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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: Bleeding Knees Club - Fade The Hammer
"This is definitely not the same band it was."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Anna Calvi - Hunter
"Calvi has injected an even darker edge to her sharp alt-pop and created an album that is thoughtful, immersive and a pleasure for the ears."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Bloods - Feelings
"It's hard not to be pretty instantly smitten by lead vocalist MC's razor-sharp sass, buzzing guitars and a good dose of reverb."
Features / Music
'Napping' Really Is The Key To Regurgitator's Success
"Hiatus is too serious, and it's a bit of a technical term and we're not a technical band. So yeah, I think we were just taking a bit of a snooze."
Features / Music
Laura Jean On Further Study & Parental Critique
"I'm incredulous that I've devoted my life to something that is quite crazy..."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Body/Head - The Switch
"An adrift ship traversing vast, barren seas bereft of rhythm or motif to anchor it."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Milwaukee Banks - No Time
"Milwaukee Banks deftly restrain the energy behind their clipped beats and motifs to gently unravel an album that really gets under the skin."
Features / Music
'You Forget That It's A Process'
"When the Peking Duk song came out I was working in a juice store, so to do music full time and have that as my income is pretty awesome."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Laura Jean - Devotion
"Could very well be her best work yet."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Nicole Millar - Excuse Me
"Real anthems for womankind."
Reviews / Album
Album Review: Xavier Rudd - Storm Boy
"But for all the wrongs Rudd finds in our country, he also celebrates with tinny guitar plucks and lush instrumentation all the things that are right with it..."
Reviews / Live
Live Review: Cradle Of Filth, Lavidius
"It's all a bit of fun, really."