UK-born Australian singer-songwriter Odette returns with her first release since 2024 with ‘AAAH!’. Following a first play on triple j’s Home & Hosed with Anika Luna last night, ‘AAAH!’ is a sharp soulful piano-led cry to the universe that also marks her debut on Melbourne/London independent Beloved Records. Odette writes songs that feel like close-quarters confessions: soulful, sharp, and unafraid of honest reflection. Growing up with her parents’ eclectic tastes – from her...
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Today, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Rowena Wise shares her new single ‘Home In This World’, out now via Beloved Records / Remote Control Records, the third offering from her forthcoming sophomore album, Bad Things Feel Good*, set for release on Friday 7th August, 2026. Alongside the single, Wise announces a run of headline shows across Australia this Oct/Nov with her band. Following the emotional reckoning of ‘Blood Ties’ and the quiet unravelling of ‘Diamond In The Rough’, ‘Home In This World’ enters...
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Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Rowena Wise announces her sophomore album, Bad Things Feel Good*, set for release on Friday 7th August, 2026, and shares her new single ‘Diamond In The Rough‘, out now. The announcement follows her recent return with ‘Blood Ties’, a song that confronted inherited silence and the emotional architecture of family, signalling the arrival of a body of work that deepens everything that has made Wise one of Australia’s most compelling voices...
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Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Rowena Wise (she/her) returns with her first solo single in two years, ‘Blood Ties’, alongside its accompanying video, watch here. Wise also announces an intimate run of solo shows across Meanjin, Eora, and Naarm in May and June to celebrate the release. Following the success of her debut record Senseless Acts of Beauty (2024), Wise has been hailed as a “lyrical assassin” by triple j, writing songs that feel like...
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Living Hour return in peak form on Internal Drone Infinity, their fourth full-length album, out now via Keeled Scales, Paper Bag Records, and Beloved Records. The Winnipeg indie rock heavyweights lean into raw and piercing lyricism, intimate and resilient energy, and skillfully crafted shoegaze-infused alt-rock, to deliver a record that’s both expansive and emotionally direct. Alongside the release, the band is sharing focus track, ‘Texting,’ a stripped-down, more subdued moment compared to earlier singles, but...
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Living Hour return with their latest single ‘Best I Did It’, a cathartic blend of raw lyricism and distorted, shoegaze-infused alt-rock. It’s the third preview of their upcoming fourth album Internal Drone Infinity out October 17. Lead singer and lyricist Sam Sarty describes the song as an unflinching confrontation with depression, dissociation, and anxiety. “This song is about confronting intensely grey feelings,” Sarty shares. “In Winnipeg, during the winter and...
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Winnipeg band Living Hour releases ‘Waiter’, the second single from their fourth album Internal Drone Infinity, out October 17 via Beloved Records. Lyricist Sam Sarty writes, “This is a song about people who wait. Wait-ers. I find myself waiting without knowing what I’m waiting for. I wait in all these liminal spaces: hotels, parking lots, and even relationships. This song reflects on two relationships where I spent a lot of time waiting; waiting to feel something or...
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Beloved Records are proud to announce the signing of Winnipeg band Living Hour, dropping their new single ‘Wheel’, the first single from their fourth album Internal Drone Infinity, out Friday 17 October. Lyricist Sam Sarty writes, ‘The story of Wheel begins with buying a car off Facebook Marketplace in BC. Turns out the car was junk, but I had no choice but to drive it home to Winnipeg. It took 3 days....
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Indie-folk darlings Rowena Wise and Didirri release their stunning duet ‘No Cure For Love’ out through the exciting new partnership with Beloved and Remote Control Records. To celebrate, they announce an 11 date, dual coast Australia tour. Didirri, known for his masterful storytelling and dynamic live performances, joins forces with Rowena Wise, whose crystalline vocals and delicate songs have earned her a devoted following across the country. This national tour...
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