, saying hello to friends both new and old. Formed around Craig Dermody, a songwriter who provides you with speed-dial access...
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Melbourne’s Black Cab have announced the long awaited limited edition vinyl reissue of debut album, Altamont Diary will be released Friday 6 December via Interstate40. The release will celebrate 15 years since its original Australian release in 2004 and the 50th anniversary of the disastrous Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway, California on December 6th 1969. Black Cab won critical acclaim worldwide for their weird rock-meets-electronica take on the death of the Summer of Love and the chao and violence that was Altamont. Long out...
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Thrilled to announce the reissue of Gene Clark‘s 1974 masterpiece No Other – one of the American singer-songwriter and Byrds founding member’s finest works – out now via 4AD. Recorded at the Village Recorder in West Hollywood and produced by Thomas Jefferson Kaye, No Other was originally released in 1974 on Asylum Records, coming a year after the Byrds short-lived reunion. Reaching for the stars, Gene delivered a visionary record of psychedelic rock, folk, country and soul which famously cost a small fortune to make...
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Here it is, the new album from FKA twigs – MAGDALENE. Out now everywhere through Young. MAGDALENE is the follow up to FKA twigs’ critically acclaimed Brit Award and Mercury Prize-nominated debut LP1 (2014, Young). Created in a period where her confidence was knocked following heartbreak and laparoscopic surgery, MAGDALENE is the sound of twigs reconfiguring, emotionally and physically. As she sings on ‘Mary Magdalene’, the album track that opened her highly-praised, sold-out live shows earlier in the year, “A woman’s time...
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2019, The year of Lucy Dacus, and the title of her new EP – out now through Matador Records. It arrives following the release of her acclaimed second record, Historian, and the collaborative boygenius EP with Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers. Throughout the year, Lucy Dacus has rolled out a festive mix of original and cover songs tied to various holidays. This is 2019. From the poignant refrain of ‘My Mother...
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The Finks announce the release of Affectations on tape & digital on Friday 29th November and share first track & video ‘No One Else’ today. The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz. They are sincere but flippant, intimate but aloof, subtle but unpolished. As Oliver writes about Affectations: “The idea was to record a few covers and some originals using only equipment that could fit in a shoebox. This included a Tascam four-track, two microphones, a few leads and cassettes, and my mum’s Sony Walkman from...
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Josienne Clarke has released her debut solo album In All Weather via Rough Trade. The album In All Weather is a new collection of songs by writer, singer and musician Josienne Clarke, it’s a record with which she goes it alone; both musically, as this is her first solo record, and in her own life, laid bare and played out in the leave-it-all-behind-and-start-anew nature of the lyrics. “Learning to sail in all weather, the line from which...
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HAWA shares another taste off her forthcoming debut project. ‘My Love‘ HAWA shares inspiration for the track, “This girl slipped into my DMs and I ended up falling in love with her hard only to find that she was playing me the whole time.” The next big thing in Toronto rap, Lil Berete, drops a mixtape, 1 Way Out. It tackles the strain of growing up all too fast, being faced with...
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A new Milk! Records compilation Milk On Milk – with the Melbourne label’s artists covering each other’s songs – will be released on Friday 15th November. Evelyn Ida Morris covers Courtney Barnett‘s ‘Nameless, Faceless‘ ahead of the compilation’s release. They offer: “Courtney’s song Nameless Faceless stood out as an obvious choice for me, mainly based on its content. I have really strong feelings about that fear that women have to carry. That silent, creeping fear that most...
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Thrilled to announce Jeremy Neale‘s new album We Were Trying To Make It Out will be released Friday 28 February 2020. Lead single ‘Everything I Do Is Replaced By Two‘, premiered via triple j’s Home & Hosed, is a song which laments on the perils of a never-ending to do list. Who hasn’t been there? Neale says of the track “Life is demanding and the seemingly infinite to-do list is a brutal beast sworn to make sure you can never...
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New Ways is the new album by Montreal’s Leif Vollebekk, his hotly anticipated follow-up to the Polaris Music Prize finalist Twin Solitude. It’s out now through Secret City Records. Whereas Twin Solitude was about self-reflection, New Ways is about engaging and changing, touching and being touched. It’s a physical record, with louder and tighter grooves, and the rawest lyrics the musician has ever recorded. A portrait of beauty, desire, longing, risk, remembrance—without an instant of regret. “Anything that I wouldn’t...
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In the past couple of years, Hachiku bandleader Anika Ostendorf found herself dealing with darker themes; a 25-year-old’s quarter-life crisis around growing up, changing views and feeling mounting frustrations. The Melbourne-based band, known for their self-produced dream-pop jams release a new single & video, ‘Shark Attack,’ a study of loss and grieving, following a grim diagnosis of Ostendorf’s family dog Lexus. Ostendorf says of ‘Shark Attack’: “If you’re like my friend Tushara you might think this song...
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Pinegrove have revealed plans for their new album, Marigold, to be released on Rough Trade Records on January 17, 2020. Check out the video for the second track to be released from the album, ‘Phase‘, directed by Colin Read. Marigold marks their debut album for Rough Trade Records and offers what Evan calls a “heart-first” perspective. The album begins with a breath and ends with a shimmering exhalation. In between is an urgent, multivalent meditation – and an expanded take on the blend...
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Algiers will return in 2020 with a new album, There Is No Year (Matador), and have shared a new single ‘Dispossession.’ Those aware of the ideals of this outspoken four-piece will find their latest direction on There Is No Year traversing unprecedented ground. The album solidifies and expands upon the doom-laden soul of their foundation, toward an even vaster, genre-reformatting sound, one somehow suspended in the amber of “a different era,” as...
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Thrilled to announce the details for Banoffee‘s debut album! Look At Us Now Dad is out Friday 21st February via Dot Dash (AU/NZ/Asia) and Cascine (ROW). To celebrate the album announce, Banoffee has shared her new single ‘Tennis Fan (feat. Empress Of)’ – premiered via triple j Good Nights. ‘Tennis Fan (feat. Empress Of)’ arrives with a video directed by Quinn Whitney Wilson (Lizzo) and premiered via The FADER. Banoffee shares – “Working with Lorely (Empress Of) and Quinn was such a pleasure and it turned into a day time slumber...
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