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In Photos: Laneway 2015 @ RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, 31.01.2015 – Part 3

In Photos: Laneway 2015 @ RNA Showgrounds, Brisbane, 31.01.2015 – Part 3

Part 3/3 of photos from this year’s Laneway Festival in Brisbane, featuring Pond, Mac Demarco, Banks, Future Islands, St Vincent and FKA Twigs.

 Everett True

Everett True and his 40 favourite songs of 2014

Everett True and his 40 favourite songs of 2014

This year stuttered in bits and firsts. Music is the healer. Here are the songs. The Aquadolls – Wander It’s knowing that passion can be full-tilt and consuming. It’s about Shadow Morton and Ellis Greenwich and 2014. It’s a love for the same love for that a ton of other folk show a love for but […]

 Lee Adcock

The Mistys – Redemption Forest (Other Ideas)

The Mistys – Redemption Forest (Other Ideas)

DISCLAIMER: This is a shameless, self-promo post for the Dead Albatross music prize, an alternative to the UK’s Mercury prize judged not by industry insiders but people that listen to a lot of music. Like me. Click the words hyperlinked above for the full scoop and shortlist – meanwhile, here’s a review of sorts for […]

 Everett True

The return of Everett True | 48. FKA Twigs

The return of Everett True | 48. FKA Twigs

You see, shit like this really puts me off artists. For New Year’s Eve 2013, Young Turks threw a special party in Tulum, Mexico. Here, FKA twigs performs Hide amidst Mayan ruins. I mean, how’s this any better than promoting your local Australian music festival with Native American imagery and saying it’s cos you’re drawing “inspiration from a […]

 Lee Adcock

FKA Twigs – LP1 (Young Turks)

FKA Twigs – LP1 (Young Turks)

Just nod your head and give up Well, that’s not yr run-of-the-mill portrait, is it? When I first saw it, I though surely I was looking at some porcelain doll. FKA Twigs’ LP doesn’t open like a run-of-the-mill R&B album, either. The first 30 seconds of LP1 steal in like sunlight from above, a choir […]

 Tamsin

Outwitting the Sadness Rover: Tamsin Chapman’s Best of 2013

Outwitting the Sadness Rover: Tamsin Chapman’s Best of 2013

Disclaimer: this is self-indulgent, but it has a bearing on my choices.  You know the monster balloon in The Prisoner – Rover?  Well just lately, there’s been an intermittent ball of sad (or anxiety or both) hovering nearby, just in my line of sight.  Sometimes it’s come so close it’s jumped inside me, a tight […]