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Perfume Genius : Put Your Back N 2 It
0 Comments. 513 Views. Posted 22 Mar 2012 @ 6:04am.
  The album artwork for Perfume Genius’ debut album Learning was a self-portrait with the face blotted out. The cover shot for new album Put Your Back N 2 It has a similar masking effect, an act that both highlights and censors, but it’s a group portrait and the smear is a shared one. It retains the alienation and uneasiness, but the paint covering two male faces suggests a connection,... Read More
Fleet Foxes
0 Comments. 1,131 Views. Posted 4 Jan 2012 @ 9:45am.
Reducing the disparity between ‘who you are’ and ‘who you want to be’ remains one of life’s greatest challenges. The title of Fleet Foxes’ sophomore album, Helplessness Blues – the follow-up to the Seattle-bred harmonic-folk group’s influential self-titled debut album – alludes to this struggle and the realisation that, sometimes, the individual is the only thing standing in the way. “The songs... Read More
Single Of The Week No.3 - St Vincent : Cheerleader
0 Comments. 834 Views. Posted 14 Dec 2011 @ 9:40am.
Frankly just fucking superb. Annie Clark rolls from slinky, melodic verses to the most brash, bombastic chorus, a twin gun onslaught of bass and voice that will knock you off your feat. This dazzling track is on her dazzling sophomore album, Strange Mercy. Read More
Q&A With: Autumn Gray
0 Comments. 661 Views. Posted 16 Nov 2011 @ 10:32am.
Your name: Greg   Your band's name:   Autumn Gray     What's the deal with the band's name:   Someone suggested that the new band's name should "...have no connotations, something like 'Autumn Gray'...", and thus it was born. There is also a little character named 'Autumn Gray'; you can find him hiding on our album art and website.   Define your... Read More
In Flagranti
0 Comments. 616 Views. Posted 11 Nov 2011 @ 12:07pm.
Swiss duo In Flagranti have been front and centre of the recent disco revival with remixes for WhoMadeWho and Black Devil Disco Club thrusting them into the spotlight of the blog era circa 2006-2007. After cutting their teeth on the Internet they gained further accolades with their 2008 album Sounds Superb and thus solidifying their reputation as dirty disco princes. Following that,... Read More
Battles
0 Comments. 1,267 Views. Posted 12 Oct 2011 @ 9:26am.
The last time renowned New York experimentalist collective Battles visited Australia holds a weight of significance in the band’s relatively brief narrative. The then four-piece performed a stunning recital of tracks from the debut full-length as part of the inaugural Vivid Sydney event in 2009, taking to the Sydney Opera House for two incredible performances. The Battles who performed at those... Read More
Crystal Fighters
0 Comments. 1,302 Views. Posted 3 Aug 2011 @ 9:45am.
They'd happily perform alongside experimental acts Crystal Castles and Crystal Stilts at a festival but Spanish influenced Crystal Fighters have their own set of rules. Delivering raved up, percussive folktronica with eccentric Basque instrumentation. "We had a guy in the full Basque giant [outfit]… it was quite bizarre, he was just standing in the front row," Sebastian Pringle says down the... Read More
Mastodon Announce The Hunter
2 Comments. 1,295 Views. Posted 3 Aug 2011 @ 11:58am.
Hard-hitting heavy rock titans Mastodon are gearing up to release what could well be one of the most anticipated albums of the year in The Hunter.  This marks their first release since 2009’s critically acclaimed Crack The Skye. In lead-up to the release of their fifth full-length, the band have released a sample in the form of Black Tongue, which also come accompanied by a visual... Read More
Kins : Dancing Back And Forth, Covered In Whipped Cream
0 Comments. 1,611 Views. Posted 21 Jul 2011 @ 10:00am.
Alexander Gow and Thomas Savage are both talented but palpably distinct singer-songwriters. It was no surprise, then, that this would underpin Savage's decision to depart Oh Mercy for his own creation, Kins. Whereas Gow writes with an unabashedly romantic, personal and candid fervour, Savage's style is more metaphorical/abstract, observational and inquisitive (Savage wrote Met A Wizard on Oh... Read More
Monique Brumby
0 Comments. 2,508 Views. Posted 27 May 2011 @ 10:49am.
On the surface, Monique Brumby's new single Underground could be about hanging out in a basement nightclub where people are allowed to be whom they want to be. But, as with most of Brumby's songs, the meaning is deeper. As she explains. "I was thinking about secular groups like the Armish people. I'm fascinated with how they live different lives from mine, and how the men in the community build... Read More
Loon Lake
0 Comments. 2,549 Views. Posted 25 May 2011 @ 10:23am.
One of the sunniest tracks to pop onto high rotation on the national youth broadcaster this year, Loon Lake's rollicking In The Summer , provides enough warmth to warrant leaving your little Big W ceramic heater tucked away in the cupboard for a little while longer. We get it: Melbourne's cold. So it's an interesting move for these local lads to launch their debut EP, Not Just Friends , and its... Read More
Megastick Fanfare
0 Comments. 1,790 Views. Posted 17 May 2011 @ 5:17pm.
In Sydney, where venues seem to be closing their doors on every corner, a group of bands are all on the same “scratchy pop” page – featuring Seekae, Djanimals, Kyu and Ghoul – Megastick Fanfare are another one of the founding groups of bands trying to overcome the problems with Sydney’s live scene to make a name for themselves. Set to hit Melbourne this Friday May 20 for the release of their... Read More
Greedy Hen Present Debut Album At Lamington Drive
0 Comments. 1,239 Views. Posted 28 Apr 2011 @ 10:33am.
Sydney illustrators Greedy Hen present their fictitious debut album at Lamington Drive this May. Well-known for their work in the music industry (Cloud Control, Richard In Your Mind, Washington, Josh Pyke, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Florence And The Machine, Animal Collective), Katherine Brickman and Kate Mitchell have very delightfully created a show based around an album that they would... Read More
Oh Mercy
0 Comments. 3,281 Views. Posted 9 Mar 2011 @ 9:00am.
Three of the vibrant colours splashed across Alexander Gow's shirt are represented on the fruit platter in front of him. Endearingly, the Oh Mercy frontman confesses of being fruit-deficient, as if needing to justify his order's disparity from my Yirgacheffe latte. Despite being tucked away in an unsuspecting laneway, the cafe in which we meet on this warm mid-week afternoon is... Read More
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