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With Autumn now in full swing, it’s time to reflect on our favourite tracks of Summer

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Summer '14 Top 10

As per, there's been tons of goodies coming out of Australia over the last month or so. Get your listening gear round this little lot.

Gang Of Youths - "Poison Drum"

There's just *so* much going on here - a vocal that alternates between soaring and gruff, locomotive and chugging rhythms, understated but stilletto-sharp guitar. It touches on Arcade Fire, but in truth there's more Springsteen in here than anything else, walking that awesome line between crashing tragedy and total victory, like world's just poured acid into your eye but you've never felt more alive and vital and miserable just GRAAARRRRRR. It's just an unutterable joy.

Montaigne - "Fantastic Wreck"

Oh dear Lord, this might just kill me stone dead. Montaigne is the newly-minted moniker of one Jessica Cerro, the prodigious talent who about two years ago put a track called "Anyone But Me" into my head, where it set up camp and then never left. Since then, she's gone a bit more pro, but jigger me, if this isn't one of the most glorious tracks I've heard in forever. I think I need a little sit down now.

Fun Machine - "Shave"

Fun Machine have a bit of tendency to give the impression that they really just can't help adding significant doses of sugar to their occasional fits of the weirds. On this one they just don't even bother reining it in - this is a monster slab of what starts off as somewhere near soul and ends up going totally batshit on the indie dancefloor. Imagine the Beautiful South doing Royal Headache. Or not. Either way, it's the best song about scraping hair from your face you'll hear all year. And an earworm of the highest order to boot.

Velociraptor - "Ramona"

Well, it's about bloody time. Without doubt one of the best bands in Australia, and it's been *forever* since we heard anything. I mean fine, no Velociraptor has, to be fair, meant lots of Jeremy Neale, which is an adequate payoff. But y'know, cake and eat it and so forth, that's me. All that is really just vamping though, this is - as is per usual by now - top shelf tequila, among the absolute best in the country, by a bloody mile. Now - tour please.

Bloods - "Want It"

Repeating ourselves a bit here, but I really don't care. This latest one from the uber-good Bloods just bulges with a fizzing and twitchy energy that - I'm sure - will tickle your sensitive parts in ways that are sure to please you.

Lunatics On Pogosticks - "Less Than Sober"

They won that Triple J Unearthed thing, and that was all fine and stuff, and I bet their mums were all chuffed and so on, but this new one from them is a bit less frenetic and stubbornly teenage, and is all the better for it. It's still a metric ton of fuzzy, amped-up, sneery, guitar-driven bonkersness, but it's starting to feel a lot like Superchunk round here. This is a good thing.

Life Coach - "Tigersharx"

Making guitars sound precisely like buzzsaws and drillsisn't easy, you know, it takes skill, and patience. It's an art. Wrapping it up in a flat-out, pedal-down, motoring, wheel-spinning frenzy of a song that takes you back to late-80s Minneapolis punky pop is always genius. Swoon etc.

East - "Old Age"

I was at East's recent Sydney show a couple weeks back and I'm still banging on about it. It was that good. This is only the opening salvo in what promises to turn into a full-scale assault from this ludicrously talented 16yr old. The absolute best thing about this song is that you could imagine Johnny Cash singing it and it both making sense and being utterly heart-breaking at the same time. Come back to me at the end of this year and we can all use words like 'meteoric rise', 'shot to fame' and 'holy fucking balls, she's stupidly good'.

Jeremy Neale - "Lone Tiger"

He sings in Velociraptor, he's funny as shit, he writes songs full of wit and hip-shaking and tuuuuuunes - doesn't it just make you want to vomit? Damn his eyes, this is a class act. A-fucking-gain.

Birds With Thumbs - "Popular Teenage Girls"

For those among us as old and as chewy as me, you'll get it when I say 'Urusei Yatsura'. Everyone else, of course, is telling us old DIY nerds to shut up and just have some damn fun for once without trying to drag up bands who had split before Birds With Thumbs had even learned to walk, FFS. We're both right though, and that's the truth. Great, crackly, piles of yummy stuff.

