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The 1975 ‘You’

Manchester’s The 1975 have been playing together for over a decade, despite only being in their early 20’s and despite the fact that they’re only now preparing to release their debut album. Their patience has clearly paid off however, as even at this early stage in their career their music is super slick and sounds very accomplished, like it belongs to a band many albums their senior.

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Tomas Strode And The Tour Guides ‘The Sword’

Tomas Strode And The Tour Guides are a Melbourne folk outfit who are gearing up for the release of their debut album. Accordingly they’ve released the first single from said album, ‘The Sword’. And it’s a nice piece of slowly growing, very peaceful folk music.

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Fishing ‘White Sheet Beach’

Any new song from Fishing is pretty much an insta-post for me, seeing as virtually everything they do is quality. It’s also kind of easy, because the band need no introduction, and more often than not the music speaks for itself.

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Art Of Sleeping ‘Empty Hands’

Brisbane five-piece Art Of Sleeping will be touring their ‘Like A Thief’ EP in the coming month, culminating with a show in Melbourne at the Northcote Social Club on the 27th of November.

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Jeremy Hunter ‘Belly Of The Whale’

Jeremy Hunter, co-founder of excellent Brisbane ten-piece band Inland Sea, has recorded some solo tunes, and will be releasing five of them as an EP in the near future. Meanwhile a single from the EP, ‘Belly Of The Whale’, has been made available for free download.

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Local Natives ‘Breakers’

Local Natives are one of my favourite new discoveries of the last few years, and also one of the nicest bands I’ve ever had the pleasure of briefly meeting. They had been pretty quiet following the release of their incredible album ‘Gorilla Manor’, but a couple of days ago they finally uploaded a new single to the internet.

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