The Underground Stage
Fetch your cardigans and brush up on French film-making, because indie-pop darlings, Belle and Sebastian, have announced a night at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre on 22nd Aug. That show will also feature Badly Drawn Boy, who returns to Australia for the first time in over two decades. From Belle and Sebastian’s humble beginnings in Glasgow in […]
Most Playlisted This Week DOBBY and dust topped the league for the most adds across the best Australian new music playlists this week. Both younger artists – of very different genres – it’s great to see each of them continue to get strong support across the board. 🥇dust, DOBBY 🥈merci, mercy, Hayley Mary, Girl and […]
“The last track to be released before her ‘Marmalade’ album arrives in May, ‘Stupid’ is gossamer delicate and prettier than a spring meadow. Chuck in the clear-eyed and unflinching honesty in the lyrics and you get a run of tracks which have been a pure joy, setting up the LP as a truly mouth-watering prospect 🤤”
“Hayley Mary stomps with characteristic confidence and poise, shiny-bright yet full of grit all at the same time. As glittering as a nightclub mirrorball, but still as dirty as its floor, it soars and pounds while it languidly draws on the dregs of its last cigarette 🚬”
“It’s been a while since her last release, and Jess Day wastes zero time getting straight to the point on ‘Lilith’ – no intro, no small talk, just directly into a set of chugging guitar that, unmistakably, sounds like it means business. Explosive in the chorus but with an air of threat lurking in the minor chords, it’s a welcome return 🎸”
“Ringing like a struck bell, ioakim’s latest chimes and chings with a gentle but insistent urgency. A little bit woozy, a little bit dreamy, but it’s got enough fizz to force you to work to keep pace all the way to the finish line 🏁”
“Squalls of feedback, then some guitars that feel like being hit in the head with a brick, then a lot (a LOT) of ear-wrenching screaming, then some more blistering guitar, then some bits that sound like Pavement being murdered by meth bears, then some more, then even more, before it all collapses in a heap and starts up again with what sounds like a completely different track. This may, in fact, be the perfect song 👌”
“What I’ve always loved about Carla Geneve’s music is the mix of encouraging twang and cautionary snarl, and both get to stretch their legs tonight. We get old ones and new ones, quiet ones and roaringly loud ones, fun ones and dark ones – through it all is not only some player-level musical talent, but […]
“smartcasual have been cooking up pots and pots of new songs and we get a bunch of them tonight, a party bag of giant sized indie rocks. Often an annoyingly self-important genre, the fun they’re clearly having adds sugar to the savouries, a glorious set as full of blinding sunlight as it is packed with […]