SOTD #716 – Animal Daydream
Well, here we are again. Another year, another lush EP for running through cornfields barefoot, another suggestion that Gothenburg might float on a cloud high and away from the tumultuous river of now. I’m not about to renounce any of my thoughts on how music needs to keep moving forward, that musicians need to challenge […]
SOTD #715 – Bernays Propoganda
Words. Pah. What are words, but bricks laid in sequence? We learn the patterns from the people we meet, and we mimic those patterns to communicate with others who build the same designs. I see people who don’t so much speak as deploy barracks, whole chains of bricks, and thus safeguard themselves from thinking, from […]
In Photos: Joanna Newsom @ QPAC, 23.01.2016
Joanna Newsom plays the last show of her 2016 Australian tour, in support of her Divers album, at Brisbane’s QPAC.
A 2013 review of The Rubens, winners of Triple J’s Hottest 100 in 2016
So The Rubens won this year’s Hottest 100 with another slice of triple j-approved beige rock. Back in 2013 I had the bad misfortune to see the band play at the Brisbane leg of the Laneway festival. This is what I wrote. The Rubens are easily the worst band of the day, a country mile […]
The Collapse Board Guide to Writing About Dead Rock Stars
Welcome to Collapse Board’s handy ‘To Write About Dead Rock Stars’ cut-out-and-keep guide for online music publications to help you maximise your content, while minimising your effort and input. If a rock star dies, these are the posts that you will need to publish. Remember, it’s important to have a different font and colour scheme […]
Chairlift – Moth (Columbia)
For Chairlift’s third studio album Moth (2016), Caroline Polachek and Patrick Wimberly build on the retro-pop sound they established on Something (2012). There is definitely a familiar quality to this album from the onset, yet new are ideas are quickly established that serve to give the tracks a more theatrical and sometimes jazzy quality. “Polymorphing” […]
SOTD #713 – Halfsour
Say you’ve gone out to see a gig in a new town. You’ve arrived early, as is your custom, but already people are crowding the couches and milling in bunches. You don’t know any of these people. Your legs lock as you stand at the threshold, scanning for somewhere unobtrusive to sit. Twenty minutes crawl […]
RIP David Bowie
I was at primary school with a girl called Rebecca Shute. Everyone called her Rebel Rebel. It wasn’t until years later that I realised where the reference came from. The first time Bowie impressed on my life, I wasn’t even aware. I was eight when ‘Ashes To Ashes’ came out. The video clip is a […]
First Impression: Pete Astor – Spilt Milk (Fortuna POP! / Slumberland)
Oftentimes, when I’m given a list of albums I could review, I’ll pick some names that I’ve never heard before. Now, in a legit music blog like Drowned In Sound, I have to pretend that I know something about the artist, and thus drudge up some “research” listening. But I figure, first impressions count when […]