Fragile Animals – 4
“Telopia have a smooth surface, glassy and shiny with twang and jangle. It’s not uniform though, the more jagged moments adding both texture and teeth.” Gallery Listen
“Swapmeet step in at short notice tonight to gift us a set made of blinding lights and fathomless darks, by turns dreamy and sabre-toothed. Whether it’s floating up in the rafters on the breeze of 90s indie fizz or at your throat with squalls of gaze and roar, it’s a joy, one of Australia’s best […]
“INAUGURAL play with theatre and mood, heavy EDM and witchiness and fists in the air, a towering temper soundtracked by big distorted synthy beats. It’s still a bag of fun though too, and it propels you along on its frothy wave.” Gallery Listen
“Ponzi Scheme add a giddily mad sense of joy into PiL-ish post-punk, as daftly good fun as it is motorik. Clearly having a whale of a time themselves, the mood and the music infect equally.” Gallery Listen
“Shakamoto bring fearsome energy with them and invest it into some wild and psyche-tinged chaos, high-volume and high-speed. There are yelps and barks and snaps at your ankles, then there’s an avalanche filled with heavy boulders to crush you flat.” Gallery Listen
“Triptychs bite in sharp and jagged shapes, veering around between hardcore and murder ballads and post-punk, sometimes in the space of one song. Many teeth in many shapes, all designed to spill blood.” Gallery Listen
“Yearn move with a controlled purpose instead of blind rage, guitars and vocals and rhythms given time and space as well as just naked mass or velocity. A clever, literate noise, one that might not move at a terrifying pace but still goes through you like you weren’t even there.” Gallery