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Most Playlisted This Week A lot of the best Australian new music playlists updated this week, and featured a lot of tracks (48% more than last week!) but in the end it was Kaiit, Great Gable, and Polish Club who shared the top spot, gaining the most adds on the lists. 🥇Great Gable, Kaiit, Polish […]
“Like we’re on the end of marionette strings, we all dance to Annie Hamilton’s tune tonight. Whether we’re being pulled along by the beat of tracks like ‘Dynamite’, hypnotised by that *killer* violin, or dragged onto the rocks by the siren call of the vocal, our moves are no longer our own. The surrender is […]
“CLEWS’ set tonight is as precisely constructed as a set of architect plans, but delivered with the joy of a wild animal at play. It’s hard to avoid a Fleetwood Mac comparison, giddy and danceable pop fun matched with smarts and imperious determination, fabulous and fearsome in equal measure.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“Amber Rose’s fragile set trembles and shakes but never shows signs of breaking, unlike the hearts of us out front – it doesn’t so much pluck at the heartstrings as grab hold and shake them into tiny pieces. As melancholy as it is a delight, the accompanying cardiac arrest be damned.” Gallery Learn More Instagram […]
“Cooee’s first ever show is quiet as a soft breeze, but it hits like an early winter storm. This delicate set may be fully acoustic, but there’s a pop roar that lurks behind it all in the songwriting that raises the hair on your arms. A truly beautiful set, and a hell of a way […]
Fetch your cardigans and brush up on French film-making, because indie-pop darlings, Belle and Sebastian, have announced a night at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on 22nd Aug. That show will also feature Badly Drawn Boy, who returns to Australia for the first time in over two decades. From Belle and Sebastian’s humble beginnings in Glasgow in […]
Most Playlisted This Week DOBBY and dust topped the league for the most adds across the best Australian new music playlists this week. Both younger artists – of very different genres – it’s great to see each of them continue to get strong support across the board. 🥇dust, DOBBY 🥈merci, mercy, Hayley Mary, Girl and […]
“The last track to be released before her ‘Marmalade’ album arrives in May, ‘Stupid’ is gossamer delicate and prettier than a spring meadow. Chuck in the clear-eyed and unflinching honesty in the lyrics and you get a run of tracks which have been a pure joy, setting up the LP as a truly mouth-watering prospect 🤤”
“Hayley Mary stomps with characteristic confidence and poise, shiny-bright yet full of grit all at the same time. As glittering as a nightclub mirrorball, but still as dirty as its floor, it soars and pounds while it languidly draws on the dregs of its last cigarette 🚬”