The Toff’s contribution to National Slam Day is quite something. Your favourite art-punks, the UV Race, keeping the chaos just this side of discordant. Barely. The sun protection factor required at one of their live shows? Upwards of a million. Bitch Prefect keeping pop stripped like a New York steak and Repairs keeping the fidelity low, the drum machine high, the synths sustained and the vocals constrained. They are calling it “Melbourne’s most chaotic cosmic freedom power punk” and you know what? It just might be.
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Uku Kuut, ‘Visions of Estonia’...On Visions of Estonia, Uku produces a mad blend of funk and soft jazz. Written and recorded at his home studio in Los Angeles and Stockholm between...
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Clag, ‘Pasted Youth’Clag were definitely a punk band but not one I’m sure I’d be totally digging when they first started as Brisbane high schoolers in...
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Happy New Year, ‘Happy New Year’...New York via Brisbane’s Happy New Year’s new self titled LP on French label Svn Sns fits tightly into the current wave of black-widow-esque...
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Constant Mongrel, ‘Everything...The band have developed over time both in personnel (the addition of Amy on bass) and style – moving on from punky garage to a more experimental...