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• Scott & Charlene’s Wedding: ‘There’s No Metaphors’

  Wednesday, May 22 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  Blue-collar slacker? Jangle ambassador? Leader of the new Australian underground? Amid the buzzy lead-up to a second album and with a suddenly global profile, JEREMY STORY CARTER parses Scott & Charlene’s Wedding with self-deprecating Melbourne-to-NYC transplant Craig Dermody. We’ve never met, but Craig Dermody welcomes me from the Curtin Bandroom’s stage like an old friend, interr…

• Track By Track: Loomer

  Monday, May 20 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  Ahead of a vinyl reissue with new cover art, singer-guitarist-keyboardist BREA STANBRIDGE and drummer LEE PARKER of Loomer revisit the defunct Brisbane quartet’s only album, 2010’s ‘Ceiling’. Members of Loomer now play in Spite House, Eastlink, Per Purpose, Loose Grip and more. ‘Ceiling’ Brea: The lyrical content came from the aftermath of a wild night. I was lying on my bed and my…

• New Noise: t:dy t:wns, Devotional, Drunk Hands, Bowl Cut

  Thursday, May 16 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  This week’s roundup of Soundcloud offerings swing from unpolished solo musings to an atmospheric three-piece and a unique citywide collective. – “What do you do if you’ve got a song but you haven’t got a voice, or you’ve got a voice but you haven’t got a song?” asks Peter Joseph Head in the presser for his synth-pop collective t:dy t:wns. In his case, he teamed up with vocalists Evely…

• Studio Diary: Teenage Mothers

  Wednesday, May 15 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  RAPH BROUS offers a well-mannered (mostly) account of his infamous band recording their debut LP at Birdland Studios with Jim Sclavunos (The Bad Seeds, Grinderman). Usually, I hate recording sessions. Playing gigs is fun (except at dance festivals where kids in singlets want you to be The Wombats). Recording sessions are often tedious ordeals of setting up drums and microphones, of end…

• Track By Track: The Stevens

  Tuesday, May 14 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  Clocking in at just 13 minutes, The Stevens’ miraculous self-titled debut EP has been re-released by Chapter. All its filthy secrets are revealed below, thanks to guitarist-singers ALEX MACFARLANE and TRAVIS MACDONALD plus “someone called Steven who represents all Stevens past present and future.” ‘Alone’ Travis: This song is about people who are proud of being left alone, so much …

• New Noise: Alex Cameron, Wheat Fields, Tangled Star, North Arm

  Thursday, May 9 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  Drift between Sydney, Perth and the Blue Mountains in this week’s roundup of Soundcloud offerings. – As previously reported, Seekae’s Alex Cameron is now cultivating a solo career for himself. The first fruit was ‘Gone South’, with a video steeped in glacial unease from photographer Mclean Stephenson. Now there’s ‘She’s Mine’, a song in which the dapper-looking Cameron implores his su…

• Super Wild Horses: ‘We Just Plugged In And Started Playing’

  Wednesday, May 8 2013|by Anthony Carew

  

  Launching their second album nationally, Hayley McKee of Super Wild Horses tells ANTHONY CAREW about the Melbourne duo’s humble origins, love of warehouse-style recording spaces and continuing surprise at how often gender comes up in Australian interviews. “Every single interview so far has opened with ‘What was it like playing with Foo Fighters?’” sighs Hayley McKee, in a lament for h…

• Cellular Bits #1: I’lls, Dro Carey, Nakagin, Cassius Select

  Tuesday, May 7 2013|by Lawson Fletcher

  

  In the first of a new semi-regular column, LAWSON FLETCHER rounds up the latest Bandcamp, Soundcloud and YouTube streams from the fringes of local electronic music. I’lls ‘Plans Only Drawn’ (single, Yes Please) After self-releasing the criminally underrated Thread EP in 2011, Melbourne’s I’lls (pronounced ‘isles’, thanks guys) have been snapped up by the ever-in-tune Sydney label Yes…

• Track By Track: Danger Beach

  Monday, May 6 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  LACHLAN THOMAS’s second album as Danger Beach spans midnight instrumentals and sporadic vocals, with as many nods to bedroom lo-fi as to vintage film soundtracks. ‘Sioux’ This is the first song I recorded after releasing Milky Way in 2010, so I unimaginatively placed it as the first track. Tim Guthrie from Dream Damage made a great video out of a Greyhound bus film from the ’50s. I…

• New Noise: Denim Owl, Summing, Okey Szoke, Hypersleep

  Thursday, May 2 2013|by Mess+Noise

  

  Electronics flourish on their own as well as mingle with the human voice in this week’s roundup of Soundcloud offerings. – Recorded in a warehouse back in the innocent days of 2011, ‘Blank Face’ is the new single from inaugural M+N Lunchbox performer Denim Owl, a.k.a. former Aleks & The Ramps member Janita Foley. Produced and co-arranged by The Ramps’ Alex Badham, who also shot an…

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