Hobart/Nipaluna quartet 208L Containers returned earlier this year with their latest tape Horseland – eight tracks of chaotic garage-punk, laden with wiry guitar lines, stilted grooves and a snarky political ethos.
Track by Track:
Speed Dating:
Nat Vazer, Polly, No/Trauma and Gutter Girls
Speed dating this week with Nat Vazer, Polly, No/Trauma and Gutter Girls.
Video Premiere:
Bistro – A Day at the Races
Following the release of Innocent Times: Eight Poems to Music from 2019 last month, Sydney rapper Bistro has shared a new clip for ‘A Day at the Races’, an album highlight that is both a disorientating dose of his experimental hip-hop and a scathing critique of Australia’s racing culture.
Premiere:
Joe Terror – Release The Fiend
Before he drops Songs To Track Down To later this month, rock ’n’ roll workhorse Joe Terror has shared ‘Release the Fiends’ with us, another dose of his garage-soul goodness that manages to strip back his signature sound without losing its eccentric edge.
They Made Me Do It –
Talking Influences with
Mimi Gilbert
Mimi Gilbert’s cunning new single ‘Society’s a Mansion’ is a beautifully comforting ode to appreciating the little things, remaining curious and not obsessing over society’s standards of success.
Premiere:
Stella Bridie – My Girl
Following the release of 2019’s ‘Dog Bite’, Melbourne singer-songwriter Stella Bridie has returned today with ‘My Girl’, an emotional slowburn fit for the love-addled onlooker.
Speed Dating:
Hope Wilkins, Easy Browns,
Go Dog Go and Jurassic
Another week, another go at finding the one.
Premiere:
Eileen Grace – Rage and Wine
Today we have the utmost pleasure of premiering the debut single from Melbourne-based group Eileen Grace – ‘Rage and Wine’ is an unrelenting dose of dynamic alt-rock, that lulls us into a false sense of security to bowl us over with its powerful energy and striking emotion.
Premiere:
The Fainters – Guide Me To Beauty
Picking up where their EP You’re Doing Something Right Though left off last year, indie-pop enthusiasts The Fainters are back with the enjoyable and jangling single ‘Guide Me To Beauty’.
Premiere:
SheOak – SheOak
On their debut EP, SheOak have crafted a collection of entrancing and ambitious psychedelic-folk that cathartically develops through lead singer Xadi Walsh’s journey of acceptance and growth from loss and pain.
Video Premiere:
Marigolden – Taking It Back
Today we have the pleasure of premiering the stunningly intimate music video for indie/RnB artist Marigolden’s new single ‘Taking It Back’, which takes the track’s shimmering grooves and transports them to the picturesque landscape of her hometown of Hobart.
Track by Track:
Poppongene – Futures Unsure
Off the back of the release of her eagerly-awaited debut EP earlier this month, psych-pop luminary Poppongene has invited us into the dreamy world of Futures Unsure and taken us through it track by track.
