Music The Finch Cycle delivers a post-rock odyssey with new album ‘Mt. Pilot’ by Tom Disalvo Victorian musician The Finch Cycle has proven the transformative power of composition on his new album ‘Mt. Pilot’. The purely instrumental, eight-track project is the brainchild of Bradley Murray, the…
Music Is Mogwai’s ‘As The Love Continues’ the post-rock epic we’ve been waiting for? by Oliver Newland With collaborators like Atticus Ross and Colin Stetson onboard, iconic post-rock band Mogwai have returned with As The Love Continues. The release of Mogwai’s new album As The Love Continues coincides with…
Music Lost Coast’s new self-titled album is a sprawling post-rock landscape by Josh Davies Canberra based post-rock quintet Lost Coast have slowly been making waves in the live music scene. Now, after three years of performing, Lost Coast have released their first full-length album;…
Features The 10 most groundbreaking post-rock albums of all time by Luke Saunders What is post-rock? Most people answer with an illusory, “Yeah, it’s like… Sigur Ros right?”. The truth is, the genre was coined in 1994 by Simon Reynolds in the pages of…
Features Why It Mattered: Sigur Rós – ‘Ágætis byrjun’ by Luke Saunders Few albums have so profoundly terraformed the landscape in which they were born and placated contemporary listeners like Ágætis byrjun. The sophomore album from celestial Icelandic outfit Sigur Rós translates…
Music PREMIERE: The Unset deliver post-rock reverence on their new single ‘Nice’ by Happy This Friday, Adelaide’s The Unset are releasing the first tease of their upcoming second EP. It’s Nice in name but commanding with attention and heralding the time for change. A…
Music Soft Power will mesmerise you with their new album Easy Listening by Happy Back in April, Melbourne outfit Soft Power released their second album Easy Listening, and honestly, it pains me greatly that I’m only hearing it for the first time this week….
Music More of a journey through time and space than The Mighty Boosh, get lost with Twin Haus on Nothing Lavish by Matthew Steyn If you haven’t heard Brisbane’s Twin Haus by now, let me say that I feel privileged to be the one to help you out from under the rock you’ve been…
Music Departure Songs is a dense journey through atmospheric instrumental terrain by Victoria Mietchen [bandcamp width=100% height=42 album=3408776844 size=small bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5] Departure Songs is a critical addition to Sydney’s post-metal, dark melodic scene. An album that is conceptual as much as it is an…
News Video Premiere: Breve – She Gets Around by Alex Gordon When it comes to guitar effects, there is one thing that all musicians can agree upon the awesomeness of. While people will argue that fuzz is ‘creamier’ than distortion, or…
Music Introducing: Sparkspitter by Nick Hartman Honestly, genres are shithouse. I understand they help people comprehend and discuss music, but they compartmentalise the wide expanse of sounds, and stifle innovation. And it really really hurts me…
Features Music Vid O The Week – Sounds of Sputnik – New Born Feat. Ummagma by Alex Gordon Whenever I see the word ‘feat.’ on a track, my mind pops straight to the distasteful thought of R&B with extra cheese and the drunk Darlinghurst Darlings dancing their nights…
Music Trophy Scars – Holy Vacants by Nick Hartman I think the fellows from The Dillinger Escape Plan hit the nail on the head when they named their 2010 album Option Paralysis, citing their strongly held and consistently reiterated…
