Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Riley Pearce tackles his current dilemmas head-on with the new single and visual for ‘Electricity’. Always one to portray working-class love and big picture philosophy over a magnetic alt-folk melody, Riley Pearce’s latest offering is another deep-dive into life’s uncertainties. Lifted from his forthcoming EP, “Love and Other Stuff”, out March 19th, 2021, Pearce says the song deals with a young couple faces as they pursue their passions and careers.
My girlfriend and I have these dreams of one day owning a home and starting a family, but there’s a lot of uncertainty involved and a lot of distance between ourselves now and reaching the eventual dream,” he says. “With that in mind, the song is about being happy no matter where we land, with each other’s presence and being in this journey together.”
Love and Other Stuff follows the release of Riley Pearce’s last EP, “Maybe I Can Sleep It Off”, released in September. His imitable self-reflection and ability to grapple with his own feelings in real-time has seen his trademark brand of storytelling resonate across the globe, with over 50 million streams to date.
Last year, Riley Pearce toured all through Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom before returning to live in Melbourne. His upcoming EP was produced by Andy Lawson, who loaned Pearce his Japanese Fender Jaguar for the recording. Coupled with a pedal Pearce found at a second-hand shop in London, “Love and Other Stuff” will speak to the times while also offering a reprieve from it.
Filmed by Riley Pearce from lockdown in Melbourne. WRITER / MUSICIAN: Riley Pearce
Mt Mountain are very excited to announce that we have signed with Fuzz Club Records. Details on the incoming release coming soon!
Fuzzclubrecords: “We’re super excited to announce that we’ve signed the great @mt.mountain for their incoming third album – the details of which will all be revealed soon! Hailing from Perth, Australia and forming in mid-2012, Mt. Mountain deal in just about everything we love here at Fuzz Club: a sprawling, motorik psychedelic rock sound that effortlessly journeys between tranquil, drone-like meditations and raucous, full-throttle wig-outs that’ll blow your mind as much as your speakers. Both songs are hazy early morning ebbing drifts that don’t so much flower, as they manage to hold you in suspension, teetering on the edge of gliding lysergic flight, nearly existing in the background, though ever-present enough to hold your wayward attention with disembodied emancipated delight, filled with wanderlust and super low-keyed visionary splendour.
To find out more and stream their recent single ‘Tassels’.
Hailing from Perth, Australia and forming in mid-2012, Mt. Mountain deal in just about everything we love here at Fuzz Club: a sprawling, motorik psychedelic rock sound that effortlessly journeys between tranquil, drone-like meditations and raucous, full-throttle wig-outs that’ll blow your mind as much as your speakers. This band puts you under a blissful lysergic spell. I can not wait for a new record.
With a number of EPs and singles and two full-length albums behind them – their 2016 debut ‘Cosmos Terros’ and 2018’s ‘Golden Rise’ – Mt. Mountain have picked up a formidable reputation in their homeland and further afield. As far as live shows go they’ve played shows with such notable Aussie comrades as King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard and ORB, as well as a long list of international heavy-hitters including Sleep, MONO, Thee Oh Sees, Acid Mothers Temple and Moon Duo. It’s for good reason that this lot have been busy earning their stripes over the last few years and we’re incredibly excited to start showing you what they have in store in the coming weeks and months… watch this space!
The Band:
Steven Bailey (organ / vocals) Thomas Cahill (drums) Glenn Palmer (guitar/synth) Brendan Shanley (bass) Derrick Treatch (guitar).
Here is an Australian band that will appeal to the Khruangbin crowd, as well as to fellow countrymen like Tame Impala or King Gizzard (but their more mellow side). They cut their psychedelics with pretty poppy hooks, sometimes even going a little overboard on the sweet and sugary to my taste. “Songs Of Worship” is strongest when it explores repetition, taking on an extremely comfortable floaty, atmospheric, fleeting sound. Kudos to their producer too, because sound-wise this is a treat. Taking influence from heavy psych/world music peers such as Goat, Here Lies Man and Kikagaku Moyo,
The Sydney 7-piece Kimono Drag Queens are coming in hot with their much-anticipated debut album “Songs of Worship”, after a steady stream of stellar singles over the past half decade. Kimono Drag Queens are a psychedelic/world music seven piece with musical influences spanning continents, genres and flavours. With a focus on rhythm heavy walls of sound, they’ve formed a style that blends elements of psych rock, Tuareg music, 60’s pop and noirish lyricism that fails to draw comparison
“Wild Animals” has a strong Band Of Skulls vibe which I dig, while “Evil Desires” shears past my allergy zone with its merry Afro-beats and guitar lines, but it saves itself as it gets a tad heavier along the way with some rhythmic fireworks at the end Willys World” starts of a little problematic with its obligatory guitar/citar sounds, but develops as the album’s strongest song with a perfect built-up and a powerful head-bobbing riff that will worm itself inside your head for a while afterwards.
