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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 —-
Most Playlisted This Week A busier slate of releases than last week saw a larger number of artists than usual make it to the podium, an indicator of how high and broad the quality was among the new releases. 🥇Angie McMahon, Salarymen 🥈Thelma Plum, Kobie Dee, Elsy Wameyo, Radio Free Alice 🥉Lime Cordiale, tiffi, Great […]
“As pretty as a picture, as sunny as a spring morning, and as delightful as a bag full of kittens”
“Salarymen’s usual 60s-authentic psychedelia takes a bump of 70s speed on their latest, ratcheting up the tempo a bit to form up around a deliciously thumping slice of ankle-twitching fun. It’s all as bright and clear as ever but the extra pace adds a note of urgency and it ends a little out of breath, a little red in the cheeks, all dead giveaways that announce the fun its been having 😊”
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“Salarymen channel their vibe with purity and skill, a retro lookback with an eye on the road ahead. Like a kitten’s eyes, it locks your gaze – it holds it and captures you utterly. A delight from side to side.” Gallery Learn More Facebook | Instagram | TikTok
Salarymen return with another irresistible slab of sun-drenched harmony and aw-shucks charm, a gently insistent shuffle. Sure, it throws back to a simpler time, but when times are as tangled as they are today, perhaps we could all do with a bit less complexity. And when it sounds this good, what more would you ask […]
Wearing its best arched eyebrow and its finest tailored trouser, Salarymen’s third release is another high-shine jaunt into 60s-inspired art-pop, and it’s another well-crafted piece. The slightly psychotic jaunt of the organ parps around in your mind while the rest of song swirls around in a cloud of suspiciously sweet-smelling smoke, sounding shiny new and […]
“Salarymen’s new track is as richly cinematic as their first, but where their debut was Merseybeat, this is more Dusty Springfield or Nancy Sinatra (and not just because vocal duties have switched from Thom to Renee). Those influences naturally make it turn out all sorts of Belle & Sebastian – it sounds as bright as […]