Archive for November, 2018
So I’ll tell you what my mum has been telling me for at least two decades: You need to pay more attention to HAIRCARE. I’m gonna edge out on a limb here and suggest that you probably haven’t listened to this band before today and if you have, well colour me impressed and proud. Today they received the Sound Doc seal of approval which industry estimates have valued at anywhere between 6-11 Spotify streams. This is only single two for HAIRCARE so we’re not kilometers deep into a storied career.
I was put across this Perth four piece yesterday morning having been told that they’d made fans out of some of Perth’s musical top tier and I’ve not stopped listening to their newest single since. ‘Blinding Cordoned States’ is full of lo-fi synths, tender guitar parts and a vocal from old mate that hits you with all the urgency of The Walkmen. The chorus pops like an overinflated balloon and I quite simply haven’t been able to sit down since the first time I heard it. This is actually really bad and I urgently need someone to send help, my legs are be fixed in a literal state of living rigor mortis. You’re not hearing me, please stop reading this and send a doctor I’m in an incredible amount of pain.
Harrison Rae lives in Sydney having moved here from Boambee (up near Coffs way) and as a special dowry gift to the city of Sydney he bears this moody dee n bee signalling ambiater. It pans across your dome in its quiter moments, slices with percussive scissors and then merges the two together artfully. From how I understand it, the move to Sydney has guided his music into more frenetic realms just as he’ll do for your good self if you’d kindly hit play below.
It’s released through his own label Club Moss, launched just this very year but if you’d like more, he has a slightly less angular seven tracker in the form of Vitamin B.
When I’m told that I have to listen to a certain track through headphones I pointed avoid listening to that thing on any sort of phones, head or otherwise. In fact the last time someone demanded my earphone experience I 
actually forced the band to immediately dissolve so if you were into At The Drive In, I’m really sorry. And so, I’m not going to say it here because I don’t presume to direct my mostly-masters-and-doctorate-holding-readership about their listening medium but you know I’m thinking it now. Surely you have to know that.
Sometimes it’s easy to grow accustomed to some of the talents in your own backyard and I think Anatole suffers for that. In this buffet-style music market you can never stop discovering some sometimes the desire for the new can push you away from appreciating what you already know. And what I know is this- Anatole is remarkably gifted. If you can imagine a tallboy filled with about 85 different levels of drawers? In terms of electronic music, you’ll find Anatole right up in that top one. He’s a masterful, meticulous producer lacing organic bones with electronic sounds… or maybe it’s electronic bones with organic sounds? Listen closely.
Artists you need to know rn
| 1. 1300 |  |
316 |
| 2. Voidhood | |
259 | 3. jamesjamesjames | |
186 | 4. Zan | |
174 |
| 5. Sesame Girl | |
147 |
