While the rest of our interstate counterparts battered our social networking walls with their hipstamatic prints basking in glorious UV – for those of us in Melbs, ‘Summer’ never really arrived. Currently living vicariously through this video while I go wring out my ego, broken umbrella and the moat in my shoe.
Catch Loon Lake launching their EP on June 3rd @ Ding Dong and supporting Red Riders in Melbourne and Sydney on their farewell shows.
Director : Tim Melville
Stop-motion enthusiasts: you deserve a beer and a big fat gold plated horse for your patience to your art.
Melbourne animator Darcy Prendergast and the mega skilled dudes at Oh Yeah Wow are testament to that. The vid for ‘Rippled’ off All India Radio’s ninth record took six months to complete. No digital manipulation, no special effects – just painful frame-by-frame long exposure techniques. Since it was uploaded last week, it’s hit 101,605 (and still climbing).
The video is 2.0 for the OHW/All India Radio collab. The clip for ‘Lucky’ (which uses similar light painting techniques) took out best animated music video at the St Kilda Film Festival last year and was shortlisted for exhibit at the Guggenheim.
Making it to the ninth album is a mean feat, so it’s fitting that this clip is of equal ‘!!!’ proportions.
Chet Faker – ‘No Diggity’ (mp3)
Tie-dye facial hair + wifebeater singlet + smoooooooth cover of a bangin’ 90’s anthem.
TOP THIS.
Director: Guy Franklin
Producer: Elizabeth Sarsfield
Cinematographer: Edward Goldner
Colourist: Christine J. Dobson
Post-Production: John Gavin @The Pixel Kitchen
Just gonna put it out there. This could well be the best pop chorus of 2011. Whether you agree with me or if your plaintive, stoic self begs to differ – 11,092 views in just over five days can’t be wrong… right?
There’s no one formula for a good pop hook, but this lady has it nailed. The verse finds a nice space that ain’t too pizazz, nor too pedestrian, the progression bookmarking the chorus is god damn glorious – and that bridge at 2.23 is the stuff that Spring Valley commercials are made of.
Maybe it’s time pop music had a breath mint. Here’s proof that you don’t need librarian specs and a novelty haircut (perhaps not the novelty haircut) or a reality tv show ‘de-butt’ on your CV to earn some cred.
BTW she’s kiwi. Could be our best export yet.
While I’m on the proposition warpath, I’ll just get to the point. I dig.
Leader Cheetah hit BJB late last year with Scott Horscroft at the reigns to record the follow up to their debut album the ‘The Sunspot Letters’. Here’s the first taste of what to expect when the new one drops in June.
Lowtide – ‘Underneath Tonight’ (mp3)
Been spinning this release from Melb’s Lowtide at the moment. Formerly known as Three Month Sunset, the band spent summer in NZ where they played the Campus a Low Hum Festival in Feburary, sharing the stage with Caribou, My Disco and Toro Y Moi.
Title track ‘Underneath Tonight’ tips it’s hat to something along the lines of pre-Disintegration Cure (also reminds me a lot of Brooklyn band Minks), while b-side ‘Memory No. 7’ is a hypnotic, slow trippin’ voyage over the stratosphere. Lucy Buckeridge and Giles Simon’s alternatating vocals mesh seamlessly with one another, and with all those loose low-fi layers going on, it makes for a swell listen. Shitgaze has been abusing reverb for a while, so I’m glad these guys are restoring the faith.
This 7” is drenched in the kind of melancholic, golden speckled fuzz that makes my Friday just a little bit better. Hope it does the same for yours.
New clip from Sydney band WIM for their track ‘See You Hurry’.
It’s all peaceful mountain fernery and alabaster buttocks until an unfortunate unicorn/pegasus/thing becomes subject to Van Der Vorst’s snack attack. Still, major props to Daniel Askill from Collider and the guys behind this clip -the visual aesthetics are pretty amazing. Also really digging this tune, the whole driving indie-folk rhetoric reminds me a lot of the gems off Midlake’s second record.
The band signed to Modular after taking out the leg of the Unearthed Laneway comp earlier in the year and have been working with Tony Buchen and Bob Clearmountain on their debut, which is out on May 27th.
Wim are on the road with Grace Woodroofe and Gypsy and the Cat, see below the jump for dates.
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Still trying to purchase!!!ANTHONY J LANGFORD
Cool track. Congrats Joshua. Hope the release is a success.Tristan
Man I love these guys. I can't believe they are not releasing any new music. I've been to so many…sophie
^^ I love Grimes! Banoffee is one of my new favorite music artists! :) I love With Her, Reign Down,…Ace
Read your review then listened to the EP. Fantastic ! Different to most hardcore punk I listen to. Somewhat more…