A couple of years ago I stumbled across a rad release by a dude called piers and totally dug it. It was a handful of beautiful tunes recorded by a guy in his garage (or something) running his guitar through delay pedals until it created washes of heaving noise. I listened to it again recently and decided to try and track the guy down – and I’m pretty sure I found him. And he is now called Muir. Also, I’m pretty sure he was based in Brisbane then and is now based in Melbourne (this is hard-hitting investigative music blogging, so feel free to weigh in on these rumours).

Anyway, under the new nomenclature, Muir/piers has released an equally beautiful guitar-based, ambient-leaning album – and you can name your price for it at his bandcamp page here. Above is closing track ‘Nest’ to give you a taste of what to expect.

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Guerre – ‘Millenium Blues’

Guerre – ‘Millenium Blues’ (Saltcreek Coyotes Remix)

Guerre is the best thing to happen to Oz music since the Australian cast recording of Jesus Christ Superstar. If you’ve not heard his ghostly take on lo-fi R&B then now is the perfect time to get into it – because his official debut EP ‘Darker My Love’ is released today. Happy times. There’s also a remix version of the album that’s been floating around for a bit that I’ve never posted before. You can get both of them over at the record label Yes Please’s bandcamp page. I can’t recommend more.

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Since relocating from Albury-Wondonga to Melbourne last year, Dirt Farmer have been working hard at the gig rounds and recording their debut EP with Colin Leadbetter (Whitley, Sarah Blasko).

They’re playing the Toff this Wednesday, and even if you’re not familiar with some of the other decent demos they’ve put out, it’s still worth gallivanting over to hear this cheery tune.

Dirt Farmer on Facebook

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Secret Birds – ‘Laser Archipelago’

Here’s another tune I’ve been meaning to post since forever. It’s from the excellent album/36minute-long EP ‘Peace Forrest’ by Brisbane’s Secret Birds, which I highly recommend for anyone who is fan of the like of Sun Araw, Peaking Lights, or even Tame Impala’s more adventurous listeners. (If those references are lost on you, imagine the aural equivalent of the above photo).

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‘Quarter’ (mp3)

‘Lucy’ (mp3)

It sounds like this relatively new Sydney duo have straight up looted Rubber Factory and reassembled the parts. In this case, it’s not necessarily a bad thing. A few Auerbach muscles are flexed on Quarter which throws some sluggish riff retorts around, while Lucy is a sleazy garage number that has its fair share of cymbal/snare spasms coiled up between verses.

Scuzz and garrulous wails are alright by me, but it’s to useless effect while I’m sitting here in my clean shirt instead of stomping around somewhere with lager soaked carpet.

No EP out as of yet, but by the sounds of it, these guys are onto a good start.

thefaults.bandcamp.com

Faults FB

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Faux Pas recently (within the last few months anyway) put out a collection of left-overs from his last album. Thing is, I actually prefer it to that album. Even better, you can get it for free right here.

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