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Call Super dropped two separate singles not too long ago this year - 'Illumina' in collaboration with Julia Holter and 'Sapling' with Eden Samara not too long ago this year - which somehow evaded my attention despite the names involved. I listened to Illumina out of understandable intrigue and I am sure that I liked it but lone singles can occasionally fall by the wayside and, regrettably, I forgot about its existence entirely. Perhaps I was not alone in this regard. Call Super quickly ... read more

It's a weird criticism, but personally I find Monae's voice is too 'good' to really bring the album home. The production - warm and sumptuous, with a heaping helping of Afrobeats and reggae - is exceptional, but calls for a robust, elastic vocalist. Monae, instead, brings power and pristine and eeeeeeever so slightly borders on cringe. For me, they just sound a tiny bit out of place, particularly when you hear the effortless cool of Grace Jones, or Amaarae, or even Sister Nancy in the ... read more

Poor Noah Baumbach, this is music that was absolutely made for the Meyerowitz Stories. Gorgeous, defiant, often life-affirming.

What is the viability of tech house in 2023? I would argue this is a pretty pertinent question facing DJ Life, the rising Naarm-based producer, DJ and all-around grooverider. In the Australian community, the fabled summers of 2021 and 2022 in the afterglow of the pandemic are commonly associated with that slinky, approachable genre, but where to from here? You can feel the zeitgeist shifting, as it so frequently does in electronic music scenes, and with it a resurgence of those ubiquitous ... read more