The record twists and turns through a broad array of psych wizardry, touching on many cornerstones of the genre, with single. ‘Wild Animals’ evoking memories of Goat’s breakout single ‘Run To Your Mama’. ‘Hunters’ displays a memorising percussion performance driving the record as it pulls you deeper under its spell before you have time to brace yourself, after which the album crescendos through the euphoric ‘Willy’s World’ to its climax, leaving you gasping for breath. “I like my psych to have transcendental qualities, with the ability to transport me out of my reality, and place me far above the world and its troubles. I want a journey of sound that changes my perception while listening, and Kimono Drag Queens was able to offer me that on ‘Songs of Worship’, along with a whole lot more.”
Like Utopia Avenue, Songs Of Worship won’t necessarily bring new content to the table, but it does provide a modern angle to psychedelics that sheds some new light to it. Besides that, it is a very pleasant listen that will go down easily like some THC-infused candy. Sometimes too sweet to my taste, yet addictive all the same. ‘Songs of Worship’ is due for release digitally on the 6th of November 2020 and will have a vinyl release to accompany it, with presales live on Friday September 11th 2020. ‘Wild Animals’ evoking memories of Goat’s breakout single ‘Run To Your Mama’. ‘Hunters’ displays a memorising percussion performance driving the record as it pulls you deeper under its spell before you have time to brace yourself, after which the album crescendos through the euphoric ‘Willy’s World’ to its climax, leaving you gasping for breath. “I like my psych to have transcendental qualities, with the ability to transport me out of my reality, and place me far above the world and its troubles. I want a journey of sound that changes my perception while listening, and Kimono Drag Queens was able to offer me that on ‘Songs of Worship’, along with a whole lot more.”
Like Utopia Avenue, Songs Of Worship won’t necessarily bring new content to the table, but it does provide a modern angle to psychedelics that sheds some new light to it. Besides that, it is a very pleasant listen that will go down easily like some THC-infused candy. Sometimes too sweet to my taste, yet addictive all the same.
http://‘Songs of Worship’ is due for release digitally on the 6th of November 2020 and will have a vinyl release to accompany it, with presales live on Friday September 11th 2020.
Southern Australia’s own King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard released a full-show video of their performance at New Belgium Brewing Company in Asheville, NC this week.
Unlike a typical show video, however, the Melbourne sextet didn’t have an official film crew on hand to capture the moment. Instead, the band pulled cellphone clips from dozens of fans in the crowd and edited them together with official soundboard audio.
The 17-song set began with “Evil Star” before two Infest The Rats’ Nest tracks, “Self-Immolate” and “Venusian 1”, followed by a couple of Murder of the Universe songs, “Alter Me III” and “Altered Beast IV”. After “People-Vultures”, “This Thing”, and “Beginner’s Luck”, King Gizzard brought the show to its midpoint with an upbeat “Rattlesnake”, followed by the trancey and danceable “Cyboogie”.
The fan shot clips, as well as periods of black screen when presumably nobody filmed, continued as the band flowed into “Loyalty”, then “Horology” and “Boogieman Sam”. “Plastic Boogie”, “Mars for the Rich”, and “Hell” then led to the show closers “The Lord of Lightning” and “The Bitter Boogie”. With songs spanning the band’s entire discography, the 90-minute performance kept fans engaged from beginning to end.
In other King Gizzard news, the band also recently shared a collection of demos to their Bandcamp page, entitled Demos Vol. 1 + Vol. 2. The 28-song album contains demos of songs released throughout their 10-year career.
If you’re a Something For Kate fan, you should already be suitably excited about the imminent release of their first new album in over eight years. ‘Come Back Before I Come To My Senses’ is the fourth track we’ve heard from the album and it’s yet another reminder of the power of Paul Dempsey’s song writing and the band’s ability to make those songs, In the year of 1994, from the diverse city of Melbourne, Australia, alternative rock band Something For Kate formed. Starting in high school, the band originally consisted of vocalist and guitarist Paul Dempsey and drummer Clint Hyndman. In 1998, Stephanie Ashworth joined as the new bassist and the three have stuck together ever since.
