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KING GIZZARD and the LIZARD WIZARD – ” Rattlesnake “

Posted: November 11, 2016 in MUSIC
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King Gizz Just Dropped The First Single From Their Next Album

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have wasted no time getting back in action after their very recent album Nonagon Infinity, announcing their next album Flying Microtonal Banana and dropping the first single, ‘Rattlesnake’.

In true King Gizzard style, the track comes complete with a bonkers video clip courtesy of Jason Galea, another eye-searing collage of trippy digital effects. The track itself barrels along for almost eight minutes, driven by an insistent beat and sharp, robotic vox.

The record itself will be dropping on February 24th, the band have their own personal festival Gizzfest, coming up later this month in Australia. Flying Microtonal Banana is King Gizzard’s first-ever experience in microtonal tuning, which features intervals smaller than a semitone and not found in customary Western tuning octaves.

The CHURCH – ” Heyday ” Released November 1985

Posted: November 9, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Heyday is the fourth album by the Australian psychedelic rock band The Church, released in November 1985. The album marked the first occasion when group compositions dominated one of the band’s releases. Steve Kilbey has said: “The demo situation was getting to us – me writing the songs on my eight-track and bringing them along to the band. It sounded too stiff. We’d reached this new energy level on stage which by far superseded anything we’d ever recorded, so we knew the only way to get sounding like that (on record) was for the whole band to write together.”

As the band began cutting the album at Studio 301, it became apparent that there had been a dramatic change in Steve’s voice.Perhaps it was the extended break from performing, or abstaining from drugs, or the hours of yoga; in any case, Steve’s singing was now much more relaxed and warm, and he possessed a wider, more dynamic range. For years, critics had pointed to Steve’s sometimes dour voice as the Church’s weak point. Suddenly, during these new recording sessions, his distinctive vocals became one of the band’s greatest strengths — its signature, in fact. In addition to singing all the leads, Steve also tracked multiple harmony parts for each song, sometimes singing an entire octave higher than his normal register.”

Although most of the keyboards utilised on previous recordings had been stripped back, the album saw a greater amount of embellishment with the addition of strings and brass. While at the time Heyday featured more focus on the guitar interplay than anything since The Blurred Crusade, solos had been cut to a bare minimum.

Despite some critics and followers taking issue with the brash horns on some songs, the album regularly lists among the fan base’s (and even band members’) favourites. Tracks such as “Myrrh” and “Tantalized” have been featured in live shows even up to present day. It is notable for being, to date, the last album by the group to feature a printed lyric sheet – Steve Kilbey has declined to include lyrics with any subsequent albums.

Despite the increased amount of studio collaboration on Heyday between the members, while the band was on tour in April 1986 to support the album, Marty Willson-Piper suddenly quit mid-tour after rising in-band tensions. On 10th July, The Church performed as a three-piece in Hamburg, Germany; Willson-Piper returned within a week after Kilbey agreed that future releases would contain more group efforts.

In 2002 the album was remastered and reissued by EMI Australia, with a bonus disc including promo videos for “Already Yesterday”, “Tantalized” and “Columbus”.

All songs written by Kilbey/Koppes/Ploog/Willson-Piper, except where indicated

  1. “Myrrh” – 4:19
  2. “Tristesse” – 3:29
  3. “Already Yesterday” – 4:14
  4. “Columbus” – 3:50
  5. “Happy Hunting Ground” – 5:31
  6. “As You Will” (Koppes) – 4:44
  7. “Tantalized” – 4:59
  8. “Disenchanted” (Kilbey) – 3:55
  9. “Night Of Light” – 4:47
  10. “Youth Worshipper” (Kilbey/Karin Jansson) – 3:43
  11. “Roman” – 3:51
  12. “The View” (Willson-Piper) – 3:44
  13. “Trance Ending” – 4:48

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DIET – ” Your House ” EP

Posted: November 9, 2016 in MUSIC
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DIET. is a five-piece surf / shed rock outfit from Melbourne Australia. The band was formed in a North London lounge room between mates travelling through Europe. Upon bassist/songwriter, Carlos Tinsey’s, return from a year overseas, the band then began recording and playing shows in 2015.

