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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.
It’s kind of mesmerising following the changing tempo on the light cymbal tapping across this jam. I’ve been giving this spins throughout the week (and on that note, how long until the term spins becomes completely defunct?) and it’s been giving up it’s sweet fruits while I’ve giddily gorged myself. The end bit where the stuff happens and those things go kind of a little bit different is great, right? JOURNALISM!
POWER MOVES is the side project of Austin Buckett who only went and dropped one of the records of the year recently as part of Golden Blonde. He’ll have an EP out under the POWER MOVES moniker released by this time next week which will reportedly have more hip-hop canon samples and delightfully recut fragments of sound. It’ll be called Psycho Shower Scene and is has been mixed/mastered by none other than Sound Doc favourite Thomas William so you knoooooow it’ll be gooooood tiiiiiiimes.
Bros and ladies, I can’t rightly contain myself, I’ve got a new track for you that’s a rework of one of my favourite Australian artists by one of my favourite Australian artists. You see the situation now? Mathematically speaking that’s TWO of my favourite Australian artists which is at least (and indeed at most) twice as many Australian artists as normally featured in my posts! Thomas William Smith nee Thomas William elevates the bpm, drops in some woodblock Tom (not an actual thing, probably) and drops about a hundred extra of those pitch shifted Banoffee ‘oh’s (you heard it first) across the course of the new mix. The two are no stranger to… Each other… and they’ve collaborated in the past with Oscar remixing William on his Deccan Technicolour Remixes record. Worth every cent if you’ve not purchased it yet and no less exceptional if you have.
This one’s a free download.
How about old mate wailing away on that guitar around 2.30. It’s not 80s wanky though, 
just enough to warrant a steady bounce of the head and the raised eyebrows of any colleagues who happen to stride by my cubicle. Jokes, I have my own office. How many times must I remind you that I’m a bigwig now and I demand you’re respect. A good way to earn that might be to use the correct form of ‘your’ but failing that I’ll just keep plying you with jams and hope for results. Hopefully you’ve already listened through canker up above though if you’re a fast reader it may still be playing and you’ll realise that I was violently reductive in pointing out the merits of a few guitar licks with so much else going on. Even the way vocals switch from left to ride at the twenty second mark or the excellent quavering vocal that run the course of the track – the both need notice.
Now though, let some of the new tune into your ear holes and you’ll thank me. This one’s called ‘World Inside Your Head’ and it’s a slower, woozier thing that’s actually a bit of an earworm. I’ve been singing that damn chorus phrase all day. It lives in the same world inside your head as Porcelain Raft or Tropical Strength, a world of meticulous production choices applied to the sound of a full band which, if reports are true, is made up of a pretty talented set of music types. Also, how about that descending bassline? Legitimate question waiting for answer here, how about it?
And here’s one more for the road, the flipside to ‘Canker’, this one is ‘If It Works’ and in answer to what clearly isn’t a question, “yep, it sure does”. Excellent.
Artists you need to know rn
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186 | 4. Zan | |
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| 5. Sesame Girl | |
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