A concept album to end all concept albums, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s new album “Murder Of The Universe” is a face-melting musical assault concerned with the downfall of man and the death of the planet. Their tenth album in five dizzying years, it hinges on three distinct chapters throughout which snippets of their breakthrough records I’m In Your Mind Fuzz and Nonagon Infinitye merge in ghostly shadow – and it’s available for human consumption now.
“a batshit, brilliant new album” – New York Observer
“A decidedly dark reflection of today’s angst and insanity. There is a bright side however: given its harrowing descriptions of terror and upheaval, it makes the real world seem tame by comparison.” –Paste
It’s a vibrant time for guitar bands in Australia, and Western Victoria’s Hollow Everdaze shine a bright amongst them. The five piece’s style of psychedelic-pop registers both retro and current, mixing the hooks of ’60s surf with orchestral arrangement and electronic experimentation. Likening them to Foxygen and Temples,
Drenched in “reverbed lushness” and “woozy twang”, Hollow Everdaze marry Sixties-style craftsmanship with swirling sonispheres
Their debut is a “joyous and infectious collection, perfect for laying back and losing one’s head in the clouds to.” It’s out on Deaf Ambitions Records, home to fellow Melbourne outfits Redspencer and Pure Moods.
Hollow Everdaze are: Daniel Baulch – vocals, guitar, drums, keys; Myles Anderson – violin; Jackson Kay – bass, keys; James Turner – drums, elbow guitar on “Never Going Back”; Dylan Young – keys, drums on “Still Ticking”.
Sydney’s no.1 fuzzy jangle good time band. I keep expecting the Australian well of goodness to dry up any day now, but this year has featured so many quality releases from down under that the well is deeper than most. This Sydney band makes mellow jangly goodness that has much in common with Teenage Fanclub, the Earthmen and Dick Diver.
Julia Jacklin’s star continues to rise and we couldn’t be happier for the Sydney based singer-songwriter. Her latest video and single is “Eastwick” from her captivating record Don’t Let The Kids Win.
The video for “Eastwick” is self-directed by Julia
New single from upcoming 7″ “Eastwick/Cold Caller”
Out September 15th via Polyvinyl Records, Transgressive Records and Liberation Music
The new single from alt-country six-piece Georgia State Line , “Older Than I Am”, now has a brand new video filmed and directed by Agostino Soldati. Set at a suburban bowls club the video is wonderfully retro. “Many Australian artists refer to themselves as Americana or Alt Country these days, but very few deliver the real thing as well as Georgia State Line. Hailing from Melbourne but sounding like Texas or Tennessee,
“We crashed Saturday morning bowls at the Glenroy Bowls Club to film a video with the brilliant Agostino Soldati, aiming to reiterate the idea that age is never a factor nor a limit, plus we got a bit of help from our wonderful actors Violet and John busting out some moves,” front woman Georgia Delves explained.
“Older Than I Am” is taken from Georgia State Line upcoming EP Heaven Knows due on the 7th July.
Band Members
Georgia Delves / Patrick Wilson / Teresa Duffy- Richards / Joshua Jones / Tom Brooks / Lochlan Kent
Charm of Finches are sister “dream folk”duo Mabel and Ivy, aged 17 and 14 from Melbourne, Australia, and produce harmony-laden chamber tinged folk for the famished soul. Influences include First Aid Kit, Agnes Obel and Sufjan Stevens. Two talented young artists/sister duo in an airy, chamber folk style which emphasizes lyrics. Melbourne based dream-folk sister duo Charm Of Finches have had a massive year so far, launching their album “Staring at the Starry Ceiling” and picking up some high profile support slots around the country.
Their debut album “Staring at the Starry Ceiling” features the duo’s signature angelic sibling harmonies, with a distinct chamber-folk flavour coming from the instrumentation: cello, violin, guitar, ukulele, lyre, banjo, piano, glockenspiel: all played by the sisters, now aged 16 and 13.
The “singing finches” have played Australian folk and roots festival stages since releasing their debut EP “Home” in 2016.
After an attention-grabbing 2016, Bendigo three-piece Fountaineer have returned with a beautiful new clip for their anthemic track ‘The Cricketers’, hot around their hometown and directed by Melbourne’s Claire Nica.
