The A-Z Of Albums To Get Yourself Around In 2017

11 January 2017 | 12:18 pm | Staff Writer

This year's looking good already

We're nearly two weeks into 2017 now and, we have to say, things haven't gotten off to too bad a start, all things considered.

After all, the world's still turning, coffee is still readily available, and we've got a jam-packed 12 months of new music goodness to look forward to this year.

This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it's a pretty wide-ranging rundown nonetheless of the full-lengths on which we're keen that are scheduled or rumoured to hit physical and digital shelves during this calendar to keep your ears happy, your hips busy and your wallet nice and lean.

Honestly, who wants to sit on a big, chunky, uncomfortable wallet? Nobody, that's who. Better to do some good in the world and feed some hungry artists. Spend that excess cash, if you have any, on records. Records such as (in alphabetical order)…

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Bliss N Eso — Off The Grid

(Illusive/mushroom)

Seasoned Australian rappers Bliss N Eso are looking to come back in from the cold after four years between drinks, having spent the past couple of years navigating a bit of a low period, for a couple of reasons — though admittedly offset by several high points — in the wake of their 2013 full-length, Circus In The Sky.

Off The Grid thus marks their first new full-length record in four years, and their sixth overall, with a release date scheduled for 10 March. With new single Dopamine in tow, the trio will be setting off for an intimate tour through Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane from mid-February, so there'll be a good chance to get acquainted with the material in the flesh before the album drops just a few weeks later. You can start quenching your thirst now though:

A Breach Of Silence — Secrets

(Eclipse Records)

Hard-working Brissy metalcore outfit A Breach Of Silence made the news recently when they featured on the soundtrack for Spanish-made heavy metal-themed video game Metal Tales: Fury Of The Guitar Gods.

But, well beyond their novelty appearances, the eagle-eyed and tasteful among you would have seen this name popping up at venues all over the shop over the past few years both as a headline act and reliable support. Indeed, five years on from their debut album, Dead Or Alive, A Breach Of Silence continue the work laid down in their earlier years that has served to garner them the kind of dedicated following and reputation they possess now.

For Secrets — due for release on 24 February — the band once again conscripted old collaborator and legend-in-his-own-right Fredrik Nordstrom (Bring Me The Horizon, In Flames, Arch Enemy), and had it mixed by Henrik Udd at Studio Fredman. So, at the very least, you know it'll sound pretty dang good.

charli xcx — tba

(Atlantic)

British pop heroine Charli XCX hasn't released a full-length since 2014's warmly received second LP Sucker but, like a lot of her contemporaries on this list who've taken a few years between releases, she's not been totally absent in its wake. After a hot minute figuratively atop the world, touring internationally as a headline and festival act, she launched a new label for experimental pop artists, Vroom Vroom Recordings, and released her second EP, the aptly titled Vroom Vroom, through the company last year.

She soon followed that up, in late October, with most recent single After The Afterparty, featuring Lil Yachty, which she recently told Rolling Stone is about "half representative" of the overall ride we're in for on her impending third album. We're intrigued on the basis alone that Charli XCX says that she "didn't feel I had anything to prove any more" in making this album, also promising the sort of record that she "would want to hear at a club".

"It was very indulgent in that sense because I just wanted to make an album that I could get fucked up to," she told Rolling Stone. "It's the soundtrack to my nights."

Sounds good to us. The record's set to land sometime in May.

Circa Waves — Different Creatures

(Dew Process/Universal)

Two years on from their gleefully received debut full-length, Young Chasers, UK indie-rock darlings Circa Waves are set to return in 2017 with another serve of ear-friendly jingles in Different Creatures on 10 March.

According to frontman Kieran Shudall, the band approached their second album with an emboldened sense of self-confidence after "I saw the way that people connected with it", he told DIY mag. "I really started to believe in myself; I'm a different person now — I feel like I've got a fire in my belly with this record," he said.

Well, count us in, then.

Dirty Projectors — TBA

(Domino)

Beloved Brooklyn experimental-pop/indie-rock/whatever troupe Dirty Projectors already have a considerable body of work to their name — seven albums put out over the space of nine years — but as we now approach the fifth year since we last heard a new full-length, we're definitely getting a bit keen to hear what's been cooking in the time since 2012's Swing Lo Magellan.

