- Aussie collective Tralala Blip have released their new album Eat My Codes If Your Light Falls on Room40. From the regional New South Wales town of Lismore, the group comprises differently-abled artists, initially being formed by support worker Randolf Reimann as a means “to provide a fertile environment in which intellectually and physically handicapped people would have access to new technologies that would enable more creative possibilities for self-expression.”

- Presenting your latest release as “a data dump from [my] array of maxed-out hard drives” is not the most inspiring description of the artistic process. Some people’s hard drives are better than others though, right? 

<p><span><span>- Jade Imagine operate at their own pace. Two years removed from a stellar and well-received debut EP it’s now time for the group’s first album excursion. This outing adds a welcome fidelity -which is to be expected on a full-length- to the band’s pretty lackadaisical style. That’s not to say that their slacker drawl and soporific songs are bland or insipid: what <em>Basic Love </em>does is flesh out the -much covered- modern malaise.

- After five years without releasing a full length project, Australian electro-indie artist SPOD has returned with his fourth album, Adult Fantasy. Combining synth chords with dreary, yet strangely engaging vocals, SPOD may appear, at first listen, to be reminiscent of a bygone electronic era. However, it is with multiple delves into Adult Fantasy that the singer-songwriter’s true lyrical prowess begins to present itself. The album, thematically, is a combination of both the real elements of adult life and some more fantastical ones.

- 2019 is turning out to be a pretty good year for instrumental post-metal releases, with Pelican’s Nighttime Stories coming out back in June to considerable fanfare and the new Russian Circles album being released today. Entitled Blood Year, the three-piece’s newest LP plays to the band’s strengths rather than radically reinventing their sound.