The band combines members from local Melbourne artists Flamingo Jones (live), Elephant Ego and Seven Year Itch.

Their debut single ‘Your House’ (released October 2015) received a wide range of attention

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In 2015, DIET. played a heap of shows including support slots for Slum Sociable, Big White and Tempura Nights, as well as a headlined single launch. Their new single, The Rip, is another instalment from their debut EP, which is set to release in mid 2016. It sets out to further cement their fresh take on jangle and surf pop, as well as more crooning vocals from Ben O’Loughlin. The song tells the story of Ben’s childhood in sleepy Strathmore in the Western suburbs of Melbourne.

“Upbeat and poppy with just the right amount of jangle” – Indie Shuffle

“This comes from an alternate universe where Morrissey grew up beside the beach, which
sounds like a universe I’d like to inhabit.” – Triple J (Dom Alessio)

“The band lovingly reference the sounds of Beach Fossils and The Smiths, while maintaining
their own unique brand of indie rock.” – Tone Deaf

Debut single from the Melbourne 5-piece.

Members
Benny O – vocals/guitar
Carl – bass/vocals
Ted – guitar
Andy – guitar/vocals
Clance – drums

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HORACE BONES – ” Son Of The City ” EP

Posted: November 9, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Track By Track: Horror Psych Punks Horace Bones Talk New EP ‘Son Of The City’

Melbourne’s self-described “horror psych-punks” Horace Bones recently dropped their new EP Son of the City, lead by lead single ‘Jack The Knife’, taking strong inspiration from the Birthday Party with added dashes of ’60s garage and surf-rock. Son of the City is out now via MGM and available for your listening pleasure below, and the band have taken us through each track below.

TARANTULA
We wrote Tarantula about a year ago and it’s the oldest of our songs to make the EP. I guess that’s kind of fitting that it’s the first track, though there was no intention to portray a timeline. It serves as a mean gig closer because it’s fucking mental and a treat to play live.

The story is a dramatisation of a real event that recounts a night I was out with my girlfriend and this sleazy old dude kept hitting on her. He reminded me of some monstrous insect-like demon. I’m by no means a fighter but when I told him to give us some room he punched me right in the breadbasket. The bit about fist fighting a spider in outer space is an exaggeration.

JACK THE KNIFE
When we were living in our old share house together, there was this shifty dude that was always paying us a visit, trying to sell us his wares. That place had a few regulars that no one could remember inviting. We used to call this guy Jack the Knife because every time he tried to sell you something, he’d offer to throw in a knife to seal the deal. I think he watched too much shopping channel.

This song itself was really easy to record and only took about an hour all up. Christian (the drummer) came up with the driving bongo bridge at the last minute and it’s probably my favourite part of the song.

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OUTSIDE
We were listening to a lot of Lou Reed around the time of putting this song to paper. Lyrically I’ve always shied away from writing “relationship” songs but then I realised that when Lou isn’t singing about heroin he’s usually writing about a girl, or both and that I should just grow up and give it a crack. Also sticking a few La la la’s in there never hurt no chicken.

So this is our unashamedly catchy number. Id say it’s sort of in the vein of an old ’60s garage tune, like from the Nuggets compilations, but with some grungy guitar and bass.

SON OF THE CITY
An ode to Melbourne, this song is about walking the streets at night, listening to music and feeling like you own the place.

The guitars came out really large and frightening thanks to Caz (the Guitarist, duh) going ape shit in the studio. Actually I reckon this track shows each of us at our best. I’m hollering and screaming in between a little crooning, Christian’s drumming sounds like a hell flung train to Footscray and Derny’s playing bass lines that could really give your bladder some grief.