In fact, the first tastes of what's to come have already landed, with the band putting out the wonderfully warped Little Bubble only a few days ago, in the wake of September's initial teaser Keep Your Name. There still seems to be a degree of mystery surrounding their release — title and ultimate release date included — but we're certainly excited to see what comes out of this camp in the next little while regardless.

Dune Rats — The Kids Will Know It's Bullshit

(Ratbag/Warner)

Well, it's Dune Rats. It's kind of hard not to be intrigued about this one.

In fairness, the Brisbane band have pretty much cemented their place as chiefs atop the pile of free-spirited slacker-rock bands that endure in alt circles around the nation. Partly, that's due their admittedly catchy songs, but it's also down to the band being an evergreen (heh) source of madcap irreverence and just-slapdash-enough rebellion, which helps them unfailingly speak deeply to any sun-kissed stoners who happen to be within earshot.

As it has turned out, that's not exactly a small crowd, with Dunies routinely packing out the venues in which they play. Time to stop fighting it and get in line already: album's out 3 February.

Eminem - TBA

(Shady/Interscope)

Even at 44 years old — 21 years on from his debut album, Infinite, and 18 since his breakthrough full-length The Slim Shady LP — Marshall "Eminem" Mathers commands a fanatical legion of supporters who hang on his every word and, without any sense of irony, refer to the man as if he were legitimate royalty (sometimes even deity).

He's also maintained a relatively steady output of material over his career, so, a little over three years on since his last record, 2013's eighth overall effort, The Marshall Mathers LP 2, the faithful are getting a little antsy for a new full-length from God-Emperor Em. (Although, to be fair, they previously weathered a five-year gap between 2004's Encore and 2009's Relapse, so they've been through worse before.)

The good news is that they're unlikely to have too long to wait until that fabled fresh album manifests — Mathers did confirm back in October last year that he's "working on an album", and various reports online seem to indicate it's all on track for release at some stage this year.

Plus, that late-2016 confirmation from the man himself also yielded nearly-eight-minute-long new track Campaign Speech, which ought to give your ears and brain something to mull over for the next little while at least.

Gorillaz — TBA

(Parlophone)

Everyone's pretty excited about the upcoming fifth album from Gorillaz, the virtual band who broke through with their debut single, Clint Eastwood, from their self-titled debut record back in 2001, and have remained mythologically beloved ever since.

Despite having never quite recaptured the kind of attention they commanded in the wake of that incendiary first effort, Gorillaz — really the joint effort of musician Damon Albarn and animator Jamie Hewlett — have proven an enduring outfit for a couple of reasons: firstly, they make very good, sometimes even great, alt-pop music, so they've got that going for them; and, secondly, the entire exercise — the interactive, immersive, immense scope of all aspects of the project, from songs to music videos to websites to standalone cartoons and every other little trick and treat the pair of creators have used over the years — is so ambitious and, in some ways, iconoclastic as to be impossible to not be excited about.

And we're in the home stretch now — after several months of gradual bits and pieces from the studio, Gorillaz' web presence was broadly updated in September and October last year, with a bunch of new images and other content added across the band's various channels. Shit is happening now.

Green Buzzard — Space Man Rodeo EP

(I OH YOU/mushroom)

Back in 2015, before they'd even played a show, Sydney band Green Buzzard were making critics-pick lists and earning all sorts of press as the buzz band du jour.

They followed up the early hype with their debut EP, Easy Queezy Squeezy, and spent 2016 properly earning the accolades that had been heaped upon them during their earliest days. They returned to the limelight in late November with recent single Do You Ever Glow?, and made it perfectly obvious that the additional development time has done nothing but good things for this band.

We're particularly excited to see what they've pulled together for their next studio outing in new EP Space Man Rodeo, due for release in the near future.

Holly Throsby — After A Time

(Spunk)

Holly Throsby is a goddamned national treasure and, even if more than five years have passed since her last piece of gold, 2011 LP Team, first graced our ears, the intervening time has done nothing to diminish the brightness she brings to the national musical landscape.

In her defense, it's not like she's been sitting around twiddling her thumbs; Throsby spent time in 2011 and 2012 touring with Sally Seltmann and Sarah Blasko as Seeker Lover Keeper, as well as contributing to a series of Bob Dylan tribute shows with contemporaries such as Patience Hodgson, Josh Pyke, Kevin Mitchell and Eskimo Joe's Kav Temperley. She even put out her first novel, Goodwood, in September last year through Allen & Unwin.

