Why isn't Sweet and Low on this record???

I really wanted to like the debut Peach PRC record, but I feel like over time, her contempararies in the Australian indie pop scene. Artists like Aleksiah, Darcie Haven and Lyric I feel like have just ended up creating more compelling EPs sonically in the past year. I think her signature sound with her heavy autotuned has been turned down on this record in an attempt to make this record come across as more vulnerable (and also show off she's ... read more

I think with a tracklist this tight, a song as awkward as Beck n Call can do a lot to drag down the experience. Overall a very pretty album which I want to dissect more, there are just some decisions here and there which confuse me like in ine track where the string orchestra straight up overpowers the chorus, or whatever the heck ttoh is doing on Beck n Call. Tracks like the title track are bloody incredible listens though.

I think tragically, this album coming out so close to Courtney Barnett's new record has kind of highlighted a lot of the flaws in this record even more. While I can see what Anna has tried to do on this record, I think that the production is severely stunting most of this album's run. Heavy compression, adding distortion to vocals and other attempted techniques to make the vocals sound more intimate and personal instead kind of distract from the folk country instrumentals and cause ... read more

I think the now America based Australian folk artist Courtney Barnett is an artist who is constantly facing the shadow of her earliest work, songs like Avant Gardener, Depreston, Elevator Operator and others are Australian canon at this point, and while follow up records gave us tracks like Nameless Faceless, she's never quite been able to truly replicate that success since. The weird thing is, I kind of think Creature of Habit is her best work. Where her third solo record Things Take Time ... read more

This is less a review and more me realising that I just can no longer relate to the wider music industry and the average music listener due to the lack of reception this album and others have recieved. This is going to be extremely incoherent.

I have spent the past week with this record meeting it on its level. Wallsocket was a pivotal record for me, in a similar way to how Smile was a difficult album to swallow because of just how foundational Nurture was for me, despite me still loving Smile ... read more

I ain't listening to a Charlie Puth record but how did he get HIKARU FUCKING UTADA ON THIS THIS

I don't know if problems were just pushed to the side and not spoken on or we have actually socially backslided so much in the past few years or what, but there's something about the moment where Maz directs the question "would you have killed me if you could" to an ex on Don't Cry Too Long that hits a little too real, even for a record as steeped in themes of violence against women, reclaiming power and sisterhood as this record is.

Meanjin Brisbane band WAAX's ... read more

JesseMelancholy's new EP is a vulnerable, cathartic collection of tracks that feels like it knows how to create these soundscaoes that can just breathe across the 6 track run. Like, no shit I like this when Nurture by Porter Robinson is one of my biggest comfort albums.

Me, an idiot, a fucking fool, the whole time "huh, that sounds strangely like Tim from Cub Sport I wonder why. Probably overthinking it".

Made of two members of the band Cub Sport, 2charm has been getting a lot of buzz in the come up to this debut album off the back of their track Boyfriend. Realistically, this whole album feels like the sound Cub Sport have been attempting to aim for ever since they dropped Like Nirvana, with Jesus at the Gay Bar really showing the groundwork for ... read more

MAY-A is an artist I constantly feel on the cusp of enjoying, but never truly fully getting into. With this album rollout having primarily been centred around an Olivia Rodrigo type of modern pop punk sound with a combination of lesbian anthems and a narrative about getting back at a former manager who wronged her, as displayed in the music videos for both Claws and Catching Up 2 U. But with the album rollout being primarily in a heavier sound, the quieter moments felt like they were just kind ... read more

Keli Holiday, Mr. Hyde if you prefer, my man. I've happily defended Dancing2, I'd be willing to fight off the conservative dipshits that flood that Triple J centric indie rock market, Ecstacy is actually a pretty alright song, but my guy, what is this. You have been in the music industry too long to be picking out synths that sound this ass or mixing stuff to sound this awful.

Adam Hyde, one half of Peking Duk, has been trying to get his Keli Holiday aide project off the ground for ... read more

Yes sir please more bagpipe metal sir I will give you my vegemite any day sir

Like... it's better than RIFF... but it's still just feeling tired. Tracks like Pissing in the Breeze feel like the epitomy of trying to recapture an old magic that isn't quite working anymore, like Wolfmother thinking that their 20th anniversary tour of their self-titled album needs 5 more solos in every song that consist of playing the guitar riff over and over again.
That's not to say there aren't good moments here, Warped is an emotional track about funerals and ... read more

I want to start this review off by saying I think this record contains the first song which I would genuinely call a bloody good song from The Kid Laroi ( I am a Stay denier, it's a Weeknd After Hours ripoff at best). In between all the toothless Drake and Justin Timberlake inspiration is the song THE MOMENT, a sentimental collab with British artist Clara La Sam feels like the most genuinely entertaining a Kid Laroi song has been without him putting on his nice guy persona. It actually ... read more

Fantano has 48 hours before Yuno Miles drops the diss track of the century

This album made me cry, and yet it is dragged down by a first half that is probably some of Paul Kelly's least interesting work. The entire buzz about this album was "Paul Kelly made a sequel to the beloved How to Make Gravy"... and that song is such a nothing. The original song was a melancholy piece about a man's time in jail after his anger got the best of him and him trying to be a better person and occasionally failing, the song had so much emotion to it only for its ... read more

I WANT TO LIKE YOU SO BADLY PLEASE GOD WHY DO ALL THE FEATURES FEEL LIKE THEY'RE SCARED TO SCARE THE HOES?!
WHY IS THE BEST NON-QUAD/UNDERSCORES TRACK THE ONE WITH FUCKING SEWERSLVT

Overall, Belair Lip Bombs' sophomore album has given the band a more distinct sound than their original sound, with a blend of your typical Australian mid-2010s indie rock ala Middle Kids and blending it with smatterings of golden era Fleetwood Mac and 2005 Kings of Leon. Really solid release overall even if singles Hey You and Back of my Hand are the only songs that truly feel like tracks you could... well... single out. Which deapite the band being one of my favourite local live acts, is ... read more

This was one of my most anticipated smaller releases of the year ad I'm so disappointed by the end product. I'm probably overrating this even with this score solely because they are still smaller on the Aus circuit.

This album essentially has one of two problems, the slower songs, of which the first 4 tracks of the record are especially bad about, often feel like they are repeating the same chords and arpeggios and strumming patterns on the instrumetal sie of thing. Meanwhile once ... read more

Mr Impala, "Just One Guy" as your friends call you, I'm so happy for you being a happy father and all but this album ain't it.
I'll be totally real, I didn't want to listen to this album at all. This album is almost an hour long and have two tracks over 7 minutes long and there was no sign of a song that actually had any songs of progression to them. I didn't listen to Dracula before this record and that song is good, and Afterthought is okay but they still ... read more