The Weeknd – Beauty Behind The Madness (Republic Records/XO)
In the video for ‘I Can’t Feel My Face’, the bonafide summer #banger from the Weeknd, Abel Tesfaye is set on fire after his performance in a discotheque. It’s a…
Living Vicariously Through the Aux Cord: 4 Simple Steps
It’s finally here: the day of your big party, and the monumental playlist is nearly complete. Or hey, maybe it’s someone else’s big party, and the perfect moment to show…
Royal Headache – High (Distant and Vague Recordings)
In 2009, I put out a call on social media asking what people’s favourite albums of that year were. A friend living on the East Coast, Matt Bellair, shot me…
Mac Demarco – Another One (Captured Tracks)
For all the ways Another One is a simple, polished little edible derived straight from countless artists before him, Mac Demarco’s whole thing as a popstar who’s the sum of…
Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing – Scrying in Infirmary Architecture (Muzai Records)
I was prepared to be disappointed on my first listen of Girls Pissing On Girls Pissing’s, Scrying in Infirmary Architecture. From the album’s two preceding singles ‘A Fraud Abroad’ and…
Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope)
I saw Kevin Parker the other day. It was a Thursday, he was drinking with his girlfriend at the Norfolk, doing his best to be remain anonymous in the mixed…
French Rockets – Arc (Independent)
Perth’s French Rockets have never been a band to embrace minimalism, and in keeping with this their latest album is heavily layered – seemingly held together by about 3 or…
Eduardo Cossio – The Work Of Days (Independent)
Perth’s own folk/jazz musician (and cutest man) Eduardo Cossio is back with his second solo EP, The Work Of Days. Consisting entirely of instrumentals, these tracks range from chilled out…
Muse – Drones (Warner Bros/Helium-3)
Everyone’s favourite space rockers are back, this time treading unchartered waters. Muse’s Drones is a concept album, in which a protagonist falls out of love and becomes a killing machine…
Mining Tax – Degenerational Report (Workplace Safety CDRs)
You might expect a band with such a specific ‘analogue synth meets economic mismanagement’ vibe to rely too much on gimmickry, but past the initial gag lies music which holds…