Ted's Best Of - Indian Summer Edition, May 2014

Indie Top 50 - May 2014

Blank Realm - Falling Down The Stairs

Big Bois Gotta Eat

Client Liaison doing business on the road, building monuments, setting the pace, taking the plunge, free of fear and unfazed. A evening toast to the Australian heat of the day, icy cold Fosters in hand, the night before us, we're in the radical light!

Client Liaison - Free Of Fear

Newborn (feat. Laura Jean)

Art as the pinnacle of human achievement, pop, sex

Shave

New single from forthcoming Velociraptor Album. 
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Recorded by Sean Cook at The Plutonium, Brisbane. Produced by Sean Cook and Jeremy Neale.
Mixed by Magoo at Applewood Lane. 
Mastered by Leon Zervos at Studios 301.

Velociraptor - Ramona

I’m A Fantastic Wreck’ is the first offering from Montaigne’s forthcoming debut EP, due for release later this year. The EP, titled Life of Montaigne, is like a book, each song a chapter. Each sound is unique, leaving us to understand the depths of our very private selves, where vocals are unafraid to stand alone, or take centre stage against an ambient and orchestral background with influences such as The National, Sigur Rós, Arcade Fire and Owen Pallett. 
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Life of Montaigne

I'm a Fantastic Wreck

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Poison Drum

Brand new single from Sydney's Bloods.
Taken from the forthcoming debut album, out August through Tiny Galaxy

WANT IT

'Wolves’ will be the 1st single from Digitalism that puts the band in a very different place to anything previously released. The last communication from Digitalism marked the beginning of this new direction in the form of a Soundcloud-Only release at the start of 2014. This statement of intent will not relent; 2014 will be The Year of surprises for Digitalism fans, with ‘Wolves’ being the first official release to subscribe to it.

For many fans ‘Wolves’ might seem long over-due, having premiered as the opening track of their Boiler Room DJ set during !Melt Festival, 2013. Since then the band kept an eye on their Socials and the comments, watching the fan-bases’ curiosity naturally grow. The 2nd time ‘Wolves’ was unleashed was once more a opening track for their much-lauded ‘I Love Techno’ DJ Set in December 2013. This time it caused a flurry of fan-driven YouTube videos, since which, each time the band post a new DJ set or link to previous ones, fans ask over again for the release of ‘Wolves.’

Well we are finally prepared to let it go. Why? Again we come to the new direction the band have entered, their music at the heart of it. The first months of 2014 were spent writing in LA and producing new music, road testing demos and ideas at their Twice Monthly East-LA Warehouse parties. The reaction to these shows was incredible, with each of the 4 dates selling-out way in advance, but still queues around the bloc on the nights. In fact the reaction on one date was catastrophic, receiving a Police enforced shut-down with a small army and not one, but two helicopters. Sorry Tax Payers! Since these dates the excitement has been infectious and the results have finally convinced Digitalism that they have a raft of releases to get-out between now and the start of 2015. So let’s go…

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'Wolves'

Taken from 'The Soft Tread That Inspires' EP.
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The Winds Of Heaven, Dance Between Us

Produced by Tony Buchen.

Song credits:
Lily So, Anj Ella, Alex Lees, James McKenna, Kristjan Blade.

Recording credits:
Lily So (Vocals, guitar) 
Anj Ella (Vocals)
Alex Lees (Guitar)
James Mckenna (Bass)
Dave Jenkins Jr. (Drums, percussion)
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White Lies

Itching On A Photograph - Grouplove

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The debut single from Indie Retro-Rock outfit, Lily So & The Bellows flourishes with lush vocals, vintage charm and that big Phil Spector sound as a serenade to unrequited love. 

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Smokin' Gun

All songs written and sung by Riley Pearce. 
Drums: Tracks 1 & 2: John Trotter, Tracks 3 & 4: Elliot Smith
Acoustic Guitar: Riley Pearce
Electric Guitar: Riley Pearce & Josh Tan
Keys: Rob Agostini
Bass & Swagger: Joe Southwell
Backing Vocals: Riley Pearce, Callum Presbury, Joseph Pule, Rob Agostini
All songs recorded and mixed by Rob Agostini at Soundbaker Studios
Mastered by Andrew Edgson 301 Studios, Sydney
Produced by Riley Pearce & Rob Agostini
Album Artwork by Chris Healing at Fat Shan's Designs
Album Photography by Jarrad Seng Photography