An interview with Bat For Lashes
Look at this lady. Singing and wobbling about on an old bike with a gang of BMX guys in rabbit masks like a total legend. That’s Bat For Lashes!... read more...
Friendly Fires, 'Pala'
Being almost entirely unmusical (played piano for two years, in exchange for pocket money), the lexicon required for musical description is beyond me.... read more...
Oscar + Martin, 'For You'
When my housemate dropped my mail off yesterday, I ran the whole four metres from desk to bedroom door to rip open with a healthy fervour what I had been... read more...
Tyler, The Creator, 'Goblin'
The last time I can remember some kids generating this much anticipation it was 2001 and the Strokes were about to release Is This It. Then, as with Odd... read more...
The High Llamas, 'Talahomi Way'
The longer I’m around, the more I appreciate folks that obsess about one thing. Geeks who collect a single style of music. Artists who draw the same... read more...
Boomgates / Super Wild Horses self-released split 7"
Since the Soviet Union went mental, shat its pants and staggered off into the forest the world has been sadly bereft of another Superpower. Not to diss... read more...
TV On The Radio, 'Nine Types of Light'
With each album they’ve produced TV On The Radio very subtly upped the tempo of their songs. Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes was slow mo gold,... read more...
UV Race, 'HOMO'
Following up the drug-addled Acid Trip / Speed Freak 7″, UV Race’s HOMO (their second LP and sixth studio release) is for the most part a surprisingly... read more...
A mixtape by Aa (BIG A little a)
Thurston Moore said Aa’s first album was the ‘kindsa sounds that young people should be making and enjoying in bistros from here to Kalamazoo.’... read more...
An interview with The Drums
So I totally chickened out on asking The Drums if any of them are in serious relationships (#fangirl), nor did I ask them if they’d like to become... read more...
Golden Staph, 'Golden Staph'
If Punk is an infectious disease then Perth-based Golden Staph have concocted their own virulent strain of the aforementioned rock-n-roll mutant. With... read more...
Destroyer, 'Kaputt'
Like a rebel without a cause, Dan Bejar (aka Destroyer) seemed to be a writer in search of a sound.Without a doubt, the man’s always had songwriting... read more...
Yuck, 'Yuck'
The perfect introduction to the fuzzed out slacker glory of Yuck is sitting in a Collingwood backyard on a Friday night, watching people roll joints while... read more...
Snowman, 'Absence'
Before you cry your eyes out over the fact that Perth-born, London-dead Snowman are no more, take solace in Absence. Absence ends a trilogy of albums that... read more...
Sonny and The Sunsets, 'Tomorrow is Alright'
Take it slow. In fact, take it real slow with San Francisco-based Sonny and the Sunsets. Offering laid back, stoned West Coast ballads this band has the... read more...
Slug Guts, 'Howlin' Gang'
Slug Guts hate Brisbane so much so that they thought recording this in a railway carriage in Ipswich would be better than staying in their home town. They... read more...
Eat Skull, 'Jerusalem Mall' 7"
It’s odd listening to a Christmas jingle (albeit a ramshackle garage version) in mid April but with Portland’s Eat Skull touring over east... read more...
Panda Bear, 'Tomboy'
There are two types of people that exist in the world. One group are masters of simplicity and the other lot are lords of complication. Panda Bear is one... read more...
Divorced, 'Separation Anxiety'
Recorded live in a one-day session and funded by a week-long medical experiment, Divorced have well and truly nailed a primitive if not Cronenberg-esque... read more...
Chain And The Gang, 'Music's Not For Everyone'
Most rock is presented via a delicate act of duplicity. Bands act all, ‘(yawn) yeah, I just rolled outta bed in this oufit. Those lyrics? They came... read more...
Yeo, 'Bag-O-Items'
The words ‘funky’ and ‘bass’ should never be muttered together. But in the instance of Yeo’s Bag-O-Items I feel it’s... read more...
J Mascis, 'Several Shades Of Why'
J Mascis’ newest solo album feels like a rock record. Before you go chucking it on at a mad/totally ragin’ party though, know that it’s... read more...
Faux Pas, 'Lostworks'
TV’s Project Runway (yes, amazing) often has that challenge wherein designers are asked to design an outfit to go ‘from the boardroom to the... read more...
Kurt Vile, 'Smoke Ring For My Halo'
You could almost mistake Kurt Vile’s music for being the aural incarnation of Stephen Shore’s American Surfaces – it’s Americana... read more...