Ciao. Donny Benét has released the title track off his forthcoming album, Mr Experience. It’s out 22 May. Sharing the genesis of the song Donny said: “The song concept came as a suggestion to me. I get suggestions all the time and they never stick – This one did! I like the intro on this one – it’s kind of like a mid 80’s Japanese game show introduction that goes...
Hurts To Laugh marks the ongoing output of Methyl Ethel producer and multi-instrumentalist Jake Webb’s restless mind. The new EP is out now! Time and again he’s proven that while there’s no distinction between music and art, psychologically speaking there is a difference between feeling and emotion. One is a conscious response to a set of circumstances, the other is the unconscious conditions of our very being that only occasionally...
After humble lo-fi beginnings in the Australian art-pop underground, Donny Benét has expanded his cult-like following across the globe with a resonant array of danceable repertoire dealing with love and affection. His next album marks a new chapter informed by a wealth of musical and personal development. Enter Mr Experience, the new album from Donny Benét released Friday 22nd May. To celebrate Mr Experience, Donny Benét will play a run...
Perth artist Carla Geneve is back with another belter. Check out the new single and accompanying video titled ‘Don’t Wanna Be Your Lover‘. The track is the first taste of her debut full-length due later this year. The track is an exploration of the grey areas between platonic and romantic relationships and “how two people might want different things but knowing that that doesn’t undermine the connection you have,” says...
Jeremy Neale has today released his new album We Were Trying To Make It Out. Watch the new video for ‘Tried and True (Raise the Roof)’ below. Brisbane fans can see Jeremy perform tonight at Jet Black Cat for a very special in-store at 6.30PM. Across March, Jeremy will perform at Red Eye Records in Sydney, Summertown Studios in Adelaide and Rocksteady Records in Melbourne. Full details available below. Sonically, We Were Trying to Make It Out contains Neale’s penchant for melodic hooks, delivered coherently and directly without compromise or pastiche. This is the Jeremy Neale sound – the result of...
Announcing the new EP from Western Australia’s Methyl Ethel. Hurts To Laugh will be released Friday 10th April via Dot Dash / Remote Control. It’s marked with a new single ‘Majestic AF.’ To celebrate the new single and EP Methyl Ethel will be supporting Peter, Bjorn & John on their American tour dates throughout March and April. On return to Australia, Methyl Ethel will tour in solo mode at intimate...
The wait is over! Banoffee has released her highly anticipated debut album, Look At Us Now Dad. Stream and preorder the vinyl here. To celebrate the release, Banoffee will play a headline show at Red Rattler in Sydney on Thursday 27 February and will headline VAMFF’s Nocturnal Fashion event at Melbourne Museum on Friday 6 March. Full tour details below. Look At Us Now Dad is Banoffee’s debut album, and...
“The video is about loneliness and the feelings of ostracisation that arise when your issues seem too much for the world to handle. It follows a woman roaming the landscape in a wedding dress, totally prepared to give herself up to something, yet completely alone and isolated by her sadness. The circles in the clip represent a safety zone, something I created for myself when I felt like I had...
“Jeffrey Lebowski, it is “The Dude”, Donny Benét, it is “The Don”. Quite simply.” Donny Benét is back with a new single and video, ‘Girl Of My Dreams.’ Watch it below. He explains… “Some songs just write themselves – when it happens you’re a passenger and a vessel to the whole process. Girl of My Dreams was exactly this – as I was feverishly recording instrumental parts I felt that...
Banoffee has shared the second single ‘Count On You’ from her debut album Look At Us Now Dad out Friday 21st February ‘Count On You’, a full-throttle anthem fueled by blasts of jagged synths and written at the peak of the MeToo movement, is a relentlessly upbeat declaration of solidarity with survivors. The single comes with an uplifting video. “This video was a thrill to make. My co-director Will Mcdowell and I had a pretty ambitious vision for...
The grind is tough. We’re all just trying to get by – but at what cost? You can chase a dream but if you’re in the working class – everything else suffers for it. In ‘Still Want You Around Me’ Jeremy Neale explores the sentiments not often shared with those closest to us when we’re strung out or snowed under – featuring the feel-good sing-a-long chorus of the summer! The video is a lighthearted clip,...
Dot Dash is delighted to announce a new distribution deal with the UK’s largest independent distributor, the Proper Music Group. Proper will distribute Dot Dash’s physical releases in the UK, Europe and the Republic of Ireland. The first UK/Europe release through the new partnership will be Gena Rose Bruce’s acclaimed debut album Can’t Make You Love Me, set for release in early 2020 ahead of her upcoming performances at SXSW....
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...
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...
A pleasure to announce the release of the brand new EP from Obscura Hail – Zero. It’s out now everywhere through Dot Dash Recordings. Catch em live at the dates below. Born on NSW’s South Coast, and now buried alive somewhere in Melbourne, Obscura Hail (Sean Conran, Tamara Issa & Steven West) are sneaking into intimate spaces and filling strangers with relative truths. Themes of ontology, existentialism, love and loss are somewhat serious…...
Thrilled to share news of two Dot Dash artists representing at SXSW 2020 – Carla Geneve and Gena Rose Bruce. See the first lineup announcement here. 2019 has already proven to be a massive year for Carla Geneve including performances at festivals such as Laneway & Falls, touring with & supporting artists such as Cat Power, Kurt Vile, San Cisco and Holy Holy. Carla received international praise from KEXP and Matt Wilkinson...
