The Underground Stage
“As delicate and air-light as Sesame Girl’s latest is, it’s a lyrical shiv aimed at the men of the meat markets. It’s a truly glorious slice of fuzzy guitars and melody that hides boiling fury and contempt, a gentle wave of the hand with a blade up its sleeve 🔪”
“Wearied but determined, Royal Chant’s latest still takes one step after another, somehow finding the strength to raise its head and scream at the skies. It sounds like it’s had a rough run – but it’s still got one hell of a night out left in it 🚶♂️”
“WILSN’s set is basically made of moments that make you go “holy shit!” The songs? Holy shit! The band? Holy shit! The voice? Holy sweet creeping shit what the hell! Flawless, next level, and outrageous, this is a set that makes you want to grab the closest person in your life and dance, dance until […]
“Edith’s set both rings off the roof and reaches out deep, a festival of glorious pop crashing into a gathering of the most emotional of guitar songs. Little to nothing wrong with a single note.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
“We don’t get many songs from Yasmina Sadiki tonight but all are lengthy explorations into jazz and hip-hop and soul, intricate and dense. There’s a sense of impending menace that pervades it all and makes it positively cinematic, music bringing light to the darkest of corners.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok
Trophy Eyes topped the list of most-added artist on the Australian best new music playlists this week with the brilliant “What Hurts The Most” landing on nearly a third of the lists I track. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Trophy Eyes 🥈Fractures, Nerve, West Thebarton, Hallie 🥉Bad//Dreems, Whyte Fang, Sophisticated Dingo, SUPEREGO Fractures and Nerve also […]
“This fuzzy slab of late afternoon sunshine from Forest Hall is just what’s needed to blow the cobwebs away, and to put everything into soft focus. Lie back, relax, soak it all up ☀️”
“Paint’s latest veers between its floatier, more airborne parts made of blissful dreams and its triumphant high-tempo sections, where the shoegazey rapture just explodes into the sky. A song to get well and truly lost in 🎆”
“Last Quokka roar out of the blocks on their latest, a feral yell at the world, a series of body blows landed in rapid succession. Wired so tight it feels like it’s about to snap, it’s a jittery but joyous explosion of mayhem 💣”