Australian indie duo Royel Otis have soared to global virality in 2024 – since their formation in 2019, and across three EPs, Otis Pavlovic and Royel Maddell paved the way to this year’s crowning jewel in debut album, PRATTS & PAIN. The record landed at #1 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart, #10 on the… Read more »
A fascinating mixture of folk, rock, and soul, the EP is deliberately fluid, Lutalo allowing the framework to be as loose and wide-ranging as the work led. “The vision I have for this project is not so much genre-based as it is sound-based,” Lutalo expands, “and that sound is just a reflection of me. I… Read more »
Scream from New York, NY, the first album by Been Stellar, is a remarkably brutal debut bruised and volatile, it captures an image of ‘20s New York that’s unrelenting and harsh, where tenderness is a finite resource burned up by the machinery of the city and human connection is a luxury product. Leaving behind the… Read more »
“If Giver Taker was an album of prayers, The King is an album of curses.” Anjimile won the world over with the clear–eyed honesty of their first record – a meditation on spirituality and liberation. In 2019 he recorded Giver Taker, a collection of songs written while getting sober in Florida. Giver Taker was critically… Read more »
After the success of Adios Señor Pussycat in 2017, the band are currently working on a new album, nearing completion. Fans can expect to hear new songs as well as much loved classics from Mick’s previous bands, Shack and The Pale Fountains.
Fake Fruit is Hannah D’Amato, Alex Post, Dylan Allard and Miles MacDiarmid. Fake Fruit joined recording engineer Andrew Oswald to collaborate on what would become their self-titled debut, detailed by her range of vocal affectations; acidic and confrontational, withdrawn and unamused, sweet and sorrowful. The arrangements bounce and sway with Post’s chorused guitar jabs and… Read more »
Joe and Tash started improvising together at home with just acoustic sax and drums before securing studio time in Peckham to start experimenting further with guitar pedals, amps and studio effects units, all pushing the limits of their two instruments – a rule put in place that everything was to be made by manipulating and layering… Read more »
Dre and Vonne first came together in front of the apartment complex where they both lived as teens. Dre (he/him) had just moved down from Rochester, NY; Vonne (they/them) was trying to sell him bad weed. It was clear from the start that the two listened to music differently from most people—they’re sonic omnivores, obsessive… Read more »
Waldo’s Gift is the result of three like-minded musicians that have been given the time and space to let their sound naturally take shape, allowing them to hone in on a true sonic representation of themselves both as individual players and together as a three-piece. Their sound is a coherent cacophony of a vast variety… Read more »