Sunbeam Sound Machine returns with the announcement of his third album Possum out on Friday, 7th October. Alongside new audio dreamscape ‘I Promise That I’ll Try to Give You All My Love’. Watch the video below! ‘I Promise That I’ll Try to Give You All My Love’ is an uplifting respite replete with fluttering synths and reverb-soaked vocals. On the content theme, the man behind the moniker – Nick Sowersby – muses “This song is about love giving...
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Mount Monda release their debut EP, A Dream in Slow Motion. Mount Monda has always lain in wait. Matt Walters can see it from his house, quietly looming though the Victorian mist. One morning two years ago, he started running up that hill and back down again. The metaphor isn’t lost on him. For six years, Walter turned his back on music. He left behind his major label and world tours without regret. But if you’re a...
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Conrad Greenleaf is a Sydney born and bred musician. He’s probably better known as a member of Stressless and Richard In Your Mind, but also makes his own charmingly unconventional solo music. The new single ‘Mount Analogue’ is a striking introduction to his new forthcoming album Dreamtape, with its opening palette of aquatic bleeps setting the scene before a loping trip-hop breakbeat arrives to anchor the abstraction and carry it forward into the psychedelic mist. Guest vocalist Brent Griffin (aka SPOD)...
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Today, NYC pop performance artist, Jennifer Vanilla (they/them), shares their new album Castle In The Sky via Sinderlyn. The release includes singles, ‘Humility’s Disease’ that Stereogum called an “enticing, svelte, sinister earworm,” ‘Take Me For A Ride’ that NYLON called a “maximalist fever dream,” and ‘Body Music’ which Them. featured in their “Favourite Songs Of The Month.” Collaboratively crafted by Kauffman and co-writer/co-producer Brian Abelson, whose credits include releases on...
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Melbourne three-piece jade imagine return with dreamy title-rack from their sophomore album Cold Memory due October21st via Milk! Records / Remote Control Records. The single offers a peek into life’s most visceral moments, perfectly moving between rhythmic, slightly uneasy verses before it explodes into a synth heavy, pop-y chorus – lush and evocative. It was written by front-person and key songwriter Jade McInally following a frigid mid-winter swim with friends in the salty waters of Victorian coastal town Killarney. Speaking on the track’s...
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In honor of Shrines’ ten-year anniversary, Purity Ring return with a reissue of their breakthrough debut record. Titled shrines X, the album features three previously unreleased songs from the Shrines sessions, with the lead track “inovein” perfectly capturing their unique magic – bewitching, eerie vocals dancing uneasily across shimmering electronic haze. A surprise for fans and perfect intro to new listeners, their influence through 2010’s alt and commercial pop is undeniable. Stream / purchase...
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Patrick Holland releases his self-produced debut album, You’re The Boss, his first foray into guitar-driven indie pop, full of upbeat reflections on relinquishing control. Written and recorded in tandem, You’re The Boss finds Holland self-producing, playing almost every instrument on the record, as well as singing and writing his own lyrics for the first time. The album also features vocals from Holland’s bandmates in TOPS. Though it’s full of firsts, You’re The Boss sounds like the work of an...
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Following the success of their recent singles, hypnotic Melbourne trio Telenova further tease their forthcoming EP with latest track ‘Scarlet’. In celebration of the extended release Stained Glass Love – due out Friday 19 August via Pointer Recordings / Remote Control Records – Telenova will take to the road travelling around Australia and New Zealand this August, September and October. Buoyed by recent success with ‘Why Do I Keep You?’ and ‘Haunted’, the laconic ‘Scarlet’ is all raindrop pianos, and FM...
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Julien Baker releases a new EP B-Sides. Intimate and emotional, the 3 never-before-heard songs were taken from the recording sessions for her critically heralded third full-length Little Oblivions. Baker has collaborated on studio recordings with Frightened Rabbit, Matt Berninger, Hayley Williams, Becca Mancari, Mary Lambert, and on stage with Justin Vernon, The National, Sharon Van Etten, Ben Gibbard, and others. Stream / download B-Sides here.
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It is with great pride to announce THUS LOVE’s debut album Memorial, out on Captured Tracks October 7th. With the release of their first single, ‘Inamorato’, and early critical acclaim from Rolling Stone, THUS LOVE hits us with a pugnacious rhythmic punch on lead single ‘In Tandem,’ out now via Remote Control Records. The band explains, “Written in 12 hours of digestion of emotional turmoil, “In Tandem” is a sonic promise to hold awareness of a fundamental truth: we are nothing...
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Dry Cleaning release new single ‘Anna Calls From The Arctic’ off their forthcoming album Stumpwork, out 21 October, alongside a visualiser featuring the band’s drummer, Nick Buxton, displaying perfect form while skating backwards. Watch below! On ‘Anna Calls From The Arctic’, Florence Shaw narrates an off-kilter conversation with a distant friend. The track is whacked-out and otherworldly. “The lyrics were partly inspired by phone calls with a friend who was living and working in the...
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Pointer Recordings is thrilled to release the new single from Jamaica Moana called ‘HERMIONE’ featuring Temgazi. The Sydney-based artist, rapper, creative director & songwriter of Māori (Ngāpuhi/Tainui) and Samoan descent made her Pointer Recordings debut with fiery new single ‘CYA’ earlier this year. Speaking on ‘HERMIONE‘ Jamaica shares – “Firstly, Temgazi has been my boo for a decade! We’ve been close friends tied to the hip since we met each other in 2013. Amongst so many people who blend in, Temgazi’s personality drew me to her...
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After traversing North America on tour with Mono this Spring, Bing & Ruth has shared a new EP Species (Solo Piano). The two-track digital release finds the group’s leader David Moore transpose to piano songs from their 2020 album, Species. Moore says, “While I wrote and recorded the songs on Species with an organ I had always felt, in the back of my mind, that they would also be interesting ...
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black midi’s long anticipated album Hellfire is out now! The album includes their new single ‘Sugar/tzu’ released alongside a music video directed by Noel Paul, watch below! ‘Sugar/Tzu’ centres on a futuristic boxing match wherein one of the contenders is assassinated by a young boy. It features the core band plus horns by Kaidi Akinnibi (sax), Joe Bristow (trombone) and Ife Ogunjobi (trumpet), and the voice of boxing announcer Hus...
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JayWood releases his new album Slingshot, a self-portrait of JayWood at his surface and his depths, merging fantasy scenarios, personal anecdotes, and infectious pop and dance instrumentals. From the first track to the last track, JayWood takes you on a journey that touches on themes of childhood, religion, and identity. While writing and recording the album, Haywood-Smith put together a complex “script” mapping out all of the plot points, environments, characters that make up this...
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Gilla band announce their new album Most Normal, to be released on October 7th. It will be available on limited edition blue vinyl and an exclusive alt cover white vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies. Pre-order here. First single ‘Eight Fivers’ announces itself in that typical Gilla Band way where the lyrics often feel abstracted from the music. Dara Kiely’s voice is two opposing forces at once. In some ways it’s...
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