Reviews

Live Review: The Smith Street Band

"Frontman Wil Wagner showed his appreciation to Hobart and the band's island fans multiple times throughout the night."

Live Review: Camp Cope

"What remained a common denominator is the excellent lyricism that weaves each song together."

Live Review: Ryan Adams, Middle Kids

"Tonight's laconic, workmanlike performance feels slightly perfunctory at times."

Live Review: Sampha

"The audience became immediately engulfed by the orphaned artist's representation of grief and loneliness."

Live Review: Nocturnal Tapes can get you dancing with single 'Is It Too Late?'

If you're craving indie-dance, got Tame Impala blues and Miami Horror withdrawals - Nocturnal Tapes are the antidote with new single 'Is it Too Late?'

Photos by Giulia McGauran

Live Review: Cash Savage & The Last Drinks, Spike Fuck, Kate Alexander

"Savage's anguished howls are battered by drums and draped with elegiac filaments of guitar."

Live Review: Squidgeini's 'Alligator' clip is frankly straight up cool

Electric blue pool clams, synchronised dancing and friends on an excavator - well, it's all in there as is back Squidgenini with her clip for 'Alligator'

Live Review: Cash Savage & The Last Drinks, Mere Women, Jep & Dep

"There was a relaxed intensity that permeated the set."

Live Review: Dreamweavers Glass Diamonds debut their cosmic single release 'Lunar Dremes'

Perth-turned-Melbourners GLASS DIAMONDS have unveiled their debut single ‘Lunar Dremes’ after many moons of hiding in their synth cave.

Live Review: Donatachi and Gustine channel some serious pop on 'In Rotation'

Reviews / Album

Album Review: Saint Etienne - Home Counties

"Celebrating, deriding and re-daydreaming the home counties that surround London with typically kitsch and swinging panache."

Live Review: The Smith Street Band, Joyce Manor, Ceres, Allison Weiss

"Their easy banter, lyrical nous and simple set up combine to make for wild but still intimate live shows."

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