The first single from the Australian psychedelic popsters The Babe Rainbow is as lackadaisical as they’ve ever been – another hippy sturummer with a touch of blue-eyed soul and a sugar shaker beat that feels like it’s primed for clear skies and picnic playlists. They accompany the cut with a walk back to ’60s pop films, mashing a ton of Magical Mystery Tour action into a double decker bus full of what seem to be family and friends. Sounding like a good one, not shaking the foundations of pop too hard, but when good homage has its place, especially when its this catchy.
“Peace Blossom Boogy” from The Babe Rainbow’s self-titled debut album – out June 2nd
A great result for Fremantles favourite sons and daughter San Cisco, as they’ve been awarded this week’s feature album spot on triple j Radio in their homeland of Australia, meaning you’re about to hear a lot more of their brand new third album The Water ahead of its release this coming Friday.
The band were probably a shoo-in for the honour as soon as they were chosen to play triple j’s One Night Stand in Mt Isa a few weeks back with Tash Sultana, The Smith St Band and Thundamentals, and gorgeous numbers like ‘Hey, Did I Do You Wrong’ don’t hurt either.
Cardinal Fuzz are proud to announce the release of the epic new album “Dust” via Perth quintet Mt. Mountain. Since forming in 2012 Mt. Mountain are already lauded and revered in Australia where they have built a reputation as one of the most compelling live bands, a distinction that has seen them share stages with myriad Australian and international heavyweights including Sleep, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Thee Oh Sees, Endless Boogie, Tortoise, Bardo Pond and Boris. On “Dust” Mt Mountain have laid down 4 tracks that capture the atmosphere of the red/orange landscapes that consume the Australian Outback. Opening with the mini slow burn epic “Dust” which builds with an incessant drone and flute to form a ghostly menacing and meditative rhythmic and repetitive throb that builds and builds before the release comes and the bands shatters into a heady and thunderous elliptical crunch. Over the entire LP Mt Mountain capture, a dreamlike mood of shimmering dust filled landscapes where slow strummed guitars and single note organ lines ebb and flow and bring to mind Dylan Carson’s ‘Earth’ as played by mushroom ingesting elf’s. ‘Dust’ is psych rock meditation music and It is utterly entrancing.
Sun Sap are a bunch of surf n soul, garage rock n rollers formed on a farm on the South Coast.
Some need a few genre bullet-points to even start describing what they’re doing. Sun Sap start off with ‘surf soul psychedelica’ as descriptors, but for “Love Is Gone” (Independent) add some garage yell to that, and even a blurt of brass that sounds a bit like its escaped from an old Hunters & Collectors tune. They apparently put this odd conglomeration of flavours together on their drummer’s farm, but end up with the kind of song that is bound to be a fixture on community radio playlists soon after you read this. This is what ‘indie’ can be.
Melbourne’s mighty King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard made their US TV debut last night as musical guests on Conan.
Though they’re currently touring the US behind February’s the release of their album “Flying Microtonal Banana”, the Gizzards treated the viewing audience to ‘Lord of Lightning’, one of the 21 tracks featured on their next release of this year and their 10th album “Murder Of The Universe” .
Conan, who was impressed by the band Middle Kids earlier this year , seemed suitably thrilled by King Gizzard’s seven-man strong shred storm. And you can tell he just relished announcing the band’s name on air.
After crushing Coachella over the weekend, King Gizzard are squeezing in a couple headline shows before heading back to the desert for the second weekend of the Californian festival. They’ll be touring the UK and Europe in June in the lead-up to releasing “Murder Of The Universe” (out 23 June).
Melbourne based alt-folk duo Husky have just announced plans to release their highly anticipated new album “Punchbuzz” on the 2nd June this year.
Following the success of their single “Late Night Store” and a sold out east coast tour, Husky have said to expect a more indie-rock feel from their third album.
The duo offered up their new single “Ghost” as a taste of what to expect fromPunchbuzz:
Courtney Barnetts Milk! Records, the label she started when her career was just beginning, is about to release their second compilation after 2014s A Pair Of Pears (With Shadows) entitled Good For You. The compilation will feature artists like, Fraser A. Gorman, Ouch My Face, Jen Cloher, the Finks, and the East Brunswick All Girls Choir. Courtney herself contributed a track of her own,Three Packs A Day which you can listen to right now.
Sydney post-punk quartet Mere Women have released their new single ‘Big Skies‘, the first track taken from their third LP out this June via Poison City Records.
Released together with an accompanying video, ‘Big Skies‘ is their first piece of new music since the release of ‘Drive‘ last August, and will be launched with a string of shows around Australia.
‘Big Skies‘ is everything that encapsulates Mere Women: it’s hypnotic, unsettling, intense, angular and dark. Driving drums, shaking bass and a haunting guitar hook lay behind Amy Wilson’s vocals which have a range of their own. Wilson explains;
“Big Skies is inspired by when I was living out in a small regional NSW town. I left my friends and family and was living all alone in a big house. It was fun having all of that space and freedom but sometimes extremely lonely. I was told when I first moved to town that I should get a dog for protection which made me feel unsafe – like there was something I needed protection from.“
The video for the single shows the band wandering amongst the scenery of the Capertee Valley, the widest natural canyon in the world nestled amongst the Blue Mountains 135km north-west of Sydney. The clip finds beauty in nature and the inanimate alike – industrial buildings, rusted pipes and abandoned furniture laying out on soggy grounds. Together they trek over roads and unstable hills, with moments of blue and red lights flooding the night.
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard have promised at least four albums this year, and the band seem to be right on target.
They have announced on Facebook their next album will be titled “Murder Of The Universe” and will be out on June 23rd, with pre-orders kicking off this Wednesday. The band presented the track on youtube “Han-Tyumi & The Murder Of The Universe (ATO/Flightless), which they described as a ‘Chapter’ of their next thing. In the great prog and psychedelic traditions, it’s your standard dystopian vision of the future with guitar wigouts, rolls of Deep Purple organ, with occasional outbreaks of spoken word, apparently from the viewpoint of the ‘confused cyborg’ of the title, adding a touch of Hitchhikers’ Guide to it. With me so far? Well done you. It’s The Flaming Lips on different drugs.
The album will mark the band’s tenth album after their ninth Microtonal Banana. Here’s hoping the guys will round out this financial year with a chart-topper.
Harrison Brown is an up and coming folk singer/songwriter based in Melbourne. After honing his skills in the alleyway bars of Berlin, back on home soil Harrison is making inroads and is poised to launch a promising career. He has shared the stage with Clare Bowdtich, played numerous local festivals and is a regular at the Airey’s Inlet Festival – this year invited to play at the coveted Wintersong. Harrison is currently touring the first single from his highly anticipated debut EP, recorded with Australian great Marty Brown (Clare Bowditch, Anna Cordell, Flyying Colours). His band of gig weary muso’s will take you on a journey of soul searching and joy making
The Melbourne based singer-songwriter Harrison Brown his latest EP ‘Be Free’, the first track taken from his debut EP. It’s a rich slice of acoustic folk, anchored around Harrison’s killer vocals but bolstered by the presence of a full band. Gradually building up to a rumbling climax, it’s definitely whetted our appetite for the EP.
Harrison is about to launch the single , in addition to setting the track free into the wild with his live band in tow, he’ll also be cutting off his long, flowing locks, which have remained uncut for seven years now. Having promised the chop if the band reached $6k in their recent crowdfunding campaign, the hair had to go – and the gorgeous mane will be donated to Wigs For Kids.
Harrison is gigging presently supported by one of our other new favourites in Charm of Finches, as well as Moylen & Paticakes .
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