LA based artist, Hand Habits (aka Meg Duffy) has released their new album placeholder via Milk! Records. Meg Duffy grew up in a small town in Upstate New York, and cut their teeth as a session guitarist and touring member of Kevin Morby’s band. The name placeholder stems from Meg’s fascination with the undefinable. Their songs serve as openings, carved-out spaces waiting to be endowed with meaning. As a lyricist, Meg is drawn to the in-between, and...
Melbourne’s Black Cab have returned with new single ‘Take It‘ ~ listen here. Premiering on Double J, vocalist Andrew Coates says of the track “Take Is is about surrendering material things in the age of conspicuous consumption and waste. We’re only going to waste it, so why don’t you just take it?” The track is a marked step towards tighter, more concise songwriting and live instrumentation. Perfect for when you...
The collaborative project from So.Crates, Alnitak Kid and Nelson Dialect have released their debut output – Sunset Cities. Listen here. Last year in Adelaide over a plate of Ethiopian food, MCs Nelson Dialect and Cazeaux O.S.L.O. crafted the basic principles for waxing poetic over two sonic dimensions – a record made up of two sides, the first produced by Melbourne beatmaker Skomes (known for his work with Caseaux O.S.L.O under the moniker SO.Crates) and the second by Adelaide resident Alnitak Kid....
As summer nears ever closer to its end, let’s take a moment to squeeze out some final additions to your seasonal playlists. Melbourne trio Huntly release a heavenly track in ‘Giving Circle,’ the final single before the release of their emotionally weighted electronic album Low Grade Buzz on 15 March via Barely Dressed. Listen here. Stephen Malkmus shares another cut off his forthcoming album Groove Denied (15 March via Matador). ‘Rushing...
2Methyl Ethel – Triage (Dot Dash) Here it is, the (already) critically acclaimed third album from Methyl Ethel: Triage. It’s out now everywhere – digitally, on CD, vinyl, and cassette via Dot Dash Recordings. Purchase here. Receiving 5 Stars by the Herald Sun, featuring on triple j, RTR and more, Triage marks a sense of closure. It’s a reflective album, one that explores the notion of coming of age. In...
A good breadth of singles out this week ~ melody rich guitar music from PicaPica, spaced out jungle-infused electronica from Sage Caswell, and a lulling ode to the complexities of desire from Hand Habits. Scroll on to listen! PicaPica – ‘Cast In Stone’ (Rough Trade) Featuring dual front women Josienne Clarke and Samantha Whates, PicaPica share a song of two halves – of the emotionally turbulent waxing and waning...
SOAK has unveiled beautiful new track ‘Valentine Shmalentine’. Together with new single ‘Knock Me Off My Feet’ and returning track ‘Everybody Loves You’, ‘Valentine Shmalentine’ is taken from Bridie’s second album Grim Town, out on April 26. Grim Town follows SOAK’s debut album Before We Forgot How To Dream, and an extraordinary period of invention and self-discovery for the still-just-22-year-old Derry native. Haunting, atmospheric and brutally honest, Bridie says ‘Valentine Shmalentine’ is “the result...
Art of Fighting have returned with their first new music in twelve years. Their new single ‘Genie’ is released today, accompanied by a video directed by Sydney photographer Mclean Stephenson. Watch below! For more than a decade, Art of Fighting were an oasis of grace and elegance in the world of Australian independent music. First album Wires edged out Magic Dirt, Something For Kate & You Am I to win...
Sunbeam Sound Machine, the recording project of Melbourne-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Nick Sowersby, releases his second LP Goodness Gracious, Friday May 3rd. ‘Talking Distance’ is the first offering from the album. Watch the accompanying video, by cinematographer Clancy Walker, below! Goodness Gracious is a self-produced affair, written, recorded and mixed by Sowersby in his home studio before being mastered by John Lee at Phaedra Studios. Sonically, Goodness Gracious is intimate and expansive, full...
Tiny Ruins, originally conceived as the solo project of New Zealand singer-songwriter Hollie Fullbrook, have released their third album Olympic Girls, out now. Catch Tiny Ruins tour Australia this April and May. Tour details below! A rare blend of eloquent lyrical craft and explorative musicianship, the songs of Tiny Ruins are etched into the memories of crowds and critics worldwide. Traversing influences that cross genre and era, the artistry of Hollie Fullbrook...
Zach Condon, the mastermind behind Beirut, has released his fifth studio album Gallipoli. The 12-track Gallipoli started life in the winter of 2016, with Condon returning to his old Farfisa organ, the same one used to write the first two Beirut albums (2006’s Gulag Orkestar and the following year’s The Flying Club Cup). Following recording stints in New York and Berlin (where he now calls home), Condon settled in Sudestudio,...
After 24 months of touring and toiling, four piece kiwi band Soaked Oats release the first single ‘Shuggah Doom’ from their forthcoming EP! The single is accompanied by a music video that sneakily combines both literal and deeper meanings to the easy-going manoeuvres of the track. Watch below! The song was produced alongside Tom Healy at The Lab in central Auckland, and the video was shot by Jake Munro in the south Auckland Bombay Hills featuring...
The black beaches and desolate landscape of Iceland provide the perfect location for Lil Berete and Loski’s video to new single ‘Go N Get It’. The two rappers met up on the island that sits almost equidistant between their native cities of Toronto and London, and the result is a visual refresh for both artists. Watch below! With Lil Berete now banned from filming in his home estate of Regents...
Los Angeles-based artist Hand Habits has shared ‘can’t calm down‘, the latest single from their upcoming album, placeholder, out Friday 1st March. The song features vocal contributions from Elizabeth Powell of Land of Talk. Watch the accompanying video below! Duffy says “this song took the longest lyrically for me to finish. i started it about 3 years ago and kept it in progress throughout different cycles of feeling. ‘ancestral damage’ and learned behaviours and conditioning to react/hold and place certain emotions are...
The rumours are true: The “rejected” electronic album that Stephen Malkmus has been telling everyone about will see the light of day on Friday 15th March. But new album Groove Denied is not a full-blown plunge into EDM or hiptronica. In fact, there aren’t any purely instrumental tracks on the album. Every song is precisely that: a song, featuring Malkmus staples like an artfully askew melody and an oblique lyric....
Jess Ribeiro today releases the brand new track ‘Stranger’, produced by Ben Edwards and recorded as a 3-piece with Dave Mudie and Jade Imagine. It comes with an accompanying new video, directed by Nick McKinlay. Watch below! ‘Stranger’ displays another shift in sound for the singer. Ribeiro has kissed the swampy humidity of the Australian Music Prize-nominated Kill It Yourself goodbye, and embraced the precise down-strokes and valve-amp hum of a very...
