The Fall – Re-Mit (Cherry Red)
Re-Mit isn’t a breakthrough by anyone’s standards, but it’s something. It’s another book in the bible of The Fall.
In Photos: Super Wild Horses + Day Ravies + The Kramers @ Black Bear Lodge, 17.05.13
Melbourne’s Super Wild Horses bring their Crosswords Album Tour to Brisbane’s Black Bear Lodge, with support from Day Ravies and The Kramers.
Live Review – The Breeders / Deerhunter @ Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, 15.05.13
This is much more than a band; this is a lesson in how to be human.
Scout Niblett – It’s Up To Emma (Drag City)
There’s not much room for ‘fun’. No room for pom poms and a nihilistic refrain chanted ad nauseum like it’s a game. It’s straight down the line fucked upness, which is appropriate given the album is wedded so tightly to a heart that’s been badly burned.
King Tuff + Cannon + Screaming Match + Thigh Master @ The Primitive Room, Brisbane 26.04.13
King Tuff sound like garage hillbilly metal, grounded by a bassist who looks like he came straight out of a 70s porno.
Kula Shaker – K (Sony)
The London dreamers have borrowed their favourite parts from music’s past to create a headrush of love and mysticism
Wampire – Curiosity (Polyvinyl)
I know plenty of people who will never, just based on the annoying dipshit band name alone, ever listen to this.
Six alternative reviews of the new Primal Scream album More Light
Edgy, like pulling the wings off butterflies.
John Blonde – Autothysis (Estuary)
“I wanted to humanize the computer, show its dynamism. I see myself as an aesthetician of emotionalism. If people see me in my johnnie, maybe they can see all the heart I’m pouring into this machine.”
Beaches – She Beats (Chapter Music)
Beaches have chosen to exist as a small, heavily populated planet in a universe of infinite possibilities and sounds. And that is never a cause for celebration.
In Photos | Matt & Kim + Citizen Kay + Tiger Beams @ The Zoo, Brisbane 09.05.13
Matt & Kim play a Groovin’ The Moo sideshow at The Zoo in Brisbane, with support from Citizen Kay and Tiger Beams.
In Photos | Occults + Rule Of Thirds + Keep On Dancin’s + Screaming Match @ Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane 02.05.13
A night of low-light, gloom and romance at Black Bear Lodge with Occults, Rule Of Thirds, Keep On Dancin’s and Screaming Match.
Screaming Match @ The Primitive Room, Spring Hill, 26.04.13
Music fills a need. Occasionally, I need to see folk being themselves – selves that I like – to remind me of what I’m not.
Permanent Makeup – The Void…It Creeps (New Granada/No Clear)
It starts out in the world of Sonic Youth — a tinny, anemic charming version of SY — before shooting off in the direction of Sun City Girls, Minutemen rants with Pere Ubu paranoia
In Photos: God Bows To Math + Tiny Spiders + Undead Apes + Roku Music @ The Waiting Room, 27.04.13
Auckland’s God Bows To Math play The Waiting Room, with support from Tiny Spiders, Undead Apes and Roku Music.
The Bastards Of Fate @ The Green Door Store, Brighton, 27.04.13
Wake up you lucky bastards! This is transformative, inspiring, innovative stuff, all of which are dull-as-ditchwater words for music which is really, really anything but.
Deerhunter – Monomania (4AD)
I don’t like praising records for their focus and consistency — makes me feel like I’m in a corporate boardroom or something.
In Words: Dig It Up! 2013 – Hoodoo Gurus + Blue Oyster Cult + The Flamin’ Groovies @ The Tivoli, 18.04.13
They rocked like the remains of a teenage garage band they once were. They rocked like Girls In The Garage. Yes, that good. Sure, not all the set was golden but when it was golden it sparkled like spring rain
In Photos: Dig It Up! 2013 – Hoodoo Gurus + Blue Oyster Cult + Flamin’ Groovies @ The Tivoli, 18.04.13
Photos from Dig It Up! 2013, The Hoodoo Gurus Invitational featuring Flamin’ Groovies, Blue Oyster Cult and Hoodoo Gurus performing their second album, ‘Mars Needs Guitars’, in its entirety.
The 49 Americans – E Pluribus Unum/We Know Nonsense (Staubgold)
The 49 Americans were an experiment in the pursuit of happiness.
The Flaming Lips – The Terror (Bella Union)
It seems this experience has totally renewed my enjoyment of all that other Flaming Lips stuff that I play in the daytime
Bonnie “Prince” Billy & Marquis de Tren – Solemns 12″ (Domino)
These masterly musicians are in top form here, ambling arm-in-arm and conversing as only decades of friendship allows.
A review of ‘Arc’ by Everything Everything that absolutely takes issue with everything the NME and the Tories stand for
The words come tumbling out of Jonathan Higgs’ mouth like so many bright bees, clouds and clouds of them buzzing about, so numerous and sharp such that their ingenuity, volume and ambition remind me of Joanna Newsom’s meticulous verses. He conjures up drone strikes, billionaires, footballers’ wives, broken war-heroes, landmines, volcanoes, rioters, pterodactyls, post-apocalyptic landscapes, revelatory visions. Not a waistcoat in sight.
