Will Toledo’s 2011’s Bandcamp masterpiece, Twin Fantasy, has been re-recorded and re-imagined and will come out on Friday 16 Feburary. The album will be available on digital, vinyl and as a double CD including both Twin Fantasy (2017 version) and Twin Fantasy – Mirror To Mirror (re-mastered 2011 version). The announcement comes with the release of ‘Nervous Young Inhumans’ and its accompanying video. It is a frenetic, anthemic, split-screen choreographed...
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The Breeders announce details of their long-awaited fifth album, All Nerve, and featuring recent single ‘Wait in the Car’, the group’s first record in a decade will be released on Friday 2nd March. Listen to All Nerve’s title track below! All Nerve reunites band members Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson. The quartet returned to the stage in 2013 to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary and have been...
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Belle and Sebastian kick off 2018 with shimmering new single ‘The Same Star’. Taken from Part 2 of the band’s new trilogy of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems. Listen below! The Sarah Martin penned, Leo Abrahams produced song brings together breezy guitars, feel-good rhythm and Martin’s bittersweet vocals for another showcase of the infectious, inquisitive and timeless pop on the band’s latest offering. Recently adding an Australian leg to...
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Brisbane duo Primitive Motion announce their third full-length, House in The Wave, released Friday 23 February. In addition, they share first single ‘Feed the Signals’. Watch the video below! Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig recorded the album across Sunday afternoons spent in Selig’s home studio in Brisbane. The result is a meditative suite of dreamy piano-based songs, captured live at the point of conception and teeming with the incidental sounds of both the studio...
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Created by Matt Mclean of feeding | ear, the soundtrack for Rumu is out now, and the game now playable via Steam. A creation of Sydney-based game development company Robot House, Rumu joins a list of hit franchises brought to life by the team, including Warhammer 40K: Regicide and Hulabear. Rumu is an intimate, narrative-driven adventure game about a robot vacuum cleaner becoming self-aware. You are RUMU – a robot...
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The xx return to Australian shores in January. With the first show at Sidney Myer Music Bowl officially sold out, The xx have announced an encore Melbourne show at The Forum on Sunday 14 January – tickets on sale Thursday 21 December. Details below! Following the support of The xx’s collaboration with PLUS1 for their first round of Australian shows, the proceeds from their Forum show will be split between...
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Without further ado, here are each of our Top Ten Releases of 2017, (and in no particular order). Happy Holidays. Steve Lost Souls of Saturn vs Mashrou – Bint El Khandaq Brooklyn Raga Massive – Purple Rain Harmony Byrne – Demise Aldous Harding – Horizon Nina Simone – Save Me Alice Coltrane – Om Shanti The Orbweavers – Cyclamen Christopher Coleman Collective – Spotify Suggests You Starry Starry Night Alain...
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Belle and Sebastian have released the first installment of their new triumvirate of EPs, How To Solve Our Human Problems. In addition, they’ve shared a new video for ‘I’ll Be Your Pilot’, the latest single taken from the EP series. Directed by Michael Sherrington, the gently poetic video corresponds with the signature B&S artwork which accompanies the EPs, with a simple yet moving collage of individuals that echoes the spectrum...
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Merry Christmas from the Don. A little taste of what is to come in 2018.
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It has been quite a year for Jeremy Neale. In 2017, he released his acclaimed debut album Getting The Team Back Together, toured across east coast record stores and was announced as the recipient of the prestigious Grant McLennan Fellowship. The fellowship will see him travel to New York City for 3 months in 2018 to focus on songwriting. To cap off the year, J Neale has shared his annual Xmas single titled ‘Christmas...
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Lætitia Tamko is professionally known as Vagabon. She is a solo artist, a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, a peer of Porches, Mitski and Makkonen. The New Yorker, originally from Cameroon, released Infinite Worlds earlier this year. The album is now being re-released in AUS/NZ via Barely Dressed. She has also shares the video for ‘Cold Apartment’ made by assurgent Los Angeles animator Faye Orlove. The new video tells the crushing narrative of...
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Jen Cloher announced that she will be commencing an Australian tour in March 2018. Check out full dates and details below! The tour will celebrate the end of a landmark 12-months for Cloher, releasing her self-titled album to unprecedented acclaim and unleashing her live show to rapturous audiences all over the world. These shows will likely be Cloher’s only run of Australian headline shows with a band in 2018 as...
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Lucy Dacus has announced her new album, Historian, released on 2 March 2018. She also shares new song ‘Night Shift’ which boasts a devastatingly powerful vocal performance and scathing lyrics telling off a former lover, the only breakup song Dacus has ever written. Listen below! Historian is a 10-track record full of bracing realisations, tearful declarations and moments of hard-won peace, expressed in lyrics that feel destined for countless yearbook quotes and...
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Good Boy have shared their self-produced video for ‘1972 VW Superbug’. The track is the third single from their brilliant EP Shirk Life, out now. Watch it below! The song is a nostalgic sprawler, exploring regional life via bored late-nights in their hometown of Bundaberg, Queensland. Rarely does a punk band write with such romanticism. “We made this video from footage collected every time we returned to our home town of...
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Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker will have their debut Australian performances in March 2018. Performing at MODERN FOLK! FROM BRITAIN at the Thornbury Theatre Melbourne with fellow British singer-songwriter Blair Dunlop. They will also perform at Port Fairy Folk Festival and the Blue Mountains Music Festival. What truly sets the duo apart is the combination of Josienne’s divinely nuanced, emotionally affecting voice and Ben’s intricately expressive, adroit guitar technique. Ben...
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Goat Girl share new track ‘Scream’, released on the 15th December on Limited edition 7”, as an exclusive B Side with recent single ‘Cracker Drool’ as A Side. The track is available on all streaming services now. Listen below! Goat Girl head up an emerging set of groups from South London who have been inspired by the burgeoning local scene there. A classic sketch by the late great comedian Bill...
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