THE IRREPRESSIBLY IRRESISTIBLE CIGGIE WITCH CALL TIME, ANNOUNCE FINAL SHOW
“Classic Melbourne bullshit, never climaxes”. That’s the humorous and extraordinarily humble self-description you’ll find in the social media bio of the gorgeously idiosyncratic left field pop/rock septet Ciggie Witch. Largely centring on and assembling around the considerable song-writing abilities of the late Zac Denton and later, Mitch Clemens (Skydeck), his brother Lachlan and other members, […]
VIDEO PREMIERE: LUCY ROLEFF – A WOMAN’S WORTH
Melbourne singer-songwriter and visual artist Lucy Roleff is set to release her forthcoming album Left Open In A Room next month, the follow up to her impressive 2016 debut This Paradise. Today she shares the video for the minimally crystalline yet weighty first single, ‘A Woman’s Worth’, a track that juxtaposes the light touches emanating […]
MONNONE ALONE’S NEW VIDEO FOR DO IT TWICE
Monnone Alone, the guitar pop project of former Lucksmiths bass player Mark Monnone and an esteemed coterie of Melbourne musicians is set for the imminent release of a new album, Summer Of The Mosquito. The second single to come from it, the instructive and power pop centred ‘Do It Twice’ just scored a video directed […]
RECORD REVIEW: LAST LEAVES – OTHER TOWNS THAN OURS
When The Lucksmiths called time in 2009 after 16 years and eight albums they left behind not only half a lifetime producing music of great melodic and structural quality but it was of a style and character that was created in a context which embraced the whole gamut of human emotion, from downcast melancholy to unbridled optimism, […]
CIGGIE WITCH RETURNS WITH MAD MUSIC
“…the feeling that everything might fall apart at any minute might even be enough to keep the millennials listening past the one minute mark.” With no build up and little fanfare, Melbourne’s wonderfully underachieving pop ensemble Ciggie Witch released their exquisitely ramshackle new album last week. Titled Mad Music, it’s a work of honesty to […]