Busy though that schedule has been, it's certainly left a big old Holly-shaped hole in our hearts, so it's comforting to hear that we'll be getting a new full-length, After A Time, from the acclaimed singer-songwriter, on 17 February. She's released one track, What Do You Say? (featuring old touring buddy Mark Kozelek, of Sun Kil Moon), so far. Give it a listen below and hope for a speedy month.

Holy Holy — Paint

(Wonderlick/Sony)

Has it really already been over a year since Holy Holy released When The Storms Would Come? Time flies scary-fast sometimes. We swear it was, like, all of a couple of months ago that these dudes were dominating the discourse as newly elevated indie darlings of the day, but no — their acclaimed debut album actually dropped back in July of 2015.

That cleared the way for them to kick off last year as touring partners to popular troubadour Vance Joy before picking up a decent amount of funding as one of the Australia Council's grant recipients in May last year. The band thus set off for a considerable national tour in conjunction with their recent single Darwinism, though don't think all this activity has made them too big for their boots (or too good for Gumtree) at any stage.

They're all set to follow up their well-loved debut with the impending Paint, set to land on 24 February.

Jay Z — tba

(roc-a-fella)

Now that the likelihood of seeing Watch The Throne 2 has all but evaporated following his public falling out with Kanye West last year (although they're apparently working it out), Jay Z could be set to break the solo album drought that set in following the release of his 2013 #1 LP Magna Carta Holy Grail in 2017.

Again, this is not an artist that's just been casually killing time between releases — Jay Z is the central force behind the variably successful Tidal venture, and has stakes in plenty of other business ventures to keep his days filled and busy. And, with a back catalogue spanning 21 years (dating back to 1996's Reasonable Doubt) and 12 solo studio albums (plus four collab LPs and a wealth of guest spots and other projects), it's not like he's really at the stage of his career where he's under any duress or expectation to keep pumping out records. 

But Jay Z has always, first and foremost, been a musician, and given the success being enjoyed by his peerless wife, Beyonce, at the moment, it's hard to imagine that he wouldn't have been feeling the itch to strike out again with a new release in recent months. That's certainly the picture being painted by several loose-lipped sources close to the rapper, at any rate. This one's more wishful thinking than guarantee, but it feels a solid bet to materialise at some point this year. 

Jon Hopkins — TBA

(Domino)

UK electronic mainstay Jon Hopkins alluded to a forthcoming album in a Twitter exchange back in June and, although few further details have since emerged, we're still champing at the bit to hear what he's got up his sleeve.

In case you missed it at the time, 2013's Immunity, Hopkins' fourth studio album, was a practically flawless piece of wide-ranging electronica that set critics and fans abuzz, even scoring a nomination for that year's Mercury Prize for best album. He has since followed it with an EP — 2014's Asleep Versions — but the impending full-length is our first proper new batch of Hopkins material in a while, hence the genuine enthusiasm for the next chapter in his long and winding history.

With two decades behind him in the business and a solo catalogue that dates back to 2001's opening gambit Opalescent, Hopkins has spent the ensuing time positioning himself as one of the British electronic community's most sought-after and influential creators. Along with his own studio pursuits, he provided the soundtrack to both 2010 film Monsters and 2013's How I Live Now, and released a mixtape, Late Night Tales, in March 2015.

Kasabian — TBA

(Sony)

With newly announced Australian shows to their name and a strong likelihood for the upper echelons of the line-up at this year's Glastonbury Festival, Kasabian are concretely on the path towards releasing their eagerly awaited sixth studio full-length this year.

The band's first LP since 2014's 48:13, the as-yet-untitled sixth album has been bubbling away for a while; in June last year, after a couple of months of growing speculation and questions about their progress, the band revealed five song titles in an interview with Q Magazine. Prior to that, in May, they had previewed one of the new tracks, Put Your Life On It, at their live shows. One of the songs confirmed to Q Magazine, titled Comeback Kid, leaked soon after (in September), as well as being revealed to feature on the soundtrack for the 2017 annual update for the FIFA video-game franchise.

