Devotion, Beach House
Baltimore girlfriend/boyfriend duo Beach House have achieved an increasingly difficult feat; they’ve created a sound that is both instantly recognisable... read more...
Fasciination, The Faint
After what seemed an eternity between Wet From Birth and the release of Fasciination, I was anticipating an incredible, mind-blowing record which pushed... read more...
Songs EP
Describing music is, almost inevitably, a frustrating series of inadequate analogies. In the case of Songs, my grey matter latched onto the following:... read more...
What We Do Is Secret
Darby Crash may have died age 22, but his legacy lives on with the release of What We Do Is Secret. Following the meagre success, yet massive influence,... read more...
O Soundtrack My Heart, Pivot
The problem with so much jazz and electronic music is its dry, cerebral nature. Translation: it could use a nice big pair of old-fashioned balls.Aussie... read more...
Earth To The Dandy Warhols
What band could pull off an album with this stupid name and a really corny intergalactic "concept", complete with airline steward voice-overs... read more...
Verbs
Is this a grammatical response to No Age’s Nouns? In it’s most simplistic format, an album is really quite similar to a word… it comprises... read more...
LP3
The trademark sound of this New York two-piece (three-piece in live shows, however) shines through yet again on the act’s third album, aptly titled... read more...
Sight Beyond
Tom Hall is a Brisbane based artist whose practise involves explorations into place, space and time. So you’re thinking, well that makes me an artist... read more...
We Don't Belong Here
Listening to this album through earphones was a bad idea. Seriously, I almost blew my eardrum from the opening chord of Love Is A Heavy Word. But you know... read more...
Dynamite In Black & White
Hot little people making hot little songs in a hot little studio, all crafted with their hot little hands – it only makes sense that this record... read more...
At Mount Zoomer, Wolf Parade
Sophomore albums are make or break for any artist – whether you slump or whether you thrive depends on the act’s talent and depth, and some... read more...
Triangle Island
Soaring in the atmosphere of convention before hurtling to the ground in a fiery ball of experimental flame, Flamingo Crash have refined their dancey art-punk... read more...
Fort Nightly
It’s official – white is the new black.After Black Mountain, Black Angels, Black Dice, Black Keys, and Blackety Blackety Black Black (they’re... read more...
Furthest Village From The Sun, Ghosts of Televison
A name which is at times eponymous with the general feel of the band’s sound – spectre-like tones filtered through a wash of static with vaporous... read more...
On Two Sides
If a transition from mass-ear interest in New Wave guitar groups towards the synth and lo-fi undergrounds of yore has long been in the offing, only now... read more...
Reality Check, The Teenagers
The American media only invented "the teenager" as recently as the ’50s. Yet those melodramatic, erratic, sexy sexy young thangs have... read more...
The Horse, The Rat And The Swan
Few would’ve guessed from their comparably jovial surf rock meets scream-core self-titled debut (part Nick Cave, part Ennio Morricone, part Arcade... read more...
Everything Is Breaking
I’m not a melodramatic person. Really. But something about Silver City Highway’s debut album Everything Is Breaking makes me wanna don a poncho... read more...
The Airing Of Grievances, Titus Andronicus
From the opening track of Titus Andronicus’ debut album (bar the one minute lead-in), the group let it be known they intend to delivered detached... read more...
Worldwide, The Death Set
Ever wondered what The Banana Splits would sound like after they’d smoked crack?Gold Coast natives Johnny Siera and Beau Velasco found a nurturing... read more...
Neptune, The Duke Spirit
Cuts Across The Land proved to be a breakthrough success for this English five-piece, with the album combining a mix of noise, grunge, rock’n’roll... read more...
The Holidays EP Launch
Christmas. Easter. Labour Day. Queen’s Birthday. Simon Jones. Will Magnus. Alex Kortt. Andrew Kerridge. Holidays are just the best, ain’t they?... read more...
Pink Bullet
It’s amazing to see a local band mature and develop into a true musical force. The release of their debut EP will help Pink Bullet cement their status... read more...