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KING GIZZARD & The LIZARD WIZARD – ” Sleep Drifter / Nuclear Fusion “

Posted: January 19, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The newly anticipated King Gizzard album “Flying Microtonal Banana” due out February 24th, Listen to two new songs . Peep the behind-the-scenes zine, and get tickets for their forthcoming US headlining tour! The limited edition Flying Microtonal Banana zine, assembled by King Gizzard’s creative guru Jason Galea and featuring photographs from Sub Lation (aka Jamie Wdziekonski), documents the making of Flying Microtonal Banana, from the instruments and recording sessions to early sketches of album art and music videos.

The unstoppable King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are incredibly prolific with their output. It feels like only yesterday they were touting one album now they have another on Heavenly Recordings: Flying Microtonal Banana out on February 24th. And from it they have shared ‘Sleep Drifter’ a tumultuous and spellbinding new single.

The latest album was recorded in the hometown of East Brunswick in Melbourne, Australia and has all the notes you’d expect to hear from a KGatLW track. It is dreamy in parts and nightmarish in others, thumping and caressing with psyche flourishes and a rock and roll backbone. Firmly seen in ‘Sleep Drifter’

Talking about the creation of Flying Microtonal Banana Eric Moore of the band said “Earlier this year we started experimenting with a custom microtonal guitar our friend Zak made for Stu. The guitar was modified to play in 24-TET tuning and could only be played with other microtonal instruments. We ended up giving everyone a budget of $200 to buy instruments and turn them microtonal. The record features the modified electric guitars, basses, keyboards and harmonica as well as a Turkish horn called a Zurna”

MEG MAC – ” The Meg Mac EP “

Posted: January 14, 2017 in MUSIC
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Another female treasure that is putting Melbourne into many people’s minds is Meg Mac. She dropped her five-song debut E.P., MegMac, in 2014 and is an artist that looks likely to introduce new music into this year. Soulful songs like Roll Up Your Sleeves gained huge acclaim (and featured on the T.V. show Girls) and it will be interesting seeing how she grows in the coming months.

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MILK RECORDS – Sampler Various Artists

Posted: January 11, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Every now and then, Milk! Records artists get together and make some art.

Thanks for another great year y’all !! 2016 has seen the release of The Finks “Middling” and Loose Tooth “Saturns Returns”. As well as our 2nd Milk! Records Compilation “Good For You” (not to mention the Good For You TOUR where we all piled into a bus and drove up the East Coast of America )

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As for 2017…everybody has been busy writing/recording new music, so look out !!!

Love, Milk
XOXOX

The Finks – Jamie’s Got A Baby
Taken from the 2016 album “Middling”

Loose Tooth – Sherry
Taken from the 2016 EP “Saturn Returns”

Jen Cloher – Famously Monogamous
Taken from the 2016 Milk! Records compilation “Good For You”

Courtney Barnett – Elevator Operator
Taken from the Grammy-nominated 2015 album “Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit”

Fraser A. Gorman – Never Gonna Hold You (Like I Do)
Taken from the 2015 album “Slow Gum”

Ouch My Face – Eaten By Buildings
Taken from the 2015 album “Bunyip”

East Brunswick All Girls Choir – Dirty Bird
Taken from the 2014 album “Seven Drummers”

Jade Imagine – Stay Awake
Taken from the forth-coming (2017) EP “What The Fuck Was I Thinking”

released December 31st, 2016, Stay tuned for the next Milk Project.

HUSKY – ” Late Night Store “

Posted: January 10, 2017 in MUSIC
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Don’t be surprised if the Australian band Husky 2016 single “Late Night Store” makes an appearance in this year’s songs we love listings . Late Night Store is a softly spoken number, which actually says volumes about the band’s ability to make magic with very little. Sustained by a cautious and gradual grove, the track puts the constant vocal narrative high atop the instrumentals
The track is the first taster from the Melbourne indie-folk duo’s third album which is due for release at “some point” in 2017. That’s all the information we have now but expect some more news to drop soon. The album came to life after the pair relocated to Berlin back in 2015, which does explain the 2am vibe of the song, given the time Husky spent exploring their new home throughout the twilight hours.

GRETA RAY – ” Unwind / Drive “

Posted: January 8, 2017 in MUSIC
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Hear Gretta Ray's new song 'Unwind'

Greta Ray released her debut EP, “Elsewhere”, in February, such was the level of interest it had the potential to make things a whole lot more complicated. An executive decision was taken: “My manager and my mum took over all those e-mails and delayed all of our responses until my final exam [was] done,” says the 18-year-old. The plan was working until Ray received a call in October asking her to fly to Sydney as she’d won the Vanda & Young Songwriting Competition, beating a field of nearly 2,500 applicants to take the $50,000 first prize for her song “Drive”. (Former winners include the Preatures’ Isabella Manfredi, Megan Washington and Kimbra.) It was an incredible climax to a terrific year for this young Australian singer songwriter. –

It’s a shimmering, svelte, immersive four minutes of music with an expansive colour palette: vibrant choruses, rich, relatable lyrics, moreish melodic twists and turns. To borrow a phrase from a very clever new songwriter we are extremely excited about, you are certainly going to “feel it all.” .

Says Greta of the song:

I wrote the lyrics with the intention of portraying the thought process when going through a break up. More specifically, the moment when you come to understand the extent of what you’ve lost, when you start to feel the weight of what the relationship became. I think the lyric that best conveys that is: “I am sure that there is more to this than I care to admit”. Hopefully this rings true with you when you listen. The recording process at triple J was such an incredible opportunity; I got to work with some very special musicians and am so grateful for all of their time. We completed the production for this new song in the space of a day and half, which was a huge achievement for the whole team, considering that my usual producers and I spent a good few weeks on ‘Drive’. Despite it being a speedy process, it was incredibly fun and very satisfying.

