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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
Dustin Tebbutt
Dustin Tebbutt's New Album 'Home' Was Put Together In Places Anywhere But
"It's kind of the only thing I haven't really had over the course of the recording,"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Noire - Baby Blue
"Husky, reverb-drenched vocals and a blissed-out beach rock vibe reign."
Features / Music
100,000 SoundCloud Plays, Portfolios And A Cup Of Tea
"We put the song out and by the time I had finished my tea I think we'd had, like, 50 plays."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Amorphis - Under The Red Cloud
"There are very few misses in their two decades of largely hits."
Features / Music
Nick Martin Travels And Parties Differently A Decade On
"I've done those quote-unquote typical Australian things, but I want to go see quokkas."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Wilding - Molecules To Moons
"The Melbourne-via-UK singer-songwriter channels his Liverpudlian roots even more."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Guards Of May - Future Eyes
"Future Eyes lives up to hefty expectations, and on many fronts, exceeds them"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Oh Wonder - Oh Wonder
"Oh Wonder's gorgeous production and pop savvy make it a solid debut."
Features / Music
Laura Marling
'I Don't Know What The Fuck I'm Doing'
“It’s like the children of baby boomers are all throwing their hands up in the air, if they’ve got the time and privilege to do so.”
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Fratellis - Eyes Wide Tongue Tied
"Gone are the beer-spilling footy anthems of Chelsea Dagger."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Lowdown Hokum Orchestra - That's Showbiz
"Melbourne's hokum specialists pair burlesque sass and with a band of five that know their way around banjos, beats and fiddles."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Witchgrinder - Haunted
"There's little 'second album syndrome' to speak of here."