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: Floodlights
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Most Playlisted: The Rions
Most Playlisted This Week Each week, my robots scour the best Australian new music playlists and look for who is getting the love from the most critics and tastemakers. This week’s podium finishers: 🥇The Rions (appeared on 36% of updated playlists) 🥈Old Mervs, The Terrys, Oscar The Wild (27%) 🥉Lithe, Floodlights, Deep Sea Arcade, The […]
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. Floodlights – JOY (from the album ‘Underneath’) 🎶 Floodlights continue to excite as they continue to grow, and this comes from […]
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Most Playlisted: Letters To Lions
Most Playlisted This Week The top two spots this week were taken by artists returning to the fray after a break, with some tough competition for the bronze medal. 🥇Letters To Lions (appeared on 32% of updated playlists) 🥈Ruby Fields (28%) 🥉Young Franco, Slowly Slowly, Floodlights, VV Pete (24%) 🏆 List-toppers this week were Letters […]
There are happy reunions, heady rhythms, and harsh reminders in this week’s crop of new music from emerging, independent, and DIY artists.
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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Making Noise: Floodlights
I often talk about artists who have grown quickly, in a short period of time, with a number of releases. Floodlights are a bit different though – this band have grown significantly but over the long-term, and with only one release (just last week!) in over a year. # releases: 1 – This is why […]
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Most Playlisted: Floodlights
Most Playlisted This Week Floodlights‘ first release of 2024 was greeted like an old friend by the best new music playlists in Australia this week, propelling just out front of a crowded pack. 🥇Floodlights 🥈Nick Ward, Ra Ra Viper, Salarymen, Skegss, TOWNS 🍟 Takeouts: —- 📸 Photo credit: none found —-
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Floodlights @ The Great Club, 11th Apr
“Floodlights bring a dark theatre to the chat, bubbling groove and rich baritone performing a script of wild-eyed imaginings. It’s evocative enough in its quieter moments, but when it lets go it’s like black fireworks going off in your head.” Gallery Learn More Instagram | TikTok