The Underground Stage
Telenova nabbed the most adds on the best Australian new music playlists this week with their latest track ‘Teardrop’. Interestingly, they have consistently been among the most widely-supported artists over the last two years, with only Phoebe Go and King Stingray getting wider backing across the lists I track. Now freshly-signed to EMI / Fiction […]
“The focus track from their excellent ‘New Modern Architecture’ album, there’s a glorious and snarling sense of freedom here, a wild and untethered sound designed to smash shackles and let loose. Fans of Royal Headache will recognise the rush, but everyone who’s ever felt tied down will feel it, deep in the bones 🔓”
“Rapid-fire and breathless, The Wolston Butchers race around like giddy loons on ‘Coz We’re High’, a track that morphs between skate-punk speed to hair-metal lines, often within the same sentence. Bags and bags full of pharmaceutical fun 💊”
“Neighbourhood Void stomp into view with their latest, towering and unstoppable hammer blows smashing things up with metronomic precision. As always, the lyrics crack and splinter with the weight of doubt and anxiety, but – again, as always – the music is enough to pull us all together 🔨”
“Prowling between the twin electrified fences of Tricky’s ‘Black Steel’ and The Chats ‘Drunk N Disorderly’, this is a brilliant bag of trouble filled with a ragged, flapping bass and some rapid, rough bars. It’s a massive thrill, and its chorus-closing phrase “rowwwwdyyyy, oath” is both a crowd-sized chant and a two-word review wrapped into one 💣”
“This could so easily be a much rougher or a more aggressive record, but there’s a gleam and a shine that balances it all out, leaving a pounding track that’s punk in length but pop in personality. Shiny-bright but nearly falling apart with a madly twitching energy, it charms as much as it chews your arm off 🤪”
“A late-night Royal Chant show is like a digestif, one last rich pleasure at the end of a long night full of them. Tonight’s set spans their many albums, from the recent single and imperious set-opener ‘Fevers and Sweat’ through the perennial favourite and party-starting blast of ‘High Low’. A band that knows what they’re […]
“If you’ve ever found yourself hankering for that sweet spot between the B-52s and Spongebob, then Casual Swimwear have your vibe packaged up and ready to go. The whole thing is so nautically bonkers, it’s hard to – wait for it – fathom how this sort of mayhem comes to life in the first place. […]
Screamfeeder may be doing nothing new tonight, nothing that’ll break TikTok, but literally not one person here cares – this is an anti-fashion moment. The room is full of people who genuinely want to be here, who know words and beats and back stories, and who are incapable of cynicism. The sound and – most […]