News PREMIERE: Take an ethereal sabbatical with MNYNMS as they unleash debut single and video for Oracle by Dean Elphick Prepare to have your eyes opened, your soul freed and your brain enlightened as Texas-based MNYNMS (Many Names) arrive with original single Oracle to guide…
Music Immerse yourself in a world of addiction, gloom and redemption with DIIV on Is the Is are by Dean Elphick [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/237158530″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] Do what you’ve got to do to get comfortable because this is a mammoth of an album. Currently…
Music Like a ferocious lover, Savages rip and tear on Adore Life and it’s as pleasurable as you’d expect by Dean Elphick People have been talking about the epic nature of Savages‘ live shows since before they released their triumphant, critically acclaimed debut album Silence Yourself and when…
Music Children Colldie’s Johnny Mackay says farewell rocketship, hello atmosphere as Fascinator by Dean Elphick You may know Fascinator better as Johnny Mackay, former frontman of popular Melbourne rockers Children Collide. Now, under a new moniker he has chosen to…
Music Redeem or relinquish? How does Hymns stack up against Bloc Party’s illustrious back catalogue by Dean Elphick We’ve recently discussed the many virtues of Bloc Party’s crucial debut LP Silent Alarm, now it’s time to take a big (and somewhat reluctant) step…
Features Revisiting Bloc Party’s Silent Alarm a decade down the track by Dean Elphick As Bloc Party stand on the precipice of releasing their fifth album Hymns, we realise the ten-year anniversary of their debut Silent Alarm has quietly…
Music Lastlings champion the power of a brother sister combo through their lush, homely soundscapes by Dean Elphick [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/233533226″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] If you were lucky enough to enjoy a blessed infancy, you might remember your loving mother or father…
Music You Am I remind us why they never went away and what we thought they still had with Porridge and Hotsauce by Dean Elphick If you’ve released ten albums, you’re either doing something right or you’ve deluded yourself into thinking you are. In You Am I’s case it’s the…
Music OM Collective are brilliantly brave, obtusely reworking a Taylor Swift song for their debut single I Didn’t Know I Was Trouble by Dean Elphick [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/231035221″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] As a pink-loving, sloth-adoring, Taylor Swift-obsessed folk musician, it might seem inevitable that you would be a solo…
Lists Ever wondered which Aussie bands would nail writing a Bond theme? Here are our top 12 picks by Dean Elphick The James Bond franchise has always been an all-encompassing cultural beast, popping up in multiple forms across the media landscape, from advertising to art and…
Music Are You Alone? Majical Cloudz explore the poignancy of mystery on their sophomore album by Dean Elphick [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224878855″ params=”color=000000&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true” width=”100%” height=”20″ iframe=”true” /] They say it’s the people that speak the quietest that really make you listen, and the ones you…
Pop Culture PREMIERE: White Lies is a scathing review of modern pop culture executed with joy by Lily & The Bellows by Dean Elphick Who said time machines don’t exist? If Lily & The Bellows are anything to go by they certainly do because listening to the Sydney band…
Music Kurt Vile maintains he is a master of humility and complexity on B’lieve I’m Goin Down by Dean Elphick Six full length albums since 2008, along with a few EPs, paint Kurt Vile as somewhat of a prolific writer. Some people have a lot…
