28 March 2019
Meet Jelani Aryeh, a new signing to b4, and listen to new song ‘Union Station.’ It’s an ode to leaving suburbia and finding home, not only in a new place, but in the people you take with you. At 18yrs old Jelani already finds the sweet spot between hip hop, RnB, and pop – Jack Kolbe helping out on production duties. The pair are members of the rising global collective…
22 March 2019
Take notes from a few corners of the globe on this week’s roundup of new music. Moscow’s Kedr Livanskiy shares the closer to her upcoming album Your Need (3 May via 2MR) – ‘Ivan Kupala (New Day).’ Electronic leaning left field pop, informed by a sense of darkness unique to Kedr’s musical-cum-geographical upbringing. Portland-based, sci-fi inspired group Reptaliens share a new track + video for ‘Venetian Blinds.’ The track…
20 March 2019
Melbourne’s Sunbeam Sound Machine (Nick Sowersby) has shared his new video ‘Seems Like You’ve Made Up Your Mind‘ – premiering via Document Journal. Following on from ‘Talking Distance,’ the track is a second taste of Sunbeam’s second LP Goodness Gracious, out 3 May via Dot Dash. Here are some of Nick’s favourite things about the making of the video (dir. Clancy Walker, shot by Sean T. Barnes, starring Terry Yeboah). 1….
19 March 2019
Art of Fighting have shared a beautifully affecting new track and video – ‘Your Love.’ Premiered by Triple R Breakfasters and The Music, ‘Your Love’ is “about that feeling when what you fear the most in the world is the inability to contain and rationalise your love for someone. How that makes all the other genuinely terrifying things in both the internal and external world seem completely insignificant,” says Ollie…
15 March 2019
Melbourne trio Huntly have released their debut album Low Grade Buzz, a beautifully constructed and deeply personal record. Out now via Barely Dressed. Listen here. Drawing lines between all spectrums of RnB and electronica, its an album that engages the heart as much as it does the body. Hear it live in Sydney and Melbourne in May. From Huntly: “Low Grade Buzz is that feeling you get on a Sunday night…
14 March 2019
Leeds-based post-punk outfit Drahla announce their new full length – Useless Coordinates, out 3 May via Captured Tracks. Check the accompanying single and video for ‘Stimulus For Living‘ – a composition based upon abstracted ideas and thought. And take a tip from the Fader – “Drahla make the kind of literate punk to kickstart a revolution in your mind.”
8 March 2019
The rumours are true: The “rejected” electronic album that Stephen Malkmus has been telling everyone about will see the light of day…has finally seen the light of day. But new album Groove Denied (Matador) 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…
8 March 2019
SOAK shares a new video for ‘Déjà Vu‘ – the lead single from her new album Grim Town, out 26 April via Rough Trade. Director Brother Willis calls the video “a looping, nonsensical, Lynchian dream,” and explains further that his goal “was to make a disconnected and confusing performance video, one that recasts Bridie as both performer, then observer, and back and forth in dreamlike messiness. I have a bit…
7 March 2019
The National are back. The band have announced new album I Am Easy To Find, out Friday 17 May via 4AD. The news comes with opening track ‘You Had Your Soul With You’ which features the vocals of long-time David Bowie collaborator Gail Ann Dorsey. This is the first new music since 2017’s GRAMMY®-Award winning release Sleep Well Beast. A companion short film with the same name will also be released…
1 March 2019
Read on for a roundup of some excellent new music out this week. Happy Friday. Starcrawler – ‘She Gets Around’ (Rough Trade) LA band Starcrawler take a nod to 90s alt-rock in their new track ‘She Gets Around.’ You know front-person Arrow de Wilde for their manic live performance – hear it on this record, strange and frenzied. Watch out for an album to be announced very soon. Pixx –…
28 February 2019
Denise Le Menice has shared a new track and video ‘Stars.’ Based in Melbourne-via-Sydney-via-Perth, Denise Le Menice is the project of Ali Flintoff. Listen to the track here. Premiering on triple j Home & Hosed, ‘Stars’ is a psyched-out, dream pop triumph of happiness over total darkness. It radiates from the video; an hilarious and adorable montage of Ali as a young’un. Take a trip down memory lane, Denise Le…
28 February 2019
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…
27 February 2019
A pleasure to share the news of Big Thief‘s signing to 4AD! Their third record U.F.O.F. ‘F’ standing for ‘Friend‘, will be released 3 May. The band have spent 4 years on relentless world tour, striking chords with every audience they played to. Having already lived their new songs on tour, they were relaxed and ready to experiment once they settled in the studio. Hear the new direction in gorgeous…
27 February 2019
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…
21 February 2019
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….
21 February 2019
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…
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