The Maple Trail is the expansive musical project of Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer Aidan Roberts. Beginning in the early 2000s in the Blue Mountains, the project was born out of a need to explore a quieter, more introspective counterpoint to his rock beginnings. His debut solo album Sounds of Planes introduced a raw acoustic palette, but it was only the first step in what would become an evolving body of...
The Things We Do With The Time We Have, Dance et al.’s second album, will be released February 28, and marks a pivotal evolution for the project, arriving six years after Dance et al.’s debut The Higher Infinite. Much like its predecessor, the album reflects a deep contemplation of the music-making process. However, this time, the creative approach shifted inward—quietude and solitude replaced collaboration and experimentation. The result is a...
Green Mohair Suits return with ‘Hell or High Water’, the first single from their fifth album Stan Wella, out September 27th. Green Mohair Suits (Brian Campeau, Richard Cuthbert, Jason Mannell, and Ben Romalis) hold a reputation for inspired showmanship and performances as brash as they are emotive. After an attempt to record Stan Wella during Covid didn’t pan out, the group did what always works best for them: “The four...
Hailing from regional NSW, Wade Jackson is a creative polymath. Songwriter, musician and film director, he knows how to draw the observer and listener into an immersive sensory world of sound and vision. Across five albums he’s covered wide musical ground, from jangly folk-rock to indie guitar and psych-pop sounds. Now comes the next avant garde chapter in Wade’s musical career. ‘Limelight’ emerges twitching, writhing, pulsing and electronically convulsing. Like Bowie and Suicide in...
Conrad Greenleaf is a Sydney born and bred musician. He’s probably better known as a member of Stressless and Richard In Your Mind, but also makes his own charmingly unconventional solo music. The new single ‘Mount Analogue’ is a striking introduction to his new forthcoming album Dreamtape, with its opening palette of aquatic bleeps setting the scene before a loping trip-hop breakbeat arrives to anchor the abstraction and carry it forward into the psychedelic mist. Guest vocalist Brent Griffin (aka SPOD)...
Richard Cartwright has created DAISY LION, his first official solo album, reflecting his time spent during the Covid years, living in the beautiful Blue Mountains and spending time with family. In many ways it’s an ode to his daughter Juniper who named the album. ‘Daisy Lion’, the new title-track single, is a consummate blend of cool 80s synths Prince-styled drums and Cartwright’s dreamy Air-like vocal wrapped up in a hazy, harmonica-assisted psych vibe. The song is about spending time with his daughter around the ages...
As Lewis Goldmark, Liam Judson (Belles Will Ring) takes on a new outlook and musical direction that still pays homage to the core influences that have informed his music over the years. Now however, it all comes together with a syringe injection of pop chaos – echoes of 80’s Australian indie, dreamy 70’s Californian rock, and 90’s Britpop amongst other sounds. The new album Cut And Flash is a consummate...
