Muscles
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Muscles
Manhood
Tuesday, Jul 10|by Shaun Prescott
Once the life of the party, Muscles feels abridged and sanitised on his long-awaited second album, writes SHAUN PRESCOTT. While the nation’s gurning festival patrons eagerly embraced Muscles’ 2007 debut, its songs were equally suited to nursing mouth ulcers the next morning. And therein once lay t…
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Muscles Briefly Teases His ‘Manhood’
Friday, June 8 2012 at 11:00 PM
Muscles has dropped what his label calls “a jaw-dropping, body-rocking, heart-stopping” mixtape to tease his first album in five years. It’s a quickie by mixtape standards, though: this testament to Muscles’ Manhood lasts just 14 minutes. While its advertised effects on one’s anatomy are questionabl…
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Muscles To Finally Reveal His Manhood
Wednesday, April 4 2012 at 12:00 AM
“The album’s 90 percent done.” So said Muscles of second album Manhood in an infamous M+N interview with Ben Lee in 2009. Now we can finally reveal it’s 100 percent done. Described as a “prelude” to debut album Guns Babes Lemonade (2007), Manhood will be out through Modular – the label he tried…
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Ben Lee On Muscles: ‘He’s Unique’
Wednesday, November 16 2011 at 02:00 AM
Ben Lee has broken his silence about an infamous 2009 M+N interview with Muscles, during which the electro-pop oddball vented his spleen about his record label Modular, the state of the industry and the “boring” MGMT. (That being said, is he really “breaking silence” if no one’s ever asked him?) Bu…
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Listen: Muscles Remixes Kylie
Saturday, June 11 2011 at 02:00 AM
Muscles’ royal fever continues abated. Following an ode to Princess Beatrice’s pretzel-shaped headpiece (‘Princess Beatrice and her Royal Hat’)’, the electro oddity/human headline has taken another stab at the monarchy, remixing Australia’s own princess of pop Kylie. Muscles’ “scorching” club remix…
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Listen: Muscles’ Royal Tribute
Tuesday, May 17 2011 at 12:00 AM
Electro odd-bod Muscles is still struck down with a bout of royal fever, and the only cure it seems is a new song. Offered as a free download via Soundcloud, ‘Princess Beatrice and her Royal Hat’ is dedicated to the pretzel-like headpiece worn by Beatrice – the daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah F…
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