Something For Kate released their first studio album, Elsewhere for 8 minutes in 1997, a year before Stephanie joined. Their second studio album, Beautiful Sharks (1998) was Stephanie’s first album with the band. To date, the band have released seven albums, including one B-sides, a best of and one live. The band are due to release a new album The Modern Medieval in November this year. The album will feature recent singles “Supercomputer” and “Situation Room”. Something For Kate have been nominated for 16 ARIA’s, achieved six gold and platinum albums and received several awards such as Best Single, Best Live Band and Best Album from various music outlets such as Rolling Stone Magazine, Triple J and iTunes.
Something For Kate’s seventh album The Modern Medieval will be out next month.
The Psychedelic Porn Crumpets continue to assert their status as one of Australia’s hardest working bands – pandemic be damned – in announcing the release of their new album, “Shyga! the Sunlight Mound”, set for release in February 2021. for the Perth group, creativity and production hasn’t stopped in 2020. Despite much of this year’s tour plans being put on pause, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have used their time off road to continue preparing for the release of their fourth studio release, and an eventual blistering return to stages around the world.
Psychedelic Porn Crumpets have already given fans an early taste of the forthcoming “Shyga! era, with ‘Mr. Prism’ in august. the creation of “Shyga! the Sunlight Mound” especially off the back of 2019’s huge album and “Now For The whatchamacallit”, came together in a different environment for McEwan and the results speak to the band’s evolution and McEwan’s evolution as a songwriter. “for the first time in a long time i was home without any tours booked, no work, no deadlines and I felt free to create. my writing process became ritualistic; every morning starting with a small walk to the local bottle shop at 11am and writing whatever flowed, allowing myself to design in all styles without boundaries, and not trying to theme the album early on. I haven’t had the luxury of writing this way since the first record, which i spent almost a year working on. it felt like I was myself again, creating without opinion or constraints. gliding through weeks with a day seeming to pass.”
I’m chuffed with how the album has turned out. For me the goal was to create something that effortlessly flowed from track 1-14 while shifting moods, gears, tempos and styles without losing energy. I wanted the overall vibe sounding like a cohesive piece that swirls with glitched out 70’s-inspired guitars, Zeppelin-esque drums and a booming P-H phat litmus sturdy fuzzy bass tone that hopefully you can crank with the old folks over a coupla cold frothies.
They’ll be limited edition colour vinyl releases for each territory – details coming later on! Keep your eyes open.
And our brand spanking-new tune ‘Tally-Ho’ gets it’s first spin on Future Sounds with @anniemacmanus on @bbcradio1 tonight at 7pm(UK).
Can’t wait to share the new tunes with you, we’re extremely proud of this one!
Sophie Payten – the folk-pop singer and producer known as Gordi shares her latest single, a soaring, post-new wave anthem, ahead of her second album “Our Two Skins” . Since her last album “Reservoir”, Gordi has collaborated with Troye Sivan, toured with Sam Smith, Julien Baker and more, performed at Eaux Claires alongside The National, Bon Iver and Big Red Machine, and finished her medical degree to become a qualified doctor. The dark horse of ‘Our Two Skins’ – ‘Extraordinary Life’ – has just ticked over 1 million streams. It’s the most played song from the record. You guys totally should’ve told me that you want me to write non-moody songs.
To celebrate, I asked a couple of friends to reimagine the song. I first met Alex Somers when we worked together on my first album ‘Reservoir’ in his studio in Iceland. I saw Alex + Jonsi play their collaborative record ‘Riceboy Sleeps’ at the Sydney Opera House last year and Alex has brought that beautiful atmosphere he always finds to his rework of ‘Extraordinary Life’. Georgia Maq (lead singer of Camp Cope) released some of her solo work earlier this year, which I totally fell in love with. She seemed to really dig ‘Extraordinary Life’ so she produced and engineered her own cover of it.
Gordi is proud to share the “Extraordinary Life” EP featuring compelling remixes from Alex Somers (Sigur Ros, Black Mirror) and Camp Cope’s Georgia Maq. The EP also includes a live version recorded at the Sydney Opera House in July this year, and a lo-fi bedroom demo from 2018. “Extraordinary Life” is the most streamed song from the 27 year old Canowindra artist-producer’s second album Our Two Skins, notching over 1 million plays on Spotify last week.
Gordi’s “Extraordinary Life” reworked. Original song taken from Gordi’s album “Our Two Skins” out now via Jagjaguwar Records.
Carla Geneve has announced a national tour this August performing shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Fremantle! She’s taking her debut self-titled EP on the road, which was released in June via Dot Dash Recordings/Remote Control Records.
Carla’s also been announced on a national tour from September-October with HOLY HOLY.