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Ray’s love of music hit early, and by five she’d joined the Young Voices of Melbourne choir, with whom she performed for 12 years. By seven she’d taken up piano and written her first song, and by nine had fallen in love with Taylor Swift and the Dixie Chicks, supplementing the musical diet of James Taylor and Joni Mitchell on which she’d been raised. The songs for Elsewhere were written between the ages of 15 and 16 – which, given her lyrical dexterity and command of storytelling, not to mention the maturity of her folk-inspired pop creations.

CHOOK RACE – ” Around The House “

Posted: January 1, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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A lot of people still worship at the alter of New Zealand label Flying Nun. If you are one of those folk then I’m sure you were bowing down to this record all year. Its among the best jangle pop album since the Bats’ Fear of God. This Australian trio  Chook Race put out an impressive debut album in 2015.

This is the work of a band deeply in debt to the scrappy sound of early Flying Nun bands like The Clean and The Bats , with the chiming guitars of the early-’80s jangle pop bands in the U.S. like R.E.M and the insistent, detached sound of the early Go Betweens . “Around The House” , makes good while delivering strong songs and more assured performances. Working as they did on their debut “About Time” Tom Hardisty of the band Woollen Kits, this album is cleaner and stronger, with fuller guitars that blast their jangle directly into the listener’s brain. The songs are sticky too, with lots of simple hooks that sink in deeply and nice male/female voices that combine to sing relatable tales of life’s small struggles and love’s tender disappointments. Nearly every song has a big hook — Chook Race are not afraid of “bah bah bah” choruses .
It’s an easy sound to swallow and the album makes for a very pleasant listen with a melancholy tinge around the edges. When the band puts some extra zip in the rhythms or some bite in the guitars, like on “Sometimes” or “At Your Door,” the album really takes off. They do a good job of balancing these amped-up moments with quieter songs that allow for lyrical introspection and musical reflection.

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FREE TIME – ” In Search of Free Time “

Posted: December 30, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Dion Nania, the leader of NYC-via-Melbourne rockers Free Time, traveled back to Australia and assembled a crew of musicians including Totally Mild’s Zachary Schneider and Terrible Truths’ Joe Alexander to help record their sophomore album “In Search Of Free Time”. Well, he seems to have found that free time he was searching for, because the record sounds nothing if not leisurely, propelled along gently by a loose but never sloppy energy. But that’s not to say there aren’t any surprises here — opener “Among The Reeds” rocks unexpectedly hard, and the nine-and-a-half minute “5th Floor” ambles along from its jangly beginnings to a sublime saxophone climax. The album officially comes out on Friday, but just dive in and let its easygoing charm and Nania’s Kurt Vile-adjacent drawl win you over now.

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GRETTA RAY – ” Unexpected Feeling “

Posted: December 27, 2016 in MUSIC
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Gretta Ray has quite rightly had a massive year with high rotation on the national broadcaster and lots of love from the music press. Her track “Unexpected Feeling” is such a joy to listen to – and to be honest when I first heard it I had no idea that Ray was still in high school. There’s a definite maturity in her songwriting and I just love her guitar work on this track. 17-year-old Melbourne based Gretta Ray is one to watch in 2017, as she independently releases her debut EP ‘Elsewhere’ and first single ‘Unexpected Feeling’ Gretta Ray’s intriguing way of combining lyrical complexities that express personal feelings of love and heartache, with tongue-in-cheek facetious anecdotes, is only part of what makes this young talent so unique.

The emerging Australian musician wrote the 4-track EP when she was just 15 years old. Now 17, the wise-beyond-her-years artist collaborated with producer Joshua Barber, known for his work alongside Australian artists Gotye and Archie Roach, on her debut, which was recorded at The Aviary Recording Studios in Melbourne.

Gretta Ray performing “Unexpected Feeling” at Sofar Melbourne on April 18th, 2015

KING GIZZARD and the LIZARD WIZARD – ” Nuclear Fusion “

Posted: December 25, 2016 in MUSIC
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard were voted  Act Of The Year for many, many good reasons – including the blistering pace at which they release music. And as if to prove our point completely, the guys have released one final single for 2016 (we assume!), the stomping ‘Nuclear Fusion’.

This killer track marks the second single from forthcoming album Flying Microtonal Banana. The album sees King Gizzard experience in microtonal tuning, which uses intervals smaller than a semitone, and is more common in Eastern-influenced music.

“Earlier this year we started experimenting with a custom microtonal guitar our
friend Zak made for Stu,” drummer Eric Moore says of the new record. “The guitar was modified to play in 24-TET tuning and could only be played with other microtonal instruments. The record features the modified electric guitars, basses, keyboards and harmonica as well as a turkish horn called a Zurna.”

The album is out February 24th 2017.

TERRY – ” Terry “

Posted: December 22, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Terry is the bastard child of everything great about Australian post-punk and for lack of a better word ‘slacker’ rock. Live they become something even more powerful.

This LP is, as they say in Australia, a ripper. Perfect from start to finish with it’s jangly sounds and melodies, but still with a fair bit of an edge to it. It’s hard not to listen to it all in the one sitting, though at only 22 and a half minutes you pretty much can anyway. The short length of the album is the only fault I can find, and Chitter Chatter is, I reckon, one of the tracks of the year.

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