The Underground Stage
Every week, I take a look at the best playlists in Australia and the biggest playlists in the world and analyse the artists appearing on them. All of these playlists focus on newly-released tracks – what this means is that these lists can be seen as the bets that critics and tastemakers are making on […]
As ever, all the tracks that make it onto the playlist are aces in my book but if I absolutely, positively had to pick no more than five to check out this week, it’d be these.
“It’s been just over eight years since I last saw Phantastic Ferniture, and nearly a decade since I first saw them crammed into the daft upstairs room of the long-lost Record Crate in Glebe. Time has passed, and singer Julia Jacklin’s solo career has bloomed, but this is no vanity project, no self-indulgent nostalgia trip. […]
“Playing their own party, Phantastic Ferniture drop one belter after another. “Gap Year” and set-closer “Fuckin’ & Rolling” are as dense and stellar as ever, but it’s the power of that voice that propels the tight tunes to next-level status. Once you’ve had Julia Jacklin sing “All I Want For Christmas Is You” to you, […]