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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.

Features / Music
Spacey Jane's ‘Wild & Overwhelming’ Rise To Success
“There were a lot of things that kind of went horribly wrong."
Features / Interviews
Example: 'I Ended Up With A Brisbane-produced, UK-centric Album'
“We're still kind of struggling to let Australia know not only that I live there but I pretty much consider myself Australian,”
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Everything Everything - 'Raw Data Feel'
Is 'Raw Data Feel' a standout in the EE catalogue?
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Jake Bugg - Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
"This fifth album is really hard not to fall for."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Nothing But Thieves - Moral Panic
"It feels like the boys have taken a moment to breathe, refocus and redirect."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: DMA'S - The Glow
"They still sound like the same band mucking around in makeshift loungeroom studios despite stretching their creative boundaries."
Features / Music
'I Don’t Want To Practise Every Night, Fuck That': The Chats Aren't Messing With Their Sound
It’s easy to write off a band like The Chats as one-hit wonders. But singer Eamon Sandwith tells Carley Hall those hits somehow keep on coming, so audiences best strap themselves in.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Kingswood - Juveniles
"'Juveniles' feels like a wet blanket pegged to a Hills Hoist."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Circa Waves - Sad Happy
"'Sad Happy' paints Circa Waves in an even more lacklustre light."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: King Krule - Man Alive!
"'Man Alive!' dials up the cynicism."
News / Music
'I Think Karl's A Fan': The Chats Frontman Spills On That 'Today' Show Appearance
"And we got a picture with him, which I'll probably give to mum - she'll love it."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Hayley Mary - The Piss, The Perfume
"[A]n assured and largely rewarding move."