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Chris Familton, Journalist

Chris Familton

I'm a music journalist, publicist and musician. I’ve been writing professionally about music for the last 15 years, with my music blogs Doubtful Sounds and Post To Wire (alt-country/folk) and as a freelancer with The Music (Drum Media) since 2009, Rhythms magazine, FasterLouder and more.

I've been playing bass guitar in bands since the early ‘90s in New Zealand (Thorazine Shuffle) and Australia (The Finalists, Charlie Horse). I currently also work as a music publicist, with artists including Bluebottle Kiss, Halfway, Restless Leg, Alannah Russack. 

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Dawes - All Your Favorite Bands
"'Waiting For Your Call' generates the most genuine emotion, but too often Taylor Goldsmith’s lyrics tread clichéd waters navigating yacht rock."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Daughn Gibson - Carnation
"Gibson strips away the gothic Americana elements of his previous releases and replaces them with immersive electronic textures and dark pop-laced compositions."
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Album Review: Alison Ferrier - Be Here Now
"There’s an immediacy and presence to her emotionally rich songs of relationships good and bad."
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Album Review: Mark Lucas - Little Town Blues
"He steps out on his own with a collection of intimate and restrained songs, decorated with fiddle, banjo, piano and even tuba."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders, Alex Cameron
"An evening of absorbing and emotive post-modern art rock"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Peter Bibby, The Dandelion, Big Dingo
"Bibby comes across like a mix of Courtney Barnett, Gun Club’s Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Jack White with his unbridled and raw style"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: James Thomson - Cold Moon
"Thomson imbues its themes of affairs of the heart, both good and bad, the way a city can wear you down"
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Album Review: The Milk Carton Kids - Monterey
"Their calling card remains their dynamic acoustic guitar playing, their sublime near-telepathic vocal harmonies and their ability to conjure a yearning ache"
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Album Review: Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Loin Des Hommes
"The soundtrack works as a tension-filled, primarily instrumental collection of pieces using piano, violin, droning tones and some electronica"
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Twerps, The Garbage & The Flowers, Orion
"They are a band with strong sonic links to the Kiwi underground via their jangly, pastoral feel and the vocal approach of Frawley and Jules McFarlane"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: JW Linton - King Of The Jungle
"Linton’s pushes his voice from stark troubadour territory into swelling emotive howls"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Catherine Britt - Boneshaker
"Vocally she can sound sweet and twangy like a younger Dolly Parton or rougher-edged like her contemporary Kasey Chambers"
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