Listen out for our cheeky bassist playing his own name just before the second chorus, “Dery Derny”.

LIKE DUST
There was an alternate track for the EP that was going to go in place of this one. However, the week before we were due to record, the band was over in Adelaide playing a couple of shows. On the long drive back I was getting my usual cabin fever and ranting to the ire of the other guys. Eventually Christian told me in so many words to save my breath and handed me a notebook and pen, so I proceeded to write down all the words as they’re sung in ‘Like Dust’.

The day before we went into the studio we came up with a rough idea of the music and then went in and put it down. The backing vocals at the end came about at about three in the morning on our last day in the studio. The overwhelming guitar sounds was a perfect way to end the whole thing.

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Listening back, I suppose I must have been coming down a bit in the car because it’s pretty nihilistic. Though I find it uplifting because it’s saying that we’re nothing and nothing matters so what you worried for?

Members
Oisin Kelly
Ryan Caswell
Danny Cockburn
Christian Fish

ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER – ” Julie’s Place “

Posted: November 4, 2016 in MUSIC
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Born from late night jam sessions in singer/guitarist Fran Keaney’s bedroom and honed in the thrumming confines of Melbourne’s live music venues, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever began to take shape as audiences got moving. Sharing tastes and songwriting duties, cousins Joe White and Fran Keaney, brothers Tom and Joe Russo, and drummer Marcel Tussie started out with softer, melody-focused songs. The more shows they played, the more those driving rhythms that now trademark their songs emerged. Since then, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever rode that wave from strength to strength. Touring around the country on headline bills and festival slots, they entrenched themselves with their thrilling live shows.

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s songs have always had all the page-turning qualities of a good yarn. Somewhere between impressionists and fabulists, lyricists Keaney, Russo and White often start with something rooted in real life before building them into clever, quick vignettes. The result is lines blurred between fiction and reality – vibrant stories which get closer at a particular truth than either could alone.

In early 2016, the band released Talk Tight , their first EP. That effort put the group on the map with glowing reviews from SPIN, Stereogum, and Pitchfork, praising them as standouts even among the fertile landscape of Melbourne music scene. Chock full of snappy riffs, spritely drumming and quick-witted wordplay, Talk Tight was praised “for the precision of their melodies, the streamlined sophistication of their arrangements, and the undercurrent of melancholy that motivates every note.”

”Julies Place” is the first single off Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s forthcoming EP for Sub Pop, levels up on everything that made Talk Tight such an immediate draw.

“Julie’s Place” from the Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever forthcoming EP due out Spring 2017

JACK RIVER – ” Pato Alto “

Posted: November 2, 2016 in MUSIC
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Proving that rock music can be catchy as well, newcomer Jack River is turning heads already. With a sound similar to early PJ Harvey, mixed in with the songwriting sensibilities of some of the best Beatles singles, you’ve got an amazing artist on your hands who is looking unstoppable. a pumped-up and pristine debut from Australian newcomer Jack River who seems to be all about choruses bright enough to power cities. No complaints coming from these quarters. Her debut EP Highway Songs No2 is out now on I Oh You Records.

“I wrote and recorded Palo Alto through so many moments in my life that the song became a kind of folder for memories and sentiments over a long stretch of time. I started writing it in my hometown, then continued it in Sydney (my friend lived in a building called Palo Alto), and then wrote the rest in different trips to the studio.”

“It was always destined to be sun-drenched and gritty and gilded in synths and electric guitars – I wanted to find the line between the 90’s, early 2000’s and now, and blend all my dreams of a highway song into one. The moment this song came together, production-wise, it felt like the beginning of Jack River. It’s about letting go but not giving up, melancholic-but-sure endings, and people realising magic when it’s too late – even though you knew it all along.”

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ALEX LAHEY – ” Lets Go Out “

Posted: October 19, 2016 in MUSIC
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Alex Lahey

Earlier this year, Melbourne’s Alex Lahey released her debut EP, “B-Grade University”, which is the kind of startlingly impressive debut that you just know is going to catch on . It’s five songs and with such super-specific lyrics which Alex normally delivers in a melodic deadpan that each one is instantly distinguishable from the rest.

