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When was the last time you watched the sunset? Sunset Cities is a new musical project created to explore this and many other questions concerning one's own presence, spiritual essence, belief, love, and mindfulness while in rotation around the life light.Visit product page →
The group is comprised of two emcees and two producers; four human perspectives judging the light and the dark of life, maneuvering between the two while the fundamentals of hip-hop culture and psychedelic soul simmer on the coasts of South Australia.
Last year in Adelaide over a plate of Ethiopian food, MC's Nelson Dialect and Cazeaux O.S.L.O. crafted the basic principles for waxing poetic over two distinct sonic dimensions - a record made up of two sides, the first produced by Melbourne beatmaker Skomes (known for his work with Caseaux O.S.L.O under the moniker SO.Crates) and the second by Adelaide resident Alnitak Kid.
The record follows the cycle of the sun, no beginnings and no endings, just answers to this and many other questions using the voice, the drum and the body electric. When was the last time you watched the sunset?
Tracklisting:
1. Stay a While
2. Oh Baby (feat. Jace XL)
3. Bounce if You Open
4. Know Doubt
5. Burning Slow
6. Bright On
7. Jay Elec
8. Black Tapes
9. Hemisphere
10. Somebody Believes in You
11. 6 - 2 - 6
Release Date: 15/02/2018 -
Winter 2018 will see Perth's angelic Rabbit Island release her newest album; Deep in The Big . A culmination of the music Amber Fresh is known and adored for in her hometown, Perth/Fremantle, and beyond, Deep in The Big is a pure experience that will take listeners somewhere beautiful and new. Amber is an artist who cannot create anything un-beautiful.Visit product page →
In Deep in The Big she uses piano, guitar, organ, voice and a swag of effects to build a rippling, oceanic work. Part of the Perth/Fremantle psych-renaissance, but treading her own path, Rabbit Island shoots for her own constellation of sound, lands there, and doesn't look back.
Deep in The Big was recorded in Melbourne and Ocean Beach (Wurundjeri and Whadjuk land) in 2015 in the soft wooden rooms of Soundpark Studio and by the sea at producer Aden Senycia's Soft Machine studio.
Mastering was done at Poons Head with Rob Grant (Tame Impala, POND, Jeff Martin, Death Cab for Cutie, Melody's Echo Chamber). Aden Senycia recorded the album (Nathalie Pavlovic assisting) and mixed it with Amber.
Amber's friend and collaborator Nicholas Allbrook joins on guitar and voice in some tracks, and a few other friends (Tristan Parr, Benjamin Witt, Peter Bibby, Leonie Brialey) dip a sound, a conversation, or a cello in too.
Deep in The Big is healing music from Perth's angel of experimental lo-fi romantic spiritual songs, Amber Fresh.
Tracklisting:
1. Boxing Day
2. Interstate
3. Deep in The Big
4. Zigrid
5. 11, 12, 13
6. The Gold Hall Beckons
7. Louie's Song
8. Jonah's Dream, On the Rocks
Release Date: 14/09/2018 -
Lehmann B. Smith has written many hundreds of songs in search of the good one'. Some of these attempts have made their way onto his six diverse and critically acclaimed albums, from The Big Dry'(2009) to Thank God For My Body'(2015).Visit product page →
Finding his greatest success as a sideman for bands like Totally Mild and Kes Band, Smith has often been described as a musician's musician, an undiscovered talent. He is a prodigious songwriter, laboriously notating album after album of unreleased material and storing these away in his home studio for a rainy day.
With this new album written, arranged, recorded and played almost entirely by himself at this studio (reportedly somewhere in Ascot Vale), Lehmann B. Smith is like a suburban version of Prince on the outskirts of an Australian city.
He is a mystery, an enigma, something of a genius; his music will resonate in your head for days, and should you be lucky enough to witness a live performance - save that story for your children. 'His compositions are elegant gossamer tapestries that engage and inspire.
The back-porch pathos is stunningly interwoven with haunting reverie and a morbid curiosity ' about the physical nature of the human body and all it's designed to control and contain.' - Brendan Telford, The Music
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Blame Me
2. Pave This Road
3. Harder
4. Do It Again
5. 10th Dec
Side B:
6. Salvo's Guitar
7. Tropical
8. Thus Must Rust
9. End
Release Date: 25/05/2018 -
Visit product page →Through your ears, deep in your mind, down in your heart, in a way you never knew you wanted, Jaala will caress you and Jaala will entice you. Like the roots of a tree Jaala is ever growing, pruned only by themselves and never by the expectations of the public.
Like a pair of crappy old jeans you've unstitched and re-stitched, always working to make them the best goddam pair of jeans you ever imagined in your wild little noggin. Intricately decorated and lovingly crafted, Jaala's music comes from a place of deep focus and care.