However, neither track is yet to see official release online, meaning that you'll have to track them down through your own machinations — or just hold out a little longer for a release date and title on this guy. Shouldn't be long now.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Flying Microtonal Banana

(Flightless/Remote Control)

This will obviously be the first in a 52-part album series to be released weekly over the next year, with each member of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard picking a particular instrument they've never played before and then writing a full-length's worth of songs about it in order to create an entirely new listening experience as they construct works using hitherto unexplored sounds and set-ups in keeping with the band's established creative and professional ethic.

Nah, not really, but we would totally believe it at this stage.

In actuality, Flying Microtonal Banana is actually the first of four planned records for the year, and sits as an "exploration into microtonal tuning", which is not something anyone but the band themselves and nearby music nerds will understand or care about, other than the fact that the word "microtonal" basically explains that you'll likely pick up a bunch of sweet Indian, Arabic and other non-Western musical hallmarks in the tunes. The technique was exemplified in recent track Nuclear Fusion; basically, a microtone is a smaller interval than a semitone, the standard Western "minimal" space between notes, so it leads to all kinds of fun and messed-up possibilities. Find out more on 24 February.

Kingswood — After Hours, close to dawn

(Dew Process)

Melbourne rockers Kingswood seem like one of those bands that never quite leave the spotlight, so you'd never really know that it's actually going on three years now since they blew us all away with their widely acclaimed debut full-length, Microscopic Wars.

It's been a busy three years, too, as the band have clocked up some serious kilometres on the road in the wake of their first album. Actually, not just on the road — in the air, too, as alongside their countless shows Kingswood found time to touch down in Nashville, Tennessee, to record their keenly awaited sophomore full-length, After Hours, Close To Dawn.

The album is due to hit stores on 3 March, though we've been given an early taster in the form of recent single Creepin. If you haven't wrapped your ears around that tasty little slice yet, do so below and refamiliarise yourself with all the reasons this band became a big deal in the first place.

Lorde — TBA

(Republic Records)

Not 100% a lock, but one would imagine the NZ prodigy's return to festival line-ups and a general uptick in the number of times her name has started to appear in various articles around the web would both indicate at the 20-year-old singer-songwriter is up to something.

Four years on from her world-beating debut LP, 2013's Pure Heroine, Lorde stands with the perfect opportunity to keep on building upon the considerable power she started amassing a few years ago — or reinvent herself completely.

In some ways, she's experimented with both options already in her post-album works, which to date include curation of the soundtrack for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pt. 1 in 2014 and her guest spot on Disclosure's acclaimed 2015 single Magnets. She followed both of those efforts as a co-writer on Broods' Heartlines, which landed mid-last year — so no matter what she turns up with, it's safe to say we'll all willingly go along for the ride.

the Menzingers — After The Party

(Epitaph/Warner)

Pennsylvanian punk outfit The Menzingers have been a consistent source of reliable, energetic tunes for almost bang on a decade now — their debut full-length, A Lesson In The Abuse Of Information Technology, was released in 2007 — and that distinction is set to continue with the impending arrival of their fifth studio full-length, After The Party.

Scheduled to land just around the corner on 3 February, After The Party is the first full-length release for the band since 2014's Rented World, the album that took them around the States and beyond (i.e. to Europe and even all the way Down Under). They've even slotted in a return visit to Australia — as a headline act — in February, cementing themselves as an always-welcome live act in our neck of the woods by way of their madcap, mirthful gigs.

With a few more years of experience under their belts since their previous album (and excellent recent single Lookers buoying the pre-buzz to boot), the band are set to arguably release a career-defining record on their fifth turn at bat, and we can't wait to experience it in full.

Ocean Grove — The Rhapsody Tapes

(UNFD)

On a solidly upwards trajectory following their signing to UNFD in April last year, Melbourne heavy-hitters Ocean Grove have actually been generating increasing underground buzz since their debut EP Outsider landed back in 2013.

Even then, that release emerged from the minds of a band who had already spent the previous three years growing together creatively, so The Rhapsody Tapes — due for release on 3 February — marks the culmination of more than five years' experience as a band, and brings with it a great deal of expectant excitement.

The album arrives on the heels of precedent singles Lights On Kind Of Lover and These Boys Light Fires, the latter of which arrived in December in conjunction with the news that the band had signed a management deal with Unified and booking deals with Village Sounds and US company United Talent Agency. As we said at the time, this year is pretty much Ocean Grove's to do with what they will — and with an impending spot at this weekend's Unify Gathering up their sleeves, they're well and truly set to hit the ground running.

