#unearthed high

[alotofboring]

Stonefield - Love

[noondaytune]

Drive - Gretta Ray. Just last week, Gretta Ray was unearthed triple j’s Unearthed High winner for 2016. This competition is exclusively open to high school students in Australia and Gretta Ray is an 18-year-old high school student from Melbourne. Listening to this song, you’d never have guessed it. Her voice, along with her songwriting is mature beyond her years. ’Drive’ was produced by award-winning composer Jonathan Dreyfus in collaboration with Nashville-based Australian music producer Josh Barber (Gotye, Archie Roach) before being mixed by acclaimed US producer Ryan Hewitt (Sheryl Crow, Angus & Julia Stone). Contributed by @SchweppsRocka

[unearthedgoodness]

Honestly, this is my favourite song at the moment. Listened to it 20+ times today alone. Unearthed High delivers great talent yet again. 

[lstunesday]

Tunesday #53 – Lastlings (again)

There are a few interesting things happening in my life at the moment:

I’m being forced to watch Gilmore Girls from start to finish

I just found out (in the worst way possible) I’m allergic to cephalexin

Breakfast

All of these things are topped by the fact that Lastlings – who I interviewed back in November and thus are my property – are Unearthed High finalists.

I wish them all the best in the competition/emancipation/yuletide preparations.

[absurd-conundrum]

if you do anything good with your evening, let it be listening to this song pls.

[lstunesday]

Tunesday #52 – Ivey

So it’s Unearthed High season, the six or so weeks where you only can submit tracks to triple j unearthed contingent on a drug test that shows you’ve not not had weed in your system in the past 24 hours. You probably didn’t notice.

We can assume that the teenagers from Gold Coast teen indie pop act Ivey passed that test with flying colours cos they’ve dropped a dank track called ‘All Things Good’ as part of the competition. Though I’m constantly mistaken for a weedy 17-year-old, I’m actually an old 23-year-old man(ish thing) so the fact that there’s children as young as 15 contributing to this tune makes me feel both old and like my parents didn’t give me enough opportunities as a child. No Auskick, now this. C’mon mum.

Luckily for you, they’ve also released more songs that are good.

It'd be a good idea to download both of these from their unearthed page so in 4 years you can show your mates the 'date added' column in iTunes and then presumably profit off your musical ahead of the curviness.

[sbamusic]

Formed in Perth in August 2012, the musical duo made up of Naomi Robinson and Conor Barton are making waves in the Australian indie music  scene, even winning the Unearthed High competition this year!

As a determined 14 year old, Naomi at first struggled to find anyone to start a band with, so she put up flyers around her neighborhood and soon enough drummer Conor and her were jamming in her parents' basement. Jimi Hendrix, Primal Scream, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, T-Rex and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band are some of the groups that have influenced the guitar driven musical stylings of Mosquito Coast.

[lupa-j]

I don’t often find hip hip artists I like but Genesis is definitely my favourite of the other 4 triplejunearthed high finalists. I like when hip hop is intelligent like this - kinda starts to overlap with good slam poetry.

“Till then I keep pushing / the world on my lips / I refuse to believe this is fine as it gets”

and that verse at the start with all the ‘i’ rhymes is nuts