<p><span><span>- Grieg came together sometime in the early two-thousand-teens, after everyone involved had got fed-up-to-the-eyeballs with doing the things band’s are supposed to do. They put together this new concern with precisely no aspirations beyond making incredibly loud music that they loved and hanging out. Former rockers reliving the glory days isn’t exactly unusual and most of them are boring and rubbish.

<p><span><span>- Room40 have just released <em>Inner Cities</em> by Alvin Curran (performed by Gabriella Smart). Though the album was recorded in 2013, I had the pleasure of seeing Smart perform this piece at the The Old Museum as part of Brisbane Festival: a five-hour concert that ended in a standing ovation.</span></span></p>

<p><span><span>- What is time? A golden rope, slowly getting shorter with each passing day of our lives? An illusion that distracts us from paying attention to the endless now? A resource being quietly stolen by the media-industrial complex? A prison, reminding us that we can’t do anything in this year that will never end? When I last encountered funky Melbournites Mildlife, they seemed to be in two minds about it because: “<em>You're born, then you die / There might be reasons why / Then again, who cares?

- London-based producer A.G. Cook released his prolific debut 7G in August of this year. The two-hour-fourty-minute long project featured discs dedicated to experimenting with different instruments, from guitar, drums to extreme vocals. Not even a week after its release he announced a second record, Apple. Homogenising the best of 7G and his career so far, Apple is an explosive work, one that somehow lives up to its definite hype.