Polish Club — TBA

(Universal)

Another local buzz band who exploded right in front of us in the past couple of years and have been biding their time since, Polish Club are all set to properly capitalise on the hype that grew around them in 2015, when we and everyone else were rendered doe-eyed and stupefied by their self-titled debut EP.

Following a storm of raved-about live shows, including at that year's BIGSOUND festival in Brisbane and a raft of other outings, Polish Club spent 2016 on the road and in the studio, and we were treated to some fresh flavours in November in the form of recent track Beat Up.

The boys knocked over their debut headline tour of the east coast in the immediate wake of the single, playing to some packed out spaces along the way and leaving their fans well and truly primed for the arrival of their first full-length at some point this year.

The Preatures — TBA

(Universal)

Stalwart Australian outfit The Preatures weathered the loss of co-founder, guitarist and vocalist Gideon Bensen in 2016, bouncing back from the line-up change in August, with their first new single following the departure coming in the form of the enjoyable, infectious I Know A Girl.

Is it as immediately impactful as 2013's Is This How You Feel?, from the EP of the same name (also included — twice — on their 2014 debut album, Blue Planet Eyes)? Well, no. Probably not. But it's a solid indication of where the band is headed in a post-Gideon world and certainly leaves us optimistic about hearing it set amid a broader album context.

When that context will arrive, and what form it will ultimately take, is a little bit up in the air still, but we're confident that we'll see the follow-up to Blue Planet Eyes in the next few months, and perhaps the band will truly be able to get out from underneath their own shadow in a few different senses.

Real Estate — TBA

(Domino)

Dreamlike indie-pop darlings Real Estate have three albums to their name, starting with 2009's seminal self-titled debut and culminating with 2014's broadly acclaimed full-length, Atlas. It's an accomplished and decorated oeuvre, especially for a relatively young band, and if they never released another thing, it'd be OK because of the gifts they've already given us.

So it's really just a bonus, then, that the group have their fourth album "tentatively scheduled" for release this year. It'll be their first new work since the departure of long-time member Matthew Mondanile — he announced he was leaving back in May last year in order to properly focus on his psych-pop project Ducktails, for whom he had put out a new record, St Catherine, in 2015 — so it certainly packs boundless potential as far as presenting the band with an opportunity to delve deep and really try some things they've never done before as they adjust and adapt to their rejigged roster.

Ruby Boots — TBA

(Universal)

Perth-bred, Nashville-based singer-songwriter Ruby Boots is happily in her element in her adopted hometown in Tennessee, where the streets are imbued with the very soul of country music and it's impossible to even get a haircut on the main street without passing someone with a guitar slung over their shoulder.

The relocation has ostensibly been for the musician — also known as Bex Chilcott — to work on her eagerly awaited second album, but it's brought with it plenty of incidental awesomeness along the way, including chance encounters with Bill Murray and Kevin Bacon. She signed a publishing deal with ABC Music back in March last year, going on to pick up Best Country Act at November's WAMAwards in Perth.

The string of successes maintains the fire lit beneath the songstress around her debut album, Solitude (2015), which itself arrived following a long upwards trajectory through her early career and extended-play releases. With her additional experience and accolades attached — not to mention the base creative boost that surely comes from being set amid a city such as Nashville — Ruby Boots' sophomore effort could be one of the year's finest under-the-radar releases. It's on schedule for a mid-year arrival; don't let it pass you by.

Ryan Adams — Prisoner

(Paxam Records/EMI)

The 16th album from the US alt-rock veteran since the year 2000, Prisoner arrives as the first new full-length from the wildly prolific Ryan Adams since his ambitious reinterpretation of Taylor Swift's 1989 back in 2015, and first new original full-length since 2014's self-titled effort.

The 12-track album is due to drop just after Valentine's Day, on 17 February, and sports among its playlist recently previewed cuts Do You Still Love Me? and To Be Without You, both of which first graced our ears back in December and delivered starkly different perspectives of what the album might entail.

The new songs find Adams in as evocative a form as ever, the former in particular straddling distinct sonic lines that showcase the man's equal penchant for discord and delicacy, while the latter stands tall as a more traditional, easily-listenable alt-country-folk-rock ditty of the kind on which Adams has built a reputation. Both are enjoyable for wholly different reasons, though, and, in just over a month, we'll get to hear how they sit in an album context.