Each song has a line or a hook that that gets stuck in your head right away, for one reason or another. “I went to B-Grade University and got myself an arts degree,” she sings on the chorus to opener “Ivy League.” “Let’s go out and have fun tonight / let’s go out and get drunk tonight,” goes the next song “Let’s Go Out.” It may sound simple on paper, but it sounds like a rallying cry when Alex Lahey sings it.
The best line might be the intro to “You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me.” “All I want is to have cleanskin wine, and watch Mulholland Drive with you.” Non-Australians may need to look up what cleanskin wine is, but otherwise, the same people who look forward to a night in with cheap alcohol and a hip counter-culture film are the people who are gonna dig Alex Lahey’s music. (On that note, there’s also a song on this EP called “Wes Anderson.”) Instrumentally, the EP pulls from the last two decades of indie rock. It’s punky, but mannered.


Being a wordy, deadpan indie rocker from Melbourne, Alex has of course gotten some Courtney Barnett comparisons (and while she admires Courtney’s music, she’s tired of them). I’d say she does sound a bit like Courtney sometimes, particularly on “Wes Anderson” and closing track “L-L-L-Leave Me Alone,” and this EP has me feeling about as excited as Courtney’s debut EP did. Get hip to Alex now .

Thanks to Brooklyn Vegan

TOGETHERAPART – ” Still Here “

Posted: October 16, 2016 in MUSIC
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Electro darkwave never sounding so good as it does coming from Melbourne trio Togetherapart on new single ‘Still Here’.

Recorded and produced by Lisa Wojciechowski (vocals), Zoe Lloyd (guitar) and Drew Wheway (bass, drum machine, sampler, synths) of Togetherapart (mixed and mastered by Simon Lam of KLLO), the follow-up to ‘Too Far’ from earlier this spring, builds on their lush dreampop-synthgaze roots, bringing in reverberating guitars and the haunting vocals of Wojciechowski.

There’s an atmospheric spark created by Togetherapart right from the opening notes of ‘Still Here’ that is hard to forget once heard

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BATTS – ” Lie To Me “

Posted: October 14, 2016 in MUSIC
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BATTS is the project of Melbourne-based musician Tanya Batt. Working hand in hand with England based producer Ficci, she seems to have found the perfect balance of electronic and organic elements within her cinematic emotive sound.

Batts released her debut single Morals last year and it took the music world by storm. It received over one million plays both online and from radio with airplay from BBC Radio 1 with Huw Stephens, support from BBC Introducing, and Triple J.  The second single For That, I’m Sorry also received support from BBC Introducing, Triple J and KCRW. With worldwide exposure Batts is on her way to becoming a household name.

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LISA MITCHELL – ” Warhol “

Posted: October 14, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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After a long time away, folk-pop darling Lisa Mitchell has finally returned to the scene with the announcement of her ‘Something About These Streets’ tour. Mitchell is set to tour tracks from her forthcoming album ‘Warriors’ (due out Friday 14th October). It will be the Australian singer-songwriter, Lisa Mitchell’s third album, Warriors, her first for Play It Again Sam.

New single “Warhol” is an intriguing piece, Explaining the title Lisa recalls, “I kept hearing Warhol through the melody I was mumbling…It’s as if I was calling out to Andy Warhol , as if he were a dear confidante…A world to find refuge in…”. While Lisa might find her refuge in Warhol’s Pop Art world, but we can think of worse places to get lost than the music he’s inspired her to make.

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Warriors is out today via Play It Again Sam. Lisa Mitchell tours Europe in February,

“We really got rid of a lot of guitar and piano in this album,” says Lisa, who has teamed up with US producer Eric J (who has worked with Flume and Chet Faker, among others), opening up some brave new realms.

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