The Underground Stage
I’m worried about Raave Tapes. I’m increasingly convinced that the nicest people in music have visited an actual dystopian future and have brought back a soundtrack to warn us all of what awaits. This post-industrial, scorched-earth attack of shuddering energy is enough to turn the most self-confident into raving paranoids, and to turn the already […]
This must be the jauntiest song about hating someone ever written. The Bloods sound usually comes at you wearing a set of stompy boots, but mostly pairs it with a glinting, glittering smile. On this one, the smile is turned into a snarl, and the only glint is off the steel of a drawn blade. […]
There can be few things more utilitarian than the lines in the middle of the road, but Sal – and, indeed, The Mandas – turns them into romantic goals to be aimed at. Few bands wear their hearts so obviously on their sleeves, and even fewer do it with such large grins. Shut your face, […]
An occasional roundup of tracks I can’t get enough of, by bands I’ve somehow not got round to seeing live yet. Semantics – SDE You know that bit in Breeders’ “Cannonball” when the guitars do that muted string thing just before it explodes into the chorus? Semantics do that here, but at like nine times […]
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“Breakup songs are the real pandemic we should be trying to contain, but “Soft – An Epilogue” is a bit special. While it’s too easy to write maudlin songs about the aftermath of relationship, Huck Hastings is much more philosophical, as well as emotionally raw. With a sound straight off a Parisian street, it’s truly […]
An occasional roundup of tracks I can’t get enough of, by bands I’ve somehow not got round to seeing live yet. Voiid – Sour Making it onto just about every single “new Australian music” playlist in the last week, one listen confirms why. There are few more acts out there as challenging in their story-telling, […]
“Look, Selfish Sons have got the perfect three-piece guitar model *down*. But! There’s clearly something else going on when they can land stuff that would normally belong in the trick bags of Fallout Boy and – no kidding – Fleetwood Mac. There is much going on here, and much to investigate further. Get digging.” Facebook […]