“The primal, endless, scream of the opening sets the tone for Clowns’ return, a truly stunning racket to blister the skin, a sonic explosion of guaranteed lethality. Face? Melted 🫠”
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Clowns – FORMALDEHYDE
Author: Alex Kirk
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Georgia Mulligan – Omissions
“Georgia Mulligan drops back into the world after a too-long absence to both alarm and comfort us, somewhere between Kristin Hersh and Mary Poppins. Never short on brainpower and as roilingly haunted as ever, it goes down like a glorious spoonful of dark sugar ☂️”
“The Rockefeller Frequency have never been short of sharp shocks, but their latest is a masterpiece of razor-edged fury. It’s a freshly-whetted blade to the carotid of both you and everyone near you, controlled ferocity and brilliantly merciless 🔪”
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Bodega Collective – Same Drugs
“Drac Hammond off of Delta Riggs joins Gold Fang at Bodega Collective’s helm to come up with a relentlessly addictive track that comes off both upper and downer all at the same time. An instant and irresistible hit, straight to the bits of your brain that needs it the most 🧠”
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PENI PARKER – Two-Face
“Peni Parker slays like an avenging angel, and this debut EP carves a swathe through its enemies. An explosion of dystopian nightmares and future shocks 🦾”
Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers bagged spots on more of the best Australian new music playlists than anyone else this week, with their latest “Never Saw It Coming”. That one track appeared on nearly 40% of the lists I track, and got spots on both major and indie lists, a notably high & wide […]
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Seaside – Housewife
“Toppling and spidery, Seaside’s latest jags in odd directions but pulls you along with it at every step. Urgent and madcap, shiny and scatterbrained, it jumps out from behind the sofa, dances around you wildly for exactly three minutes before disappearing in a puff of gunpowder and glitter 🎉”
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Zion Garcia – MUNCH
“I mean, yeah – the triplets are nuts, the idiosyncratic syncopation is infectious, and there’s chin-stroking blobs of technical production wizardry all the way through it. Fine. The point though is it’s a completely unhinged monster of a track designed to reduce dancefloors into dusty rubble and you, personally, into an exhausted pile of sweat and pleasure 👹”
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Paint – I Don’t Mind
“Whatever it was that Paint were up to in 2022 it’s given us a 2023 chock full of outstanding releases, culminating in a joyous debut EP packed with high-explosive shoegazey fun. This is just one of a glorious package of sound – it takes a keen interest in its own footwear, sure, but its sights are more often set firmly on the stars 💫”