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“As bouncy as blancmange and with one of the most widdle-tastic guitar solos of the year so far, LOSER crash back into the consciousness with glorious verve. Shot through with feels, it still keeps its foot down all the way through until the sun goes down, a late summer song for sad souls 🌅”
“High tension and complexity is Hugs’ signature dish, but their trick is to make it as accessible and welcoming as fresh soup. Once again, this is a track to happily gulp down, their sleight-of-hand ensuring you still get all the nourishment you need 😋”
“A pounding, soaring track from Subcult, riddled with cutesy moments and major-key eruptions, all curled up in a ball next to a pile of bedroom-y angst. Heady stuff, and heartfelt 🌋”
“Reunited with a full-band track, Blake Cateris’ latest is jauntier than a pair of finger guns wearing a cocked hat. He may be overwhelmed by modern life, but it doesn’t seem to have stopped him writing end-of-the-night singalongs like this. Phew. 😌”
Australia’s best new music playlisters went for wider range of tracks than usual this week – a sign of the quality of releases on offer – but Matt Corby’s new track “Big Smoke” nudged ahead of the large pack to appear on the most lists this week. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇Matt Corby 🥈The Teskey […]
“Jess Day conjures songs and images that are both shiny new yet grubby reality all at the same time – polished pop ends up with skinned knees, soaring highs get shot out of the sky, happy routes forward get diverted up creeks without paddles. Fabulous, filthy, and flawed in all the right ways.” Gallery Learn […]
“Platonic Sex raid territories from Camp Cope to PJ Harvey to Hole but make everything they touch theirs, a heady brew of complexity, depth, and intelligence. There’s enough guitar wigout to keep anyone happy, but it’s liberally sprinkled with enough chunks of cold fury and doses of telling you which way is up to keep […]
“Chloe Dadd’s set may be opening the night but this crowd has festival closer energy. It’s three rows deep before they even step on stage and the professional-standard screaming from this gloriously pop, waaay predominantly-female crowd threatens to tear holes in the world. An absolutely magic band, getting precisely what they deserve.” Gallery Learn More […]
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: Linkin Park Ahead of the 20 year anniversary re-release of Meteora, Linkin Park’s previously-unreleased track from 2002 “Lost” jumped straight onto all nine of […]