Steeped in energetic melancholy, ‘The Cricketers’ is a swelling, emotive piece that serves to further the band’s claim as the perfect intersection between the nostalgic charm of a small town outfit, and the sort of sound that can now fill an arena. ‘The Cricketers’ is not really about sport at all. It’s about adolescence, relationships, and mateship. It’s about arriving at a crossroads and trying to find your place in a town amongst people you’ve known your whole life.
Taken from their upcoming debut LP, the track has recently joined the rotation on triple j Radio, and the former Unearthed winners are celebrating with some special free Sydney and Melbourne shows on July 14th & 15th
A concept album to end all concepts, Murder Of The Universe is the new collection by head-bending psychedelicists King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard. Murder Of The Universe is a face-melting musical assault concerned with the downfall of man, the death of the planet, the murder of the whole universe.
Were living in dystopian times that are pretty scary and its hard not to reflect that in our music, says front man Stu Mackenzie. Its almost unavoidable. Some scientists predict that the downfall of humanity is just as likely to come at the hands of Artificial Intelligence, as it is war or viruses or climate change. But these are fascinating times too. Human beings are visual creatures – vision is our primary instinct, and this is very much a visual, descriptive, bleak record. While the tone is definitely Apocalyptic, it is not necessarily purely a mirror of the current state of humanity. Its about new non-linear narratives.
Lit by thunderclaps and lightning, Murder Of The Universe inhabits a sonic landscape of death, decay, ossification, fossilisation, rebirth. It is a place occupied by wandering shape-shifting beasts, bleeding skies, pools of blood, great fires and mushroom clouds; a planet rent asunder by conflict. It may take years for its true importance to be appreciated.
The Australian psychedelic rock band make their worldwide television debut on CONAN.
Two-piece scuzzy pop band The Gooch Palms are proud Novacastrians – they feature the city a lot in their homespun video clips, and even called their (excellent) debut album Novos.
Now they have taken the next logical step and covered Silverchair’s ‘Tomorrow’ – the dark little song that made young musos around the Newcastle, Australian region believe that anything was possible, as long as you had a few friends, some instruments, and a garage.
As they explain, “We were mucking around in rehearsal one day in LA and Leroy just started playing the beginning of ‘Tomorrow’ out of the blue. We were coming back to Australia for our album tour so we thought it could be cool to pay a ‘Goochies style’ homage to the band that inspired both of us growing up as a couple of ratbags in Newcastle.
“We were both big fans of Silverchair and it was so crazy seeing three kids from our hometown get so big all over the world and definitely lit a fire inside both of us, to give music a crack! So we played it live on that last Aussie tour and it went off so after we got back from Europe we decided to pop into the studio and record it.”
It has been announced that three members of beloved Brisbane band The Go-Betweens will reunite for the first time since 1989 to take part in an epic tribute concert for their acclaimed sixth studio album, “16 Lovers Lane”.
Lindy Morrison, Amanda Brown and John Willsteed will pay homage to the 1988 album on which all three played along with co-founders Robert Forster and the late Grant McLennan — the last Go-Betweens record of the ‘classic’ era — with assistance from Dan Kelly, Danny Widdicombe and Luke Daniel Peacock rounding out the core line-up of the band.
That already-acclaimed ensemble will be joined by a range of incredible other Australian musicians including The Church’s Steve Kilbey, GANGajang’s Mark Callaghan and Died Pretty’s Ron Peno, as well as festival artistic director Katie Noonan and her brother, Tyrone (both also known for their work with george), plus Montaigne, Sam Cromack and Jen Boyce (Ball Park Music), Tim Nelson and Zoe Davis (Cub Sport), Sahara Beck and Kirin J Callinan.
“We will be recreating that amazing album on its 30th anniversary … it’s going to be amazing,” Noonan said . “And Lindy, Amanda and John haven’t played together since Berlin in 1989, I think … so that’s super-special.
“You know, Grant was one of my heroes as a musician, but just as a human being — he was the sweetest man — and I thought, well, you know, it was only the 10-year anniversary of his passing, I think, the year before last [Ed: it was 2016], so, you know, he just influenced and inspired so many musicians in Brisbane, Queensland, and around the world; they were such an example of, ‘Wow, you can be from, y’know, St Lucia and have an international career as a musician’.
“Them and The Saints paved the way for so many other artists, so it’ll be beautiful to celebrate Grant’s and Robert’s incredible songwriting and songbook.”
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