Posts By Sophie Benjamin

Re:enactment

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Re:Enactment – ‘Thems Burnt Puppies’

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Re:enactment are a bunch of musicians from Brisbane making intelligent aggressive electro rock. Their music makes use of jangly indie guitars, live drums, 8-bit samples and a rockin’ keytar player.

Their latest EP Regicide was not only released on CD but a very very cool limited edition USB stick, also containing their previous EP, demos, photos and the original audio files for those keen on remixing.

Bands of the 21st Century, take note! This is how you do it.

www.myspace.com/thereenactment

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Little Scout

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Little Scout – Dead Loss

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Brisbane is a small town and if I had a dollar for every time someone told me “oh, you should check out my brother’s/boyfriend’s/workmate’s/housemate’s/neighbour’s band”, I might be close to paying off my HECS debt. So when a friend told me to check out their friend’s ex-house mate’s band Little Scout, I wasn’t expecting anything special.

However, Little Scout are something special. Mixing indie pop with folk and tinny Casio drum beats, their songs are sweet and devastatingly beautiful without being self-conscious or twee.

Debut single “Dead Loss” has recieved Triple J airplay and the band has support slots lined up with Yves Klein Blue, The Holidays and Cloud Control over the next couple of months.

www.myspace.com/littlescoutmusic

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Emma Dean

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Emma Dean – ‘Cocaine’

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Emma Dean was once best-known as Kate Miller-Heidke’s backup singer and violinist but no more – her long-awaited debut album Real Life Computer Game is good enough to keep her out of Miller-Heidke’s shadow.

Shortlisted for this year’s New Artist to Radio competition, Dean’s quirky pop (or “elastic pop theatre” as the lady herself calls it) does have a slight Miller-Heidke influence but is much less annoying and lacks the operatic histrionics – not a bad thing at all.

The lead single of RLCG is ‘Cocaine’, inspired after Dean read on a Brisbane gossip blog that she had a secret cocaine habit.

If you’re a fan of Regina Spektor, The Dresden Dolls or Tori Amos, you’ll probably love this.

www.myspace.com/emmadeanband

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