Meg Mac

"Sentimental & Monday" is premiered on 10th July 2015 and is the brand new single from Holy Holy's forthcoming album "When The Storms Would Come" - out 24 July in Aus, and 29 Oct in UK/EU. (You can preorder here.. http://smarturl.it/WTSWC)

Carroll, from Brisbane, and Melbournian guitarist/composer Oscar Dawson initially crossed paths as volunteer English teachers in Southeast Asia. They reconnected in 2011 while both again leading transient lives in Europe. Carroll, an acclaimed singer/songwriter, was living in Stockholm. Dawson had transplanted to Berlin with his then band Dukes Of Windsor. When Dawson traveled to Sweden, Carroll asked him to assist with some songs. They ended up with a "suite of demos". The pair continued collaborating back in Australia. "At that stage we weren't even really sure what the project was going to be," Carroll admits. "We were just feeling our way through it." Regardless, the duo began penning darker, more intense material. The newly anointed HOLY HOLY issued the psychedelic, if foreboding, Impossible Like You as their first single, attracting triple j spins – and buzz. And it's been an exciting and event-filled 2 years since... 

In 2014 the "project" morphed into a full live band, enlisting drummer Ryan Strathie (ex-Hungry Kids Of Hungary) and bassist Graham Ritchie (Airling's collaborator). Their reclusive producer, Matt Redlich (Ball Park Music, Emma Louise, The Trouble With Templeton), also joins them as a "special guest", hiding behind a Prophet-08 synth. "He's a bit like our Nigel Godrich kinda character," Dawson quips. 

HOLY HOLY's "music tragics" bonded over Neil Young (and Crazy Horse), Crosby, Stills & Nash, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits, as well as contemporary acts like Midlake, Band Of Horses and Grizzly Bear. And these myriad influences have fed into When The Storms Would Come. Indeed, though HOLY HOLY cherish "old, classic songwriting", that nostalgia is juxtaposed with a modern aesthetic. In the studio the band recorded live onto Redlich's two-inch tape, configured to 16-track. "You get this really warm, saturated colour," Dawson enthuses. However, eschewing rigid traditionalism, HOLY HOLY occasionally utilised digital post-production. Redlich encouraged them to follow their instincts in determining the best approach, song by song. "He'll be ballsy with his decisions," Dawson explains. "He will make the decision in the moment as to what the sound is supposed to be… It makes the recording a whole lot more exciting because, as you're recording, you're hearing it as it's gonna sound." As such, When The Storms Would Come – led by the jagged single History – sounds "natural".   Dawson holds that HOLY HOLY's unique sound has evolved into something that's amplified, or "weighty" – their sonorous, sublime melodies augmented by "stronger, more powerful guitars and bigger vocals" and rhythmically-dense drumming. 

www.holyholymusic.com

Sentimental and Monday

Slum Sociable return with the first cut from their debut EP TQ.
A shimmering mix of jazz hop and self-sample electronica that turns Molerat colourful
All Night/TQ via Itunes - http://po.st/TQEPITUNES
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🔥 “Mimpi” — karya Teddy Sudjaja & Pamungkas Narashima Murti, yang dulu dinyanyikan oleh Anggun C. Sasmi pada tahun 1989.
Versi ini dihadirkan kembali oleh Svara Jam Lab dalam warna urban-soul jazz-blues: bariton hangat, groove lembut, dan nuansa malam yang tenang.
Bukan sekadar nostalgia — tapi sebuah perasaan yang diputar ulang dengan cara yang lebih dewasa dan berjiwa.

