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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: Keane - Strangeland
Strangeland sees things dropping off just a tad as the boys rein in the rough edges without straying too far from their radio-friendly balladry.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Children Of Bodom - Holiday At Lake Bodom (15 Years Of Wasted Youth)
COB live up to their prior release’s moniker: relentless and reckless forever.
Reviews / Live
Live Review: The Good Ship, Stormchasers, The Bon Scotts
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Wilding - Bird’s Bread
Wilding has used his players purposely which simply adds to its dignified charm.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Twin Atlantic Free
Gone from Free is the Scot swagger that had Blink-182, Smashing Pumpkins, and countrymen Biffy Clyro calling up for tour support, only to be replaced by unvarying structures and a delivery that gets old real quick.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Paloma Faith - Fall To Grace
The trouble with Fall To Grace is that it relies too heavily on a kind of branding; moments of surprise are too few and far between and the meeker but ultimately more genuine moments are straddled too much by a heavy-handed approach.
Reviews / Album
Album Review: King Cannons - The Brightest Light
Yeoward’s stamp is all over this record; his delivery is honest and forceful but capable of variation, spitting at times and defeated at others
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Album Review: Hunting Grounds - In Hindsight
In Hindsight suffers only slightly from an approach that lacks guidance but shows off the band’s growth and mature approach to songwriting since their reincarnation.
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Album Review: Zulu Winter Language
Although this ground is well-trodden, Zulu Winter have crafted a complex but cohesive album with swags of instantly likeable melodic gems and enough interesting lines to get under the skin and stay there
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Sneaky Sound System, Bleeding Knees Club, Oceanics - Surfers Paradise Beach