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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 / Live
Live Review: Dan Kelly, Keep On Dancin's
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Martha Wainwright - Come Home To Mama
Come Home To Mama is a striking album.
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Album Review: Will & The People - Friends
Highlights like these that make this an album to please most everyone, even if it runs just a couple of tracks too many.
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Album Review: Lisa Mitchell - Bless This Mess
Overall, a brave step in a far more mature direction.
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Album Review: Gypsy & The Cat - The Late Blue
It’s not quite as fulfilling this time around.
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Album Review: Bertie Blackman - Pope Innocent X
All in all the album’s a cohesive and aurally fascinating listen.
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Album Review: Ben Harper - By My Side
Bonus new track Crazy Amazing finds Ben in fine form once again, and will surely dull those hunger pains lest the newbie takes a while to roll around.
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Album Review: Evermore - Follow The Sun
There are some truly nice, albeit, brief moments that hark back to the naïve, optimistic Evermore of old, but honestly, if you have to dig for these little moments of glory then it says it all, really.
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Album Review: Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
The Haunted Man arrives, offering textual, lyrical diversity and insight into Khan’s feminine crusade for this mysterious gent.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Black Keys, Royal Headache
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Album Review: Mark Knopfler - Privateering
These split personalities shouldn’t work, but with such an experienced deft hand and heritage like Knopfler’s, it does, making for a memorable listen from one of the business’ most respected treasures.
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Album Review: Redcoats - Redcoats
It’s the quieter moments that awake more interest; World’s Between and Mean Money allow them their epically embellished Doors moments.