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“The Riot’s ‘Happy Tears’ EP collects the full scope of the project, the oxymoron of the title reflecting its extensive spectrum. Its twists and turns through hip-hop, EDM, punk, and avant-garde noise experiment, it’s by turns beautiful, bruising, and bonkers. One of the more interesting, danceable, challenging, just plain raw acts of recent years 🔥”
“This is just one track from Private Function’s fizzing new album, but it sees them at their majestically bonkers best. Taking the zaniest bits from The Ramones and lounge singers and late night mischief and smashing them all together in a filthy shoe, they’re the manic and wide-pupilled antidote to anything that ails you 💊”
“Neighbourhood Void are in the zone right now, barrelling through a fertile creative patch that’s producing one shiny guitar gem after another. Their latest is chock full of modern existential dread and anxiety, a little monster of a track, bouncing wildly in the dark 👹”
“Teen Jesus & The Jean Teasers return with their fangs bared and with sharper weapons drawn. As up in your face as ever, but with greater menace, this is as glorious and fearsome a track as they’ve released to date, capable of drawing blood with the lightest touch to the skin 🔪”
“Like a reward for patience and good behaviour, we finally – FINALLY – have an album-length release from Babaganouj, with this little bubbler kicking off the festivities. Always an instantly loveable act, this and all the songs on the LP land as woozily and as packed full of fuzzy, jangling melody as ever – a wait worth every damn second ⌛️”
“Phoebe Go proves the rule: any art, sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic. Just, wow.” Gallery Learn More Instagram
“Huck Hastings makes unbelievably sweet noises. Every song here rides smoothly over and through rough seas, a joy of a set that becalms as much as it bewitches.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
“It’s just one delight after another from Alexander Biggs tonight, who’s in Sydney for the first time in a while, and has brought a bag of songs that aren’t afraid to venture into darker corners, but that never leave you feeling anything except than lighter than air. You could drift off and float away forever […]
“If every band in the world played with the sheer visceral joy that Cry Club did, the world would be a better place. This is physical, emotional, and technical, plus the songs absolutely bop too. Leaves you bouncing out of your skin, a jellied mess of giddy and sugary glee.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | […]