Aussie mates

Sex Tourists - Birthday Party

Taken from new EP 'Delivered'.  Scott And Charlene's Wedding tour Japan through Oct and Nov 2015.

Scott And Charlene's Wedding - Bennie And The Jets

Pre-order: http://anotherdarkage.bigcartel.com/product/exek-biased-advice-another-dark-age

Another Dark Age is proud to release Exek's debut LP, Biased Advice, which follows one self-titled cassette EP (2014) and a single contribution to a split cassette (2015). The album collects rerecorded and past material, which together stands as the fullest realisation of an Exek identity, honed during two years of haunting Melbourne’s live gig circuit. 

Before forming as a four-piece band in 2014, Exek remained an abstract concept in the mind of front man-to-be, Albert Wolski. With songs written but no musicians to perform them he enlisted Andrew Brocchi (synthesiser), Henry Wilson (bass) and Sam Dixon (drums) and together they began recording material according to Wolski 's vision.

"Then they were there, on my arms, on my legs, everywhere." - 'Foregin Lesions'

The addition of Nell Grant on saxophone made previously murky reference points plainly obvious: Exek are the progeny of a Melbourne scene that established itself around Dave Chesworth and Philip Brophy’s Innocent record label of the 1980s and its greatest offering,  Essendon Airport’s Palimpsest LP (1981). But Exek  dared to abandon the pop and funk tropes of the early Australian new wave scene reaching out to  German post-punk of the same era. Wolski’s songwriting is akin to that of the records put out by Hannover’s No Fun Records and Hamburg’s Zickzack, channeling the droll lyricism of The 39 Clocks and saturated with self-deprecating Attitude. 

"New friends, new influence, new ring around the finger, a hedonist who finds regret.”  - ‘A Hedonist’

Exek are messengers for today’s young, unemployed, immobile, self-obsessed middle-class.  The themes of societal isolation, heartbreak, consumerism are all funnelled through metaphors of terminal illness, monsters and bondage. Their vision mirrors Tuxedomoon’s ‘Holiday for Plywood’ but crucially Biased Advice is a sermon that Exek preach to themselves. The band pit themselves as both victims and saviours living in a world that’s trying to extinguish them, or worse still, mould them into boring automatons. 

“Spitting image, two legged, stick figured, adolescent, disinfectant, replicant.”  - ‘Replicate’

The conceptual weight carried in Wolski’s lyrics follows on from process. Dub and other studio techniques are used throughout Biased Advice and are no better evidenced in the 16-minute modern (and instant) classic, ‘Baby Giant Squid.’ This song remains unchanged from it’s cassette release on Melbourne’s Resistance/Restraint label but spread out over one side of a record it lays bare its perfection. Basslines that stand out one moment give way to dubbed out percussion, hissing tape delay and reverb drenched vocals. Simply, this post-kraut-dub-psyche-punk excursion looks back over it’s shoulder as it leaves ‘Bella Lugosi’s Dead’ for dead. It’s a sublime balance of improvisation and cold calculation. 

“Excitement entails the probability of murder to eliminate stress.”  - ‘Baby Giant Squid’

It’s the tension between this teetering psychotic nihilism and arrangement with studio-like precision that gives Biased Advice the tone of a forewarning. But of what?

“Listen well.”  - ‘Submitted’

Exek - A Hedonist

Sunscreen's debut single. Recorded and mixed by Bowen Shakallis 

Mastered by Andrew Beck

Sarah: vocals/guitars
Alex: guitars/guitars
Hugo: drums

Photo by Jessica Cavini

Now I've Got Your Heart

'Stingray' taken from 'Botanicals' now thru Yes Rave
Download the album at: http://www.yesrave.bandcamp.com

Written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Harry Moxham
Artwork illustration by Lorien Stern
Artwork Design by Harry Moxham

Press:
http://rollingstoneaus.com/music/post/five-for-friday-seekae-b-wise-the-peep-tempel-lost-animal-bilby/4801
https://chieflysounds.com/2016/09/06/bilby-stingray/
http://whothehell.net/archives/29045
http://www.cyclicdefrost.com/2016/10/download-bilbys-botanicals-mixtape/
http://supermegatrend.com/post/154232042463/bilby-stingray

@bilby420 xx

Botanicals

Stingray

Bilby - Stingray

This exclusive soundtrack from Tangents is spontaneous multi-music described by Ollie Bown as "A twenty minute soundtrack to a journey through rural lanes in Northern New South Wales." 

https://soundcloud.com/tangentssydney is a Sydney-based quintet that melds electronic production, experimental rock and free improvisation. This multi-talented ensemble's collective resumé spans decent swaths of recent experimental music history: British electronic music producer Ollie Bown (Icarus, Not Applicable); Adrian Lim-Klumpes (ex-Triosk, 3ofMillions) on piano, Rhodes, vibraphone and marimba; Peter Hollo (FourPlay String Quartet) on cello; and the duo Spartak (free improviser Evan Dorrian and singer/producer Shoeb Ahmad on drums and guitar respectively). Tangents came together in 2010 shortly after Ahmad helped put together a tour of Bown’s UK-based duo Icarus. The first-ever meeting of the ensemble, performing live improvisations at the Megaphon studios in Sydney, became their debut album “I” (hellosQuare, 2013). The band followed up with another album-length improvised set recorded by the ABC for their Sound Quality sessions in 2014.

Their latest album Stateless has been released through Brooklyn's Temporary Residence Ltd. label (home of experimental and postrock luminaries such as https://soundcloud.com/four-tet, Explosions in the Sky, Hauschka and now Mogwai) on July 8th, 2016.

EHE 01.09.16 - Tangents (SYD) - Bellingen

Climate scientist (PhD candidate), field recorder, nature lover, kirtan lover, choir singer.

Aussie mates

Juliette