- Amici is the debut album from Melbourne trio Primo! The trio is comprised of guitarists Xanthe Waite of Terry and Violetta DelConte of The Shifters, and drummer Suzanne Walker. Taking their album’s title from the Italian word for friends, Amici amiably reflects Primo!’s unique communal conception of daily life with an assortment of anecdotes, wisdoms and symptoms, all told to the tune of harmonising vocals, buzzing guitars, shuffling drums and occasional keys and samples.

- Every band has influences, some are just more obscure than others; Empat Lima I’m looking at you. The Melbourne trio have a DIY post-punk sound that you can trace back to the all-over-the-place, but life-affirmingly warm and tuneful stylings of The Raincoats. Another big chunk of what they do comes from South East Asia’s fascination with ‘60’s girl groups, so a bit like that nostalgic garage pop that made Cambodian Space Project a lot of fun, a few years back. However, in the three years since their last EP, Satu BOOM!

- Wimps have occupied one of my favourite spaces in punk: one where any pretension or holier-than-thou mentality is left on a coat rack outside and on the inside hilarious and oddball songs replace a constant onslaught of politics. I’m not saying that sort of thing isn't warranted, lord knows, but songs that find the funny side of the most mundane or kooky stuff a band wants to conjure up can be the most refreshing anditote to all of life's seriousness.