Archive for 2025
Uh oh! new year new me! Writing online!
Can you believe it’s been (let me check this) SEVEN MONTHS since I last wrote about an artist? This may surprise you, but I haven’t listened to a single song in that entire seven months since, not even while walking through Coles, not even while waiting for the bird show at Taronga Zoo to start when we got there too early but not so early that we had time to make the trip across to the reptile section without missing the rozellas but still early enough that we got pretty good seats near the front and could make fairly direct eye contact with a barn owl.
Breaking my total audio hiatus to share with you this album from Josef, a soul from south west sydney who gone and got himself a real silky flow. In my mind’s eye ear it’s a little bit dominic fike at moments, a little mac miller, a little mali jo$e, a little new york city, a little zion garcia and so on, and so forth. It’s a little bloody good though and I’d highly encourage you to spend some time with the entire record.
In this household I’d recommend your first pass be via this track below ’24!’ by virtue of the delicate piano lines that Josef steps through like a fleet footed deer, pushing sonic foliage out of his path as his adroit wordplay makes a picturesque landscape unfurl. Artful assonance and a vocal tenor that has this unexpectedly endearing monotone. It draws you in through rhythm and flow rather than melody. At least that’s what happened to me and I was gormless to resist to resist its charm.
I try to make a point of embedding from bandcamp or spotify but my hands are tied on this one so take this spotify link with my apologies.
Artists you need to know rn
| 1. 1300 |  |
316 |
| 2. Voidhood | |
259 | 3. jamesjamesjames | |
186 | 4. Zan | |
174 |
| 5. Sesame Girl | |
147 |
