The Underground Stage
“So good to see Forest Hall again, it’s been too long. Despite the time & distance, it all comes flooding back – the urgent instrumentals, the soaring song, and the occasionally fearsome noise. As grand as a stately home and as hard as a nail, all at the same time.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to […]
“Big Dog manage to skirt a line somewhere between red-dirt Australiana, twanging country loveliness, and – brilliantly – a Frightened Rabbit level of occasional noise. Gorgeously crafted with care and attention, this is a set to luxuriate in.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to The Underground Stage Playlist Thirty freshly-released goodies from the very best new […]
The Buoys crank the generator for their latest, an insistent slice of fizz and energy, all wiry, urgent, and lean. Dead on three minutes long, not a scrap of energy is wasted here – there’s all the urgency and tempo you love but none of the superfluous flourishes you don’t. You’ll be digging out of […]
A Clay J Gladstone track always seems to have more ideas than the average song can hold, and their latest once again strains at its bounds, pulling at the seams holding it together. Teeth clenched and veins bulging, ‘Balance’ hulks out of its clothes, ragged and wild-eyed, coloured in outside of its lines.
Cat & Calmell return with another preview of their forthcoming EP, an everyday tale of breaking down at the roadside and having a bit of a flirt with the strange but helpful chap spraying pesticide on the verges. As bonkers a premise as you’d expect from this outfit, it’s another glorious and giggling cut – […]
Royal Chant set an appropriately regal tone on this new slice of fuzz, standing square and upright and imperious. All that confidence might just be a trick though – while it sounds like you’d need a wrecking ball to knock it over, there are enough wisps of melancholy and weary cynicism in there to give […]
We Are Not Robots’ latest doesn’t so much let the brakes off as cut the lines, mash the accelerator, and close its eyes. Travelling at unsafe speeds of at least a thousand words a minute, it barrels around the room and inside your head, crashing into the inside of your skull and leaving tire tracks […]
“The Shang swagger through this set, classic and stomping rock, sharp and confident. These songs peak the meters when they really let it go, and you feel it all the way down to your boots. The added bonus of some astonishingly well-constructed facial hair just adds to the heady cocktail.” Facebook | Instagram Subscribe to […]
“Rainbow Riders’ bewildering array of instruments that go ping and bloop allow them to conjure up a sprawling landscape of musical textures, from Tarantino surf lines to Moog-driven swirling. Over the top are wonko storylines about deserting husbands, flirting in foreign languages, and other such charming oddities. A gleeful bag of mischief and playful invention.”