EP - Hear
HEAR is the enema your iTunes needs. Bringing you the most thought-provoking and up-to-date music reviews this side of Lester Bangs, HEAR sifts through the ever growing mountain of press releases and promos to only feature albums, EPs, LPs and mixes that we want to, not that we have to. Also, we try and make things make sense in 200 words or less so that you can just listen to the music.
Dick Diver, 'Arks Up'
Dick Diver sound like underground 80s Australia. Arks Up recalls the best parts of the Hunters & Collectors discography: the songs gather around raw, trudging bass lines that sound best filling the pungent, carpeted rooms of Brunswick pubs.
With clever, multi-member pop songwriting, The Go-Betweens also come to mind: the accents not dropped but accentuated; the guitar work sharp, tonal, puncturing.
Wind Waker, 'Wind Waker'
The Zelda references have been flowing thick and fast since the genesis of young super-talented and ultra-motivated Perth young ones Wind Waker. Indeed, there's still something to be said for this band's dedication to their conceptual motifs. The cover of their album features an implement that controls the wind.
RIP Jay Reatard
"I tend to think it's that I'm out of time, I'm racing against time. A lot of it's the fear of death too. I know I'm not going to be able to make records when I'm dead. I'm not dead right now so I want to make records, it's that simple really."
If punk wasn't already dead, then it definitely is now.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, 'Higher Than the Stars' EP
Let's just set the record straight. No matter what might have been said about the Pains sounding like the Vivian Girls... it was all lies. They don't. At all. Teaches all of you bloggers out there to not smoke that Mexican brick weed and then listen to records. You never know what's in that shit.
Lion Island interview
The house sits towards the end of a quiet street, 10-minutes by train to the north west of central Brisbane. From the front, you can hear a few squawks and crashes - guitar fuzz, symbol hits - but the scene is mostly unassuming and boringly suburban.
It's not until I reach the rear of the house that I realise I have the right place.
Witch Hats, 'Solarium Down the Causeway'
Witch Hats are undeniably one of Australia's most intense rock bands, a newer and slightly more urgent version of that band that Nick Cave was in, in the early 90's (what's their name again?). They've just released a new EP, Solarium Down the Causeway, which just made me think of the 6km walk I used to take to the shops in Dortmund, a solarium and porn store the only bastions of visible civilization on the road to glory (German baked goods being the glory).
DZ Ruined My Life
If DZ were a religion it would be concerned only with house parties, tequila and 'club banger' tunes. This EP would be the bible of said religion and its philosophy would be rammed down your throat at 2000 decibels and 150 km/hour.
DZ Ruined My Life is the suitably named debut EP from the Brisbane duo.
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