As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.
Author: Alex Kirk
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The Best New Music In Australia | #251
Every week, I scour the latest releases from emerging, DIY, and independent artists in Australia. The best of them end up on the playlist. Follow The Playlist Listen to this week’s edition here or below, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always […]
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Deep Sea Arcade @ Metro Social, 20th Aug
“Deep Sea Arcade play old and new tracks tonight, but whether it’s fresh out the gate or taken from the vaults there’s an undercurrent of creative mischief, of playing with form. Pop and artrock and blues and spacey motifs orbit and smash into surfaces, a constellation of songwriting antics, all worth training the eye on.” […]
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Scatter Light @ Metro Social, 20th Aug
“Scatter Light bounce and boing between smooth and serrated, raucous but jazzy tones followed by a pounding but precise racket. Enjoying themselves hugely, it’s an infectious and noisy pleasure.” Gallery Listen
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MEMORY MOTEL @ Metro Social, 20th Aug
“MEMORY MOTEL are drenched in smoke, the haze matching the otherworld pounding and swirl. Careful, intentional strides dominate the songwriting, loud and cathartic one minute, delicate as a daydream the next.” Gallery Listen
Every week I pick out a bunch of interesting shows featuring emerging, DIY, and independent Australian artists. The full list of shows this week are below – those are the ones to get out to in the next few days. Don’t forget, there’s also a futuristic-y dashboard here that lets you look ahead if you […]
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By The Numbers #007: 18th Aug 2025
Every week, I take a look at the best playlists in Australia and the biggest playlists in the world and analyse the artists appearing on them. All of these playlists focus on newly-released tracks – what this means is that these lists can be seen as the bets that critics and tastemakers are making on […]
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Promaja @ The Enmore Hotel, 17th Aug
“Promaja’s icy post-punk comes with a side order of hypnotically swaying rhythms and shoegazey distortion as an added bonus, creating worlds as smoky as they are sharp. It’s a chaotic vortex of mathematically-constructed noise and song that you can neither stop staring at nor easily escape. Is dark brightness a thing? Bright darkness? This is […]
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NEIS. @ The Enmore Hotel, 17th Aug
“NEIS. play a short set of brutalist and avant-garde gems, charming but thoroughly undomesticated. Oddball and noisy circuits mix with yelping melodies but it avoids being wilfully jarring or obnoxious. Gothy, witchy stabs of giddiness and fun.” Gallery Listen