<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.

- Hurts To Laugh is the new EP by rockers Methyl Ethyl, who have gifted us with three whole studio albums to date; the last one, Triage only being released back in February of 2019. Hurts To Laugh was recorded at the same as Triage so, maybe the enforced tour cancellation and time alone has brought upon us this release.

<p><span><span>- We’re a long way from the early 2000s, back when <strong>Dan Sanders </strong>used to look like <strong>Richard Ashcroft </strong>and fronted successful WA rockers <strong>Gyroscope</strong>. I actually had to check quite hard that their successor outfit, XIII, was&nbsp; the band I was thinking of. They’ve slimmed down the social media presence - Facebook, forget about it.

<p><span><span>- Brisbane based songstress <strong>Amber Ramsey</strong> writes, records and releases tunes under the name Cloud Tangle. She has been developing and refining her sound for six years, and has just released her debut album, <em>Kinds of Sadness</em>, which follows coolly on the heels of last year's EP <em>Falling Asleep</em>. The bedroom production spawns soundscapes that are simultaneously lush and lo-fi. </span></span></p>