Thundamentals — Everyone We Know

(High Depth/Universal)

Jot us down in the "keen" column for this one — Blue Mountains heroes Thundamentals last graced us with a studio album in 2014, when they put out vociferously received third album So We Can Remember, but they're all set to rocket back into the spotlight on the back of their new label, High Depth, and their upcoming fourth full-length, Everyone We Know.

Due for release on High Depth on 10 February, there's not too much longer to go before the new work will be yours to own. Thankfully, the band have been generous about keeping us stocked up with freshness to help tide their fans over.

In fact, we've already had three singles from the upcoming LP land in our laps over the past year or so, with Late Nights, Never Say Never and Think About It, featuring Peta & The Wolves, all doing their part to sufficiently whip us up into something of an excited frenzy for early February. C'mon, already!

Vera Blue — TBA

(Universal)

It's difficult not to be hyped for Vera Blue's upcoming album release. As one of those acts who rocketed from obscurity to relative renown in a seemingly short time span — not hurt, but certainly not driven, by her 2013 appearance on The Voice, when she was still known as Celia Pavey — the polished purveyor of delicate folksy delights aplenty has already well and truly proven her musical chops, even at a young age.

Still, as second EP Fingertips showed upon its release in May last year (complemented by well-received singles Hold and Settle) — not to mention her high-profile guest spot on Illy's sensational #2 cut Papercuts — Vera Blue is far more than a one-trick performer. And, honestly, it would also be exceptionally foolhardy to dismiss her as such at this advent. Presuming she avoids the (questionable) curse of the sophomore slump, this has every reason to stand as one of the year's strongest local efforts when it does rear its head.

the Waifs — Ironbark

(Jarrah Records)

Was it not only yesterday that The Waifs were trumpeting their return to the limelight with new album Beautiful You? You what? It was back in 2015?! Holy Moses, where did that time go?

Of course, the veteran Aussie folk-rockers are probably more aware than usual of the march of time, having just announced a commemorative 25th-anniversary tour, so it shouldn't be too surprising that the wait for their next album — the impending Ironbark — has been half as long as the space between their sixth and seventh full-lengths as they feel the reignited drive to craft and release their creative impulses.

This is a band clearly reinvigorated and repurposed, yet reflective, and it's encouraging to see an outfit even as seasoned as The Waifs not content to simply ride the coattails of nostalgia — use them to their advantage, sure, but not ride them — even as they approach a milestone such as their quarter-century anniversary.

And now we're almost back at the beginning of the cycle — come 3 March, we'll find out how The Waifs have navigated the challenges and charms of composing their eighth studio full-length when Ironbark makes its debut.

The xx — I See You

(Young Turks)

The last album on our list alphabetically is also one of the first you'll be able to get your hands on this year, so that works out nicely.

Preceded by recent singles On Hold and Say Something Loving, the third album from the UK trio of Jamie Smith, Oliver Sim and Romy Madley-Croft is an imminent, and emotional, proposition, due for release this Friday, 13 January.

It wouldn't be outrageous to say that their fans are just a bit eager to hear the new 10-track LP, The xx's first full-length release since 2012's well-received sophomore effort, Coexist. Although it's been a little while, we can forgive the wait between records, given the individual members' busy schedules.

Most notably, Smith has been sinking plenty of time and effort into his solo project, Jamie xx, which has brought him out to our shores a few times in the intervening years between group works. In interviews given over the past couple of years, Smith has indicated that I See You will be a considerable departure from its predecessors; at any rate, it'll certainly be interesting to see how the onward march of time has more broadly impacted the trio's dynamics since last we heard from them.


Honourable Mentions

As we said, the above list isn't even close to exhaustive, so it's worth mentioning that we're also looking forward to that are scheduled or rumoured upcoming releases this year from: Arcade Fire, Asgeir, Bernard Fanning, Carb On Carb, Cloud Control, The Creases, Dan Sultan, Depeche Mode, Flaming Lips, Fleetwood Mac, HAIM, Husky, Japandroids, LCD Soundsystem, London Grammar, Major Lazer, MigosNine Inch Nails, Oslow, PVT, Queens Of The Stone Age, sleepmakeswaves, Slum Sociable, Spit Syndicate, Tigertown, Tired Lion, Tool, Wolf Alice.