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Features / Music
The Music 2018 Writers' Poll: MJ O'Neill
Here's what The Music's writers rated in 2018...
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Internet - Hive Mind
"'Hive Mind' has a contemporary, lived-in sound that lends a rare intimacy to a traditionally more electronic, produced style of soul."
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Album Review: Kamasi Washington - Heaven And Earth
"While jazz fans will be delighted, curious listeners are also likely to find 'Heaven And Earth' to be richly rewarding."
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Album Review: Leon Vynehall - Nothing Is Still
"Beauty can be found in every facet of this record."
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Album Review: Onyx Collective - Lower East Suite Part Three
"With subsequent listens, appreciation inevitably deepens."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: 5 Seconds Of Summer - Youngblood
"It should be massive."
Features / Music
'Less About Lyrics... More About Hooks'
"When we started out, Julian was never going to be the vocalist."
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Album Review: The Presets - Hi Viz
"The Presets are not fucking around."
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Album Review: Alison Wonderland - Awake
"Close, but not quite."
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Album Review: Ben Frost - All That You Love Will Be Eviscerated
"Continues Frost's journey into more lively, angular forms of colossal sheets of noise."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Femina (Sydney Festival)
"... Regardless of how deep one waded into the trio's set, few would be capable of denying that something special visited Sydney in Femina."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Jlin, Howie Lee With Veeeky & Thoiid (Sydney Festival)
"Time grew elasticised. Had minutes passed? Or hours?"