In 2015 Jaala released their debut album Hard Hold'to critical acclaim both nationally and internationally. We could sit here talking about Pitchfork's glowing review or how Triple J featured the album but all that is in the past and Jaala are in the now. Google is available if you are curious about these achievements. Since the release of Hard Hold'they have transformed into a completely new animal, stylistically and literally.
The addition of Carolyn Schofield (synth) of Fia Fiell fame has moved the band towards a more haunting, dreamy experimental pop movement as opposed to the guitar shredding melt your face prog rock vibes of yesteryear.
Vocalist/guitarist Cosima pay and drummer/genius Maria Moles stand firm with their intricately woven telepathy. The ornate and ever flowing creativity is still ubiquitous, only it feels different now, rather than falling down a beautiful waterfall into a pit of demons that become your mates it's more like your feet have been confiscated at the same time as you've been given the ability to fly.
Cop a feel in April 2018 when their new album Joonya Spirit'is unleashed upon the world in all it's untouchable glory.
Tracklisting:
1. Sames
2. Horn
3. Good Circuit
4. Dog
5. Gwynne
6. Long Live
7. Frogs Tears
8. Junior Spirit
Release Date: 20/04/2018 -
Brisbane duo Primitive Motion drop their third full-length for the Bedroom Suck label, this time leaving the studio door ajar to let sound flow between worlds internal and beyond.Visit product page →
The result is a meditative suite of dreamy piano-based songs, captured live at the point of conception and teeming with the incidental sounds of both the studio and garden.
Following the extended cosmic forays and short-form pop studies of 2015's acclaimed Pulsating Time Fibre, the duo of Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig have steered the ship to an interior sea, exploring the quiet reverie of Sunday afternoons spent in Selig's home studio in Brisbane.
With the record'button pressed, the days drift through the microphone, documenting the process of composition: the rustle of lyric sheets and unintended room sounds is accompanied by birdsong and an approaching storm.
The studio space itself becomes a palpable presence as Selig moves between rooms while playing her saxophone, the improvised melodies floating out of the studio, lilting and melancholic, a familiar whisper dreamt into existence.
In the process of reducing their sound world to the barest of instrumentation (at times just voice and piano), PM revels in the beauty of the unadorned song, creating the purest distillation of their dream-float'music to date. House in the Wave is a beautiful and intimate work by a band constantly evolving their sound.
'The Brisbane duo of Sandra Selig and Leighton Craig occupy an alternative pop continuum in common with archaic futurists like Silver Apples and Joe Meek circa I Hear a New World, sonic explorers whose music is founded on the hope that the sound of tomorrow is what the fantasy of yesterday would make of it.' - David Keenan, The Wire
Release Date: 23/02/2018 -
Perth duo Hamjam is made up of best friends Hamish Rahn (Ham) and James Ireland (Jam), two creative individuals who make music they describe as 'blissed out sadness'. Distinguishing themselves as a band, and not a type of bizarre type of food yet to be invented yet, the result is a melting pot of psych and electronica.Visit product page →
Ever the opportunists, Rahn and Ireland started recording together upon gaining access to a studio after hours. Seeing that there was plenty of potential within those late night sessions,Hamjam was born and continues to remain a sporadic, yet crucial part of the two musos'lives.
After first gaining attention with the track Cooked'which was added to triple j rotation, and clocking 80,000 plays on Spotify with the track Love', the duo are now ready to unveil their latest release, the cleverly titled EP a/s/l'.a/s/l?'is an earnest and unassuming collection of tracks that muses on feelings of inadequacy, unrequited love and insecurities in a remarkably upbeat manner.
Steered by synths that exhilarate on certain tracks and dazzle on others, the band's hazy instrumentation conjures thoughts of warm summer nights and the thrill of being young, naive and little lovelorn. Pushing sonic boundaries and enveloping the listener in their universe, HAMJAM are here to soundtrack your existential crisis.
When they're not creating brain melting compositions together as Hamjam, Rahn and Ireland tourthe world with fellow Perth troubadours Methyl Ethel and Pond respectively.
Tracklisting:
1. a/s/l?
2. Lean
3. Sippin' Rosé All Alone
4. Fleetwood
5. Can't
6. Good Day
7. Ballad ¯\_(?)_/¯
8. Cooked
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Three boys from the civilized centre of an isolated landmark that is sometimes considered part of Australia - Hobart, Tasmania.Visit product page →
These young men have spent most of their formative years in this regional city; a cold, windswept town built on convict labour and a strong maritime tradition. The band hold their strength in a surprisingly heartfelt and unashamed guitar sound, full of emotional, gut wrenching sing-alongs - then transposing this into a contemporary Australian scene.
