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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: Christopher Owens - Lysandre
There is a sense of him getting this particular set of songs out of his system before something more substantial but even as a stopgap this is a brave exercise in sensitive and creative song craft.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Spencer P. Jones & The Nothing Butts - Spencer P. Jones & The Nothing Butts
"There are strains of classic songwriters like Cohen, Young and Dylan echoing across the album but Jones’ scorched earth guitar tones and battered voice ground the songs in a raw and earthy place that works to strip them of any scholarly pretension."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Glorious - Sweetwater
The Glorious might not entirely live up to their name but they’ve created a very good record nonetheless.
Features / Music
Writer's Poll - Chris Familton
Neil Young, Father John Misty and Suzy Connolly won Chris Familton over in 2012.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Joe Pug, Little Bastard, Patrick James
Features / Music
A New Flight Path
“I hope there are some surprises! I think so as it’s the next progression for us with new ideas we haven’t tried before, but it still sounds like us.”
Features / Music
Dark End Of The Street
"The concept was the seedier side of the late ‘60s and that shift in western culture. It’s a fascinating era. I realised I’d been interested in the pop culture around that for years, so it made sense."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Henry Wagons & The Unwelcome Company, Achoo! Bless You, Fanny Lumsden
Features / Music
A New Flight Plan
“I hope there are some surprises! I think so as it’s the next progression for us with new ideas we haven’t tried before but it still sounds like us.”
Reviews / Live
Charlie Horse, pic by Angela Padovan
Live Review: Charlie Horse, The City Lights, Rushing Dolls
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Melodie Nelson - To The Dollhouse
This is a more mature and assured set of songs than her very good debut which finds Nelson revealing a genuine ability for writing this type of music in an authentic and utterly entrancing manner.
Features / Music
Charlie Horse
Riding High
"The new stuff is really getting more towards the widescreen music that Springsteen did on Darkness On The Edge Of Town."
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