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“Swapmeet step in at short notice tonight to gift us a set made of blinding lights and fathomless darks, by turns dreamy and sabre-toothed. Whether it’s floating up in the rafters on the breeze of 90s indie fizz or at your throat with squalls of gaze and roar, it’s a joy, one of Australia’s best […]
“INAUGURAL play with theatre and mood, heavy EDM and witchiness and fists in the air, a towering temper soundtracked by big distorted synthy beats. It’s still a bag of fun though too, and it propels you along on its frothy wave.” Gallery Listen
“Ponzi Scheme add a giddily mad sense of joy into PiL-ish post-punk, as daftly good fun as it is motorik. Clearly having a whale of a time themselves, the mood and the music infect equally.” Gallery Listen
“Shakamoto bring fearsome energy with them and invest it into some wild and psyche-tinged chaos, high-volume and high-speed. There are yelps and barks and snaps at your ankles, then there’s an avalanche filled with heavy boulders to crush you flat.” Gallery Listen
“Triptychs bite in sharp and jagged shapes, veering around between hardcore and murder ballads and post-punk, sometimes in the space of one song. Many teeth in many shapes, all designed to spill blood.” Gallery Listen
“Yearn move with a controlled purpose instead of blind rage, guitars and vocals and rhythms given time and space as well as just naked mass or velocity. A clever, literate noise, one that might not move at a terrifying pace but still goes through you like you weren’t even there.” Gallery
“Lost Plaza make an epic racket for a three-piece, tight and heavy and thundering. Landing between grunge and psyche and metal, it’s enough to make your hair fly as much as your eyeballs swirl.” Gallery Listen
The artists killing it in Australia and around the world this week. I’ll dive in more deeply below but, if you just want to get straight into it, the artists you need this week are: 1. The top five global superstars with new releases 2. Five artists punching above their weight around the world this […]
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 […]