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The debut release from Mess Esque – the collaborative project between Dirty Three’s Mick Turner and Helen Franzmann who makes music as McKisko – is a surreptitious journey through the hardships of being human. We asked Helen Franzmann to give us some hints on how they came to be.
Off the back of the release of this fourth album late last month, we had Candy take us through the depths of A Pull To Heal, his latest collection of absorbing and turbulent guitar-pop.
Catapulting themselves back onto the scene with their fifth studio album, Jackson Reid Briggs and the Heaters explore the notion of waiting for something non-descript on their most recent release – a continuation of their quintessential sound, the punk rockers truly affirm their depth and excellence across Waiting In A Corner.
Back with his first new music since 2019, today we have the pleasure of sharing a first listen to Sal Wonder’s new single ‘Between Your Arms’, an undeniable neo-soul belter that comes packed with energy and plenty of heart.
A next taste of their forthcoming debut album, today we’ve been treated to a first look and listen to ‘Burst the Bubble’, the gripping new single from rising new-wave group Shock Friendly.
Out now through Stargazed Records, Metamorphosis / Out of Luck amalgamates Genuine Fake’s first two EPs into a surrealist new-wave pop adventure. Ahead of their launch tomorrow as part of the label’s Stargazed Festival, we had Thomas Forward, the mastermind behind Genuine Fake, talk us through the album one track at a time.
Equal parts raw and brashly optimistic, London based punker Tom Brierly has emerged with a new collection of hard nosed garage-rock hits – adapting his new found moniker of Todd Briefly, Demos compiles the best of Brierly’s lively and jagged pop-smarts. Unravelling the pointed humour behind his work, we had Tom talk us through the wider themes surrounding Demos.
Today Chapter Music have shared Turn My Dial: The M Squared Recordings and more, a collection of captivating and radiant new-wave pop from “Australia’s youngest recording and composing band”, Tangled Shoelaces. We were lucky enough to have a chat with Stephen and Martin Mackerras to look back on Tangled Shoelaces and the incredible recordings they left behind.
Following the release of their latest EP Lucky Eye last month, we had Melbourne indie-pop outfit Polarize take us through each track that makes up the new release.
Today we have the pleasure of sharing a first listen to ‘Waiting All Day’, a new dose of woozy garage-psych from rising Northern Rivers rockers The Oogars, that arrives alongside the announcement that their long-awaited debut EP is finally on the horizon.
To get a better look at Merk’s expansive new album Infinite Youth, we dropped in on a chat between the New Zealand bedroom popper and his good friend Elizabeth.
Navigating the genre of post punk, Placement have burst onto the scene forging a unique sound that incorporates instrumental distortion, scratchy saxophone notes and anomalous guitar riffs, and with the release of their new clip for ‘Harder’ today, they’ve offered us another teaser into their disorientating sonic world.
