Posts Tagged ‘Australia’

LAURA JEAN – ” Devotion “

Posted: June 13, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Devotion is a stunning artistic about-face from revered Melbourne songwriter Laura Jean. Loved for her piercing, intimate, folk-based albums such as 2014’s Laura Jean and 2011’s A fool who’ll, Laura has worked with producer John Lee (Beaches, Lost Animal) to create an enveloping, deep pop album like nothing she has done before.
Laura’s last self-titled album, recorded in the UK with John Parish (Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding, PJ Harvey) and featuring Jenny Hval on backing vocals, was a critical smash in Australia, shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize and nominated for two Age Music Victoria Awards.
The album lead to Australian and New Zealand tours with Aldous Harding and Marlon Williams, plus shows with Julianna Barwick, Jessica Pratt and more.
But soon Laura found herself tinkering with a 90s Kawai keyboard, enjoying its built-in drum rhythms and moody synth sounds. Laura began a series of shows performing with nothing but the keyboard, as the idea for her next album grew and developed.
Devotion is an album about teenage obsession, coastal child- hood and vivid memory – universal themes filtered through Laura’s razor sharp lyrical focus. Initial influences for the record took in R’n’B, 80s adult contemporary pop and 70s disco, but the end result is transformed into something wholly other, full of depth, resonance and mystery.
Played entirely by Laura, John Lee and drummer Dave Williams (Augie March), Devotion is both contemporary and timeless.

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About the album, Laura says: “Devotion is about how a lonely coastal childhood filters into a contemporary adult life built hundreds of miles away. I wrote this album for my mum, middle sister and myself as we were at that time – eccentric, romantically-unfulfilled teens and a stressed out single mum trying to have a love life. In those times we needed to hear songs that were loving and uplifting, about the reality of intimacy, longing, romantic risk and reward. The album is narrated by me in the present, a detached adult figure far away from home, but still driven by an inner fantasy world that is set on the beach where I grew up.”

PHANTASTIC FERNITURE – ” Gap Year ” (Julia Jacklin)

Posted: June 9, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Julia Jacklin  led outfit looks to Thelma & Louise and Kylie Minogue for inspiration, the Australian songwriter Julia Jacklin already has a glowing reputation among folk rock diehards. Her debut album, 2016’s Don’t Let the Kids Win, was warmly welcomed earning her spots at venerable Festivals . As she revealed in a Twitter update in March, Jacklin has made steady progress on her sophomore record. However, lately she’s been focused on broadening her artistry as part of a new group called Phantastic Ferniture. Jacklin’s solo talents are still being put to good use here, but the garage pop band is purposely meant to be a departure from her and her bandmates’ usual, more serious output.

“The mission is obvious: Don’t overthink it,” a press release notes. Jacklin elaborated, saying, “I’d gone straight into folk music, so every experience I’d had on stage was playing sad music with a guitar in my hand. I thought, I would love to know what it’s like to make people feel good and dance.”

Phantastic Ferniture, which is rounded by Elizabeth Hughes and Ryan K Brennan, successfully get their fans up and moving on “Gap Year”, the latest preview of their upcoming self-titled debut album. As its name suggests, the rollicking and sweeping number seems to inspires listeners to loosen up, leave their comfort zones, and venture off in pursuit of self-discovery — something Jacklin and company have done themselves with Phantastic Ferniture.

Take a listen below via the track’s beautiful music video, which sees the group singing in the great outdoors. Phantastic Ferniture is due out July 27th through Polyvinyl.

This is Gap Year. Filmed by the wonderful Nick Mckk at our favourite place in the world, Mt. Hay in the Blue Mountains x

debut album ‘Phantastic Ferniture’ now! Out July 27th 2018

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ROLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER – ” The Hammer “

Posted: June 8, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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With only single-digit days left before the June 15th release of their much-anticipated album Hope Downs, from Australian Melbourne’s Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have shared one last single and announced their biggest headlining tour yet, album-closing cut “The Hammer” comes on the heels of three previous singles, “Mainland,” “Talking Straight” and “An Air Conditioned Man.”.

