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Author: Alex Kirk
It was a tough run at the top of the list this week, with Alex Lahey, Big Scary, and Elizabeth M. Drummond all sharing top honours. 🥇Alex Lahey, Big Scary, Elizabeth M. Drummond 🥈Julia Jacklin 🥉 KANADA THE LOOP, Lola Scott, Royel Otis, Vetta Borne For me, Alex Lahey wins the race this week because […]
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Fig @ Mary’s Underground, 1st Sep
“Fig’s electro-indie tends to lurks in the background, rumbling and thudding and synthing, before bursting out like the sun from behind a cloud to blind you. It’s the sound of all the best office party dancing happening all at the same time, and it’s as slick as a twenty spot palmed into a maitre-d’s hand.” […]
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Babitha @ Mary’s Underground, 1st Sep
“A set as smooth-sipping as it is well-dressed, it’s rarely short of a pleasure to listen to Babitha’s well thought out songs. Twanging, playful, and built to tug at the soul, each one is a dusty hit to the heartbeat.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
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The Bifters @ The Soda Factory, 28th Aug
“Watching The Bifters on a holy day seems both heretic and devout. This is music from Satan’s own Sunday night record shelf, the deep and dirty blues mixing with moments of Sabbath’s metal tones. Behind it all though is a primal urge and a scream, the filth and the fury inside bursting free. Bow your […]
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Final Girls @ The Soda Factory, 28th Aug
“Final Girls have a set so chock full of immediately catchy, glorious, explosive guitar bangers it’s enough to make you spit your food out all over your lap. Few bands *ever* emerge this well-formed. That’s it. That’s all I’ve got to say. Fucking essential.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | TikTok
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Boycott @ The Soda Factory, 28th Aug
“Every Boycott song is crystal clear on what they’re angered by, amused by, or going after with a knife between their teeth. By turns they’re amused, amusing, angry, and anarchic – but when every song is riddled with charm and wit and salvos of precision-guided screaming, it’s only those in their sights that should be […]
“The Duke Of Randwick menace and threaten, like a bad dream loose in the world. Not a word between songs, just a set of thundery bass, juddering rhythm, and a sneer of a vocal to haunt the room.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
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