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MANSIONAIR – ” Hold Me Down “

Posted: December 28, 2017 in MUSIC
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Sydney trio Mansionair have had a whirlwind two years with their songs picking up traction globally on streamingservices.
They released their song “Hold Me Down” in early 2014 to widespread praise for the mesmerizing and genre-defying track from tastemakers including NME, The Guardian, Stereogum, BBC Radio 1 and Pigeons and Planes,  who declared the band an “Act to Watch”. The song caught the attention of CHVRCHES who then released the  “Hold Me Down” on their own Goodbye Records Imprint.

That led to Mansionair being the opener for the Every Open  Eye Tour. Mansionair has sold out headline shows, played the coveted Laneway Festival and Splendour in the Grass tours, and shared stages with the likes of Florence and the Machine, Alt-J, and The Temper Trap.

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KING GIZZARD & the LIZARD WIZARD – ” Greenhouse “

Posted: December 28, 2017 in MUSIC
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Australian freak-rock monsters King Gizzard and & Lizard Wizard are chugging their way to their stated goal of releasing five full-length albums in 2017. The fourth, “Polygondwanaland”, came out last month, and the third, Sketches of Brunswick East, was among most bloggers 50 Best Albums of 2017. Now the yet-to-be-announced fifth seems imminent, with two new songs emerging last week and another new one landing today via Melbourne’s Triple R Radio. “Greenhouse” is right in the Gizzard pocket, with dark synths, sitars, and ominous vocals swirling in a druggy ooze. Perfect for the holiday season! With 12 days to go before the New Year, King Gizzard and & Lizard Wizard have just enough time to release like six more records. But it seems, finally, that one will be enough.

GOLD CLASS – ” Get Your’s “

Posted: December 28, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Drum is the bold second album from Gold Class. Recorded at Melbourne’s Head Gap studios / Tropical Fuck Storm Studios and co-produced by Gareth Liddiard of The Drones, “Drum” sees Gold Class explore new territory in both songwriting and sonics.

Commenting on the album title, Adam Curley (lead singer) says “Drum is primitive. It’s physical. It’s the beat of your heart. It’s immediate. It comes from the past, but it also beckons to something in the future.” It holds other dualities, too – submission and authority; repetition and propulsion. And yet at its core, it’s just something you can dance to. “Soaring across it all is front man Curley’s voice, that stentorian howl of angst and poetic declarations.”

The follow-up to 2015 debut It’s You, Drum is a brasher, vivid widescreen account of a band hitting its stride while betraying the complex signs and scars of a life since lived.

Released August 18th, 2017 , Gold Class – Get Yours New album ‘Drum’ out now

DISPLAY HOMES – ” Climate Change ” EP

Posted: December 28, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Band releases debut single, takes world by storm, gets single of the year honors. The first one is true and the third one is kinda true depending on your perspective and number two is true if you insert the word my before world. Australia’s Display Homes are half a world away from Athens, Georgia, but they can certainly be considered inheritors of Pylon’s post punk angular dance grooves. Climate Change has a brilliant riff juxtaposed with falsetto vocals that descend to a growl on the chorus. Bonus points for taking on weighty topics like misogyny and climate change and still make you want to dance as the boat goes down.

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DUNE RATS – ” Braindead “

Posted: December 28, 2017 in MUSIC
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The Australian band Dune Rats have just scored a Number1 album and sold out a national tour, but that’s all easy. Of course, Dune Rats have a massive regional audience, which is why the band have just announced their Fuck Yeah Ledge Yew! regional tour, which will see the boys hit towns and cities in five states.

In addition, they have also released the new video for ‘Braindead’, the third single The Kids Will Know It’s Bullshit. The guys play in a huge field of weed, because that’s the type of thing Dune Rats do in their videos.

Here’s what they had to say about the clip: “It was epic to head out to the middle of nowhere with the Afends crew and setup a ramp inside a massive weed field. Then just drank beers and had a sick arvo.”

JEN CLOHER – ” Forgot Myself “

Posted: December 28, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Picture this, on tour in the UK recently Jen Cloher, and her band of Courtney Barnett, Bones Sloane and Jen Sholakis enter a room. They take up their respective instruments, all facing one another from their respective stations. Greg Walker presses record. As R.E.M. once sang, sweetness follows. Jen Cloher abandoned her folk-rock roots some five years ago and has never looked back. It’s given her a Dylan-goes-electric reinvention, a second shot at glory and unquestionably her strongest album release to date. It all starts here for Cloher’s eponymous fourth album, and once that groove is locked in there’s no getting out of it. You’ll see it coming, believe.

