The Underground Stage
“pictures with yuki skitter across the floor and up the walls, all erratic trajectories and surprise attacks from unexpected directions. Glorious in both its precision and its rejection of control, it’s a set of dangerous-looking teeth that are arranged – for at least some of the time – in a deceptively winning smile.” Gallery Listen
“Complex and deep, Local Tough Guy are the loud, gaze-y equivalent of a thick book, something to last you the full season. By turns smartly plotted or fearsomely noisy, it’s enough to block out the rest of the world and leave you happily lost in theirs.” Gallery Listen
“Tonight’s Spouse set is solo and acoustic, haunting and wispy, all threads and tendrils. It floats like smoke, leaving bits of itself in your hair and your clothes, and it lingers like an echo.” Gallery Listen Shame (garfism bootleg) by Spouse
“Thom Bastick’s skill is in the restraint that runs through this rich and textured set. Knowing it’s definitely *going* to explode but not knowing precisely *when* it will is the added spark, a tension that makes it all as taut as a highwire. It strokes, then gnaws, then blinds with explosions of bright light.” Gallery […]
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 […]
“Massive, bright, and bursting with art, The Empty Threats draw us to them like demented pied pipers. By turns hypnotic, pounding, soaring or all of the above, there’s pop and smarts and rage running through the whole set. It’s not a little bit magnificent, and it pulls to your happy doom. “ Gallery Listen
“Large Mirage shred and wail with such epic smoothness it’s like ice cubes sliding on glass, classic rock turned up to (obviously) eleven, delivered with a giant grin and a paisley-patterned bagful of skill. Fabulous, baby, yeah.” Gallery Listen
“A Purple Disturbance show is basically like plugging your head straight into the mains, a collapse of all normal thought, replaced with primal screaming and high-voltage fun. It’s fizzing chaos from note one to close but it’s also near-mathematical in its precision, a scalpel as much as a sledgehammer. A jolt and a joy, a […]
“LSF are all hair and distortion, grunge fury delivered with rock precision. Taut and polished, with undeniable heft and mass.” Gallery Listen