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Ultra Material: Cosmic Anti Stuff (Black Wire Records)
Cosmic Anti Stuff is Ultra Material's newly released LP. It's a 9-track wall of sound that'll wash you away into shoegaze bliss, with sweeping distorted guitars and ethereal vocals featuring heavily. Definitely worth a listen. (Harry Bain)
Eves Karydas: Damn Loyal (Single)(Dew Process)
Absolutely love this new single from Eves Karydas. Super sassy and sexy at the same time. I'm totally here for the beat of this track, it's definitely something I want to dance in my bedroom to... I'm so excited for Eves - she just continues to keep upping her game. (Molly Jackson)
Sam Stosuur: Dunlop Molley (Beats Of No Nation)
Nice Biscuit: Digital Mountain Sparrow (Single)(Independent)
Australian
Mojo Juju: Native Tongue (ABC Music)
Venetian Blinds : Cheating (Single) (Independent) Melbourne newcomers Venetian Blinds new single ‘Cheating’ is a ominous and crashing example of paranoia in full swing. Brooding vocals and a chorus fuelled guitar lead the song as it staggers and turns, eventually melding with some lush backing harmonies. ‘Cheating’ feels dangerous, it’s traipsing through the swampland, it's self assured cool. It has that sunglasses after dark kinda feel about it and I’m looking forward to hearing more from Venetian Blinds if there’s more of this to come. (Jasmine Dunn)
PRINCI: FYI (Single)(Independent)
Handsome: No Cowards (Single)(Remote Control/Dot Dash)
HoT To RoT: HoT To RoT (Hysterical Records/Redeye Worldwide)
380 Crew: Yaegl Biirrinba (Independent / Desert Pea Media)
Miraud: Miraud (Independent)
Spit Chewy: Grunge Is My Religion (Single) (Believe Digital)
Candy: Thankful (Ditto Music)
Uboa: Thigh High Cat Tights (Single)(Art As Catharsis)
Xandra Metcalfe's project Uboa have dropped an absolutely spine-tingling single ahead of her upcoming record "The Sky May Be". Bloodcurdling shrieks, samples of pornographic gasps and squeals, glitch-riddled white noise, distortion and feedback have been arranged into a hellish soundscape designed to beat the eardrums into submission. Metcalfe's work deals explicitly with trans issues that most music has so far failed to address, ie trans subcultures, transmisogyny/transphobia, medication, passing, sterilisation, suicide and depression, isolation, the list goes on sadly. Fittingly released on Art As Catharsis, this track is terrifying, commanding, before descending into a violent drone regularly pierced by anguished screams. A deep sense of unease may assail you upon listening, but there's a fine line between pleasure and pain. This is such an important release, and I cannot wait for the album. FFO: Locrian, Nurse With Wound, Whitehouse and HARSH NOISE etc. (Clayton Bick-Paterson)
Edward R.: Paradise (Single) (We Are Golden)
Edward R.'s latest tune "Paradise" just seems to ooze sunlight. The dreampop single is lit up with filtering synthesisers underpinned by a gorgeous rhythm section that sounds like it might belong on a Tame Impala tune, and proves Edward R. is one to go see at Bigsound 2018. (Peter Strasser)
Reality Instructors: Ideal Love EP (Eternal Memos / Independent)
Prepare the neck brace and fasten your headphones. Reality Instructors are out of the gates sprinting with their new release "Ideal Love EP". It's a good thing the release is named after the second track, which is an absolute ripper. Catchy vocal melodys against wallowing guitar riffs with the driving force of a backline that hold their own to propel the song ever forward. Get this on your driving playlist now. (Peter Strasser)
New Zealand/Aotearoa
The Beths: Future Me Hates Me (Carpark Records / Dew Process)
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Still Corners: Slow Air (Wrecking Light)
London duo's Still Corners new album ’Slow Air’ is their fourth full length release, and stated by the band to have been written and recorded in just three months somewhere near Austin, Texas. Given the nature of the quick turn around on the record, the end product is a surprisingly grand production. It’s a dream-pop record so the discernible elements of well rounded bass tones, rich golden layerings of synth and heavy smothered reverb vocals are all present. Therefore, in parts this record could feel a touch predictable to some, but it’s a slow burn and best consumed leisurely. It's creating a moment of escapism and getting lost in the wash of time that it takes for the record to play out, best not to overthink it. (Jasmine Dunn)
Blood Orange: Negro Swan (Domino Recording Co)
BOYGENIUS: Me And My Dog (Single)(Remote Control)
One of three, this new track from newly-formed trio BoyGenius (Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker & Lucy Dacus, whose voices and styles blend beautifully) is an acoustic emo-folk tune that is as wonderful as it is reminiscent, emitting a sadness of self-doubt and hope for something better. (James Chadwick)