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“Crash & The Crapenters pick the targets of their fury with care, take careful aim, and then beat the snot out of them, muscular punk rock tearing at the throats of very, very specific people. Not content with raging at generalities, it’s all deeply personal – it’s this particular band against them in particular. God […]
“The Tinnies’ Rancid-fuelled punk comes off chaotic but has a degree of precision buried in it that makes it as sharp as it is rough-edged. It might flail around wildly but it never loses its shape, rowdy mayhem locked solidly in place and dead on target.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Buckled blow in like a truck with its brakes cut, whirling and raucous Cali punk via the Gold Coast. High-speed and high-voltage, ripping and stripping the paint off the walls, it’s not a subtle way to make a point – but for damn sure the point gets made.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
Most Playlisted This Week 1300 and The Rions shared the top spot this week for the most adds on the best new music playlists in Oz, the former for tracks from their second album ‘GEORGE’, the latter for their ‘Sweet Cocoon’ single. 🥇1300, The Rions 🥈Becca Hatch, Kobie Dee 🥉Eves Karydas, Milan Ring, Nick Ward, […]
“Don’t let Siphon’s two-piece setup – bass and drums, no guitar – fool you, this is as noisy and raucous and electric a racket as any standard setup could conjure. A madly inventive use of just the four strings channels Superchunk and Japandroids, a roaring set of pounding melodies and distorted frequencies.” Gallery Learn More […]
“Paint Hotels is playing songs that he claims were designed to be “bigger”, by which (I’m guessing) he means that they would normally involve more than just him and a guitar. This is worrying – if these haunting, hypnotic, wonderful songs were to get any better with more people involved, they’d be monsters. An almost […]
“Galactically woozy, RINSE (with the help of Hatchie) takes a spin around the cosmos while pondering the more earthly concerns of a relationship coming apart at the seams. It’s all explosions in a dark night’s sky, fireworks in slow motion, and its after-image lingers on the retina long after its gone 🚀”
“This track opens Human Noise’s excellent ‘Glitching Colour’ album, and is just one piece of an intricate puzzle made of intelligent, twitching songs in unusual time signatures, a one-band experiment to do away with four-four songwriting. If you’ve ever complained that all music sounds the same these days, it’s time to put your money where your mouth is and buy this record 🧑🔬”
“Eaglemont’s throaty delivery adds a touch of sandpaper to this otherwise shiny-smooth guitar-pop, the jagged edges pairing perfectly with the twangs and the jangling. While the songwriting is mighty and deep-rooted, the vocal comes with fractures and cracks, making it a thoroughly intriguing cocktail 🍸”