Tracks are nice and everything, but albums are where it’s at. These are all the long-players I’ve caught across the month by Australian emerging, independent, and DIY artists.

Tracks are nice and everything, but albums are where it’s at. These are all the long-players I’ve caught across the month by Australian emerging, independent, and DIY artists.
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.
Dancing, smiling, or screaming, there’s something for every mood in the best of the new releases this week from emerging, independent, and DIY artists.
“The last tracks from Suzi were deep back in 2023, and it’s a pleasure to hear new stuff, especially great big blasts of fun like this one, full of oddball observations and wry humour”
The week belonged to CLEWS’ “Everything Is Heavy” and Triple One’s “PETER RABBIT”, both of which appeared on about a third of the best new music playlists in Australia. 🥇CLEWS, Triple One 🥈Abby Bella May, ioakim, merci, mercy 🥉Folk Bitch Trio, Forest Claudette, Ivoris, Jesswar, PRICIE, Suzi, Thundamentals, grentperez Abby Bella May’s fabulous new track […]
“Suzi – annoyingly – has more than one boss-level talent. It would usually be enough for one person to be satisfied with writing and singing songs with power, skill, empathy, and insight. Just to rub it in though – and in the same way that Frightened Rabbit’s Scott Hutchison used to, God rest him – […]