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This crackly little wonder comes towards the end of Jack R Reilly’s first full-length album release, ‘Middle Everything, and like much of the LP, it comes off both haunting and comforting at the same time. It’s like that nursery rhyme you remembered years later – you might have been fondly reminded of childhood but there’s […]
Representing the rich yet underexploited vein of songwriting concerned with the consciousness of bi-valve molluscs, The Double Happiness wrap up this medititaive number in some darkly piercing guitars, with shoegazey vocals swirling around turbulent rhythms. A comfortably menacing atmosphere pervades, reeling you in and then throwing you far out to sea.
“Ambient Book Club are not even a teensy-tiny bit ambient. They are – in fact – otherworldly, beaming in riffs and song from a dimension occupied by Muse and prog and about a bazillion effects pedals. Also, some more pedals – enough in fact to peel the paint off the walls, which is precisely the […]
“Nuclear Raptor sound *exactly* as you expect, with fireball riffs and alchemical psyche combining in a way that makes you suspect the end of the world is actually nigh. All things being equal, it’s just about the perfect 2020 soundtrack.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very […]
“Sal & The Mandas are semi-kinda punk adjacent (and constantly make onstage jokes about how unpunk they are) but fundamentally they are a band about joy. Not just the happy type, but the kind of joy you get from revenge, or from thinking about impossible things. Basically, they’re the tonic we all need right now, […]
“KODA open tonight’s extravaganza with some leather-trousered rawk, taps fully open, throttle fully engaged. Everything roars, and even in these regulated times, it’s enough to rock you back in your seat.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian artists. Updated all the time.
New outfit Chimers crash, bang, and wallop their way into existence with this raucous debut, a heady mix of Royal Headache rawness and QOTSA intensity. Each of its parts have been stripped of their paint and pushed to their limits, leaving a concentrated blast of really bloody meaning it. An emphatic entrance.
Skyway may have only just returned from a multi-year hibernation but they’ve roared back into life with this high-velocity blast of sharply-edged punk. It’s fast and it’s loud but this is no wild haymaker, this is a series of well-aimed blows intended to inflict maximum damage. There’s just enough scream in the vocal, harmonies to […]
Scabz’ ability to chuck a sharpened penny at over-inflated egos is hurled here at the police, in a bare minute-and-a-half of contempt and pity. Frenetic, acid-tongued, and furiously mad, you’ll show up for the trademark two-liners (“I get free punching bags / activists, black kids, and fags”), but it’s also well worth hanging around for […]