Their colleagues range from popular sensations like Gold Class and Royal Headache to the darker sounds of Kitchen's Floor and The Native Cats, and to this they bring a true honesty and simplicity that is hard to find in today's world.
They are interested only in their music and the reaction it sparks in their audience. Nothing could make Treehouse smile more than a packed and sweaty basement, swaying to distorted melodies and yelling themselves hoarse with joy.
Whether this honesty is a production of regional isolation, a musical heritage or simply a reminder of good human behaviour, it makes for some seriously catchy and uplifting music.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. Centre of Their World
2. Slave
3. Stop The Ocean
4. Hammer On The Door
Side B:
1. Between Two Shoulders
2. She's A Mystic
3. Tidal Wash -
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Dag play songs about the country, about the city, and about trying to find yourself somewhere in between. Always surrounded by isolation, living in your head - the company of strangers or the solitude of the bush.
Led by songwriter Dusty Anastassiou, Dag have gone through several lineups over their 3-year existence. Their new album was recorded over 2 years in Brisbane, with local musicians Matt Ford (Thigh Master, Tenth Court) on drums, Skye McNicol (Bent) on violin and Josh Watson (Sewers) on bass, also contributing to the mixing and coproduction of the album. The songs attempt to capture some of what is to live on the outskirts of a state or town - still isolated in the digital age from outside trends and current sounds.
The result is a mix of folk-rock and country, played in the bright, brittle style of 80's Australian indie bands like Tactics, The Cannanes and The Go-Betweens. Songs about love, loss, death and the dole make up the bulk of this record, delivered in a dead-pan Queensland drawl that resonates with earnest, honest lyricism - at once both comforting and confronting.
Some words: "There's doubt that Dusty Anastassiou will ever find the answers to the questions he's asking about on Dogwood'. But it doesn't matter, because simply asking those questions puts him leagues ahead of everyone else." - Ryan Saar, Soundly Sounds
"Comparisons to 90's Silver Jews wouldn't be out of place here. Listening to this album reminds one of the experience of coming across just such a band, back then. It's a wonderful discovery." - Ian Powne, 4ZZZ
"A guitar that sounds as if it might be strung with barbed wire and a voice that floats on deep clouds of fucked up country-tinged remorse and post-Jandek blues." - David Keenan, Volcanic Tongue
"Frontman / songwriter Dusty Anastassiou brings us 6 songs of backyard woe and mild joy not heard with the same guitar slingin' finesse in this crumbling town since early go-betweens." - Matt Kennedy, Eternal Soundcheck
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1:Exercise
2:Staying Up at Night
3:Not Fine Mind
4:Know Where to Go
5:Company
Side B:
1:Age of Anxiety
2:Guards Down
3:J.B.
4:Benefits of Solitude
5:Endless, Aching Dance -
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Melbourne's Lower Plenty share a new video for their second single "All The Young Men" off their forthcoming album 'Sister Sister' out next month on Bedroom Suck.
The video, filmed in a Brunswick backyard, debuted over at NOISEY who've dug in and described they're "reminded of Rum Sodomy and Lash era Pogues but this is a gentle reflection rather that a rowdy Irish jig.
'All the young men all the time, up and down my mind, off to work, off to war, who cares what for", sings Al as the band plays around him." Lower Plenty are comprised of some of Australia's most talented musicians.
The quartet are typically Australian in that they seem to exist on borrowed members, drawing together musicians responsible for bands like Total Control, The UV Race, Deaf Wish, The Focus and Dick Diver.
Unlike the harsh and direct approach of many of these outfits, Lower Plenty take the circular route, preferring to dwell in isolation and self-reflection, the result being some truly astonishing home recordings.
Lower Plenty is: Daniel Twomey (percussion), Jensen Tjhung (guitar + vocal), Sarah Heyward (percussion + vocal) and Al Montfort (guitar + vocal).
Tracklisting:
1. Bondi's Dead
2. Glory Rats
3. So It Goes
4. Run Run Run
5. Ravesh
6. All The Young Men
7. On Off On Off
8. Cursed By Numbers
9. Shades of Love
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Boomgates started as a couple of friends having a loose Thursday evening sing and strum on the couch. It felt good. So more friends were invited along to the sporadic jam sessions. It soon became obvious that this crew were now a proper band in their own right.Visit product page →
Something like a mix of Big Star, Camper Van Beethoven, Towns Van Sant, The Velvet Underground, The Church and probably a heap of something else thrown in on top, Boomgates boasts members of Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Twerps, Dick Diver and about a million other awesome projects.
Double Natural is their first long player.