“The Hammer” taken from their forthcoming album, Hope Downs, which is out next week (June 15th) via Sub Pop Records. Like most of what you’ll hear on the new album, “The Hammer” is earworm indie rock that nods to Australia’s (and New Zealand’s) rich history of strummy pop (The Go Betweens, The Clean).

HAPPY AXE – ” Seven Sounds / Cheshire Heart “

Posted: June 3, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Canberra- Australia based violinist and singer-songwriter Emma Kelly – aka Happy Axe – follows her Spirit Level debut ‘Seven Sounds’ with the hauntingly captivating ‘Cheshire Heart’, the second track to be revealed from her debut album Dream Punching.

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Happy Axe’s music is a perfect blend of light and shade – intertwining ethereal vocal lines blending with a heavy sense of atmosphere that recalls classic Lynch-ian moodiness or even the dramatic string-laden film scores of Bernard Hermann.

Released May 23rd, 2018
Written and produced by Happy Axe

CLOVES – ” Wasted Time “

Posted: May 29, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS
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We’ve big fans of Australian based Cloves ,with her two previous releases making waves the Melbourne-born songstress is finally back with new cut ‘Wasted Time’. Here is…WASTED TIME…I’m so proud of this record, for me this record is about that voice in your head that fucks with you, that makes you feel paranoid mid conversation with someone that maybe they hate you or maybe you’re boring them, and trying to understand why people want to stay around

It’s a timeless bluesy ballad that focuses down on Kaity Dunstan’s gloriously rich, booming vocals, and talks of the self-esteem issues and lapses in self-confidence that affect us all. And it has us all excited about the debut LP, ‘One Big Nothing​’, which is promised for release later this summer.

WURST NURSE – ” Dedication Doesn’t Pay The Rent “

Posted: May 25, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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In addition to fronting the jangly indie-punk band Camp Cope (who recently released a great new album), Georgia Maq also fronts the more driving, aggressive punk band Würst Nürse, who just released their debut single “Dedication Doesn’t Pay The Rent.” Georgia’s voice here is even more snarling than it is in Camp Cope, and she sounds great over this kind of dark, beefed-up, minor key punk. It’s the first taste of an upcoming four-track EP, which was recored by Ben David of Georgia’s collaborators The Hard Aches, and that EP will be out at a later date via Damaged Music.

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They no longer count Camp Cope’s Georgia Maq as a member, but the “five-piece nurse punk from Melbourne, Australia” have responded to our present pandemic with a new single. “Needless to say, things have been a bit shit this past year,” they write. “Between dealing with the realities of pandemic nursing we have been chipping away at writing and recording new music and today we are super grateful that we can share this with the world…”

HATCHIE – ” Sugar & Spice ” EP

Posted: May 25, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Hatchie’s utterly perfect new EP Sugar & Spice might remind you of The Cranberries and Natalie Imbruglia both names are meant as deep compliments. But instead , I’ll go with Cocteau Twins whose Robin Guthrie has already remixed a song from Sugar and The Sundays, but even those fall short in capturing the album’s radiant, sparkling beauty. So let’s forego comparisons altogether and say this instead: that Hatchie  aka Harriette Pillbeam has the kind of graceful knack for pop hooks that artists twice her age would sell their souls for. Step inside her mind; a dreamy landscape where cascading synths, jangling guitars, propulsive rhythms and white noise undulate beneath irresistible pop melodies.

The EP moves from triumph to triumph: in “Sure,” Hatchie’s voice skips through a glistening field of guitars, pausing only to ricochet her voice up and up and up the octave on the chorus. She see-saws up and down, from high register to deep alto, on the verses to the title track, the chorus of which is as sticky-sweet and elastic as pulled taffy. But the runaway winner on an EP full of stunners comes at the end; on “Bad Guy,” Hatchie modulates her voice so it lands somewhere between pained longing and calm resolution, and the way the chorus spills from her lips short, breathless syllable after short, breathless syllable adds to the song’s nervous momentum. That the album runs a short 20 minutes is Sugar & Spice’s only drawback as you want more, but that’s a minor quibble; Hatchie could write an album three times as long, and it would still feel like it was over too soon.