To celebrate the announcement, Carla has shared a video for ‘Things Change’. The video was filmed on her recent debut tour of North America supporting San Cisco, Carla shares – “The video is a tour diary of sorts for my first ever shows in North America. It has been a year of big change for me and I felt like being on the road and touring was very significant of a big shift in my life. I wanted to capture some of the moments on the road that people don’t usually get to see – from travel to preparing for a show to everything in between.”
Carla Geneve recently brought her musical mastery and lyrical charm to the Live at Enmore studio, with an incredible version of Things Change.
Carla Geneve is a 21 year old singer-songwriter based in Fremantle, Western Australia. Backed by a captivating show and unique brand of brutally honest lyricism, Geneve established herself as one of Australia’s most prominent up and coming artists after the release of her breakout debut self-titled EP which saw her tour Australia prolifically playing sold out shows and festivals such as Laneway Festival & Falls Festival as well as tour with/support artists such as Cat Power, Kurt Vile, Julia Jacklin, Belle & Sebastien, Fred Armisen and more.
Her critically acclaimed debut self-titled EP was released in June 2019 via Remote Control Records/Dot Dash Recordings receiving praise from KEXP, Beats 1, Triple J and more. Geneve promoted the EP with her debut tour of North America was awarded the leading number of wins at the 2019 West Australian Music Awards taking home Best EP, Best Single – ‘Things Change’, Best Guitarist & Best Rock Act as well as Live Voice of The Year (WA) at the National Live Music Awards.
Geneve will release her forthcoming single ‘Don’t Wanna Be Your Lover’, the first from her debut album aided by extensive national/international touring, further solidifying her as one of Australia’s most exciting up and coming artists.
Carla Geneve singer songwriter from Perth, Australia
Alternately brash and endearing Melbourne foursome Twerps return with new single “Work It Out”, their first new material since last-year’s celebrated self titled debut album. After a three month stint in the US earlier this year, which took in SXSW and a 18 date tour supporting Real Estate, the band jumped back into the studio to record this new three song single, which emerges as a co-release between Chapter Music and New York label Underwater Peoples. While maintaining the band’s trademark cheeky charm, Work It Out shows a newfound confidence, an extra lick of polish. In contrast, B-side He’s In Stock is a driving, bratty complaint, while Recall admits catchily to forgetting the name of a one night stand. He’s In Stock was premiered on Stereogum in August, and picked up by the likes of The Fader, Pitchfork, RCRD LBL and many others. It has now had almost 40,000 Soundcloud listens.
The new single comes out just ahead of another North American tour in October, taking in CMJ showcases and a run of dates with Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker. Before they leave Australia, they’re also performing at this year’s Sound Summit Festival in Newcastle (as part of celebrations for Chapter Music’s 20th birthday) and Brisbane Festival, then return- ing home in December to play at Meredith Music Festival.
Jay Watson multi-instrumentalist and longtime staple of Australia’s psych-rock scene, isn’t planning on recording a deathmetal song. But if he happened to come up with a killer riff in that vein, he already has a plan for it: “If I was vibing on it because I’d be listening to heaps of Swedish death-metal, then I’d definitely put it on album,” he says. “I’d probably just try to make a few more songs like that—a deathmetal EP or something.”
The songwriter—who plays in Pond, has been a live member of Tame Impala since the project’s inception and is the rare musician to occasionally join Kevin Parker in the studio—is reflecting on the wild eclecticism of Out in the World, his fifth solo LP under the GUM name. The largely home-recorded LP drifts from twinkling space-folk of “Weightless in LA” to the psychedelic R&B of “The Thrill of Doing It Right” to the electro-Afrobeat pulse of “Low to Low” (which he describes as a “broken robot samba”).
Watson doesn’t have a clue how to categorize his music, though he thinks critics tend to look in the wrong place for their reference points. “With GUM and Pond and Tame Impala, the influence of hip-hop is not that talked about,” he says, noting he and his friends got “really obsessed” with rap music around 2014. “It was a major influence— as big an influence as Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin and stuff were early on. But people don’t pick up on it as much.”
Ultimately, though, Watson isn’t concerned about being pigeonholed. “I’d say there are bigger critics of my music than me, but I’m up there,” he says. “So if I finish a song and it doesn’t make me cringe, it makes it on.”
Despite the array of styles on the record—and his admiration for “musical chameleons” like Beck—Watson isn’t chasing the thrill of shapeshifting. “I’ve never thought of it as trying to make something eclectic,” he says. “It’s more that I just make up songs and hope they go together. I can’t fathom that people can make one type of music for 20 years. There are so many artists I admire, like The Ramones, who just master one thing. But I would get so jealous of other people getting to do other stuff.”
The Fat Angel Sings 