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Stressless’ lo-fi jangle is as sweet as ever on their latest, slotting neatly in-between Strokes-y thrum and Wedding Present-y crackle. Trebly guitars flit around in between blasts of shimmery shoegaze, while the woozy vocals float through the gaps, like smoke. A lovely, noisy dream.
Joining the ranks of songs-about-COVID, Beddy Rays’ musical exuberance is tempered here by the effects of the pandemic on the mind. They might bounce around like mad’uns on this track (and it’s just as much giddy and goof-around fun as ‘Sobercoaster’) but singer Jacko’s Eeyore-ish, almost mournful vocal notes get the starring role. It’s a […]
Taking cues from the Bugs or Ball Park Music school of enthusiastically happy guitar pop, Kogo’s new one is as cheery as a box of balloons. With a mix of that aw-shucks vocal and sharp instrumentation, this is high-energy songwriting that delivers a potent sugar rush. A guaranteed day-brightener.
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Bursting out of its own seams with vein-bulging energy, After School Care summon the ghosts of The Replacements and inject a hefty dose of Bad//Dreems dustiness to conjure up a high-tension gem. Twitchy and jerky, travelling at an unsafe speed, this is as much pure stress relief as it is a grand explosion of spiky, […]
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“Hibiscus Biscuit have brought literally *all* the psyche with them. None is left behind. Prodigous quantities of widdliness abounds. It’s quite clearly off its tree, and only those with a dark and cruel soul could resist.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new Australian artists. […]
“We Are Not Robots have, like most other bands these days, just emerged from gig hibernation. Like most other bands too, they’re not only hilariously happy to be back on stage, but sound somehow tougher. This pandemic has stripped bands of their “fun” edges – every note played in anger matters more now. It’s not […]
Cry Club are a deeply unusual duo. First off, they write songs about tarot cards yet manage to make a touching, meaningful point about anxiety and hope – that is not an easy thing to do without sounding like an idiot. If nailing that wasn’t enough, they also conjure up fantastic tracks like this that […]