Tracks are nice and everything, but albums are where it’s at. These are all the albums released in March that I caught from Australian emerging, independent, and DIY artists.
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New Albums This Month: Mar 2025
Tag: Royal Chant
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.
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, 100% made up of the best brand-new music from the best new artists in Australia – never pay-to-play, and always only new […]
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Royal Chant @ The Town Hall, 9th Feb
“A late-night Royal Chant show is like a digestif, one last rich pleasure at the end of a long night full of them. Tonight’s set spans their many albums, from the recent single and imperious set-opener ‘Fevers and Sweat’ through the perennial favourite and party-starting blast of ‘High Low’. A band that knows what they’re […]
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Royal Chant @ The Town Hall, 11th Mar
“Fewer things make me happier than a Royal Chant set. It’s the control and the lack of it, the joy in all of the sound and the fury in some of the sentiment, it’s the shoulder-shaking buzz and fuzz. Whatever – it’s always the purest pleasure.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram
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Royal Chant @ The Botany View, 18th Jun
“Royal Chant have an uncanny ability to smash big tune together with smart lyricism, to match huge melody to sharp wit. If you don’t care what they’re saying, it’s enough to make you soar off your chair – if you’re listening to the stories though, it’s enough to make your synapses fire for days. A […]
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Royal Chant – What’s Your Cosine?
Royal Chant set an appropriately regal tone on this new slice of fuzz, standing square and upright and imperious. All that confidence might just be a trick though – while it sounds like you’d need a wrecking ball to knock it over, there are enough wisps of melancholy and weary cynicism in there to give […]
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Royal Chant – Big Mood
I’ve no idea what sort of temper Royal Chant were in when they wrote ‘Big Mood’, but it’s working like a charm. While squirrelly little bits of guitar float about the place, swirls of feedback lurk in the background like a threat, with the vocal switching gears on a dime between a drawl, a snarl, […]
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Royal Chant – Silent Pitch
A thoughtful outing from the fizzy bunnies of Royal Chant, though it is no less welcome for it. Taken from their three-track ‘Superstar’ EP, we find them channelling Cohen and Reed in both the vocal and the melody, with as much world-weary metaphor as they can muster. This is Royal Chant in contemplative mood, with […]