Album Reviews
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We’ve seen countless iterations of Tkay Maidza across the seven years she’s been on the scene. With each release, she becomes more self-assured, further cementing her status as an Australian rapper you’d do well to keep your eye on. But, with the second instalment of her Last Year Was Weird EP series, she’s daring you […]
Florida’s Dominic Fike sounds like no other artist today – but he epitomises a movement. The Gen Z singer, rapper and instrumentalist has achieved virality by pursuing individualistic and transgressive creativity, as with Tyler, The Creator, Billie Eilish and his buddies BROCKHAMPTON. The 24-year-old is defiantly post-genre. Fike combines a hip-hop sensibility with alt-rock – […]
It’s hard to believe that E^ST – real name Melisa Bester – is only on her debut album. Australia has known her since 2015, and she’s consistently released EP after EP in the years that followed. Her music grew from brooding and muted to bright and blossoming, cloaked in layers of sunlight. With tracks like […]
Australian hip-hopper The Kid LAROI (aka Charlton Howard) is a viral sensation, cultivating a fanbase in the US as well as here via streaming platforms and social media. Now the cloud rapper/crooner has dropped his inaugural mixtape, F*CK LOVE – and on the same day as both Logic’s retirement album No Pressure and Taylor Swift’s […]
DMA’S have paired their Newtown-takes-Britpop stylings with sparkling synths and electro-pop beats to reach an elevated sound on their new record THE GLOW. Rather than fearing change, they’ve embraced it and pushed their record to a new place while maintaining the warmth and sincerity of their songwriting. The Sydney trio have come a long way […]
After a 2019 which saw Post Malone become their #1 fan, and four songs land in the Top 40 of triple j’s Hottest 100, Lime Cordiale are ready to justify the hype on their second album 14 Steps To A Better You. The lads from Sydney’s Northern Beaches have been kicking around for a while […]
With over 250 million streams, an array of sold-out world tours, marquee festival billings and of course a Hottest 100 victory to their name, psych-rock sextet Ocean Alley are on a seemingly endless ascent to the peak of their creative vision. That vision is on full display on their third full-length, Lonely Diamond, a record […]
Bob Dylan fans are a peculiar breed. As Joan Baez explains in Martin Scorsese’s No Direction Home documentary, for those who get it, the Dylan obsession “goes way, way deep.” But in recent decades, this depth of adoration has seen Dylan-philes seek to highlight greatness in some fairly ordinary source material. The 2010s consisted of […]
Hold onto your cowboy hats, Australian country trio The McClymonts are dropping new music for the first time in three years today. Their sixth record Mayhem to Madness is the McClymont sisters doing what they do best: singing from the heart and harmonising like hell to make one helluva country-pop hybrid. The album’s title refers […]
When reflecting on the self-awareness of a group like The 1975, you needn’t look further than the video for their 2016 single ‘The Sound’. What begins as an upmarket performance video quickly turns into a running commentary on the band itself, as snide remarks about them flash up in bold text. “Totally lacking the wow […]
