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Carley Hall, Journalist

Carley Hall

Carley Hall is a Gold Coast-based writer who loves spinning a good yarn. She’s worked in print news rooms for more than a decade and now juggles young family life with a busy career in research communication, promoting all types of science from the dire and necessary to the weird and wonderful.

When she’s not doing all of the above, she’s dancing around her living room trying to brainwash her kids into liking her taste in music or getting out to see some gigs. Carley likes the heavy stuff most, but if it’s got hooky melodies, clever lyrics or off-kilter beats nothing is off limits.

Reviews / Album
Album Review: Jarrow - 2003 Dream
"It's a neat but chaotic jumble of an album that oddly stacks up on the whole."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Bastille - Wild World
"The band is sometimes guilty of letting the album's cohesion fall by the wayside."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Pretty Littles - Soft Rock For The Anxious
"The Pretty Littles' latest will only serve to dig your shattered mind into a deeper pit."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Teeth & Tongue - Give Up On Your Health
"Totally upped the ante as far as bombastic, memorable 1980s nuances go."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Glass Animals - How To Be A Human Being
"They certainly push the indie pop-rock envelope."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Twelve Foot Ninja - Outlier
"The five-piece have upped the ante on the complexity and diversity of their previous release."
Features / Music
Dead Letter Circus On Helping To Raise Money For Sea Shepherd
"I think it's because of the lack of Big Day Out and Soundwave. It feels like alternative rock is actually more alternative at the moment."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Young The Giant - Home Of The Strange
"Their recent lean towards a more polished, electro sound flips the tender, warm[er] moments... a tad cold."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Blossoms - Blossoms
"It's just all a bit beige, bland and all the other boring B-words."
Features / Music
Put A Stop To The "Weird Cycle"
"A lot of people don't want hear about politics in their music any more than at the dinner table. But look, I think maybe with age you realise that a lot of things are really fucked up."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Hellions - Opera Oblivia
"An album drenched in drama, lyrically, musically and emotionally."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Splendour In The Grass 2016 Day Three
Courtney Barnett nails her "last ever" gig for 2016 & so much more.