Faker – ‘This Heart Attack’
Took me a while to get into this song, my first thought was that they could do better. But after a few listens I actually like it. Nathan’s voice does take a bit of getting used to before I could trust what he was singing, but now I’m sold. Taken from their upcoming sophomore record Be The Twilight.
Cassette Kids – ‘We Are’
Another track from these hip Sydney kids, this one reminds me a lot of Comanechi. Caught them while I was in town last week, the guitarist had a lot of interesting ideas on some songs but doesn’t carry it well enough throughout the set to keep my attention. The girl sure is a looker.
Roam The Hello Clouds – ‘Pretender’s Hand’
Most of the stuff get sent to this blog nowadays are either indie rock/pop, electro clash or singer songwriter stuff. So it’s refreshing to get this one that does not fit into any of the above. This is very obscure, so much so when the label sent me more info on another website, it’s in German. I guess that they’re some sort of internationally aimed laptop-jazz-world music outfit with little or no expectation of making dosh anytime soon. It features Laurence Pike of Pivot/Triosk on drums. This guy’s drumming skills is worth the price of admission, and he shows it off again on these songs.
www.myspace.com/roamthehelloclouds
We actually blogged about this Melbourne act last year and now they’ve been signed to tastemaker label Modular Records.
http://www.plug-incity.com
http://www.myspace.com/plugincity
The Scientists Of Modern Music – ‘Easy’
Last week my mate Rohan bought a $700 Korg keyboard. Soon another mate Ross was showing off his skills with the built in vocoding effects, I believe his words were something to the effect of “give us a few weeks and we’ll write better songs than the (Midnight) Juggies!”
I have a feeling similar proclamations could have been made when Tasmanian duo The Scientists of Modern Music started out. Maybe they are victims of bad timing, but their sound is a bit old now considering how ubiquitous Oz electro-clash is. Signed to Rubber Records and recorded by Daniel Jones (of Savage Garden, remember them?) they’re not short on resources to come up with quality record, but the material and style is not exactly fresh.
Too bad because they are pretty good live, and the organisers of Falls Festival must really like them because they are playing both days this year. I saw them played on new years’ eve last year and they sounded pretty good then. Funny thing is the promoter told me “give these guys a year they will be bigger than the Midnight Juggernauts!!” True story.
The John Steele Singers – ‘Smashing the speed of Sound on An Empty Lake In Utah’
A while ago I posted a band called Stature:Statue. The drummer Ross emailed me a few weeks ago about his side project, The John Steele Singers, 6 piece Beach Boys-ish brass/pop band from Brisbane. I went to see them play in Melbourne in Geddes Lane and unfortunately for them that was the shittiest sounding room in town, so they played a really short set and didn’t show off much after travelling over 2000kms for this gig. But the recordings sounds great, and they were once approached by the late Grant McLennan of the Go Betweens after a performance in Brisbane. Talk about a confidence booster. Their 5 track EP is out now, watch out for an album.
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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…