🔊 TRACKS

There’s so much incredible new music every week by emerging, DIY, and independent artists in Australia, but these are my favourite five releases from each week.

Latest Week

Lipstereo – Rabbit Hole

Tight as a coiled spring, Lipstereo’s high-tension guitars propel their latest track along on a fizzing wave of crackle and hum, paranoid but happy. Dizzying and unrelentingly energetic, this is another attention-grabbing track from a band picking up more and more momentum 🏎️”

Teenage Dads – Tale Of A Man

“Teenage Dads epic restraint shines bright on their latest, teeny tiny flourishes and itty bitty beats crackling in the air like fireflies. Equal parts sharp tailoring and louche scruffbaggery, it’d be equally at home strolling on the Riviera or crawling out of a bar while dawn breaks 👔“

Adam Newling – Us and Them

“Released along with the rest of the excellent ‘Dorothy Painted Portraits’ album, ‘Us & Them’ heals with its calm, a soothing draft to mend broken sprits. Like the rest of the tracks here, it’s born in the dust but it ends up soaring like a newly-freed bird 🕊️”

Acacia Bloom – What’s Up?

“Acacia Bloom have released two tracks prior to their ‘Something You Said’ EP – which this track opens – and it all feels like things are building up a bit. On its own, it happily chugs and bounces in gales of fuzz and thrum – as part of this strong debut collection, it carries huge promise 👀”

Yorke Heath & Sacredd – Summer Rain

“On paper it’s an unlikely pairing, but on record the collision between Yorke Heath’s folk-tinged, poppy indie-folk and Sacredd’s brick-solid bars is a glorious cocktail. Smooth as you like but stronger than you realise, it’s one you’ll knock back again and again 🍸”

Previous Week

Radio Free Alice – Waste of Space

“It might open with a guitar line lifted straight from Albert Hammond Jr.’s cupboard but the wired-yet-plaintive vocal adds a sense of dandy madness that’s all its own. It riffs on all your favourite bits from all your favourite art-rock bands, a danceable smash-up of brains and beauty 🎨”

Beddy Rays – Too Much (Is Too Much)

“Beddy Rays’ latest drives another cattle-prod right into the pleasure centres, launching them back onto the trail with a sunny jolt of joy. Beer-stained and bubbling over, there’s no sign of the fun stopping anytime soon 🤩”

The Buoys – Settle Petal

“With impeccable swagger, The Buoys’ latest has as many moments of easy confidence as it does gleeful wigout. In either mode of wild-haired frenzy or controlled and glossy pop, The Buoys once again prove they have few equals 💅”

Velociraptor – Leaving Hollywood

“Strutting back into view after way too long, much-loved cult movie heroes Velociraptor return with a sharply noir gem, a reminder of their songwriting chops and a teaser for (fingers crossed) an album next year. Few returns are as welcome 🦖”

Underwurld Surfers – LONELY, SOMETIMES

“Just the second track out in the world from Underwurld Surfers over recent months but both this and its predecessor make crater-sized impacts. Face-melting, rapid-cut bars pair with guitars so huge and distorted it’s hard to make out the shapes, an instantly addictive track from instantly fascinating artists ☄️”