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LOOK: Good Sniff draws ‘Pig City’

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Local illustrator Good Sniff has gone to the liberty of sketching more than 300 individual faces belonging to 106 Brisbane bands.

“It got to a point about midyear where I’d be scooting around in the Valley and I’d recognise people because I’d drawn their faces. Which is creepy.”

She describes it as “character design exercise that got waaaay out of hand”.

Do take a closer look at this. It’s scarily accurate, even if there’s at least one member of every act who looks a little seedy <Gung Ho>.My favourites are Violent Soho looking doing 50 shades o’ Nazareth, JSS’s hair diversity, typical bong-eyed Dune Rats and the left Origliasso twin who looks like Julia Zemiro on meth.

Apparently she’s doing more revisions to this one, but I’d definitely like to see her take on another state.

Find the full res image here.

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LISTEN: Forces – ‘World In Focus’

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I like my techno dirty and industrial ya. Forces are a couple of cyborgs (Alex Akers and Thomas Kernot) that have unloaded a new synthetic piece of sound called ‘World in Focus’ – free copy here. That press shot is pretty creepy and it figures as they are label mates with Mel’s fav weirdo Kirin J. There is a Future Sounds of London vibe with a darker Presets vocal. I dig the rapid fire beats and have no doubt this would be crazy huge on a festival stage. The self-titled EP is coming to earth via Midnight Juggernauts’ label, Siberia Records early Dec so keep a bionic ear out for it.

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LISTEN: Blackmilk – ‘The Prospector’

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I’d been pluggin Blackmilk in the lead up to the release of their record In Lak’ech and I’m happy to say it’s out and sounds very good. ‘The Prospector’ is their new single and it’s a complete departure to what we have heard earlier. This one is a stripped-back tune with all focus on the vocal and stark narrative accompanied by backing harmony and select violin builds for extra drama. A good range from a very accomplished record by the Perth yocals. In Lak’ech is a deep rocking record with an amazing period sound that combines the best of Australian country story-telling with psychedelia and Tumbleweed like, stoner guitar drifts. Def worth hearing.

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Blackmilk – ‘The Prospector’

 

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LISTEN: Fuyuko’s Fables – ‘Slappy and Graham’

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These guys were in Melbourne recently and I feel bad for not letting y’all know but y’know – we were having major surgery on the site so things slipped through the cracks. The good news is Fuyuko’s Fables is just a boat trip away in the kingdom of New Zealand and hopefully we’ll see them back real soon. ‘Slappy and Graham’ is taken from the EP Everybody is Weird available on their bandcamp. It’s a captivating listen. Good snare brushes and guitar picking with that New Zealand twang in the vocals creating an at times melancholic story telling but the harmony is quite gorgeous and not unlike The Shins.

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Fuyuko’s Fables – ‘Slappy and Graham‘

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LISTEN: Pencil – ‘Departure’

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Pencil are Melbourne friends Ashley and Zahra from Zone Out, Liam and Jordan from Ocean Party and Andrè who plays in Hot Palms with the Zone out peeps. What a community. This is their new EP; recorded last week. It follows up their first cut released earlier this year which sounded more stripped back and guitar driven. The vocals were sweet and followed one catchy melody after the next. There is a danger of becoming immune to the charm of – dare I say it – ‘jangly pop’. But it’s not gonna happen on this new EP Sydney Weekend. This has more atmosphere and features Ashley’s vocal range to take the sound to a surfier, washed out place. Wes Anderson could shoot a film around this sound. It’s a more confident recording and gets closer to what The Twerps pull off by sounding like they invented the sound. Check the bandcamp for both EP’s.

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Pencil – ‘Departure‘

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LISTEN: Jeremy Neale – ‘A Love Affair To Keep You There’

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‘A Love Affair To Keep You There’ is the new single from Brisbane’s spy rock Star Jeremy Neale. This track is more of a melancholy outing than previous singles ‘Darlin’ and ‘Winter Was The Time’, but Neale’s talent for deliciously constructed pop songs with breezy immediacy is still out in full force. The chorus sneaks up on you, ripping through a hazy vocal and spring-loaded beat. Like the other tracks we’ve heard from Neale, this one puts his vocal squarely front and centre, which is a great move cause he’s got a hell of a voice that can charm your pants off and knock you out of your chair at the same time.

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LISTEN: Flight Tonight – ‘Lines’

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This track brings me back to the few months I spent wandering in the thick of a New York winter. Cosmopolis lives up to the impressionable catacomb it professes to be; bagels, another construction zone erecting tall stuff, crumply dollar bills, good looking dudes in suits.

After hours, it’s a real lonely place though. Loneliness becomes more apparent stumbling out of Death By Audio alone at 4.30am, discovering the Manhattan bound E train is closed for repairs, being chased by Donald Sutherland’s hobo ghost and having nothin’ but a soggy subway churro in your bag to point you in the right direction.

Flight Tonight producer Adrian ‘Edo ‘Rafter has created a real gem here. The vocalist who sounds like Lykki Li fronting Portishead on ‘Lines’ is Leure, the solo project of Ash Hendriks (Wolves At The Door).

Formulaic beat samples and the purity of song blur on this track. It’d be easy to write this off as another shot at sexy minimalism (Seekae have already siphoned the threshold of all good stuff said about that on this site). There’s that familiar thump, the ambient synth, the breathy wane of someone who’s probably rolling around in a bedsheet somewhere. Minimal production on ‘Lines’ echoes the way The xx’s careful, clean cut sounds allow Romy’s dim vocals pulling power. Although ‘Lines’ generates a curious feeling of absence and space, it still comes across as incredibly personal which leaves the biggest impression here.

If you like what you hear, make sure you check out Flight Tonight’s self titled EP via bandcamp.

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