Category Archives: Release
Boatfriends
I’ve come to the conclusion that Newcastle, an industrial shipping town on the NSW central coast, must be a formidably boring place to live. That’s why incredibly impressive music like this keeps dripping from there like a giant, moist mop of twenty-something angst held above Sydney: Boatfriends is kinda like I Break Horses if their [...]
Argentina
A Brisbane-based electronic artist making a few ripples down south. He’s approached the new single Chalk Outlines with a dense, almost orchestral, brush that (for me) is jarringly offset by his dry, laconic voice. See what you think, ’cause while I really enjoy this in theory, there’s some anchor that keeps me floating off to [...]
Saint Lou Lou
A brand spanker by two sisters from Bondi, now living in Sweden. This is pretty lush. As a general rule of thumb, the creative output of Bondi sucks, but this graceful debut really tickles my feminine-pop fetish. One would suspect plentiful and unnecessary hand-percussion here if the twins hadn’t migrated. xMandu
New Van She
Following up Herve’s very early leak of his ‘Idea of Happiness’ remix a few months back here’s the real deal title single from Van She’s upcoming record. I’ve listened to it twice already and even considered logging into Soundcloud to leave a really enthusiastic comment with a smiley like this ヽ（´ー｀）┌ It’s THAT good. Van [...]
Enerate
More of this please. Glow-wave nice guys singing like their balls upped and left home a few months ago. Really lo-fi, twee, utterly delightful/shitty little tune from a fresh-faced Sydney electro quartet. Love it. Unstoppable by Enerate How good are the mile-high sweeps into that brutalised 8-bit lead line. AWESOME. More Enerate here
Kristy Lee
The lady with the vocal pipes behind tracks from Pnau and Tonight Only has a little project with friend Mike Ross Here’s their debut fiddle-around called Space In Between – it’s softly spoken electro-pop, don’t stare at it too much or you’ll hurt its feelings. Space In Between by klpmusic More from KLP here
Swimwear
Tim, the co-man behind Dappled Cities has a new retro-pop sideproject called Swimwear. It’s shiny, it’s popular, it looks good on, it’s everything you want in a swimsuit. The full EP is pay-what-you-feel on Bandcamp now, so throw Tim a few coins would ya? Easy High by swimwearmusic Check out Tim’s Facebook too. Why wouldn’t [...]
Ginger And The Ghost
When two self-professed ‘visual artists’ turn their hand to music and production, you generally call ‘SLASHY’ and promptly ignore them until they appear on the cover of Oyster mag several months later. At which point you pretend you were into it from the start. At least that’s what I do. But me ol’ chum Dan [...]
You.You.You
A fairly accusatory name for an unassuming little collection of Danish knob-tweakers. You.You.You. – Reaching for the Sky (performed live @ Give Us A Crowd! Sessions) from You.You.You. on Vimeo. You.You.You. – When You Fall (performed live @ Give Us A Crowd! Sessions) from You.You.You. on Vimeo. It’s like a teenage Miike Snow having a [...]
Sam Sparro
Back in rotation with a touch of disco-revivalism: It’s taken a while, and few (literal) stumbles along the way, but Mr Sparrow is back for 2012 x Mandu
CELSIUS
New on Russ Chimes’ label UNO MAS is this release from ‘mystery man’ Celsius (you’ll work out who it is if you dig around). Check Falling Arrows, a rapid-fire, Chicago-tipping house with an irrepressible, ‘fuck you and put your hands up now thanks’ break. All the hot news from Russell The Chime on Electrorash, official [...]
Northeast Party House
Great new video from Melbourne bro-band Northeast Party House, a moody, tropical dance-punk quintet recently signed to Stop Start Music, an EMI partner and home to Ballpark Music and Hungry Kids of Hungary. Empires – Northeast Party House from Stop Start on Vimeo. Check out more NEPH if you dig Gold Fields, New Navy and [...]
Trumpdisco Feat Airwolf
This video is phenomenal.. new Trumpdisco off the new Sweat It Out/Common Trolls release “Ov Shark” Check the full EP o’er here: Trumpdisco – Ov Shark EP by Trumpdisco xMandu
Blood Diamonds
A not really new, actually track from Blood Diamonds that tickled me so lovingly, I just had to post it up. Blood Diamonds – Grins This Canadian fella has been a little bit quiet through the second half of 2011, but this was a timely little reminder of why we love BD’s erratic interpretation of [...]
Elizabeth Rose