 

DEAFCULT – ” Auras “

Posted: December 28, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Here’s the info on Deafcult: Loud guitars. Four of them. Interested? Right this way. Watch in awe as these Brisbane natives find their own way of making this quadruple-attack work entirely in their favour, eschewing maximalist overcooking in favour of tactical dynamic shifts and strict sensibilities. Few songs in the calendar year were able to find the balance between heaviness and accessibility the way “Rubix” did. It resulted in one of the year’s best singles from a band that you’d understandably only expect album cuts from. Lift your fixed gazes like antennas to heaven, from your shoes to the horizon.

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The Deafcult debut full length Auras, is a record about dreams; the ghosts of people, places and situations past that haunt our nights sleep, or lack-thereof. Reflecting on romanticised memories as a disaffected suburban teenager, tales of love, drugs, death and what it meant to both discover and lose yourself. You told yourself it was going to last forever.

After 2015’s self-titled demo, the Brisbane six-piece sought to go further towards the margins —noisier, more precise, more dense, simply more. And yet, they became something much closer to a guitar-pop band in the process. From a certain angle, they are. Auaras has anthems firmly planted throughout, often behind the fuzz and haze, sometimes pushed to abstraction. But even in its most distorted moments, there is a gentleness to the music. AURAS is reflecting on some overwhelming themes, after all.

The SHIFTERS – ” A Believer b​/​w Contrast Of Form “

Posted: December 28, 2017 in MUSIC
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Melbourne’s The Shifters finally follow up their cassette from a couple years back with this slightly more melodic but no less urgent single. They still sound steeped in early Fall dashed with bits of psychedelia. Based in Melbourne Australia’s The Shifters have been making a really impressive noise over the last couple of years, still in their infancy but growing stronger with each gig they do, the band have grown to become one of more interesting new groups to emerge from Melbourne’s Underground in recent years.
The group’s debut 7″ Creggan Shops impressed me with its monotone sleeve and scratchy guitar punk genius.

Market Square Recordings are proud to be releasing the band’s second 7″  A Believer b/w Contrast of Form.
Both sides combine great DIY art punk of the highest calibre.

A Believer starts proceedings with rhythmic drum work very reminiscent to Television Personalities 1988 single “How I Learned To Love The Bomb” a steady tribal beat opening way to a mesmerising chord and fender jaguar laden hook. The track also has a very Fall-esque vibe about it, with the way the organ flows through the track…. but ultimately this is The Shifters in their most snotty art-punk best, the song is poppy, its catchy and its the sound of a great new talent.

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The b-side Contrast of Form is basically a trademark sound for this band, this in my opinion is some of the most perfect outsider pop happening in the world right now, the song takes us on a journey explaining the story of a weirdo artist and his ambitions to be a “real” artist and also to possibly “take flight” the song is open to interpretation, thats what’s so cool about this song.

Musically The Shifters follow in a similar course forged by their Antipodian brothers from the early 80s NZ underground scene, groups of which came out of the embryonic Flying Nun Records catalogue, bands like the Stones, The Clean and The Bats… in-fact Contrast of Form is the closest I’ve heard a recent band capture the Dunedin sound without even trying…. there must be something cool in the water down-under??

This two-sided art-punk killer 7″ by Melbourne Australia’s fantastic scratchy guitar heroes The Shifters is available now.

KING GIZZARD & The LIZARD WIZARD – ” The Last Oasis “

Posted: December 26, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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They’re one of the only bands releasing new music (almost five albums to be exact this year, including Polygondwanaland, with several tracks released in the last several months). “Sketches of Brunswick East” has already made most Top 50 best albums lists of 2017. We could be done here, but we’re not.

After singles “All Is Known,” “Beginner’s Luck” and “Greenhouse Heat Death,” the band have released “The Last Oasis.” Since we only remember things in short spurts here on the internet, “All Is Known” is every guitar riff ever used in rock ‘n’ roll, “Beginner’s Luck” is a smooth, cheeky gambling crooner, “Greenhouse Heat Death” is psych-meets-goth death inside of a greenhouse (this is literally what the song is about) and “The Last Oasis” is low-key and lovely, even upbeat at times, proving that you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink the optical illusion.

The CITRADELS – ” God Bless “

Posted: December 26, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The Citradels are an Anti-psych Industrial Wimp rock band from Melbourne, Australia.
We hope you enjoy what we have worked hard to create.  The Citradels are self-releasing their eighth album, “God Bless”. God Bless is a concept album of sorts. It abstractly explores themes of influence, religion and morality through characters from a small town gradually falling out of touch with its surrounds.

Recorded, mixed and mastered by the band from mid 2016 to early 2017, the album is a progression of the sound that the Citradels have developed since their inception five years ago. God Bless is a honing of the 60’s pop writing treated with elements ranging from doo-wop to dream pop, krautrock to country and Gregorian chant to shoegaze. The early Citradel’s sound remains but has been refined and God Bless represents a maturing of the creative concept.

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