The Underground Stage
“Particles have only two constituent parts, but it’s like a gang of escaped monkeys are sawing a hole in your head. The madcap scampering between huge song and vicious aural stomping is just one of my favourite musical rollercoasters. Again! Again!” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
“I’m loving Crane Games’ sense of spike and fizz, that acoustic guitar buzzing away underneath the harsher notes of the rest of the setup. For fans of Flowertruck, this is what you wanted. For everyone else, it’s what you need a bit more of.” Facebook | Instagram
“Dream Dog are driven, fully, by synths – this is usually a sign of a slightly deranged mind that needs to get out more. This isn’t that. There’s a delightful array of texture and whimsy that makes it sound not only unlike your average synth-nerds, but actually like a vaguely demented amble through unfamiliar turf. […]
“Boysnlove have this great track called “You’re So Gross”, which is as funny and as acerbic as it sounds, but the whole set has SO much more fibre. The context of that track in amongst these wonderful, wonderful songs just elevates the whole thing. I keep replaying it in my head and want to sigh, […]
“Look, there’s no point messing about here. Elizabeth Fader is precisely and thrillingly what every Breeders fan has been waiting for. And if that wasn’t enough, there’s Georgia Mulligan thrown in for good measure. Eyeballs, rolling into the back of my head.” Facebook | Instagram triple j Unearthed Embedded Player
“Gentle Leader has a touch of literally all my favourite bands – I don’t say this lightly, but there’s even some Frightened Rabbit in there, which is really bloody hard to do when you’re not actually Scottish. This is inventive and not a little other-wordly. The type of thing you know that comes from trauma, […]
“Eliott plays her first Sydney headliner tonight, and damn sure it won’t be the last. That voice is, honestly, preposterous. It makes eagles soaring over mountains look like lead-footed clodhoppers. Yikes.” Facebook | Instagram
“Yorke springs into life here tonight – wait, did I hear that right? – with their first ever gig. This can’t be possible. This is so fully formed, so rich and stellar and gaseous and amazing, it could have been in an oak cask for twenty years. Regina Spektor does Chvrches. Just fabulous.” Facebook | […]
“Lover opens up tonight with some buttery electronic soul, all aimed at just the right tempo and tone to cause involuntary spine flinches. Babies aren’t this smooth, like ice cubes spilling on a glass surface.” Facebook | Instagram | Twitter