Brisbane four-piece Montpelier play grand, powerful, poetic indie pop music. The guys have been everywhere lately, enjoying airplay on Triple J as well as supporting the likes of Frightened Rabbit. And they deserve nothing less: this is delicate, layered, complex music that is very reminiscent of UK’s Elbow, and I can pay it no higher compliment than that.
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Foster The People Remix Grouplove And Vice Versa
Possibly coming about from their mutual stint in Australia for Splendour In The Grass, two of the best new bands going around at the moment, Foster The People and Grouplove, have remixed each others’ signature track.
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Review: San Cisco ‘Golden Revolver’
Perth teenage four-piece San Cisco have released their first EP, ‘Golden Revolver’, and it’s a killer debut full of singles, great pop tunes, and above all else an impressive amount of diversity. It manages the impossible task of sounding retro and modern; youthful and mature. There really is something here for pretty much anyone that appreciates indie pop music in any form.
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Clownfacee ‘Annabelle’
Clownfacee is a New York based musician who released his debut EP ‘Winter’ very early on in the year. The EP is suitably named. This is frosty, atmospheric music that gets under your skin and is the perfect soundtrack to another freezing Melbourne day.
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Founds ‘Holograms’
Founds are a brand new Brisbane ‘post-pop’ sextet who have just finished the recording of their debut EP, having already generated a fair amount of buzz and airplay for first single ‘Gypsy House’. Their new track is called ‘Holograms’, and it is quite simply a gorgeous song.
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The Bon Scotts ‘Polluted Sea’
The Bon Scotts are a Melbourne seven-piece, and they’re not an AC/DC cover band. Far from it, instead they play a distinctly clamorous and hectic form of folk music with bellowing choruses and interesting use of unconventional instruments.
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August 25, 2011 
