Archive for October, 2013
Breathe In has some of the expected tropes of an Australian producer (read, “the Australian sound”™) including obligatory female feature vocalist delivering whispy vocal part but it’s probably not so far played out as to be problematic, especially since it’s actually a rather lovely vocal part indeed. He’s had a few musical moments over the past year that weren’t entirely his own including his rather excellent Godwolf remix from midway through the year but this one finally sees the Japanese Wallpaper moniker riding solo atop a repeat played soundcloud player for the first time this year. It’s a effort of extreme restraint that doesn’t allow itself a pavlovian drop where plenty of other Australian laptop-jockeys give in. A work of measure and metered patience, rich with atmospherics and blended organic/inorganic sounds.
So, in the same week that the a cashed up, major label distributed future classic won the indie label award, that (probbly just as cashed up) Flume cleansed the indie Beatguy award and that I discovered that my stomach doesn’t get on well with wasabi peas, try this: the unassuming but finely crafted handiwork of an up and coming Melbourne sort. He also gets extreme bonus points for cottoning me onto this not Australian but no less brilliant track below.
It’s not often I just drop a doozie without getting all verbose up in here but this is one of them days. Hear a new one from a new one, a band called Covers whose name has implications they might not be altogether pleased with if they’ve ambitions for a career rich with creative output. As far as I can tell this is their first song and it goes alright, right? They’re outta Melbourne and that’s as deep as my research has gone. Free download but I won’t be including their press shot as it features a picture of a bottom which I think it actually rather rude and I don’t care how rock and roll you are, I’m pretty sure noone wants to see the bottom of another human. Concluding sentence.
Artists you need to know rn
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| 2. Voidhood | |
259 | 3. jamesjamesjames | |
186 | 4. Zan | |
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| 5. Sesame Girl | |
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