The self-titled album by Evelyn Ida Morris is out today. They have shared details for upcoming shows in Melbourne & Hobart. Details below. Evelyn Ida Morris represents a significant departure from the looping pop of Pikelet, for which Evelyn is best known. It builds on the structural complexity of that project, but focuses wholly on piano. Indeed, a number of these songs don’t have words, because Evelyn Ida Morris didn’t know...
Courtney Barnett shares ‘City Looks Pretty’, the third single from her upcoming album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out Friday 18 May. Watch below! ‘City Looks Pretty’ has Barnett experimenting with new song structures while delivering one of her most exhilarating guitar performances to date. It’s metronomic drive and squealing lead guitar provide the sonic foundation from which Barnett sings a melodic exploration of friendship, place and home. A Record...
The Finks announce their new album Rolly Nice to be released Friday 25 May. Today they have shared the first cut from the record ‘Body Language’. Watch the accompanying video below! The Finks play the songs of Oliver Mestitz, who records everything in his Melbourne home, layering instrument upon instrument and mixing each song straight to tape. As Oliver describes “‘Body Language’ started as a melody that I misheard Sarah humming to...
Iceage present a final single, ‘The Day The Music Dies’ ahead of their new album, Beyondless, released on Friday 4 May. Watch the accompanying video below! Shot throughout Detroit at the historic bathhouse, The Schvitz, at the city’s legendary Masonic Temple, and the MUG warehouse space, ‘The Day The Music Dies’ video was directed by the band and Graeme Flegenheimer, and, as Flegenheimer describes it, is “a love letter between friends...
Good morning share new singles ‘For A Little While’ + ‘Just A Man’ from their new album Prize // Reward, out Friday 11th May. This new set of singles, including their earlier singles from the record sees the duo demonstrate a unique versatility in their songwriting, swapping roles. Listen below! Stefan Blair and Liam Parsons, high school friends who grew up in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, slowly began to spend their weekends...
Today Princess Nokia – aka shapeshifting New York emcee Destiny Frasqueri – has dropped her new emo-inspired mixtape A Girl Cried Red, as well as a video co-directed with longterm collaborator Milah Libin for ‘Your Eyes Are Bleeding’ from the release. Watch below! Princess Nokia has been releasing music via Youtube and Soundcloud since she was in High School and catapulted herself to the next level with last year’s rap...
Today, Space Invadas release their long-awaited new album Wild Word, it’s the first full length from the duo after seven years, since their debut Soul Fi, both Katalyst and Steve Spacek have been busy with their solo careers as well as other collaborations in the meantime. Wild World is a reflection of the crazy times we are living in. The exponential rate of change we are all witnessing and are a part...
Ryan Downey today releases his jaw-droppingly beautiful debut album Running. Downey has created a musical world unlike any that you’ve heard, illuminating an artist who has the power to break your heart, mend it and set it on fire, all at the same time. Ryan grew up in rural Victoria on a property out of town. At 10 he was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis. “I was a young boy with...
Gruff Rhys announces his fifth album, Babelsberg, set for release on Friday 8 June. It’s his first record for Rough Trade since 2007’s classic Candylion. Gruff also shares the first track from the record ‘Frontier Man’, watch the video below! The album’s ten tracks were initially recorded in early 2016 in a whirlwind three day session that took place before producer Ali Chant’s studio was demolished. The band he gathered...
Nines returns with new single ‘I See You Shining’, his first new music since the release of last year’s debut LP One Foot Out. Watch the clip to ‘I See You Shining’ below! “When you was inside watching Netflix, I was in the crop house wiring electrics.” Hailing from the Church Road Estate in North West London, Nines’ easily recognisable laid-back flow takes a turn for the anthemic on ‘I...
After a seven-year hiatus, Gang Gang Dance have returned, announcing their new album Kazuashita, to be released on Friday 22nd June. The band reveal the record’s lead track ‘Lotus’, it’s an ecstatic mix of deranged soul and hazy synthesizer ambience. Listen below! Kazuashita is an intoxicating mix of shoegaze and electronic ambience, all held together by Lizzi Bougatsos and her otherworldly vocal. Bougatsos, alongside founding members Brian DeGraw and Josh Diamond, formed the...
Kamasi Washington’s second album Heaven & Earth is set for release on Friday 22nd June. Two songs from the double album debut today, listen to Earth’s ‘Fists of Fury’ and Heaven’s ‘The Space Travellers Lullaby’ below. Heaven & Earth is comprised of two halves, which find Washington confronting quotidian realities with cosmic themes. A further investigation of Washington’s world building ideas, the new album explores his reckoning with current global chaos...
Goat Girl today release their self-titled debut album. Produced by Dan Carey in his South London studio, it’s a very English album but it’s also full of swampy swaggering guitars and Lottie’s filthy drawl. In the groups words: “Simply put, it’s an album that comes from growing up in London and the first-hand experience of our city’s devolution. We wanted to think of it as this place seen not necessarily...
Katz expands from jazz artist to deft purveyor of hazy, heavy-lidded electronica with his debut EP Waterfall, out today! Recorded largely in his Collingwood home studio and co-produced with Simon Lam. Learning piano from the age of 4, Katz cut his teeth leading jazz ensembles around Melbourne. It wasn’t until he found himself sitting in on friends’ electronica projects that he decided to try making it himself. It was here that Katz began...
Philadelphia’s Hop Along have today unveiled their third studio album Bark Your Head Off, Dog. Crafted by Frances Quinlan (songwriter, lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist), Tyler Long (bass), Joe Reinhart (guitar), and Mark Quinlan (drums). Bark Your Head Off, Dog is Hop Along’s most dynamic, textured and cohesive album to date, the album imagines what it’s like to cast off longheld perceptions, often without being certain about the new ones that will...
Jaala reveals a new offering ‘Sames’ from her forthcoming record Joonya Spirit, out Friday 20th April. Listen below! Through your ears, deep in your mind, down in your heart, in a way you never knew you wanted, Jaala will caress you and Jaala will entice you. Like the roots of a tree Jaala is ever growing, pruned only by themselves and never by the expectations of the public. In 2015,...
