Foxes ‘Warrior’

May 21, 2012 by Lachy 0 Comments

Everyone is digging Foxes at the moment, and it’s for a very good reason. She’s been putting out some fantastic tracks lately, exhibiting a real talent for straight-up catchy pop music and exhilarating, grandiose vocals à la Mariana And The Diamonds and Florence And The Machine. I guess she just needs a backing band so she can add an ‘And’ to her name. Anyway, Foxes is releasing a new EP imminently, ‘Warrior EP’ to be exact, and you can listen to the brilliant title track below.

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Listen To Five New The xx Songs

May 21, 2012 by Lachy 0 Comments

I do love me some The xx, even if their lack of capitalization drives me crazy whenever I post about them. Rumours have been circulating about a new album from the band for a while now, and these rumours were recently confirmed by the band on Facebook, who posted a photo of themselves recording new material. It looks like they’ve been trialing some of these songs live, and thanks to the website ‘MTHR FNKR’ you can now listen to not one but five new The xx songs played live.

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Django Django ‘Default’

May 21, 2012 by Lachy 0 Comments

If you’re a regular reader of this blog then you know that I sometimes get obsessed with songs for no particular reason, only to forget about them a couple of weeks later. I’m currently in the blissful first phase of this process with Django Django’s song ’Default’, taken from their 2012 self-titled album. I may be a bit behind the hype curve with this track, which has been floating around online for ages, but I don’t really care: it’s a fantastically fun track and if you haven’t heard it yet then you’re in for a treat.

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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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