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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: Mazzy Star - Seasons Of Your Day
It’s a largely self-produced effort with some guest spots and it’s sometimes uplifting (In The Kingdom), often chilling (California), but always assured, as the duo always were, really.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: The Paradise Motel - Oh Boy
There’s a lot to like – just go and get it.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Bell Weather Department - Bell Weather Department
Musically, the Sydney five-piece have crafted an engaging bunch of indie-rock tracks with more rough-around-the-edges polish than most
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Kate Nash - Girl Talk
Not a deal breaker but sure doesn’t seal the deal either.
Features / Music
Hand In Your Badge
“They have known about us and our name for quite a while, so it’s annoying that it came up in the middle of us releasing an EP, after we got 1500 copies of the Cub Scouts Paradise EP."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Newsted - Heavy Metal Music
There are epic guitar solos and thumping kitwork galore, but hearing those familiar ball-busting bass lines is nostalgia at its best.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Travis - Where You Stand
2013 finds Fran Healy and co. with a mature outlook and a hark back to the sunny joyfulness reflected in these more purpose-driven 13 tracks
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Josh Pyke, Patrick James, Olympia
An easygoing and musically immaculate evening.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Barbarossa - Bloodlines
Gonzales’s influential less-is-more stamp is distinctly heard and felt (especially on The Load) and Mathe explores this inherited trait throughout Bloodlines.
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Album Review: The Butterfly Effect - Effected DVD
With the band set to carry without Boge, the warts’n’all documentary becomes compelling viewing.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Norma Jean - Wrongdoers
Musically diverse and tight as a dolphin’s butt, Norma Jean continue to deliver.
Features / Music
The Escapologist
"I think I’m past that point in my life where I’m embarrassed about the things that I feel or my vulnerabilities and weaknesses."