Posts Tagged ‘Australia’

GOLDEN AGE OF BALOONING – ” We Will Never Let You Go “

Posted: August 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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Golden Age Of Ballooning is a Brisbane based collective dedicated to creating a unique yet classic blend of Folk & Rock.  This Brisbane collective Golden Age of Ballooning have announced the release of their sophomore EP “We Will Never Let You Go”, and the follow up to debut release “Don The Winter Coats”.

With narrative vocals, lush harmonies and evocative arrangements drive  through bursts of tempo and psychedelia. Duelling ebow solos, sea-sick guitars, pitch shifted drums and swirling organs recall influences such as My Bloody Valentine and Broken Social Scene whilst adding the Neil Young-ish folk charm that made their debut so endearing. 
Recorded live in the winter of 2012 shortly after the band formed, Don The Winter Coats is a captivating mix of modern folk, seventies rock and intimate themes; punctuated with blistering guitar solos and visions of snow covered landscapes.  less

BLANK REALM – ” River Of Longing “

Posted: July 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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Hailing from Brisbane, Blank Realm consists of three siblings, Daniel, Luke and Sarah Spencer, and Luke Walsh. Renowned for their ecstatic live performances and boundary-pushing, yet listenable records, the group have released several sold out recordings on labels including Not Not Fun, Digitialis, Albert’s Basement and MusicYourMindWillLoveYou.
The band’s formidable live reputation has been earned over the course of over 200 live performances with acts such as the Kurt Vile, Wild Flag, Zola Jesus, Sun Araw, The Clean, Robert Forster, Wet Hair, Jandek, Grouper, Damo Suzuki and Royal Headache.

Their new album, Grassed In, follows last year’s critically acclaimed ‘Go Easy’. ‘Grassed In’ is an album packed with soaring psych melodies, dark love-stained lyrics and one of the sharpest pop records to emerge from the current Australian underground renaissance.
Having moved on from their more open-ended experimental beginnings, Blank Realm have veered towards songs in the manner of late period Big Star, The Zombies, or Echo and the Bunnymen, all refracted through a grimy basement lens.

KING of the NORTH – ” Immigrant Song ” Led Zeppelin Cover

Posted: June 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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Australian band King Of The North and a cover of Zeppelin’s classic track “Immigrant Song” The Australian Guitar/ Drums two-piece rocking the legendary Led Zep song at the Australian Costal Festival GROUNDSWELL in 2015!. For new comers to KOTN, you may notice you can hear Bass, Rhythm, lead guitar, drums and singing all coming from 2 guys. Yes, it’s why KOTN do what they do it’s called the 3 From 1 guitar technique.. it’s a system designed by Guitarist Andrew Higgs. It enables him to produce the sound of lead, rhythm and bass at the same time live, with no pre recorded samples or triggers. Just guitar, pedals and his amplifiers.

DEAFCULT – ” Turing “

Posted: June 6, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Good things come in small, strange packages—like the debut self-titled by Brisbane, Australia’s DEAFCULT, a six-piece guitar group of powerful proportions. Their enamored yet violent flow persists without interruption on the seven tracks contained, reaching a satiated climax by the closing track “TURING.” Unison male-female vocals just barely make themselves known above a bed of roaring treble and blistering bass, calling to mind the late-80s power-pop shoegaze of bands like Galaxie 500 and My Bloody Valentine. Breaking away from the dreamy consistency of those free-flowing, listless records, however, DEAFCULT possesses absolute urgency, seemingly responding to an impending sense of doom.

Despite the bleak ambiguity of seething chord progressions that bend and blur into one another as an often indecipherable droning, particularly on tracks “AKIRA” and “HEATHEN FLOW,” the record maintains an air of defiant positivity, expressing exhilaration and euphoria in the face of possible peril. It’s most clear on “SAFETY MATCHES,” a tranquil number that picks up with an oceanic humming of guitars and one buoyant bassline before submitting to the controlled chaos that defines this record. “TURING,” to be featured on Beko Disques forthcoming compilation  Do It Better Volume 2.

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The DARTS – ” Aeroplane “

Posted: May 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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Shouty yet paradoxically whispery, angular blasts and withstop/start rhythms: these are the very unique sounds of Darts, another band coming out of the excellent music scene in Melbourne in Australia. It is easy and to some degree useful to compare this band to The Pixies – there are many similarities in the slightly unhinged delivery and unexpected turns – but the band delivers their own brand of eclectic noise pop that to my mind makes them one of the most interesting new bands around.

