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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: Tijuana Cartel - 24 Bit Guitar Orchestra
It’s a crazy, shambolic safari through the indo-pacific with trip hop.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Spiderbait, The Furrs, Galapogos
Their set is tight and is skewed towards their heavy stuff
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Millions - Max Relax
Some more of that old edge wouldn’t have gone astray, but their sound and romantic lyricism has been retained.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Shihad - FVEY
It could have easily benefited from a few rays of light to stab through the murk
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Slaves - Through Art We All Are Equals
After a while it sounds like a wall is being built with the same bricks.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Interrupters - The Interrupters
It’s the frontwoman’s biting calls to arms that are near addictive.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Anubis - Hitchhiking To Byzantium
"Despite the usual pedestrian segments that plague most prog releases, it's a fairly adept piece of production"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Jonathan Boulet - Gubba
"Boulet has kept a reasonably firm rein on what is clearly a creative mind with endless possibilities."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Wunder Wunder - Everything Infinite
"A perfect California-inspired summer soundtrack"
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Feed The Rhino - The Sorrow and the Sound
"Many different shades of rock, hardcore, melodic thrash and more."
Features / Music
Splendour's The Acid Already Working On Second Album
Their first record will drop later this week.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Algorithm - Octopus4
Moulds what could be unwieldy beasts into cohesive tracks with soundscapes and motifs that continually delight.