<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>

<p><span><span>- Where the noisy and oppressive grit of <em>Safe in the Hands of Love</em> allowed American experimentalist Yves Tumor to explore a world of brilliant chaos, their refined new album <em>Heaven To a Tortured Mind</em> is more to the point.

<p><span><span>- Consummate musician Thundercat is about to release his fourth album <em>It Is What It Is</em>. Out on <strong>Brainfeeder,</strong> the label of his frequent collaborator / producer <strong>Flying Lotus</strong>, they have brought forth a concise collection, touching on both levity and loss, while retaining his signature musical stylings.</span></span></p>

<p><span><span>- It has been a swift move for Anna Burch<strong> </strong>from signing to <strong>Polyvinyl</strong> to now. It took around a year from pen to paper to when her debut album <em>Quit The Curse </em>dropped. That debut put some teeth, albeit with a lethargic bite, into twee jangle pop and burrowed bijou hooks into laid back love songs. The Detroit native carries her songwriting hooks on the back of clean chords, yoked to refined, effortless vocals. </span></span></p>