New release off the album, Aeroplane, seduces one into thinking the band treads the well worn low-fi tracks of bands like Dinosaur Jnr or Silversun Pickups – it is a smooth flowing indie standard with great hooks and an enigmatic slightly foreboding video clip:

FRASER A GORMAN – ” Blues Run The Game ” and ” Book Of Love “

Posted: April 30, 2015 in MUSIC
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With his violent shock of vertical curls, three-piece suit and excitable roguish charm, Fraser A Gorman cuts a striking figure. Similarly, the music the 23-year-old Melbourne-based singer-songwriter makes stands out amidst any scene or sound.
Fraser was born in Torquay, a suburban outpost of Geelong, the large coastal city an hour’s drive from his relocated Melbourne digs. The high-school year below his pal Stu Moore from King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard, Geelong is the sometime home to much of Australia’s motor industry, and like its American cousin Detroit has become something of a hot-bed for talented young ne’er-do-wells without much else to keep them out of trouble. Like most aspiring Geelong creatives, Fraser eventually migrated to Victoria’s cooler capital city.
Indeed, Melbourne’s been responsible for an undeniable wealth of recent great guitar music in its many twisted, bleary-eyed forms, with Fraser representing the latest in this impressive legacy.

Fraser has the guitar, writing book and sings his little beating heart out……..
New single ‘Book of Love’

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FLYYING COLOURS – ” Not Today “

Posted: April 30, 2015 in MUSIC
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Shoe-gaze/ psych rockers Flyying Colours are getting set to jet off to the UK and Europe this May to tour in support of the forthcoming EP “ROYGBIV”. While there the band will be performing as part of Great Escape and Primavera Sound Festivals, and supporting their Russian label mates Pinkshinyultrablast, as well as doing their own headline launch shows across Europe.

For those uninitiated, the Melbourne four piece have received their fair share of acclaim in the past few months, including respected UK music loggers and magazines the band’s new single ‘Running Late’ a “gorgeous piece of music”.  The single was the first taste from their EP titled ROYGBIV, which will have a worldwide release with the band recently signing to Club ac30 in the UK/Europe, Shelflife in the US and Vinyl Junkie in Japan.

SAHARA BECK – ” Brother Sister “

Posted: April 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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Since Sahara Beck released her first full album, Volume One, in 2011 at the tender age of 15, critics and fans have known that the Queensland-based singer/songwriter was a rising star. Turns out her star was destined to rise pretty quickly, and just last week, Beck took home the People’s Choice Award for Most Popular Female at the Queensland Music Awards. With the current release of her second EP, Bloom, she has further developed the syncopated, sunshine-y style that has been winning over audiences in Queensland and beyond.

A powerful track from Bloom, “Brother Sister,” showcases her acoustic, alt-folk style, with thumping, textural percussion and carefully layered backing vocals. The track centers around a heartfelt, almost haunting tale, proving that Beck has a sense of wisdom and insight far beyond her years, and a natural storytelling gift that she uses to craft earnest pictures of life, death, love and beyond.

KING GIZZARD and the WIZARD LIZARD – ” The River “

Posted: April 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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The band  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard coming over from Melbourne in Australia with a new Track named The River  the band are Stu Mackenzie, Joe Walker, Eric Moore, Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Lucas Skinner, Cook Craig
and Michael Cavanagh.
Although their sound is remarkably similar to that of fellow Aussies Pond (seriously, what is it with psych bands and flutes?!), King Gizzard are a force to be reckoned with live – two drummers, numerous singers and a blizzard of guitars. Their gigs are an assault on the eyes, ears and senses.
The band have just announced they will release new album Quarters on 25th May, which features four, epic songs, each ten minutes ten seconds long. Here’s the premiere of the full video for The River, which features plenty of Crocodile action. Meanwhile the group return to the Uk this summer, kicking off dates at Nottingham’s Rescue Rooms on 6th July.
Hear more: Kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com

Photo: Daniel Topete/NME

 

ADRIA – ” Falling “

Posted: April 10, 2015 in MUSIC
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Named after the Adriatic Sea, Perth native Adria channels the wild, natural power and beauty of the sea in her equally stunning brand new single Falling. Recorded in London, the track is a grand, emotive ballad that will surely make you swoon. Discover more from Adria via. her ‘Shell’ EP,

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