Tag: "Emo"

Lower Dens : Brains
0 Comments. 584 Views. Posted 7 Mar 2012 @ 9:48am.
  Brains is a lush, simmering brew of muted indie rock vocals and chugging glitch, an overwhelming kind of song that drowns you in a sea of sound and tickles you with the detail. That’s what it feels like – getting tickled underwater. A brilliant, hypnotising tune. Read More
Digitalism Sideshow
0 Comments. 1,399 Views. Posted 1 Mar 2012 @ 2:27pm.
Hot on the heels of their announcement on the 2012 Groovin' The Moo lineup, the German duo Digitalism have announced a Melbourne sideshow. The two were last on Australian shores for the 2011 Parklife tour, and after receiving rapturous acclaim are swiftly returning to showcase their unique blend of electro, indie and rock. Read More
Devotional : Mercy
0 Comments. 749 Views. Posted 29 Feb 2012 @ 8:16am.
  This washed out drift of indie rock recalls American Analogue Set, with its scrawling guitars and wispy, Mazzy Starr-like vocal performance. It’s a gentle and atmospheric effort from Sydney’s Devotional (formerly called A Casual End Mile), but it doesn’t improve on its predecessors. Read More
Bell Weather Department : The Pursuit Of Blue
0 Comments. 885 Views. Posted 30 Nov 2011 @ 8:43am.
As happens disturbingly often, this song sounds a lot like the last one. Sydney's Bell Weather Department use the angular guitars and heart stirring drum patterns of Brooklyn's finest, lifting their sound from bands like Interpol, The National and etc, but adding a softer pop vocal melody. It's not bad, but it isn't particularly memorable. The Pursuit of Blue has a grand scope and a feverish... Read More
I, A Man : Sometimes
0 Comments. 1,007 Views. Posted 19 Oct 2011 @ 3:06pm.
Sometimes is the lovely debut single by Melbourne's I, A Man, a rolling wave of indie rock with a strong psychedelic flavour. On paper, the lyrics are kind of sad - Daniel Moss sings "you're always on your own" over and over again - but in context he sounds more curious than anything else, like a boy interested in a girl who doesn't like crowds. Read More
The Big Pink : Stay Gold
0 Comments. 1,069 Views. Posted 12 Oct 2011 @ 11:42am.
If ever a band slit its own throat, it was Big Pink. They released a spectacular debut record a couple of years back then played a frankly embarrassing set at The Hi-Fi, in which singer/guitarist Robbie Furze strutted around like a great posturing eejit, making it impossible to take seriously their stadium-scale indie rock anthems. Stay Gold has the same bombastic thrust as Dominos, and the... Read More
Frankie & The Heartstrings : Hunger
0 Comments. 1,022 Views. Posted 6 Oct 2011 @ 7:36am.
Frankie & The Heartstrings, from North England, are a clean cut five piece peddling doo wop influenced British indie rock. Hunger has jangly guitars, a sing-along ‘oh oh’ refrain and farting brass interludes, but the most distinctive sound on the single is Frankie Francis’ nerdly Sunderland accent, which is vaguely reminiscent of The Proclaimers. The song itself is pretty mediocre.   Read More
Make Do And Mend
0 Comments. 760 Views. Posted 29 Sep 2011 @ 9:09am.
Every now and again, without the slightest hint of fanfare, a band comes along and changes the game. God knows it won’t be Pitchfork that outs them. It won’t be any other certified bastions of cool that proclaim them to be saviours of a genre. Instead it’s a whisper that starts from the ground up. It’ll be a band that’s evolved organically. Put simply, it’ll be that band that you’ve grown to love... Read More
Less Than <3 Three, Because I Heart U: The Overdramatic Life of Kyle Connelly
0 Comments. 1,644 Views. Posted 30 Sep 2011 @ 5:52pm.
Less Than Three is a satirical portrayal of the cliques and trends of the noughties. Written and directed by Jessica Marsh, the play is composed of a series of vignettes that lament the loss of the emo while sending up the development of Melbourne’s indie/hipster culture over the past few years. The aim was to create the impression of an indie film with a Disney Channel message – and that’s... Read More
Snow Patrol : Called Out In The Dark
0 Comments. 1,697 Views. Posted 18 Aug 2011 @ 9:28am.
Launching the first single from their sixth album, Snow Patrol throw off the earnest indie rock guitars of yore and get bed down with the very hip, very now sound of synth rock. What a waste, seriously. They were one of my guiltiest pleasures, with all that crybaby, heart-clutching sincerity, those big trembling choruses, and now they just sound like Friendly Fires, for whom I have less than... Read More
Jimmy Eat World
1 Comments. 1,746 Views. Posted 25 May 2011 @ 11:04am.
Initially and unfairly pigeon-holed into the 'emo' movement, Jimmy Eat World have since toned down the whine and amped up the hooks, most notably on 2002's Bleed American. In the process their popularity was soared, converting fully grown adults that should maybe know better than to be hanging around dark-haired 19-year-old self-harmers. As last minute additions to Soundwave when My Chemical... Read More
You And Me At Six : Stay With Me
0 Comments. 1,998 Views. Posted 27 Apr 2011 @ 10:57am.
You And Me At Six, like Birds Of Tokyo, are one of those bands that I really know nothing about despite reading their band name five hundred times a year. Their single goes a long way to explaining this black spot. They play the exact same kind of epic emo rock that makes Birds Of Tokyo’s heavier take consistently forgettable for me. Stay With Me is from their second album, Hold Me Down,... Read More
British India : March into the Ocean
0 Comments. 2,429 Views. Posted 15 Mar 2011 @ 10:48am.
British India haven't lost their touch. The snarling indie rock quartet is in top form, in fact, pulling out all the stops ahead of their forthcoming national tour. March into the Ocean is a head-first rumble, no stops and starts or angular subtleties, just blistering indie rock with one of their patented rabble-rousing choruses. Label : Shock Read More
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