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Pragmatic and lined with hooks, Geelong quartet Vintage Crop returned last week with Serve to Serve Again – replete with a familiar diatribe, the groups third full length effort refines surrealist storytelling with an established brand of angular post-punk.
Across MC-MOOD, Adelaide’s Millenium Cowboy offers five moody synth-led ambient pop pieces, created over five days. Each one made within a 24 hour window, opening the glass and revealing a peaceful, eerie and relatable snapshot of her time in lockdown.
Ahead of its launch in the coming months, we caught up with the creator of Highly Contagious, an emerging publication that celebrates great music and art and the contagious need to share new finds with friends (before contagious was a dirty word).
Now that it’s almost a year old, Imogen Cygler’s entrancing art-pop ballad ‘Earth’ has been reinvigorated with a spellbinding new film clip that balances the song’s subtle beauty and haunting anxiety perfectly.
Awash with gritty jangle and a strikingly self-aware brand of Australiana – Floodlights’ debut full-length From A View is honest, thought-provoking, and a bloody good listen.
Today we’re stoked to have Melbourne punk three-piece Kill Bell back with us, as we premiere their first release of the year – ‘Sad Song’ is a hard-hitting alt-rock anthem brimming with melodic hooks and an unmistakable 90’s influence.
Following the success of their self-titled debut released in early 2019, Ballarat odd-punkers Leftfield Luxury have returned today with ‘Flogs’ – a two-minute grunge-gaze belter aimed squarely at the gasbagging pub goer.
Following the release of ‘The Same Dream,’ and ‘Your Love’ earlier this year, Junior Fiction have released the new clip for their final single ‘365’ to celebrate the release of their second album Your Love, which is out today.
Melbourne’s experimental folk band Grey Whistle Test bring us the mesmerising video for their new single ‘Terraformer’, a collaboration with Australian Ballet Company soloist Jill Ogai.
Today we have the immense pleasure of premiering the new music video for Ochre Trash’s ‘Home (Is Where The Couch Is)’, a haunting examination of the cycle of change and loss, played out through a lone, tinsel-laden being.
Following the release of All You Need In Life Is Someone To Love And Your Family last Friday, we had Rory Maxwell, the mastermind behind SERF, talk us through the uneasy and evocative synth-pop that makes up his debut album.
After years rising through the Melbourne underground and up onto the Meredith stage with nothing but a seven minute cassette to their name, The Faculty have finally revealed Here’s To Fun and it’s a corker – undoubtedly original and undoubtedly The Faculty in its twisted glory.