🎙️ Vocal & Arrangement: Svara Jam Lab
🎵 Original Song: Anggun C. Sasmi (1989)
📄 Reinterpretation 2025

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Mimpi

The Garden

Today

Taken from the forthcoming album 'Utopia Defeated', out 7 October via 4AD 

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THE BLOOD SEEPS OUT LIKE THE WOUNDS OF A WALRUS
IN SALTY ICE IN FROST AND BLUBBER
THE BIRDS THE SUN THE BUGS THAT ADORE YOU
THE ENDLESS GLORY

THE DUCK SCREAMS OUT AS IT CHOKES ON MEDICINE
IT’S NATURE MOCKED THEN STUFFED AND MURDERED 
THE ONE THE OTHER
FACELESS JOYLESS COLD

THE BLOOD SEEPS OUT LIKE THE WOUNDS OF A WALRUS
IN SALTY ICE IN FROST AND BLUBBER
THE BIRDS THE SUN THE BUGS THAT ADORE YOU

Utopia Defeated

Walrus

Welcome State

The new single from First Aid Kit is live favourite "Wolf". 

It will be released digitally on the 16th September.

An expanded boxset edition of the album which adds "Wolf" and two more bonus tracks, as well as a DVD with tour documentary and three videos, poster and guitar pick will also be released on the 17th September.

First Aid Kit on tour:

AUGUST
09 – Way Out West Festival, Gothenburg
11 – Oyafestivalen, Oslo
17 – Pstereo Festival, Trondheim 
23 – Dognvill, Tromso
24 – Ratt og rade, Stavanger
26 – Zurich Open Air, Zurich

SEPTEMBER
02 – End Of The Road, Dorset
06 – Boileroom, Guildford
07 – Bestival, Isle Of Wight
08 – Berlin Festival, Berlin
25 – Blind Pig, Ann Abor, MI
26 – Danforth Music Hall, Toronto
28 – Royale Boston, Boston,  MA
29 – Irving Plaza, New York, NY
30 – Music Hall Of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

OCTOBER
02 – Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, Washington DC
03 – Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
04 – Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta, GA
05 – 3rd & Lindsley, Nashville, TN
06 – Firebird, St Louis, MO
08 – Waiting Room, Omaha, NE
09 – Granada Theatre, Lawrence, KS
12 – Austin City Limits, Austin TX
13 – The Kessler Theater, Dallas, TX
16 – The Fonda Theater, Hollywood, CA
17 – The Fillmore Audiotorium, San Francisco, CA
19 – Roseland Theater, Portland, OR

NOVEMBER
11 – Vega, Copenhagen
12 – Voxhall, Arhus
13 – Gruenspan, Hamburg
15 – Zakk, Dusseldorf
16 – Crossing Borders Festival, Enschede
17 – Crossing Borders Festival, The Hague
18 – Crossing Borders Festival, Antwerp
20 – Shepherds Bush Empire, London
22 – Ritz, Manchester
24 – QMU, Glasgow
25 – Vicar Street. Dublin
27 – Academy Bristol
28 – Trabendo, Paris
30 – Rietschule-Dachstock, Bern

DECEMBER
01 – Viadukt Club, Zurich
03 – Hansa, Munich
06 – The Circus, Helsinki
30 – Falls Festival, Marion Bay, Tas, Australia
31 – Falls Festival, Lorne Vic, Australia

JANUARY
05 – Southbound Festival, Busselton, Australia


Wolf

First Aid Kit - Wolf

She's My Baby

'Blackoak', out now on Ninja Tune: https://mariboustate.lnk.to/blackoakSo

Shire T album 'Tomorrow’s People', out 20 August on Dama Dama: https://shire-t.lnk.to/topSo

Kingdoms In Colour

Beginner's Luck

Glasshouses

Suddenly

Home

My Gun - EP

The Rubens - My Gun

Bonobo’s Live Album ‘The North Borders Tour - Live’ is released on 6 Oct 2014. Available on CD + DVD with 70-page hardback book, or ltd vinyl and audio download.

ORDER NOW
Bonobo Store: shop.bonobomusic.com/
Amazon: smarturl.it/northborderslivecd
iTunes: smarturl.it/northbordersliveit

PREVIEW
DVD Trailer: youtu.be/onCHyksRWiE
More Info: bonobomusic.com/news/live

The North Borders

First Fires (feat. Grey Reverend)

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