Six years in the making, FALL FROM THE LIGHT, the highly anticipated album from hip hop icons HILLTOP HOODS, has arrived.

Featuring singles ‘The Gift ft. Marlon’, ‘Don’t Happy, Be Worry’, ‘Laced Up’ and ‘Never Coming Home ft. SIX60’, the 12-track offering takes listeners on a journey that feels as ambitious and triumphant for the fans, as it has been for Suffa, Pressure and Debris themselves.

Blending fun, vulnerability and vignettes that highlight their masterful cadence and technical flow, the ninth record from Hilltop Hoods wastes no time in getting to work upon arrival. Produced by One Above with additional production by Sesta and Suffa, Fall From The Light was recorded in Adelaide, Darwin, Melbourne, and New Zealand and features a range of special guests.

Hilltop Hoods will return to arenas across Australia on their Never Coming Home Tour in Feb/Mar 2026 along with dates in the UK & Europe for Aug/Sep 2025.

Their unparalleled career speaks for itself - over 89 Platinum accreditations, 1.1 million album sales and over 1.8 billion global streams, six #1 albums, the most entries into triple j’s Hottest 100 for an Australian Artist, ten ARIA award wins, and multiple sold-out Arena tours solidifying Hilltop Hoods as one of the Australia’s most successful names in music, period. The music they make is done with the intent to connect and last with fans, regardless of age, background, or creed; time and time again, their formula pays dividends and then some.

Over the last 18 years Declan Kelly has established himself as a unique voice in Australia’s contemporary sound art community. His eclectic sensibility and keen sense of rhythm is always at the forefront of his work as a music producer, recording and mix engineer, DJ, sound designer and broadcaster.

Swept up in Melbourne’s late 90’s electronic music culture, Declan began DJ’ing in 1997 at the age of 16. His love of Detroit’s soulful machine music led him to explore deep into the roots of electronic music through his DJ sets in clubs, festivals, bars and radio programs The Leisuredome (3PBS FM, 2000-2003) and Against The Arctic (3RRR FM, 2005-2010). These acclaimed programs were freeform sonic excursions which championed Australian and overseas electronic music, and contextualised it against influences from the worlds of jazz, funk, soul, disco, reggae, industrial and experimental music.

After graduating from the VCA with a Graduate Diploma in Sound Design in December 2006, Declan worked as a primary sound artist on Africa, Night Garden and Posts In The Paddock with award winning company My Darling Patricia as well as Arena Theatre, Ranters and Thin Ice.

In 2017, Declan is working across a variety of forms; as mix engineer with electronic trio Saatsuma, producing artists, collaborating on various sound design projects and finishing the sophomore Dream Kit EP, a follow up to 2016’s Dreamixes EP. Declan is also a busy classical music engineer working with Rubiks Collective, Anon, The Letter String Quartet and other Melbourne based chamber ensembles and soloists.

Jaaleekaay is a West African word in the Wolof language meaning “crossing point”.   It is also an extraordinary musical collaboration between Australian guitarist Steve Berry and two of Gambia’s leading musicians - the highly celebrated singer Yusupha Ngum and kora prodigy Amadou Suso.  It’s a combination that stems from a fortuitous meeting in West Africa, and makes for a passionate mix of contemporary musical prowess and deep cultural tradition.  

Amadou Suso is a direct descendent of Korea Musa Suso, the man who first brought the kora to the world over seven hundred years ago.  As such he is an important Griot musician and combines his blood born understanding of the tradition with an insatiable passion for contemporary music of all kinds.  

Yusupha Ngum is also from a Griot family of musicians.  His father is the renowned Mbalax singer Musa Ngum, and Yusupha himself is a star in his own right.  In The Gambia he has enjoyed a series of hit records over the last ten years, leading the resurgence of Mbalax as the national music of the Senegambian region.

Australian guitarist Steve Berry has produced and performed with a range of Australian acts since the 1980’s including Coolangubra, Kev Carmody and Shane Howard.  With a background in both contemporary music and traditional acoustic styles, Steve first met his fellow Jaaleekaay musicians when he travelled to The Gambia in 2013 - their collective musical vision quickly emerged and together they saw the potential of the music that was to come.  Jaaleekaay’s music is an exciting and uplifting blend of virtuosity and cross-cultural depth.  Rich in melody and harmony, the music also features high level improvisations and carries a deep and infectious rhythm running through its heart. 

Making their debut performances in Australia as a trio in 2013, Jaaleekaay has won over audiences at some of the country’s most popular festival events, including the Woodford Folk Festival, the Port Fairy Folk Festival and WA’s Fairbridge Folkworld Festival.

Since that original inception as a trio, Jaaleekaay has collaborated with some wonderful musicians, recording with Greg Sheehan, Tim Bennett, Cleis Pearce and Mat Ledgar.  In 2016 the band will once again be in Australia, touring the country as a five piece in March and April and launching their debut full length CD.


You’ve probably seen or heard some of WASHINGTON’s stuff over the years, what with the operas and TV soundtracks and TED Talks and voicing cartoon characters and that really dark eye shadow she wore while bringing showtunes back at the ARIAs in 2010. 

Maybe you forgot during all the colour and noise that while Meg Washington can do heaps of impressive stuff, the most impressive thing she does is write great songs. Meg doesn’t blame you for that; for a while there, she almost forgot that herself. 

So here we are, then. Dark Parts. Dark Parts is the single that begets the album, but we’ll talk about that later.  A bonkers, kind-of pop song that’s in ⅞ time.  It’s the sound of pop music tearing at its own fabric, writhing in the darkness as Washington, ever the maestro, conducts this chaos from the centre.  

She worked with Sam Dixon (Sia, Adele, Meg) and Konstantin Kersting (The Jungle Giants, Mallrat, Tones and I) and the animated video is stuffed with intriguing creatures Meg’s been hand-drawing in her daydreams and wickedly assembling in real life.

Honestly? It’s just some really impressive shit.

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