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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.

SURF CITY – ” Hollow Veins “

Posted: June 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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“Sticky summer jams, fuzzy swirls and out and out dream pop blasts”

Auckland, New Zealand’s Surf City draws from the more languid and loose traditions of indie rock and Flying Nun’s melodic sensibilities, merging the two in songs that are both dense and immediate. Founded by Josh Kennedy and Davin Stoddard in 2004, the band was originally titled Kill Surf City, named in honor of a Jesus and Mary Chain b-side. Recruiting the rhythm section of Logan Collins and Jamie Kennedy, the band toured New Zealand and Australia, eventually scoring a spot opening for the then-recently reunited Dinosaur Jr. and signing with Arch Hill to release their first EP. Their debut LP, 2010’s Kudos, found critical acclaim from critics on both sides of the Atlantic, as did its followup, 2013’s We Knew It Was Going To Be Like This. Their newest album, this year’s Jekyll Island, finds Stoddard performing with a new lineup of the group, consisting of guitarist Jamie Kennedy and the rhythm section of Mike Ellis and Andy Frost. Despite the band’s new lineup, their long-running melodic and clean tones are still dominant on “Spec City”. Stoddard’s nasally vocals float alongside a “Sometimes Always”-esque jangle melody as the song rolls along, ebbing and flowing up and down a spaced-out, reverb-drenched wave of guitars. Not unlike its title’s similarity to its author’s, “Spec City” condenses the myriad indie rock-based strengths of Surf City and packages them as directly as the band ever has.

Surf City will support Jekyll Island with the band’s first-ever European tour next month, so be sure to keep up with the band’s adventures over at their Facebook.

SURF CITY – ” One Too Many Things “

Posted: June 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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Taken from the ‘Jekyll Island’, the forthcoming new album from New Zealand’s ‘Surf City’.

The following up to ‘We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This’, Surf City’s third album on Fire will be available on CD / LP / DD in March 2015.

SURF CITY – ” NYC “

Posted: March 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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New Zealand band Surf City’s latest album We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This continues their love affair with psychedelic, reverb-swathed guitar pop, drawing from their Flying Nun forefathers The Clean and The Chills, as well as the fuzzed-up dream pop of The Jesus and Mary Chain and the loopy noise of Animal Collective. This time round the songwriting is stronger, the tunes are hookier and the sound is even more lush.
Named after a random snippet of overhead conversation in a crowded South Korean bar, We Knew It Was Not Going To Be Like This captures a haze of broken connections, isolation in the belly of the city. Recorded in snippets from different corners of the world – New Zealand, New York and South Korea – this is their second to be released via London label Fire Records, whose back catalogue boasts a host of classic dreamy acts such as Spacemen 3 and Bailterspace, as well as newer Antipodean bands such as Opossom, Blank Realm, Lower Plenty and Scott & Charlene’s Wedding.

Initially a four-piece formed by Davin Stoddard and Josh Kennedy with Josh’s brother Jamie on bass and Logan Collins on drums, Surf City released their debut EP in 2008. Arch Hill went on to put out their debut album Kudos domestically in 2010, before it was released worldwide by Fire Records in 2011.

SURF CITY – ” One Too Many Things “

Posted: March 6, 2015 in MUSIC
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New Zealand quartet Surf City have always sounded proudly aware of a well-honed strain of rock history, one that stretches from the Velvet Underground’s jangle through the homemade garage rock of their country’s most influential indie label, Flying Nun. They usually tweak that style enough to give their songs a unique stamp—especially through the low-key but expressive singing of frontman Davin Stoddard—and that holds true for most of their forthcoming album, Jekyll Island.
But there’s no harm in completely indulging in your influences sometimes. That’s what Surf City does on the retro-tinted but blood-filled “One Too Many Things”. It opens with an acoustic strum that sounds like the Feelies riffing on the VU’s “What Goes On”—or perhaps Real Estate riffing on both—before launching into a simple, irresistibly-catchy swing. The guitars pile into a kind of 3D rave-up, but there’s no forced energy here; Surf City wisely trust that three good chords can excite and hypnotize without any extraneous bells and whistles. There’s a wistfulness to the way Davin Stoddard doles out his world-weary lines, but rather than dragging the song down, they simply add to its classic, lived-in field. In other words, “One Too Many Things” sounds like it’s been around a while, and deservedly so.

HOSPITALITY – ” Last Words “

Posted: May 8, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Hospitality are just about to commence their first European and UK tours with a new album on Fire Records due titled TROUBLE the band are darker, richer sound with a collection of avante pop sounds from power pop to amped out folk in your head

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