Song of the Day #786: Cults
Remember Cults? Back in Collapse Board’s glory days of 2011, we ran 10 reviews of Cult’s debut album. It didn’t go down very well with a number of people who thought running 10 reviews of the same album wasn’t big or clever, just stupid. I don’t think the aim of running 10 reviews of the […]
Song of the Day #784: Dirty Three
Photo: Daniel Boud I learnt long ago in my working life, that the secret to happiness was to either be on holiday or planning your next holiday. It doesn’t matter where to or for how long or how long away it is, you need that light at the end of the tunnel to get you […]
Song of the Day #783: Sarah Mary Chadwick
Photo: Sian Stacey The big music “news” in Australia in the last couple days has been the announcement of Taylor Swift’s Australian tour dates and that she’s only playing dates in Sydney and Melbourne. I guess if you’re a Taylor Swift fan not living in Sydney or Melbourne, that’s pretty annoying but anyone not living […]
Song of the Day #782: Water From Your Eyes
Photo: Eleanor Petry Well, this is just great. On first listen it reminds me a bit of Nine Inch Nails but without the all the machoism and put through a more of a cool indie filter rather than an angry man industrial noise one. The band themselves name drop the futurist-pop moves of Japanese composer […]
Song of the Day #781: Summer Flake
Photo by Anita Shao Something from the open browser tab collection that I’ve been meaning to post up for a while. Summer in Brisbane is the worst. The heat, the humidity, where any small task not done in air con leaves you in need of a small sit down, a shower and a change of […]
Song of the Day #780: Baby Cool
We gave Brisbane’s Nice Biscuit a very overdue Song Of The Day last year. Today’s song is from Baby Cool, a side project by Nice Biscuit’s co-front woman Grace Cuell. With its prominent pedal steel, quiet drums and ethereal and slightly haunting vocals, Daydream, reminds me of the Cowboy Junkies but there’s also a brightness […]
Song of the Day #779: Doggie Heaven
Photo: James Caswell Another band on my “Brisbane bands I really need to see and it’s really quite shameful that I haven’t yet” list is Doggie Heaven. Brisbane always seems to do really good Post-Punk/New Wave sounding bands. ‘Berghain’ is a superbly crafted slice of synth pop, with touches of New Order at their mid-80s […]
Song of the Day #778: Sleep Token
There’s something so seductive about Sleep Token. A group of masked, anonymous musicians a lead singer called “Vessel”. The intrigue is enhanced by their lack of interviews – one back in 2017 is all I could find. A band “united in their worship of an ancient deity identified by them as “Sleep”, who appeared to […]
Song of the Day #777: Sleaford Mods
New Year and everything and there I am trying to decide on the first Song Of The Day for 2023. Something optmistic and uplifting? Positive vibes to start the year in anticipation of better times? But then the new Sleaford Mods song arrived in my inbox along with the Cold War Steve video and it […]
Song of the Day #776: Momma
Sometimes the algorithm actually works. Look, I’m just as surprised as you. ‘More like Horsegirl’ it told me so I checked out a few of the recommendations including Momma. Even before we started I was the guy 26 second into this video clip, *rolls eyes* – “Momma, urgh” because you have entire languages of a […]