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: Old Mervs
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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 […]
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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Old Mervs @ Wayward’s, 16th Mar
“Old Mervs aren’t *technically* playing a gig tonight so let’s just call this thrown-together album launch (where they played a whole bunch of songs) the best kitchen at the best party you’ve ever been to. Everyone here is friends by default, and everyone here is pumped to be squished into the room, a collective pleasure […]
Most Playlisted This Week Two bands bagged the top spot this week ahead of some much more established artists, a brilliant result for both Bakers Eddy and Velvet Trip. 🥇Bakers Eddy, Velvet Trip (appeared on 27% of updated playlists) 🥈Lithe, Ball Park Music, The Grogans, Old Mervs, Skeleten, Lotte Gallagher (23%) 🏆 Bakers Eddy‘s latest […]
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Making Noise: Old Mervs
Old Mervs have been on a tear now for nearly two years, with each release gaining both serious support and building more and more audience along the way. Last week saw them release their woozy track “Hey“, and the support certainly isn’t slipping – and their follower growth doesn’t look like it’s slowing at all […]
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Most Playlisted: GAUCI
GAUCI’s latest “Brat” ticked the boxes for a ton of playlisters this week, scoring spots on a whopping 40% of the playlists I track, getting nods from lists run by Spotify, Triple J, FBi Radio, The Guardian and Pilerats among others. Most Playlisted This Week 🥇GAUCI 🥈Teenage Dads, The Terrys 🥉Last Dinosaurs, Haiku Hands, Old […]
Lola Scott, Shannen James, and Stellie all shared the most-added title this week, each appearing across the biggest spread of the best new music playlists in Australia. There was literally nothing to separate these three – all are emerging artists, all received the adds for a single track, and all three appeared on both a […]