The Underground StageEssential new music from Australia’s most exciting artists
“Every now & again a track pops up out of nowhere and you just KNOW it’s going leave a mark. Bursting at its seams with charm and energy and fizz, there’s hot blood pumping furiously through every single vein. Every neat trick in the pop handbook gets thrown around, stop-starts and harmonies, builds and drops, […]
The Mis-Made roar and snarl and thunder, a freight train and a lightning storm all rolled into one. Adding to their fearsome arsenal, “Tic Toc” is the menacing soundtrack to a fight that’s going to quickly get bloody. Learn More: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter
“Fingermae never sound anything less than fully committed, and no quarter is given on this slice of evilly-glinting razor-pop. It sounds like the swish of a blade heading for your throat. “ Learn More: Facebook – Instagram – Twitter
Although this is dreamy and threatens to float away entirely, Lorelei’s jangly thrum remains vivid, and full of colour. Buzzy and flitting, it’s a delicate gem, and it’s hard to take your eyes off it. Learn More: Facebook – Instagram –
What I’ve always loved about Matrick Jones is the wilful distortion of reality and expectations. Somewhere, a long time ago, this was a perfectly conventional song. Now it’s been Matricked though, it’s a carnival mirror image, it’s bent and warped and nine types of bonkers. Experimental, deranged, virtuosic – long may Matrick Jones continue to […]
Until now, Jeremy Neale has, on record, been about as chirpy as it’s possible to be. This new one comes off like it’s bruised, with a couple of teeth missing. While it makes those us familiar with his grinning schtick want to give him an enormous hug, musically this a light-speed increase in maturity and […]