Luke Brennan - When I Was Yours And You Were Mine

Jack Colwell - Heart Of Chambers (Beach House Cover)

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From 'Every Garden' LP.

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Oliver White - Covered In Gold (Everything Works Itself Out)

Why Move Very Fast At All (MP3)

Allume - Wondering

Thrush Metal

Stella Donnelly - Grey

Stella Donnelly - Mean To Me

Stella Donnelly - Boys Will Be Boys

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Cover of Kylie Minogue's Love at First Sight from Melbourne's @takeyrtime - the first taste of Vol. 1, an upcoming compilation from Healthy Tapes with all funds going to RISE (riserefugee.org).

Take Your Time is Angela Schilling (Swimming, @isoliverwhite) and Lee Hannah (The Townhouses, @sessility) - together hanging out, drinking coffee and making their own brand of diva house ready for the kind of club that serves cappuccinos. The single is their first release since their debut 7” through @japanesewallpaper ’s boutique label, @neat-lawn.

Love at First Sight is a jazz-hued disco interpretation of a pop star the duo grew up listening to, as Angela explains;

“Kylie represents some of my most formative years throughout high school, learning about myself and forming a connection to dance music especially. She represented an optimist to a pretty naive and confused teenage me and it's powerful to relive it again as a cynical adult in need of optimism.”

Vol. 1 will be released digitally and on limited turquoise cassette through Healthy Tapes on June 30th. The compilation also features Allume, Stella Donnelly, Yeo, Culte, Bahasa Malay and many more.

Love at First Sight

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Take Your Time - Love at First Sight

Vol. 1 (MP3)

Lauren Abineri - Home Song

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A lo-fi and intimate track from @culte666 reflecting on a winter that never seems to end. The single is the third and final taste from Vol. 1,  a compilation from Healthy Tapes in support of RISE (Refugees, Survivors and Ex-detainees).

The last six months have been incredibly busy for Yura supporting the likes of Yumi Zouma and Jarrow around Melbourne and releasing a collaborative EP with Rhysics.

It’s Too Cold To Be Spring continues a on tradition of loose and instantaneous recordings from Culte, with few distractions and a sound that’s likely to appeal to fans of Foxes in Fiction and Frankie Cosmos. Yura explains that;

“It's Too Cold to Be Spring is about October in 2016. It was a pretty intense & sad month - living off $3 every week and drinking mystery beers at the Tote. The spring time was only bearable thanks to my lovely friends which this song is dedicated to”

Vol. 1 will be released digitally and on limited turquoise cassette through @healthy-tapes on June 30th. The compilation also features Take Your Time, Stella Donnelly, Yeo, Allume, Bahasa Malay and many more.

Vol. 1

Culte - It's Too Cold To Be Spring

WATCH: https://youtu.be/TLh1XinSL58

Melbourne artist Lee Hannah releases their visual album, Infinitely - a stunningly slow-moving 20 minute short film / album depicting the intricate natural and unnatural ecology of Australia’s mallee district. Filmed on an iPhone over one week in winter while camping on Latje Latje, Kureinji, Barkindji and Wergaia land (Northern Victoria & South Australia), Lee visually composes landscapes in constant transformation in a region of the country that’s often known for being harsh and unforgiving.

The soundtrack to the film carries influence from experimentalists such as the Necks and the Dirty Three, tastefully depicting the dry yet unpredictable nature of the landscape with a minimal approach of one or two instruments improvising over a drone.

“After a few days straight of setting up your phone to record for extended periods of time trying your best to remain silent, you very quickly realise that the mallee never really stays still. It’s comforting - to know what looks dry, barren and lifeless from a distance, is undeniably alive and exciting on a micro scale.”

The visual record marks a drastic change in direction for Lee, who previously released three albums and toured around Australia and Europe under the name The Townhouses, as well as more recently working as one half of house-duo Take Your Time.

Infinitely will be released digitally and on limited cassette through Healthy Tapes on February 23rd.

All sounds and visuals by Lee Hannah
Mastered by Mikey Young

Releases 23rd February 2018

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Infinitely

Lee Hannah - Infinitely

Infinitely (MP3)

Lee Hannah - Passing

Lee Hannah - Hue

Written and performed by Tanaya Harper
Guitar on Graceless, Feeding Frenzy & The Dark I Love by Stella Donnelly
Recorded by Nick McKenzie
Mixed and mastered by Broderick Madden-Scott

Some Kinds out 22/06 through Healthy Tapes
Pre-order: tanayaharper.bandcamp.com

Some Kinds

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Tanaya Harper - Graceless

Combining disco and post-punk, @lyndonblue releases Performance - the first single from upcoming EP Warm Corona. Recorded between a backyard shed and a disused physiotherapy clinic in the suburbs of Melbourne, the EP is a six-song arc of warped DIY pop, inspired equally by Australian post-punk experimentalists (Severed Heads, Essendon Airport, The Metronomes) and the wild, wide-eyed songwriting of favourites like Arthur Russell, Kate Bush and David Byrne. 

