The Underground Stage
This month’s fanzine edition features Chloe Dadd on the cover, just one of a bunch of killer live shows captured in February, along with Jet City Sports Club, Platonic Sex, The Tin Knees, The Great Awake, and tons more. There are also reviews of the very best new music from DIY, independent, and emerging Australian […]
“Hope D’s clattering and wobbly style teeters right on the edge, threatening to collapse in a heap at any moment, but – like many of the lives she describes in her songs – it clings on tight to somehow make it through to the other side 🥵”
“Hope D playing solo is still like watching a full band. Insanely clever uses of loop pedals coupled with these magnificent songs, these niggly earworms that burrow right into the brain, and that eyebrow raising vocal skill in both song and flow… it’s a hell of a thing. This crowd is out of their seats […]
The outstanding Hope D returns with her Cash Only EP and among this excellent set of songs sits this, another sharp set of observational everyday notes elevated into a swaggering digitised stomp of a song. While stylistically this is showing *another* side to her polygonal talent, at the heart of it all lies a questioning […]
Few records are likely to get both hipsters and hen parties dancing together, but Hope D has not only written a song that’s about what people share in common, but a song that can be shared by totally different people. It’s a pop banger, it’s punk as fuck, it’s got a soft core, but it’s […]