Jaala reveals details of their new album Joonya Spirit due for release on Friday 20th April, and shares a brand new single from it, ‘Horn’. Listen below! Since the release of Hard Hold they have transformed into a completely new animal, stylistically and literally. The addition of Carolyn Schofield (synth) of Fia Fiell fame has moved the band towards a more haunting, dreamy experimental pop movement as opposed to the...
Sydney-based HANDSOME shares brand new track, ‘Save Some Love’, the second single since her emotive debut, ‘Late Night Ball Game feat. Joyride’. Listen below! HANDSOME details, “‘Save Some Love’ is a reminder to love yourself. We allow ourselves too often to give all of our energy, positivity and love out to other people, we often for get to leave a little for ourselves. This song has many different stories to it,...
With the release of their new album, There’s a Riot Going On, heading our way on March 16th, Yo La Tengo have shared another taste of what’s to come with new single ‘For You Too’. Listen below! It’s an album stand-out track with a hypnotic guitar line, complemented by a low dose of drone and a deceptively upbeat drum patter, as Ira Kaplan sings quiet words of assurance: “For you / whenever there’s...
Brisbane duo Primitive Motion have released their new album House in the Wave. Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig recorded the album across Sunday afternoons spent in Selig’s home studio in Brisbane. House in the Wave is a meditative suite of dreamy piano-based songs, captured live at the point of conception and teeming with the incidental sounds of both the studio and surrounding garden. The days spent in studio document the process of composition:...
The Breeders share new single ‘Nervous Mary’, the driving opener off their forthcoming album All Nerve, out March 2. Primarily recorded by Mike Montgomery at Candyland in Dayton, Kentucky with additional recordings by Greg Norman at Electrical Audio in Chicago, listen below! All Nerve reunites band members Kim and Kelley Deal, Josephine Wiggs and Jim Macpherson. The quartet returned to the stage in 2013 to celebrate the album’s 20th anniversary and have been quietly working on...
Parquet Courts announce their fifth album, Wide Awake! which will be released on May 18th. ‘Almost Had To Start A Fight / In And Out Of Patience’ is the first taste of what’s to come from the record. Watch the clip below! Wide Awake! is a groundbreaking work, an album about independence and individuality but also about collectivity and communitarianism. Love is at its center. There’s also a freshness here, a breaking of new...
Hachiku shares a steamy new video for latest single ‘Murray’s Lullaby’. Having just returned from a sold out tour of the Europe and U.K. opening for Jen Cloher, you can catch them heating up a stage in celebration of the single’s launch in March. Full details below! The video for ‘Murray’s Lullaby’ is slick in every other meaning apart from ‘cool’. Set within the dripping wet walls of a sauna...
Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker shared a new single ‘Bathed In Light’ from their forthcoming album Seedlings All which will be released physically Friday 9 March and digitally Friday 23 March in Australia. Catch the duo perform their debut Australian shows this March at Port Fairy Folk Festival, Blue Mountains Music Festival and The Thornbury Theatre in Melbourne. Full tour details below. Josienne explains the background to the song, “As...
New York City’s Wiki is back to share two bonus tracks from his debut album No Mountains in Manhattan. ‘Ballin on the Low’ ft. Antwon and ‘Hands Out’ ft. Suspect are available across all digital streaming platforms now. Listen below! As the album’s original track-list featured artists from New York, it’s fitting that the bonus tracks include appearances from Wiki’s friends from Los Angeles and London, respectively. The two tracks...
Philadelphia’s Hop Along will be releasing their third studio album Bark Your Head Off, Dog on April 6. Having just announced a handful of shows at SXSW, Hop Along have also shared the brilliant next track from the album, ‘Not Abel’. Listen below! ‘Not Abel’ begins as a delicate waltz, violins and cellos make way for a series of explosive choruses before the song collapses into an exuberant guitar jam....
Robert Earl Thomas, guitarist of Brooklyn band Widowspeak, has just debuted his solo full-length, Another Age. To celebrate, he shares the new video for album track ‘Cryin’,’ in which delicate melancholy follows him from a winding, wooded road to a warmly lonesome hotel room. Watch below! Another Age‘s sweet nostalgia and glowing guitar shines through each shot. Of the single he notes, “‘Cryin’ isn’t really about crying; or me. It’s about being there for...
Jarrow has released the exultant garage-rocker ‘Kelp’, it’s the second single to come from his second album Expensive Hugs, out Friday 16 March. Watch the clip below! As the opening track off Expensive Hugs, ‘Kelp’ perfectly sets the tone for Jarrow’s weird and wonderful second album. Hooks, yelps and a dynamic lead-guitar adorn his compelling turn of phrase as it battles to break free of the songs perfect garage pop...
Gift Wrap – Brendon Avalos of B Boys – has shared the new video for his single ‘Either Way’, taken from his forthcoming debut album Losing Count, out Friday 2nd March. Watch ‘Either Way’ below! For some time now, Brendon Avalos has been forging a path for himself among the clamor of emerging indie artists as the bassist and vocalist of Brooklyn punk trio B Boys. Now, he is releasing his first solo effort...
Jeremy Neale has shared a new clip for ‘Video’. The track comes from his debut album Getting The Team Back Together. Catch Jeremy launch the album on his national tour this March with a new Adelaide date just added! Full tour info below. Jeremy described the clip “Outside of astral projection – the most accessible way to get a break from the day-to-day grind is to go for a drive or...
Brisbane duo Primitive Motion have shared a second single ‘Small Orbit’ from their album House in the Wave, out Friday 23 February. Watch the clip below! ‘Small Orbit’ is a two minute minimalist jaunt for shuffling drums, piano and wind instruments in the spirit of Penguin Cafe Orchestra as played by Maher Shalal Hash Baz, in a Brisbane home studio. The duo of Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig recorded the...
Belle and Sebastian have released the third and final part of their EP trilogy under the umbrella title How To Solve Our Human Problems. Recently adding an Australian leg to their busy live schedule in 2018, the band will embark on a national tour throughout May playing Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Further details below. How To Solve Our Human Problems has the classic blend of joy and melancholy and idiosyncratic spirit that...
