Gregor – Thoughts and Faults (Chapter Music)
There’s two videos on the YouTube page of Melbourne lo-fi pop fellow Gregor. One of them is him sitting behind a Yamaha keyboard playing a twinkly pop tune, and the other is entitled ‘stylised trout response’, or to use the video’s description, “a romanticised look at how the movement of swimming trout might be translated […]
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes – Person A
When Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros started off back in 2007, they had a vision of egalitarian unity with unofficial leader and main vocalist, Alex Ebert, at the helm. However, three albums into their experiment, Ebert noticed it was becoming less of a community of merry pranksters and more of a business venture. With […]
Jude Perl – Modern Times
After about 2 years of on and off correspondence, I was lucky enough to have Jude Perl’s first LP Modern Times sent to me by the Melbourne-based singer/songwriter herself. I was first introduced to Jude by way of Youtube, where I randomly came across a video of her performing Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity”. I was really […]
In Photos: Low + Mike Noga @ Black Bear Lodge, 07.04.2016
Low play at Brisbane’s Black Bear Lodge, with support from Mike Noga.
Mothers, From Up Close
First off, Athens isn’t a magical place. Get that out of your head. J. Crew and Urban Outfitters loom over the main drag of downtown; luxury apartments crowd around the center; boutiques and chain restaurants line the streets. The people that stay there do so purely cos of inertia. Like anywhere else with a pro […]
RIP Bek Moore
The sad news reached us late last night that Brisbane musician Bek Moore had passed away. Our condolences go out to her family and all her friends at this sad time. Bek played in two Collapse Board favourites, Scrabbled and Clag. Putting together this list of times Bek’s bands were written about, it looks like […]
The Decemberists @ Hamer Hall, Melbourne, 29.03.2016
By Venita Munir For the second time in a month I find myself ‘down by the water’ for a show at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall, and for the second time in a month, it’s not to see the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. First it was Calexico, now The Decemberists, an indie folk-rock band from Portland, Oregon. Being […]
Song of the Day #721 – The Orielles
The Orielles might call Halifax (which is as middle England as you can get) their home, but their hearts sound deeply rooted in California. Replace the cobblestone hilltop roads with miles of flat asphalt running alongside the beaches and piers, replace the woolly sheep with dogs wearing sunglasses, replace the nonstop rain and overcast skies […]
The Field – The Follower (Kompakt)
By Athanasios Lazarou Axel Willner, aka “The Field”, lives in a world where language is not recreational. His latest album The Follower is an album of semiotics; six tracks comprise sixty minutes of minimal techno as traces of communications laced with ambient rhythms – looped and largely unadorned – that are never solved but continually […]
LISTEN: The High Violets – Heroes and Halos (Saint Marie)
Through my job, I’ve seen more gourmet cakes in six months than in my 25 years of admiring cakes. The real luxury in these confections usually isn’t the cake itself, but the two-inch glove of gummy fondant frosting, often curled into pink ribbons atop the solid white base. Now, most guests just can’t handle that […]
