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...
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...
New York-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist JOHN TSUNG has announced his new album Empire Postcards, alongside the release of his new single ‘Taking of a Nation‘ – out now via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. Serving as the centrepiece of the record, ‘Taking of a Nation’ is a 7-minute indie rock epic written before the 2020 election, at a moment of national unease. The words are from TSUNG’s conversations with patriotic Asian...
New York-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist JOHN TSUNG has shared his debut single ‘Eastern Standard‘ via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. The lead single of forthcoming album Empire Postcards, the influence of alternative greats like PJ Harvey seeps into ‘Eastern Standard,’ where TSUNG points to the perplexity of Asian Americanness (“Fraud or faker, native liar/Alien or traitor/Skin loyalty, what lies beneath/Gets paler day by day”). JOHN TSUNG’s Empire Postcards...
US-based Australian artist Kelly Dance has revealed her long awaited album The Yips: a hypnotic and alluring set of avant-folk songs that reside in a sonic dream-state where poetry and musicality co-exist in perfect harmony – out now via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. The overwhelming mood of The Yips is one of exploration and meditation. Its tranquil musings navigate a range of musical genres with dexterity and subtlety. Folk music...
Hugely respected for his pop melodies and energy, Sydney singer-songwriter Richard Cuthbert has released his third full-length album Daydreaming – a direct line to the heart of Richard’s songwriting. It’s pure and unfettered in the way everyday life is framed and conveyed via his matter-of-fact and poetic lyrics. There’s also a lush simplicity to the way that guitar lines unfurl, as they do on the title-track and right across the album. The trio format is...
Four years since the release of their sophomore album, Let Love Through – further establishing Roderick Smith‘s low-key and hypnotic songwriting credentials after their well- received self-titled debut album in 2015 – 2021 sees the return of North Arm. The Sydney-based group share Bring the Daylight, alongside the album’s title track, via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. ‘Bring The Daylight’, which received its premiere with Henry Wagons on Double J’s Tower of...
Hugely respected for his pop melodies and energy, Sydney singer-songwriter (and triple j Unearthed winner with Cuthbert and the Night Walkers) Richard Cuthbert is set to release his third full-length album Daydreaming this November, via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. The new single ‘Tomato Plants‘ is another slice of concise and super-catchy indie guitar pop from Richard. The song ebbs and flows on the interplay between his perfect fuzzed-out and jangly chord changes and the way...
Imperial Broads are a noisy, deranged, pop explosion led by three Sydney/Blue Mountains singer-songwriters who work together to make a delightfully raucous, urgent, and melodic sound. Comprised of Pip Smith, Eve Lande and Lauren Crew, the trio share their new album Counterpart, via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. The scene has already been set for the album with its three hook-laden singles, ‘Unromantic‘, ‘Control‘ and ‘Another Planet’, songs that show the range of three songwriters...
On the back of the release of his first new solo single in six years, Richard Cuthbert unveils the video clip for ‘Milky Way‘. The song comes from his forthcoming new album Daydreaming, due out on November 5th via Broken Stone Records / Remote Control Records. The video clip for ‘Milky Way’ was directed by Ben Romalis, who also plays with Richard in The Green Mohair Suits, and features stellar mirrorball technician performances from Joe Driver and Lou Peake. The song showcases his sparkling...
In 2020, Sydney band Magnetic Heads released their first new music after a lengthy hiatus. ‘The Street‘ was a glorious taste of their return to the recording studio, where singer/songwriter Des Miller and producer/musician Liam Judson (Belles Will Ring, Lewis Goldmark) have created a sublime collection of melancholic pop songs that navigate both the dance-floor and existential concerns with heady emotion and lush drama. The new single ,’Time of Your Life‘ sees Miller in an inquisitive, plaintive mood, sitting at home alone as inertia creeps, watching stories of youth suicide on...
Broken Stone Records are pleased to announce Sydney three-piece Imperial Broads have joined their roster and today release their single ‘Unromantic‘. With lyrics that will set you straight on modern romance, the harmony-laden, surf-rock single is accompanied by a clip featuring the band, filmed and edited by Jonathan Sequeira. Band member Eve Lande says of the single “This is a cheeky clear-eyed take on a love song. Let’s be honest about the aspects of a long term partnership that are necessity and fantasies about something/someone...
Following his recent signing to Broken Stone Records, Sydney-based artist Wade Jackson releases his new album Sensationalized, which features his latest single ‘Nightlife‘. As Jackson details of the album “Sensationalized was written and recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown in Sydney. The theme is based around a fictional complete city breakdown, exaggerated reality. An almost apocalyptic, dystopian city with different scenarios played out by different characters in a diary/self reflection style....
