Category: Indie Rock
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Sidney – Cool Girl
Sidney is Australias answer to a Lennon Stella/Julia Michaels crossover, and she is back with another stunning display of vulnerability and style with her indie-pop single ‘Cool Girl’ Sidney delicately holds your overthinking and anxious hand in ‘Cool Girl’, professing her personal struggles with expectation and a yearn for belonging alongside the thumping indie pop…
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Katie Wighton – Narcissist
Katie Wighton is an award collecting song writer, and lyrical visionary of the Australian indie-rock scene, her star-studded collaborations having stretched far and wide across the globe. The All Our Exes Live In Texas vocalist and guitarist is holding nothing back with her latest cutting edge release ‘Narcissist’, an ear-worm of a release to soundtrack…
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FELONY. – Bag Of Youth
Coming off the back of a huge debut on the Triple J Unearthed-High Yearbook with her massive first release “Anything To Feel Anything”, Brissie writer FELONY. is coming into 2023 strong and bold with “Bag Of Youth”. Driven by anthemic synths and hard-hitting drums, ‘Bag of Youth’ packs a punch from start to finish. FELONY.’s…
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Jade Stanger – The Stranger That Wasn’t Bad
UK singer-songwriter Jade Stanger has released the perfect ‘taxi montage on the way to a love confession at the airport’ kind of introspective indie pop/tack track “The Stranger That Wasn’t Bad” There is such a clear drive in this song that feels energising and emotional, like a song that helps you release how you’re really…
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Window Shopping – One More Episode
Adelaide outfit Window Shopping are proving in 2 minutes and 51 seconds that we seldom experience anything unique. Their candid, aggressively Australian track “One More Episode” captures the devastating relatability of the defeated 20-something. Inspired by indie rock acts like Cheekface, Sidney Gish, and The Prettiots, Window Shopping have harnessed the kind of tongue-in-cheek lyricism…
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Georgia Hoareau – GIRL
Rising Bedroom-pop star Georgia Hoareau is immortalising her precious adolescence with a catalog of down-to-earth singles about teenage-hood and growing up, her latest addition being ‘GIRL’. The music mainstream is seeing an intense rise of vulnerable and empowering young female writers, and Georgia numbers among them with her open and honest approach to songwriting and…
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EP Spotlight – Sweet Giant – “Til You’re Blue”
Lockdown has taught us a lot about ourselves and afforded many the opportunity to see things from a new perspective. For the UK trio Sweet Giant, the halting of society and normality gave way to great clarity, and the musicians discovered what it meant to be authentic and self-sufficient. Let’s dive into the fruits of…
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MEMORY MOTEL – BREATHE IN BREATHE OUT
Psychedelic Sydney dream-pop outfit MEMORY MOTEL have just released their breathtaking new release ‘BREATHE IN BREATHE OUT’; a track that has you getting completely lost in a soundscape of swelling reverbs. Something that I really like about this track is the patience in structure, there isn’t this mad rush to get through each section, but…
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Album Spotlight – D’Addio
The self-titled debut album from multi-instrumentalist D’Addio is a wonderfully experimental sonic experience. The artist has spoken of her work declaring the collection as “just love songs”, however I’m inclined to read between the lines of each work, and allow the music to direct my understanding of the message behind each work, so lets dive…
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Album Spotlight – Austel – “Feathers”
London songwriter Austel has graced her audiences with the meditative new feature-length album ‘Feathers’; a raw collection of poetry and writing that will leave you feeling like you’ve discovered a part of yourself long lost in the turmoil of a tiresome existence. Lets dive straight into the Album, and I encourage you to listen along!…