Keeping busy in the Australia’s underground music scene for the better part of a decade, Lyndon is best known for subtly jazz tinged electronica project Leafy Suburbs, as well as playing live for notable acts such as Methyl Ethel, Darren Hanlon and Peter Bibby. Warm Corona though, represents the first musical effort released under Blue’s own name, spanning disco, lo-fi rock and even adult contemporary moods.

“The lyrics bounce from ancient architecture to social anxiety, creative optimism to self-doubt and at least one tarot card, tracing the ease with which we can feel despairing, emboldened or just plain mystified from one modern moment to the next. Is the “warm corona” the sun’s cosmic aura - an invisible force watching over us from on high? Or is it, after all, just an underwhelming beer from where you’d rather be?”

Warm Corona will be released digitally and on limited “corona yellow” cassette through @healthy-tapes on October 12th.

Warm Corona

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Lyndon Blue - Performance

Adelaide-based artist Allume releases Valentine / The Sound of Rain Starting - a touchingly intimate double single of bedroom pop. Simplistic yet nuanced, both singles patiently explore an intersection between live instrumentation and electronic sampling led by Allume’s captivating voice.

Since uploading demos on soundcloud in 2013, Allume (Elena Nees) has consistently captured attention with her sense of space and honesty in her songwriting. Since releasing her debut EP Why Move Very Fast At All, she’s been seen recently supporting Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Ball Park Music, as well as collaborating/touring around remote Australia with David Blumberg & the Maraby Band.

Valentine showcases this new found love of collaboration (on this occasion with local-jazz musician Lewis But-Husaim), whilst The Sound of Rain Starting is a stunningly gripping a capella piece sure to appeal to fans of Julianna Barwick. The two tracks are lifted from her upcoming EP, Valentine.

Valentine and The Sound of Rain Starting will be released this Valentines Day. The EP will be released digitally and on limited red-cassette through Healthy Tapes on February 28th.

Valentine

Allume - The Sound Of Rain Starting

Allume - Valentine (feat. Lewis But-Husaim)

Allume - Your Teeth Aren't Really White

Allume - Hoping That I'm Not So Clumsy As To Fall In Love

Allume - All The Rocks

Allume - Exhale Your Name As If It's Air

@zagflash

Stemming from the claustrophobia of being concerned with how our bodies “are” / how they’re seen, the release tells the female experience of the body - and a personal understanding towards it according to who we’re with, where we are and the self containment which our bodies keep our minds in. 

ZK king’s music is self-described as focusing on storytelling not only via lyricism, but through the visual imagery of her production and soundscapes. Since uploading demos to soundcloud a couple of years ago, she has collaborated with the likes of Rei So La and Stevan, and has developed a sound sure to appeal to fans of Ravyn Lenae or HTRK. 

“The beauty in this one is the way she’s used her production skills and vocal prowess in tandem: the soaring harmonies programmed throughout this one are a testament to the keen eye she has for detail and the understanding she has of her style of producing.” - Purple Sneakers 

Outside of producing music, ZK king (Jamie Marina Lau) is a writer/author/poet, most notably publishing her first novel Pink Mountain on Locust Island through Brow Books in 2018. 

OPENPALACES is out March 21st digitally and limited cassette through Healthy Tapes.

OPENPALACES

ZK king - wake up

@zagflash

Stemming from the claustrophobia of being concerned with how our bodies “are” / how they’re seen, OPENPALACES tells the female experience of the body - and a personal understanding towards it according to who we’re with, where we are and the self containment which our bodies keep our minds in. 

ZK king’s music is self-described as focusing on storytelling not only via lyricism, but through the visual imagery of her production and soundscapes. Since uploading demos to soundcloud a couple of years ago, she has collaborated with the likes of Rei So La and Stevan, and has developed a sound sure to appeal to fans of Ravyn Lenae or HTRK. 

“The beauty in this one is the way she’s used her production skills and vocal prowess in tandem: the soaring harmonies programmed throughout this one are a testament to the keen eye she has for detail and the understanding she has of her style of producing.” - Purple Sneakers 

Outside of producing music, ZK king (Jamie Marina Lau) is a writer/author/poet, most notably publishing her first novel Pink Mountain on Locust Island through Brow Books in 2018. 

OPENPALACES is out March 21st digitally and limited cassette through Healthy Tapes.

ZK king - typhoon

Sydney/Copenhagen/NY-based artist Kythira releases her debut album Cut Through - a jangly collection of heartwarmingly honest bedroom pop. 

