Archive | May, 2012

Shearwater ‘Animal Life’

May 21, 2012 by Lachy 0 Comments

Shearwater’s new record ‘Animal Joy’ is fast becoming one of my favourite albums of 2012 so far. It’s a majestic and grand but yet at times quite introverted record that takes you on a journey, just like the band’s excellent 2010 album ‘The Golden Archipelago’. ‘Animal Joy’ is the most accessible Shearwater’s music has ever been, but I mean this as a compliment. Because, although the production is much slicker than we’ve heard with previous Shearwater albums, the adventurous nature of their music is still in tact, and their sound still feels like it must be coming from a different world entirely, especially Jonathan Meiburg’s operatic vocals.

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Boy And Bear @ The Forum, 18th Of May

May 19, 2012 by Lachy 0 Comments

It seems like an eternity ago when I saw a bunch of nervous guys play their first ever festival set in a cramped tent at Homebake. Since then Boy And Bear’s rise in Australian music has been nothing short of meteoric, and at no time has this been more clear than last night, when they played the second of two sold out shows at The Forum in Melbourne. And it was immediately obvious that the band have polished their live act to the point now where they are perfectly comfortable with playing a one and a half hour set in front of thousands of people, which it really didn’t seem like they were as little as a year ago. I guess you can call Boy And Bear an accomplished live Australian band now, and sure enough this show was pretty hard to find fault in.

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Release The Sunbird ‘Heart-Skinned, Down’

May 18, 2012 by Lachy 0 Comments

Release The Sunbird is the solo project of Zach Rogue of the Californian band Rogue Wave. Which is a little strange, because you’d think that anyone who names their band after themselves can probably treat it as much like a solo gig as they want. Not that I’m complaining though, because although I’ve never really listened to Rogue Wave I’ve taken a real shine to Release The Sunbird lately, especially their recently released EP entitled ‘Imaginary Summer’. Check out my favourite song off the EP, ‘Heart-Skinned, Down’.

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Patrick Wolf Australian Tour

May 17, 2012 by Lachy 0 Comments

The enigmatic, eccentric, at time slightly mad, always entertaining, and very charismatic Patrick Wolf has announced an “intimate acoustic tour” of Australia this September. I’m not to sure about the ‘intimate’ part however, because I’m pretty sure all of these venues are bigger than that which I saw him play last time he toured here. Oh well.

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The Temper Trap ‘Trembling Hands’

May 17, 2012 by Lachy 0 Comments

Aussie expats The Temper Trap have released the second song from their upcoming self-titled album, which is out June 5th. The song is called ‘Trembling Hands’, and it’s a monster of a single, seemingly designed for the sole purpose of being played in huge stadiums which, if The Temper Trap’s current level of success is any indicator, it may well be eventually.

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Yeasayer ‘Henrietta’

May 17, 2012 by Lachy 0 Comments

Yeasayer, rather sweetly it has to be said, sent out signed physical copies of their new single ’Henrietta’ to fans subscribed to their mailing list recently. We aren’t living in the dark ages however, so thankfully, through the wonder of the internet, the track was soon uploaded online for everyone’s ears.

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