Grindhouse – Can I Drive Your Commodore? (Off The Hip Records) Reviewed by Sarah Kidd. Middle-aged punk rockers Grindhouse who embrace their aussie heritage like a badge of honour are back with their third album that will make you wantContinue Reading
The Living End – Wunderbar (Rise Records / BMG) Reviewed by Emily Lipsys. Wunderbar is the 8th studio album from Australian punk/rock/rock-a-billy band The Living End, and despite being a band that has been around for 24 years, they’re stillContinue Reading
Thom Yorke – Suspiria (Music for the Luca Guadagnino film) (XL Recordings/Rhythmethod) Reviewed by Tim Gruar. The best soundtracks boast iconic recurring themes that boldly define the atmosphere of a movie. All it takes are a few bars and youContinue Reading
St. Vincent – MassEducation (Re-Imagining of MASSEDUCATION) (Loma Vista Recordings) Reviewed by Tim Gruar. Last October New York provocateur Annie Clark (aka St. Vincent) released her 5th album, MASSEDUCATION, just as the #MeToo movement was gaining full traction. Despite theContinue Reading
Rhian Sheehan – A Quiet Divide (Loop) Reviewed by Emily Lipsys. Elegy for the past is the first beautiful, ambient track that leads into the rest of New Zealand composer/musician, Rhian Sheehans’ new album ‘A Quiet Divide’. It just consistentlyContinue Reading
Big Red Machine – Big Red Machine (Jagjaguwar Records) Reviewed by Emma Hughes. Big Red Machine, the self-titled album from Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner, is, without a doubt, experimental by design. The product of aContinue Reading
Passenger – Runaway (Black Crow Records) Reviewed by Emily Lipsys. English singer-songwriter Mike Rosenberg, aka Passenger has just newly released his tenth studio album RUNAWAY in his 11 years on the music scene as a solo artist. This fresh newContinue Reading
Midnight Manor – House Of Cards (Independent) Reviewed by Marius Nel. Who said that the romance has gone out of rock? Well… nobody specific but I think that this is the case for a large part of the genre: youContinue Reading
Simon Hinkler – Moving On (Correctitude Records) Reviewed by Ambient Light. Affectionately known to many as Slink, Simon Hinkler is undoubtedly most familiar as the lead guitarist from UK goth rock legends The Mission. But for those who didn’t alreadyContinue Reading