Kythira is the project of nomadic musician Alyssa Gengos, named after the Greek island of the same name (Κύθηρα). The two singles, Change My Mind and My Name are a perfect representation of the record - addictive guitar pop that’s straight to the point with little more than a drum machine and cheap casiotone to accompany Alyssa’s incredibly catchy vocal hooks. 

Self-produced on her laptop while moving around between Sydney, LA and Copenhagen, Cut Through follows up her synth-driven EP Soon, I Promise released back in January 2018. The tape is a stunning bedroom pop release, sure to appeal to fans of Fazerdaze or Best Coast. 

Cut Through will be released by Healthy Tapes digitally and on limited cassette on May 30th.

Kythira - Silver Shears

Kythira - Seen Out

Kythira - June, All Alone

Sydney/Copenhagen/NY-based artist Kythira releases Change My Mind - an authentically honest taste of jangly pop from her upcoming tape Cut Through.

Kythira is the project of nomadic musician Alyssa Gengos, named after the Greek island of the same name (Κύθηρα). Change My Mind is a perfect representation of the record - addictive guitar pop that’s straight to the point with little more than a drum machine and cheap casiotone to accompany Alyssa’s incredibly catchy vocal hooks.

Self-produced on her laptop while moving around between Sydney, LA and Copenhagen, Cut Through follows up her synth-driven EP Soon, I Promise released back in January 2018. The tape is a stunning bedroom pop release, sure to appeal to fans of Fazerdaze or Best Coast.

Change My Mind is out April 10th. It is taken from Kythira’s debut tape Cut Through, released by Healthy Tapes digitally and on limited cassette on May 30th.

Cut Through

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Kythira - Change My Mind

Melbourne-based artist Market releases their debut self-titled EP, a lo-fi collection of bedroom pop songs featuring collaborations with Tanaya Harper and Lauren Abineri. 

Market is the project of Lee Hannah, an artist with a rich and full history releasing dulcet ambient pop as The Townhouses, acting as a session musician for Wafia, playing as one half of house-tinged duo Take Your Time and releasing a short film in 2018 set in the Australian Mallee. The project showcases a love for summer-tinged cassette pop production, and is sure to appeal to fans of Men I Trust or Washed Out. 

Self-produced and mixed mostly in the Adelaide Hills over a few days last summer, the EP is made up of autotuned guitars, cheap drum machines and uncomplicated bedroom pop songwriting. 

Market’s self-titled debut EP will be out digitally and on limited cassette on June 27th via Healthy Tapes.

Market

Market, Tanaya Harper - Everytime

Melbourne-based artist @marketmp3 releases their debut self-titled EP, a lo-fi collection of bedroom pop songs featuring collaborations with Tanaya Harper and Lauren Abineri. 

Market is the project of Lee Hannah, an artist with a rich and full history releasing dulcet ambient pop as The Townhouses, acting as a session musician for Wafia, playing as one half of house-tinged duo Take Your Time and releasing a short film in 2018 set in the Australian Mallee. The project showcases a love for summer-tinged cassette pop production, and is sure to appeal to fans of Men I Trust or Washed Out. 

Self-produced and mixed mostly in the Adelaide Hills over a few days last summer, the EP is made up of autotuned guitars, cheap drum machines and uncomplicated bedroom pop songwriting. 

Market’s self-titled debut EP will be out digitally and on limited cassette on June 27th via Healthy Tapes.

Market - EP

Market - Fix

Brisbane-based duo Amaringo release their debut album, I Woke Up This Morning After a Dream, out via Melbourne label Healthy Tapes (Stella Donnelly, Rainbow Chan, Dianas). 

The project of drummer/vocalist Allie Wu Lin and guitarist/bassist Christian Driscoll, Amaringo create expansive and woozy atmospheres with tinges of psych that never stray too far away from their ambitious and beautiful songwriting. 

Fragmented between writing and recording half of the album in a recording studio, then a year later completing the rest in a more improvised fashion, the resulting record is a startlingly consistent and accomplished piece of work. From the acoustic strums of the 70’s-inspired I Woke Up, to the major-minor drones of Saguaro, and the 7-and-a-half minute monumental Her Way, the album has no shortage of timeless moments sure to appeal to fans of La Luz and Sharon Van Etten. 

Amaringo’s debut LP I Woke Up This Morning After a Dream is out October 30th digitally and on limited cassette via Healthy Tapes and features the singles Sacred and Her Way.

Amaringo - House

Melbourne-based artist @marketmp3 releases Your Name - a danceable and jazz-tinged bedroom pop collaboration with new artist bellashakti (Sarah Cook). 

