- I don’t know quite how much spectral gating is in Spectral Gates debut, self-titled full-length, but one obvious thing I can say: there can’t be many Digital Audio Workstation plug-ins that are more primed to be turned into band names. 

<p><span><span><span>- <strong>Wil Wagner</strong> and the Smith Street Band are back with their fifth full length album <em>Don't Waste Your Anger</em>. A few things have changed since the last one - the band has expanded with a couple of new members, in particular <strong>Lucy Wilson</strong>'s keyboards a prominent addition. The band also for the first time recorded the album themselves at their own Bush House Studios.</span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span><span>- What was best concert you've ever been to? How much of it do you actually remember? The human brain has a tendency to squash experiences down into bite-sized sensory snippets and emphasise emotional impact, leaving us with heartening yet endlessly fallible recollections of past events. Now if you could hear that gig again, exactly as it sounded, what would that do to the memory? </span></span></span></p>

<p><span><span>- Right under our noses, the city of Ipswich has been harbouring some serious musical talent in the last few years, with all manner of punk and underground sounds emerging from the town. The instrumental trio Coalfalls are indicative of the diversity that emanates from the area, specialising in a particularly liquid form of jangling post-rock shoegaze. </span></span></p>

<p><span><span><em>- The New Abnormal</em> is the new album by seminal 2000’s rockers The Strokes. Recorded with legendary producer, <strong>Rick Rubin</strong>, the band took their time making the record, taking preliminary steps in the studio dating back to 2016. The result is the band’s finest work since their 2006 release, <em>First Impressions Of Earth</em>. Their sixth since their monumental debut, <em>Is This It</em>, the band’s career can be seen as two separate parts.

<p><span><span>- It’d be easy to think of Superego as conscious-hip-hoppers, but, on their new EP, that isn’t what they really are. The name is sort of misleading. What was once <strong>Pow! Negro </strong>is now Superego: a struggle to establish who you are; a roiling, unsettled identity; an attempt to move from in-your-face, break-your-nose rage to something more collected, settled, stronger; a middle-path between rage and hopelessness.

<p><span><span>- <strong>Jack McAlister</strong>, aka Willaris. K, first emerged in 2017 as an apprentice electrician who in his spare time crafted dark, eerie slices of atmospheric techno from his northern NSW bedroom. Three years later, McAlister has been touring the world and gaining internet hype. <em>Lustre</em> is the first of two EPs planned for release in the next few months.</span></span></p>

<span><span>- Where to begin if not with nature; human and of mother itself? <em>Alive</em>, and all that comes with it. All of the circular movements of wild emotion and of course, the fixed ending. The universal understanding of life is whatever may enter the periphery, must eventually leave. And so, <em>Forever</em>, Midwife’s sophomore album, interrogates our automatic behaviours: the lying, our loving, their lingering, while freeing the memory of the ones who have left us behind.