The return of Everett True | 10. Lady Neptune
You need this. The video is mesmeric. The song is like everything else but then it keeps going and keeps going and before long you realise that it isn’t. Like everything else. Thing is, with this sort of lo-fi do-it-yourself scuzz rock it’s often better to have no budget at all than unlimited resources. (I’m projecting […]
Sky Ferreira – Night Time, My Time (Again, but this time with special guest stars EMI and The Needle Drop)
Yes, Scott already wrote a most righteous review for this album. Yes, Everett also championed her via a SOTD feature. And yes, I also adore Sky. So why is this review necessary? Well, to begin with, EMI has finally blessed Australia with the release of Night Time, My Time, with the UK to follow next […]
The Friday Afternoon Playlist, 24.01.2014
Bo Ningen – Henkan Last weekend I went down to the Gold Coast for this year’s Big Day Out festival and saw some of the worst bands in the history of music. However, thanks to a recommendation from Collapse Board contributor Brendan Eales, I also caught Japan-via-London psych-rock four piece Bo Ningen, who, despite playing […]
2012 & the Abysmal Company You Kept
Dum Dum Girls had a massive year — the Coke Zero of the indie world. You know, same taste as the original formula but not as filling.
Single Of The Week: Future Twin – Bad Seed (self-released)
Sun, fun, shorts, shades, the beach, the party never stops and the caring never starts.
Song of the day – 448: Summer Twins
The music, I like – but you have to appreciate that these people are not my people.
Dum Dum Girls – Only In Dreams (Sub Pop)
By Cheri Amour In her hazy days of, what one can only imagine was, singing into the mirror with comb to lips, LA singer songwriter Kristen Gundred (nom de plume Dee Dee) made a vow to only work with female musicians (no doubt, built up by her wide-eyed admiration for institutional girl bands like that […]
One-minute reviews – 17: Girls, Dum Dum Girls, Girls In Trouble, The Rapture
Fuck reviewing albums in 140 characters or less.
Song of the day – 402: Tashaki Miyaki
Psychedelic shoegaze, some call it.