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LIVE REVIEW: A nostalgic night with Two Door Cinema Club
Despite all the wild excitement, the trio appeared the perfect combination of vibrant, as well as calm and collected. The boys had done this countless times before, but this didn’t detract from their ability to send tremors and impart some sweet magnetic energy.
LIVE REVIEW: ALL OUR EXES LIVE IN TEXAS (SYD) + PORTS (IRE)
All My Exes Live in Texas performed an hour of gorgeous harmonies, tastefully accompanied by mandolin, ukulele and piano accordion. Support was from Ports of Northern Ireland who had quite the Australian connection. We tried not to cry... Read our review of the evening here.
Los Campesinos! Deliver a Raw, Mature Album with Sick Scenes
Overall Sick Stories is a rawer, more accessible and more mature (but no less energized) effort than anything Los Campesinos! have put out before. For every time you may be tempted to make comparisons, the Campesinos! crew find ways to remind you that there’s nobody else like them, full stop.
Run the Jewels: Still Killing it on RTJ3
Run the Jewels 3 is everything you could’ve hoped for from an RTJ project right now. It’s a full steam ahead onslaught of razor-sharp lines that cut to core of our times, leaving a deep impression on the listener.
LIVE REVIEW: Boy & Bear at Fremantle Prison
Boy&Bear remind us all why they're one of Australia's most exciting bands with another heartwarming performance, showing us all what the boys from Sydney can really do.
ALBUM REVIEW: Sleigh Bells Sadly Don't Slay on "Jessica Rabbit"
Jessica Rabbit, the fourth album from Brooklyn noise pop duo Sleigh Bells, features too many songs that are overstuffed with scattershot ideas and incompatible sounds. Still, the album is not without its redemptive moments.
ALBUM REVIEW: Touché Amoré Hit Hard with “Stage Four”
Stage Four by Californian post-hardcore outfit Touché Amoré finds frontman Jeremy Bohm in mourning over the death of his mother. It's a harrowing experience, but it's equally profound and cathartic as it is confronting.
VIEWS OF THE MONTH: August edition
August has brought the pop muzak goods with new tracks from artists such as DJ Khaled and JoJo. Read this month's Views of the Month.
MUSIC NATION: Major Lazer's drops new single "Cold Water" feat. Justin Beiber
Our newest music writer has something to say about Major Lazer's latest track. Read about the new single here.
Album Review: The Avalanches' Long-Awaited "Wildflower"
The Avalanches' Wildflower is best described as a street carnival mixed with a fever dream- at times delirious and lucid, others festive and urgent, always celebratory.
Melb psych rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard bring their full-mouthful of an album to Badlands
King Gizzy played for over an hour non-stop, like a freight train rocketing through to the end of the line, taking no extra passengers and certainly no prisoners.
Julien Baker's "Sprained Ankle" is painfully honest and wholesomely atmospheric
Painfully honest and wholesomely atmospheric, Sprained Ankle ebbs and flows like a teenage diatribe, genuinely emotional, fundamentally lonely and painfully raw.
"Red Hot Chilli Peppers" makes a purposeful Getaway
Regardless of what people think or care, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers just do their thing simply because they want to (and because they have the financial capabilities and legacy to back them in any endeavour they choose). Their new album The Getaway, however, signifies a shift from their more traditional tactics that suggests that they’ve got more mojo in the bank.
ALBUM REVIEW: Skin by Flume
Skin finds the producer attempting to hit the middle ground between reaching the largest audience possible and expanding on his experimental tendencies. It should prove a hit with fans and newcomers and set him apart from his flurry of imitators.
LIVE REVIEW: Aussie Synth-Pop Masters "Client Liaison" sure know how to put on a show
Dressed in their best high waisted white trousers and brown suede bomber jackets, Australia’s favourite - and perhaps only - ‘late-eighties Australiana’/synth pop masters Client Liaison delivered a high energy performance to the tightly packed crowd in Mojo’s on Saturday night.
ALBUM REVIEW: James Blake Finds "The Colour in Anything"
The Colour In Anything shaped up to be one of the most eagerly anticipated releases of this year. Was it worth the wait? Absolutely. This is mostly because The Colour In Anything finds him at his most diverse, sonically and emotionally.
MUSIC REVIEW: Hoodlem's debut EP is intoxicating
Presenting their self-titled debut EP, Hoodlem brings to the table an intoxicating handful of fragmented R&B electronic. And you’d best bet it goes hand in hand with claps of cosmic percussion.
ALBUM REVIEW: Hymns by Bloc Party
The good news is that “Hymns” is better than Bloc Party's last album (2012's “Four”). The bad news is that this doesn’t exactly mean it’s a particularly good one.