Market is the project of Lee Hannah, an artist with a rich and full history releasing dulcet ambient pop as The Townhouses, acting as a session musician for Wafia and playing as one half of house-tinged duo Take Your Time. The project showcases a love for summer-tinged lo-fi pop production, and is sure to appeal to fans of Men I Trust or Washed Out. 

The single follows Market’s debut EP released mid-2019 featuring the singles Circles and Everytime (feat. Tanaya Harper). The release was featured on Spotify’s Lo-Fi Indie and Low-key Weekend editorial playlists and best described by Bandcamp as “low-lit and soothing, soft vocals swaddled in tender guitar lines” on their New and Notable series. 

Your Name is out November 21st via Healthy Tapes. 
It is taken from Market’s follow up EP due early 2020.

Your Name

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Market - Your Name (feat. bellashakti)

Lauren Abineri - I'll Be Alright Without You

Lauren Abineri - Altar

Lauren Abineri - The Lift

Lauren Abineri - Stick And Sock

Melbourne/Adelaide-based artist Lauren Abineri releases her debut album Everything That I’ve Stolen. 

FKA water bear, Lauren’s projects have often been experimental and electronic in nature, with a brand of sample-laden minimal techno and darkwave electronica that have seen her support the likes of My Disco, Molly Nilsson and recently closing out the Unsound Adelaide festival. Her music under her own name however takes a very different route, exploring a quieter drone-folk side that she even goes as far to self-term ‘emo-folk’: 

“Everything That I’ve Stolen is a collection of songs that I lovingly describe as being of the genre ‘emo-folk’ - a genre that is most definitely real and not made up. I think emo-folk is self-preservation and self-deprecation, sitting somewhere between domestic places and dream spaces, between emotional fullness and having no feelings at all. Between very specific stories and ones that are completely fabricated.” 

Recorded with Nick Huggins in Point Lonsdale over a cold few autumn days in 2018, the record features vocal collaborations with Georgia Harvey (Yffer) and Market, and was delicately mastered by fellow Adelaide artist Sione Teumohenga (Lonelyspeck). 

Lauren Abineri's debut album Everything That I’ve Stolen is out via Healthy Tapes (Stella Donnelly, Rainbow Chan, Dianas) on December 19th and features the singles Not Forming and Drinking Hill.

Lauren Abineri - Drinking Hill

Lauren Abineri - None Of Them Were Me (feat. Georgia Harvey)

Lauren Abineri - Not Forming (feat. Market)

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#45 - Lauren Abineri / Everything That I've Stolen
#44 - @amaringo / I Woke Up This Morning After a Dream
#43 - Daisies Net / On the Apple Island **
#42 - @sandyhsuofficial / She Comes To Me In A Fever Dream
#41 - @pamcy / BINIBINI **
#40 - @marketmp3 / Market **
#39 - @kyth_ira / Cut Through **
#38 - @zagflash (ZK king) / OPENPALACES
#37 - @allume_music / Valentine
#36 - @lyndonblue / Warm Corona **
#35 - @m-a-l-i-b-l-u-e / Hex
#34 - @tanayaharper / Some Kinds **
#33 - @pamcy / Piso Isa **
#32 - Lee Hannah / Infinitely (Visual Album) **
#31 - @dianas-2 / Leave Love **
#30 - @rainbowchanmusic / Fabrica **
#29 - Various Artists / Vol. 1 **
#28 - @iamseo / Avena Sativa
#27 - @lifewater-oasis / June **
#26 - @stella-donnelly / Thrush Metal **

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#25 - @allume_music / Why Move Very Fast At All **
#24 - @okin_osan / Are You Game? **
#23 - @highsunn / Dead Romance **
#22 - @snackswithyeo + @sessility / Split **
#21 - @parking-lot-experiments / Beginners **
#20 - ACACIAS / LP01 **
#19 - @isoliverwhite / Every Garden **
#18 - @floodsfloods & @beats-purr-minute / Split **
#17 - @kirapuru + @tanzertanzertanzer / Split **
#16 - @luke-brennan / Rose Again
#15 - @japanesewallpaper / Japanese Wallpaper **
#14 - @jleehello / New Estate **
#13 - @shinycoin / Shiny Coin **
#12 - MIXTAPE INDONESIA (Curated by @empatlima & WANITA) **
#11 - @twostepsonthewater / Drinking Beers & Crying Tears **
#10 - @timothyandwilderness / Open Stone Country **
#09 - @snackswithyeo / Secret Powers **
#08 - The Townhouses / Ill-Fitting **
#07 - @jackcolwellmusic / Seek the Wilde **
#06 - @mei-saraswati / Hypermeditations **
#05 - Killstarr / Memories **
#04 - @luke-brennan / Guilt Curriculum **
#03 - Compassionate Leave / Sad/Fun **
#02 - @wafia / Wafia EP **
#01 - The Townhouses / Magpie **

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