listen, learn. Love. Destroy.

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Laurence - Child This song comes from a terrible yet brilliant place. One of my favourite off the whole amazing album 'William, Andromeda'. The band Laurence is headed by 19 year old Michael Vince Moin whose depth and intensity both musically and lyrically are that of a man beyond his years. The album deals pretty deeply with mental illness and 20% of proceeds are going to Mind Australia. 

This song is a strange mix, feeling really fragile, yet almost too rough at the start. But it builds into something more complete and beaming further on. It's pretty solid and sweet.

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Milk Music - I've Got a Wild Feeling 'Cruise Your Illusion' is a freaking mess of an album and I really dig it. This track, I've Got a Wild Feeling, is just rad. It's a sloppy kind of brilliance, not just another mediocre lo-fi thing. I feel like, it's one part stealing cars and hanging out at some broken house party and one part made to be stuck in the middle of no where in the 90's. It's turbulent and lost. Just got an Australian release via Spunk (fucking legends) recently. 

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Nadine Shah - To Be a Young Man This is new from english lass Nadine Shah. 'To Be a Young Man' oozes Nick Cave, influences, though less 'traumatic' with an added touch of Jeff Buckley as she croons on the chorus. It's dark and compelling, like a walk through a park at midnight with an ill forged sense of safety. (originally found via One Inch Badge - them kids always got the goods).

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Turnip King - Aeolis Turnip King stumbled upon me and I had to have a listen. They are Long Island kids that make that scruffy ambient grunge that seems to have unfurled itself on mass of late. That kind of forgetful feeling that's still perfect in its raw playfulness, that it leaves something lingering in your skull. Think maybe somewhere between the Kings (Tuff and Krule) mixed in with equal parts Beach Fossils and Total Slacker. Scruffy Ambient Grunge. That's a thing yeah? This song is maybe the least scuffy and the most ambient but I'm in. Album Moon Landing? came out in May this year. Take a listen the whole thing is pretty rad. They also have the coolest fucking shirts I've ever seen. 

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Thee Dang Dangs - She Moves Thee Dang Dangs are psychedelic surf-rock that wears it love of everything Thee Oh Sees flavoured on its sleeve, blatantly (hence the homage in their name) and brilliantly.  

Main difference here is the ever so slightly more ambiently hued tunes lead by female vocalist Rebecca Williams. Raw and blurred with a hint at the 60's exactly what you expected yet ever so refreshing.

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Total Slacker - Psychic Mesa

Total Slacker are one of my favourite things about New York. I saw them in a run-down warehouse a few years back at what may be the best gig I ever went to, purely because I'd never heard of any of the bands at the time ( Wise Blood and WU LYF), vodka was $5 for a whole cup, straight spirits, I brought one of their shirts for $3 and I was terrified of getting stabbed on the way home. Regardless it was great and so are these guys.  Sadly their drummer was hit by a car and died in 2012.  Understandably there hasn't been much new material but apparently they just finished recording a second album so hopefully soon. This is my favourite of their old stuff.. Psychic Mesa by Total Slacker. Name pretty much explains what your in for...

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Mt St Helens Vietnam Band - Albatross Albatross Albatross

These guys are brilliant, I’m stuck on them intensely. I may have stubled across them whilst looking for a band of a similar name (St Helens) and found these guys instead. Part Franz Ferdinand a big part Yuck and a little part Black Keys and The Killers. This is one of my favs but they change intensely from album to album. It’s a more than little bit indie pop and a smidge repetitive, but we need that in our lives sometimes. So that’s fine with me. Plus they have new stuff soon. 

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Suuns - Edie's Dream

I loved Suuns some years ago. Arena, as far as I'm concerned is the flawless culmination of all that is good in music. And how does there new stuff stack up. Suuns still excel at out-of-this-world, dreamy dreary pop. It's intriguing and engulfing and a bass line to die for._

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Spectral Park - Ornaments

Frenzied and feet from chaos Spectral Park is all over the place. And that's entirely a good thing. Its trash pop, warped and sampled in every possible way they layered decidedly with instrumental loops and overdrawn vocals. Some how through all the dismembering and re-enabling, it comes out the other end perfect. 

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THE LIVING EYES - UP AND AT THEM.

THIS NEW ALBUMS IS BRILLIANT. Geelong natives with fleshed out fuzz guitars, a wall of 70's garage noise.. Raucous attitude and a live show that makes the floor shake and the room sweat. Check it.

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Pumice - Pumice Quo. 

NZ dude whose been around for years. Pumice Quo will always be my favourite. Broken down low-fi pop. Ragged, fuzzy, broken and fairly fucked up. 

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The Night Terrors - Glass Eyes. The Night Terrors are all deep dark haunting synth and drum driven beauty. Think PVT and an 80’s horror film.

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Kins - Top and Turn. Ex-Melbourne. Ex-Oh Mercy. Now Brighton, UK. Now Something completely different.

Imagine Radiohead were young, angry and recording music in their sharehouse bedroom. This may be my favourite song of 2013 so far.

“I’m a simple bitch, when your in my bed, you all look the fucking same.”