The Underground Stage
“Musically, Emma Russack’s first new material since 2022 sounds like a temper just under control, taut like a tripwire. Lyrically though, it’s an existential crisis of fear and wonder at the strange scales of our lives, the giant battling against the microscopic. A tense, but comforting soundtrack for a baffling universe 🤔”
“Polish Club embark on a neon-lit adventure on ‘Manila’, hypnotic and relentlessly driving onwards. Sounding like some of the very best of the darker, minor-key alt-pop of the 80s, it’s somehow as melancholy as it is euphoric 🎭”
“Clay J Gladstone return for the first time in a year and a half, as unhinged and wild-eyed as ever. The plaintive near-scream of the vocal and the emo roar of the band neatly disguises the fearsome technical skill involved – instead, you get an impression of everything very nearly falling apart. A more astute observer though will realise it’s all coming together just nicely 😜”
“Packed with momentum and velocity, Reckless Coast’s latest is a song in continuous motion – you find yourself wanting to know where it’s going to end up next. A moving target, one you don’t want take your eye off 🎯”
“Coupling elements of screamo with jangly, surfy, indie rock is not a fusion you come across all that often However, jan. crashes the aggressive and the gentle into each other and makes it work, the manic mood-swings adding to the atmosphere of paranoia and twitching energy 💥”
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 […]