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More Colour’s debut record has got a scruffbag swagger that’s hard to resist, a rolling lope that’s guaranteeed to please. With a vocal that’s halfway between an operatic wail and an exhausted croak, and its spindly, spidery guitar & rhythm lines, this debut is short, sharp, and sweet all at once.
Swapping their hi-energy antics for a total change of pace, this is Cry Club doing nothing but showing off their songwriting and vocal chops. Masterfully restrained, that voice creaks at the edges with expression and range and coupled with some judicious autotune it comes off like the Disney song that Cher wishes she’d written. A […]
This ridiculously good debut channels the very best bits of Montaigne and Regina Spektor – as well as both Kates Bush and Miller Heidke – to create a shimmering wonder, a towering wall of pyrotechnic whimsy carrying enough power with it to wipe whole civilisations clean off the map. The musicality here is weapons-grade, swooshing […]
“Ed Barnes closes out tonight’s episode with a rambunctious set of faux-fighty acoustic numbers that are both spikily aggressive but wildly self-deprecating all at the same time. It takes spine and intestines to pull that off, but Ed Barnes has the tunes and the chutzpah to make it seem like the easiest thing in the […]
“Billy Puntton is filling in for the sadly-absent Amends tonight, but there’s no room where he doesn’t fill it right the hell up to the brim. Every atom of energy in the building is, as is his wont, hoovered up and turned into a series of wry and tragi-comic tales set to high-velocity acoustic punk. […]
“This is almost, but not quite, Bruise Pristine acoustic and unplugged. The lack of full-bore fury reveals whole new sides to the songs, but without diminishing their strength or the passion in the delivery. Strange times call for strange tactics, and while this is literally the last thing you’d expect from this lot, it is […]
“Dal Failure brings a righteous sense of indignation, a guitar, and a sneer and trains them all squarely on just about everything in sight including racism, that dude who acts like a dick at gigs, and Australia in general. There’s much love here too though, not least for the sheer bloody joy of playing live, […]
“Nothing Rhymes With David have so much heart it’s bursting out of their chests. The knowledge and influences range far and wide, but at no point does it feel like an intellectual exercise – this is full-on, carved-in-your-arm for real, with every note.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies […]
“Blake Cateris has a razor-sharp voice and a surgically precise talent for songwriting, which – finally! – gets let loose in the wild tonight after far too long. Each song lands somewhere between Motley Crue and the Violent Femmes, and he’s got us all squarely on one of his many hooks tonight, line and sinker.”