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East Denistone @ True Romance, 6th Nov
“East Denistone’s shy delight of a set may be quiet in decibels but the heart behind it could power the whole block for a week. Delicate string-picking, introverted wit, and intelligent songwriting are a potent mix – while this is as acoustic as acoustic gets, it’s electric enough to restart the deadest of hearts.” Gallery […]
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Alice Joy @ True Romance, 6th Nov
“There is nothing so hard to manage in performance as silence and stillness. Alice Joy doesn’t just manage both of them, but instead masters and harnesses them into the quietest and most stunning set you’ve heard in a million years. This is so restrained you can hear your own heart beating – but it’s so […]
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FLTRS @ True Romance, 6th Nov
“It’s incredibly difficult to have two vocal lines harmonise, to make sure two guitars don’t conflict, and yet still end up with a truly delicious collection of songs that makes you forget half the world even exists. You and I couldn’t make that happen, but two-piece-acoustic-mode FLTRS land it smoothly, seemingly effortlessly, and without you […]
“Lee Sullivan & The Sleepers’s glorious, jangling set takes turns sitting in the shadows and then lighting up the room. When it lurks quietly, it’s a delicate and crystalline little structure, but when it decides it’s going to dance it’s a jolt of utter delight delivered straight through the temple. Throw in some A-grade jokes […]
“Fewer things can be more ‘Sunday’ than a solo set from Iain T. McKelvey. The exhaustion of a life – let alone a week – strains in every steely chord, a tired and dusty wreck of a body crawling forward in spite of it all. And – in spite of it all – there is […]
Every week, my robots scour the biggest nine New Music Friday playlists in the world to see whose getting backed hard by the big green machine. This week: 🏆 The Champ: Drake Drake, his new track “Major Distribution“, and his 68m followers stood proud at the top of all nine of the biggest New Music Friday […]
In a much slower week for releases (27% less adds to the playlists this week) it was easier to pick a winner, and KUČKA got the most adds across the best new music lists in Australia with “Not There”. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇KUČKA 🥈DMA’s, Matt Corby 🥉Caroline & Claude, D’Arcy Spiller Matt Corby and […]
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Plastic Bath @ Frankie’s, 5th Nov
“Plastic Bath‘s hard and heavy guitars are on home turf at Frankie’s tonight, and they come with some serious weight and song behind them. Opening track ‘Nothing Better’ is a hell of a way to open a set, an absolute ground-rending monster that’s as immediately catchy as it is loudly effective. There’s no recorded material […]