Broken Bells

After another cozy hybernation I’ve awoken to find a pile of new mp3′s in the grass outside my cave. The first I hear is this is the new side project between James Mercer (singer/songwriter, supposed dictator of The Shins) and super mega producer Dangermouse (half of Gnarles Barkley, producer of Gorrillaz and so on and [...]

What? Alice In Chains return…and return strong!?

Scuse me while I tie my flanny round my waste and do up my Doc Martins…Glad I wore shorts today cuz this shit is rockin us back the glory days of 90′s grunge! Ouch I’ve got mosh-neck! Now a brief history lesson cuz these guys have been gone for a LONG time: 1. Alice In [...]

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Metric – Fantasies

This has been a REALLY slow burner album for me. Metric are a Canadanian rock band that have been around for ages. JJJ played the “help I’m alive my heart is beating like a hamerrrrrr” tune a LOT and whilst I was quick to get over it I gave the album a go. Again on [...]

Muthmath – Armistice

Mutemath have not made many (any?) waves here in Oz. I saw them give one of the best live performances I’ve ever seen on Letterman years ago and off the strength of that gave their last album a decent spin. This new album is another solid effort and I’ve had it on high rotation for [...]

Drop Dat Bogan Beat Yo

I don’t have many thoughts on hip hop (as opposed to other types of music ). I do think I’m pretty hard on Aussie hip hop generally because…well some accents just don’t suit the genre as well as others. Have you ever heard French hip hop?! That shit is crazy…even Run DMC would be respeckt’n [...]

Owning it: SUGAR ARMY

“She knows she know she know she knows” I have been bloody singing this line for weeks since their album finally came out. This is the open line from Sugar Army’s latest single “Tongues in Cheeks”. It’s really becoming frustrating – I went skiing 2 weeks ago and, ipod-less it was the only line I [...]

Daniel Merriweather – Love and War

This Aussie born soul singer’s throat is made entirely of the creamery chocolate that’s in the centre of a Ferrero Rocher (aka Fro-Rizzle Ro-Schnizzle) and a fine fine 18yr old scotch whisky. Because I like both of these things I’ll excuse some of his crappy lyrics and songwriting skills. Produced by Mark Ronson (guy that [...]

The Field – Yesterday and Today

This is a swedish DJ dude. His first album had a bullsh!t amount (that’s heaps) of acclaim. This is reeeeally repediitve techno electro but along the lines of deadmau5 is nice a background slow burner. Would love to know what you think of this one?

Death Cab For Cutie – The Open Door EP

You know my thoughts on this band. I love this band. They’re just a ‘proper’ band. You can hear what years and years of playing does to these musicians. They can make repetition interesting and build ups slight…the songs don’t try too hard with hooks and production tricks. This EP is only 5 songs (4 [...]