The Underground Stage
“Promaja’s icy post-punk comes with a side order of hypnotically swaying rhythms and shoegazey distortion as an added bonus, creating worlds as smoky as they are sharp. It’s a chaotic vortex of mathematically-constructed noise and song that you can neither stop staring at nor easily escape. Is dark brightness a thing? Bright darkness? This is […]
“NEIS. play a short set of brutalist and avant-garde gems, charming but thoroughly undomesticated. Oddball and noisy circuits mix with yelping melodies but it avoids being wilfully jarring or obnoxious. Gothy, witchy stabs of giddiness and fun.” Gallery Listen
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.
“Retail Therapy have it all. Giant songs, technical talent, bags and bags of fun, and – this is crucial – the ability to drop a cover of PJ Harvey’s ‘50ft Queenie’ while making it seem like they are actually *allowed* to walk on that hallowed ground. I’m trying to keep this short, but it’s hard […]
“Witch Doctor are less a sound than a trigger for the wild and untethered. As enthusiastic and as adorable as a fresh puppy but with the size and teeth of a bull elephant, it’s the cutest thing you’ve ever seen destroying city blocks by accident. Lots and lots of fun, basically.” Gallery Listen
“Telopia have a wide lens, all cinematic but tanging from gentler – even jazzier – moments, to flat-out roaring shoegaze. The light and the shade fit together neatly, and whatever mood you’re in right now there’s a soundtrack for you here.” Gallery Listen
Every week, I scour the latest releases from emerging, DIY, and independent artists in Australia. The best of them end up on the playlist. Follow The Playlist Listen to this week’s edition here or below, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always […]
“Cardboard Cutouts are anything but two-dimensional, happy and glorious and with pounding hearts, all right there on their sleeves. It’s got heft and weight alongside its technical skill, a set of giddy insistence and playful focus.” Gallery Listen
“Great Job!’s wit remains the star of their show, a razor-sharp observational eye matched with an unerring aim for any song that wanders into their sights. Laugh, cry, jump, fall down, repeat. Forever.” Gallery Listen