Keyword results: Melbourne
Knog Lights
Melbourne based bicycle gear company Knog have a light in their range called the Bullfrog. It's just one in a range that includes Beetles, Gekkos, Boomers, Skinks and other, smaller Frogs. Some are high powered and say: "I will pierce through this black velvety night!", while others are a bit smaller and simply say "Excuse me sir/madam, I'm on my bike at the moment.
'In A While/Halve 7"', Beaches
Beaches are without a doubt, a guitar band. Their 2008 debut album conveyed their fondness for surf, psych and 70's Americana (think Crazy Horse) through a contemporised approach, a stylistic summation that added more recent guitar-rock developments like shoegaze and Sonic Youth-ism to the mix.
On this new 7", these influences have been streamlined into a propulsive and repetition-heavy sound, emphasising continuous momentum.
Kill Your Darlings, issue #2
Melbourne seems to be the primordial soup from which new literary journals in Australia spring forth. The latest is Kill Your Darlings, a quarterly publication showcasing commentary, interviews, new fiction and reviews. Having just completed my masters in creative writing, I look to these journals like they're the cool kids who might one day accept me as one of their own - maybe even go joyriding down Thunder Road with them, or dance at the malt shop.
Lost & Found Hotel Room
The last time you were in Melbourne you spent two nights on a friend's couch, three nights on a friend-of-a-friend's yoga mat and one night slumped over a sink somewhere. It was free, it was fun, but you now have a gammy hip and can't remember seeing anything except the front of a strobe light and the back of your eyelids.
Lakes, 'Solar Flecks'
Solar Flecks is possibly the most unified collection of pieces yet assembled by Sean Bailey. As Lakes, his music is relentlessly challenging, using analogue keyboards, tape recordings and weird percussion to make undeniably creative constructions.
First track 'Energy Garden' baits listeners with an intriguingly layered orchestration.
Houlette, 'Bless Bless'
Houlette is the sugar cube in your Stockholm Blend tea. Their French-pop, country-esque folk minimalism reminds you of better times, of simpler times when salt came iodised and men rode horses.
Bless Bless (which translates to ‘farewell' in Icelandic) is the band's debut album, following the successes of their precursor releases.
Eddy Current Supression Ring - 'Rush to Relax'
As soon as the first cut on Rush To Relax kicks in, it's unmistakeably Eddy Current Suppression Ring: manic vocals, a rhythm section busting with barely-contained urgency, and those prickly leads being wrenched out of a clamorous $200 guitar. Intelligent songwriting and a raw delivery that echoes early Australian punk.
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