WATER PARK SHARE NEW SINGLE
This week saw Adelaide electronic duo Water Park share their dreamy new single ‘Something Like Chaos’. Commensurate with their project name, oscillating layers of synth and soothing vocals belie its angst ridden lyrical core creating an aquatic undercurrent that carefully ushers/smothers the track while it moves along its gradual and reflective journey. Listen below and […]
AU.RA. RELEASES APPLAUSE AHEAD OF CULTIVATIONS
Photo: McClean Stephenson Globetrotting Australian duo Au.Ra. have announced the release date for their new album Cultivations, sharing it’s first single, the rhythmic and spacy ‘Applause’. It’s the first we’ve heard of the them since their excellent debut album Jane’s Lament back in early 2015 and on the strength of this first cut, Cultivations is much […]
NEW TRACK FROM HAZEL ENGLISH
Australian Oakland based artist Hazel English just dropped a new track, the beguiling and gorgeously paced ‘More Like You’. It’s the closer on her new EP Just Give In, which will be released in a double up package with her debut EP from last year Never Going Home. It also includes one of our faves […]
BELOVED ELK RELEASE DISTRACTIONS
This week saw the release of the long awaited debut album from Melbourne duo Beloved Elk. Distractions is both a work of raw strength and tense fragility that straddles the line between experimentation and accessibility. Restless drums and percussion played expansively by Tina Nguyen gives space to and simultaneously illuminates Amy Wright’s earnest vocals. Together […]
GABRIELLA COHEN’S DEBUT REISSUED
Photo: Rolling Stone Australia Early last December when the tumbleweeds start blowing across the musical year for many, Melbourne based Brisbane expat Gabriella Cohen released her excellent debut full length Full Closure and No Details. Ordinarily for us, the album would of got lost in the ether as we’d already put the “gone fishing” sign […]
DAG SHARE BENEFITS OF SOLITUDE TITLE TRACK
Dag, the project of Dusty Anastassiou, released their third single and the title track from their forthcoming debut album, Benefits Of Solitude last week. A gorgeously rustic and rhythmically balanced mixture of folk, rock and a twinge of country, it’s the perfect lead up for its namesake full length which sees release on February 24. Pre-order […]
ROLAND TINGS PRESENTS EYES CLOSED
Melbourne producer Roland Tings has signed to one of our favourite independent music labels Cascine and released a brand new single to boot, the buoyant house number, ‘Eyes Closed’, a track he calls ‘cold euphoria’. It’s his first single since releasing his self titled LP in 2015. In his own words; “I wanted to make […]
GLOVV RETURNS WITH REPRISAL
Melbourne “revenge” pop duo GLOVV (pronounced Glow) are set to release their long awaited debut album Reprisal . If you recall our post on the new Stationary Suns 7″ EP recently, GLOVV are made up of one half of that band, Lei and Mai Gryffydd. The twins have been plying their trade since 2009 firstly under […]
LOWER PLENTY UNVEIL NEW VIDEO
Melbourne quartet Lower Plenty unveiled their new video for ‘All The Young Men’ a track of their forthcoming new record, Sister Sister. A staid take on the banality of tired masculinity, it sees Al Montfort lead the band sedately through their paces in a Brunswick backyard surrounded by strangely costumed characters superimposed by a starry […]
IN PICTURES: THE OCEAN PARTY @ THE METRO HOTEL, ADELAIDE
The Ocean Party rolled into Adelaide last Friday as part of their 17 date national tour in support of their latest album, the observationally savvy but ever humble Restless. Indie30 was at the compact Metro Hotel to catch the sextet in fine form as they effortlessly delivered their new set of diverse and bittersweet pop […]