Posts Tagged ‘Australia’
Matt Corby’s career path reads as follows-
2007: Australian Idol runner up
2008: Signed to Scorpio Music
2009: Brief stint being a Bon Iver cover band
And that leaves us in the here and now. His current music is pretty rock solid. Put aside your assumed prejudices and come to this with an open mind. Sure, he’s adapting to write music for whatever is the most marketable sound (and image- 2007, 2010) of the year but at least he’s good at it. And if television told us nothing else about him, the dude’s got a good voice.
Matt Corby – My False
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Right click here to download this song and here to download another of his tracks, Lighthome
I’m not going out on a limb here when I say that you’re going to be hearing a lot of Melbourne electro-pop quartet Strange Talk on the radio over the next 12 months. Their first single Climbing Walls was mixed by Eliot James (who had a hand in the work of small name artists such as Noah and the Whale, Two Door Cinema Club and Bloc Party). Strange Talk sound like the lovechild of Phoenix and Gypsy and the Cat, particularly in their slower track Eskimo Boy. Maybe Cut Copy got involved in the process (like the pervert he is) too, we can’t be sure. Whatever the mix, it’s a catchy (and marketable) sound.
Strange Talk – Climbing Walls
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You can download Climbing Walls from Triple J Unearthed for no dollars. Also, take the time to visit their myspace so you can agree with me on all earlier points.
I’ll be remaining on this side of the Harbour Bridge tonight and seeing a good band play at a good venue. Impossible I hear you say. Not so! The Gate is a backyard in North Ryde that has begun putting on shows for ten dollars a pop. Tonight sees Guineafowl headlining and Guinefowl are pretty swish. They’ve had a lot of buzz mostly because of their single Botanist which is here for your listening pleasure and a free download. There should be a small group of us attending (among the larger crowd) so get amongst it.
Guineafowl – Botanist
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This is my second “review” of Valar’s We Have A Home Among the Trees EP. I write twice because I’ve somehow contrived to delete the last and because the EP has grown on me like a fungus. A wonderful fungus. Here is the EP streamed in full. Listen to Wolf I playing as you read on.
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Buy this EP. It costs AUD$10. That’s just under £6! That’s nothing. I challenge you to think of 7 whole numbers smaller than 6. It can’t be done! That’s the sort of value we’re talking about here. It’s barely £1 per track. 1 is the smallest whole number there is! I know!!
With or without my clever numberwork this EP will sell itself. The falsetto can’t help but draw attention. It soars between guitar effects like an eagle through ravines. But it’s wilder than an eagle. It’s a tiger. A haunting, post-rock tiger. Like them on facebook to find out when their next show will be.
The Blue Mountains are not just a hotspot for Christian engagements and budding teenage photographers, they’re also home to some swell musicians. Some of those musicians are in a band called March of the Real Fly. We may never know what they could do with a decent budget and quality gear. What we do know though, is that with a $50 recording program and $2 mics they can make some pretty, simple (not to be confused with pretty simple) tunes. Here’s one such.
March of the Real Fly – Morning Man
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I find the production endearing but I’ve always had a crush on lo-fi recording. If you want to download their live EP or the Morning Man single (for free) then click this link. For a little more info scope out their myspace.
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