Monthly Archives For August 2015

LISTEN: These Guy – ‘Coming Around’

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These Guy are a Brisbane three-piece who make skewed indie pop music, originally the solo project of singer and multi-instrumentalist Joe Saxby. After kicking around by himself for the first year of the band’s existence culminating in his sweeping but brief 3 track debut EP ‘To Say or Do’, Saxby invited mates Eddie L’estrange and Josh Coxon to take These Guy live. The impact this has had on their more recent tracks is a notable upward swing in the mood of their sound away from the somewhat insular intimacy of the EP. Cue ‘Coming Around’ –  a combination of the lofty vocals and downer lyrics of Saxby’s earlier output with buoyant pop production to creating a track that’s interesting at every turn. 

The absence of any kind of rhythm guitar or solid lines of instrumentation leaves Saxby’s vocals and synth fiddling to carry the melodic weight of the track. The amount of ambient bric-a-brac that has been cut to neatly give structure to Coming Around is a testament to Saxby’s ear for off-kilter production and hopefully points to a more experimental/avant pop future for These Guy.

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WATCH: Wireheads – ‘Boys Home’

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Adelaide’s Wireheads have had a criminally underrated run – “criminal” in the sense of a Manson murder spree, and “underrated” in the sense of Vegemite, honey and avocado on toast (try it). It’s as though the lazy pop of Galaxie 500 was transmuted into a dusty, beer-swilling six piece who prefer to coat their songs in fuzz. The end result is something that sits well alongside Aussie contemporaries Bitch Prefect and Beef Jerk, or perhaps a more chaotic version of the Stevens or Full Ugly.

On the second single from their upcoming second album, Big Issues, Wireheads have released the stream-of-consciousness yelper ‘Boys Home’. Wireheads deliver a strident, snarling three minutes, saddling whimsical pop (lots of “oo-oo’s”) with shuffling drum thwacks and a runaway guitar solo that wouldn’t sound out of place on a howling 80’s cock-rock soundtrack.

Now that they’re signed to the major label [sic] Tenth Court (Thigh Master / Sewers / Mope City), Wireheads have released a compulsory video clip. Therein, the Adelaidians queue up visions of greyscale Australiana and live footage, complementing their babbling homage to youthful defiance via kicking the footy and wringing the neck of a beaten up guitar. It’s good stuff all round, and sets the expectations high for the forthcoming record.

Big Issues comes out August 7th via Tenth Court. Pre-order here.

Upcoming shows:

21st August – The Union Hotel, Sydney w/ Day Ravies, Thigh Master, Weak Boys (FREE)

23st August – The Haunt, Brisbane w/ Old Mate (LP Launch), Bent, Sydney 2000

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