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Harvest Festival Review

November 13, 2012 by Lachy 1 Comment

Over the weekend Harvest Festival solidified its place as the best single-day music festival in Australia, bar none. Take a phenomenal lineup with zero filler and consisting mostly of bands who haven’t toured Australia in the last five years, add an idyllic location and a chilled crowd, and take away the organisational issues that plagued last year, and you have basically the perfect day.

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Gig Reviews

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2012 So Far: Essential Albums

July 5, 2012 by Lachy 6 Comments

This year probably hasn’t quite lived up to the lofty standards of 2011 in terms of album releases yet, but we’ve still seen some real quality and still have much to look forward to in the second half of 2012. Here are my favourite records of the year so far.

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'Best Of' Lists

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Sigur Rós ‘Varúð’

April 30, 2012 by Lachy 1 Comment

Just now the always incredible Sigur Rós premiered the second taste of their upcoming album ‘Valtari’ on BBC6 Radio, a track called ‘Varúð’. It’s fucking incredible. Listen below.

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Sigur Rós ‘Ekki Múkk’

March 27, 2012 by Lachy 0 Comments

Seriously exciting news this morning: finally, the one and only Sigur Rós have announced their long awaited new album. It is called ‘Valtari’, and will be released on May 28th. It will be the band’s first traditional LP release since 2008. There’s also a seven song tracklisting, included below, as is the album’s first single, Ekki Múkk. Fuck yeah.

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Listen To A Bunch Of Random New Sigur Rós Stuff

April 5, 2011 by Lachy 0 Comments

Well, this was unexpected. Sigur Rós just dumped a whole load of tracks onto Soundcloud, including reversed version of older songs, live recordings, demos, and a wonderful sped up version of Avalon.

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