Premiere:
Old El Parso – Hugs

Melbourne has new competition for the finest irreverent band name in the city: by interspersing his surname with that most famous of Tex-Mex dinner brands, Jack Parsons (of The Pretty Littles) has become Old El Parso on his first solo endeavour.

Reckless
A chat with David Forcier

David Forcier has spent his past five years in Australia loyally documenting the going-ons within our underground music scenes from behind the camera. His efforts have resulted in the second edition of Reckless, a book compiling photographs taken from 2016 to 2019 that serves as a visceral and unfiltered snapshot into these communities.

Premiere:
Quality Used Cars – Good Days/Bad Days

Today we’ve got the absolute pleasure of premiering Quality Used Cars’ debut album Good Days/Bad Days – full to the brim with sunny garage-pop smarts matched with alt-country tenderness and scrappy sincerity, it’s an unassuming but radiant invitation into Francis Tait’s charming world.

Track by Track:
Beige Banquet – Beta

Last month, Melbourne post-punk alumni Tom Brierley revealed his debut solo album Beta under the pseudonym Beige Banquet, a vehicle to toy with his unique brand of awkward and angular weirdo-punk. We had Tom talk us through the bizarre chaos captured across the album’s 12 tracks.

Video Premiere:
SLOMO – Fit Right

Following the release of ‘Fit Right’ late last month, the first cut from their forthcoming debut album L – DOPA, today hypnotic post-punk trio SLOMO have shared a brand new clip that transforms the track’s woozy atmospherics into a disorientating visual trip.

Video Premiere:
Blisstake – Girl

To accompany the glorious and undeniable pop spirit of their latest single ‘Girl’, emerging synth-pop duo Blisstake have shared a new clip with us which pairs the track’s radiant grooves with woozy charisma and unapologetic pink magnetism.

Track by Track:
The Fillmores – Moonsurfing EP

Haphazard and unrestrained in its experimentation, Apollo Bay via Melbourne sextet The Fillmores returned earlier this month with Moonsurfing – a collection of eccentric jangle pop that comes lined with silky hooks and an endearing demo quality, the EP compiles quirky bedroom recordings through the band’s intuitive approach to online collaboration.