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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: Vessel Born - Stateless
"The six track wonder pulls back the curtains with one hell of an opener in Sleeping Giants."
Features / Music
Why Majical Cloudz Wanted To Make Optimistic, Active Music For Their Fans
"I can let the music just do what it's supposed to be doing."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Whitaker - I Am An Animal
"Without doubt, the trump card of the humble catalogue of EPs to date."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Boston Manor - Saudade
"The UK five-piece have been kept busy since their 2013 debut and a more mature, confident sound has crept in as a result."
Features / Music
The Selecter
Pauline Black On Rude Girls And Young People
"It's like punk; punk is an attitude, it's not a style of music or what you wear or those sort of things, it's just an attitude."
Features / Music
When You Play Acoustic There's Nowhere To Hide
"I reckon it's still like 80 per cent of people come and watch me play because of Gomez."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Asdasfr Bawd - Underpass
"A light hand is the key here and it's this that will no doubt serve the young talent well."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Polish Club - Polish Club
"Polish Club come out all guns blazing on their debut."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Joanna Newsom - Divers
"She nails the holistic sense of an album more than ever before."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Nothing But Thieves - Nothing But Thieves
"Those high-wire vocals mesmerise from start to finish."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Go Set - Rolling Sound
"There are few who pull off Celtic punk, but these have guys nailed it from the start and continue to on their latest."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: TesseracT - Polaris
"Throughout all is their penchant for constant time changes and arrhythmia."