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Released May 25th, 2018

LEROY FRANCIS – ” S.O.R.E. (or Songs On Repeat Every Day) “

Posted: May 25, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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S.O.R.E. is our first true encounter with Leroy Francis, a multi-instrumentalist and known insomniac originally from Sydney, Australia. Considering those facts, the story goes that Francis has spent countless sleepless nights, resulting in a rather large library of self-made tape recordings at home from his bedroom. This new EP includes 6 tracks from those bleary-eyed, wee-morning-hour sessions, and you certainly get that sense while listening.

S.O.R.E. (or Songs On Repeat Every Day) is a dazzling mixture of brooding pop and shredded guitar crunches, all blended together into a swirling, psych-tinged landscape. There’s a cool serving of fizzy electronics stretched through a couple of tracks, lending their sounds perfectly to titles “Intoxicated Dreams” and “Comatose.” “Intoxicated Dreams” is built up with dazed guitar leads and steady electronic percussion. You’ll find Francis using his peculiar voice as a tool in certain moments, adding a sense of depth to songs that would otherwise not be present, citing the interlude in track 3 “For What’s To Come.” During some moments I’m reminded of King Tuff, because of his tone, but because of the way he delivers his voice.

“Carry Me” is constructed with sharp, buzz-saw guitars, with Francis’ gritty vocals soaring through the buzzy atmosphere. “Comatose” has its throbbing basses and icy synth beams. Francis is at his best in the brutally honest “Sleeping Ain’t Easy,” singing a lullaby of sorts with his impeccably breathy and unique tone. His voice falls right into place as the instrumentation flows in like a refreshing wave in an endless ocean. It’s a dreamy affair, with a floating atmosphere that’s streamed with warbled guitars and a buoyant bassline that flows against the grain.

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Released May 17th, 2018

BATTS – ” Shame “

Posted: May 19, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Currently in the midst of her debut UK tour, Melbourne’s BATTS has this week shared her new video to the excellent single Shame. The track is the latest taster off BATTS’ upcoming debut album, the follow-up to the superb, space-themed EP, 62 Stars.

While still with one eye on the skies, Shame is in many ways more rooted to Earth than BATTS has ever previously been. The track tackles the great shame of our age, the gradual, or perhaps all too rapid, destruction of our planet, “I was hoping that the way that we think, is not the way that we’ll think in a little while, honey I’m losing hope.” The track casts the romantic notion of shooting off to another planet where, “Bowie watches us through the stars”, while ultimately knowing that is not the answer to our issues. BATTS’ message is delivered with her most musically impressive offering to date; the prominent tumbling bass accompanied by delightfully loose guitar work and the stunning vocal, the middle ground of Angel Olsen’s clipped tones and Lucy Dacus’ more emotive, held notes. BATTS might dream of floating off to the stars, pretty soon she’s going to be a very bright star in her own right.

Shame is out now

SARAH MARY CHADWICK – ” Sugar Still Melts In The Rain “

Posted: May 16, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Sugar Still Melts In The Rain is Sarah Mary Chadwick’s 4th solo work. It was recorded and mixed by friend, musician and filmmaker Geoffrey O’Connor in Vanity Lair and Phaedra Studios in Melbourne. The album came together so quickly partly as a result of the duo’s commitment to efficiency and partly due to Sarah’s lack of attachment to the idea of “the perfect vocal take.” She knows she isn’t a virtuoso; tongue firmly in check, she is quick to reference those limitations mockingly. Yet, it’s within those boundaries that she thrives, disinterested in the perfect take in lieu of her best take – unique, somber and raw.
Fourth album release from Sarah Mary Chadwick ‘Sugar Still Melts In The Rain’. This pre-order comes with a limited edition art print by Sarah Mary Chadwick.
released May 11th, 2018
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