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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.
Holding Patterns
Earlier this decade Art Of Fighting frontman, Ollie Browne's, modus operandi began to emerge: a milky yawn of a vocal; wide, sparse brushes of instrumentation and a generous amount of haunting reverb. With AOF now on hiatus, Parallel Lions is Browne's new vehicle.
On first listening to Holding Patterns, comparisons are warranted - those three emblematic features remain the framework.
Dead Boomers
One of the best pick-up lines I've ever heard (disclaimer: also probably the worst), is 'Have you got spanners in your eyes? Cause you're sure tightening my nuts'. Yeah, gross. But it was in jest, and at least he was getting a little creative with it, rather than singing a Rob Thomas song AT you during drunken karaoke.
Harvest
When I'm not out fighting crime, I work at a bookstore. Every now and then this guy comes in and just sits there reading poetry. For hours. Yeah, you're thinking he's playing the Snag to sass some babes, but the guy actually knows his sh*t. He knows the turbulence of Rimbaud and Verlaine, he understands the Nerudas who incite riots posthumously.
Absolut Future
Who actually keeps a festival program for the whole festival? Personally, I've already lost two of the Sydney Design 09 Festival ones and three of the State Of Design guides and they haven't even started yet. Besides, if you don't spill wine on yours at the launch then you're not really our type of person.
Junior
Junior is essentially a union for young creatives, as explained in the site's appropriately-named ‘WTF?' section. It was started six months ago by a writer named Tait and his uni pal Ed. They're two young dudes Creative Advertising graduates. But instead of sitting around and bitching about how hard it is to find work in the creative sector, they've put together a site that's become an excellent resource for young creative people who're big on ideas, but low on employment.
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