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…
Everything Everything- Get to Heaven (Sony RCA)
Of all the possible indie-rock bands to tackle the thematic content of a world gone wrong, British four piece Everything Everything would have to be one of the most well-equipped.…
SpaceManAntics – Katzenjammer/Don’t Be The Last (Independent)
When you are meant to review an single by a band called SpaceManAntics, its hard to take their music seriously. Good thing that this small band out of Freo seem…
Carrie and Lowell – Sufjan Stevens (Asthmatic Kitty)
The softly spoken Sufjan Stevens from Michigan marks a return to his indie folk roots in Carrie and Lowell. Accompanied by plucked acoustic melodies, now more acoustic than electric, Steven’s…
Strangers to Ourselves – Modest Mouse (Epic)
Its been eight long years since Modest Mouse released an album and arguably another three since they made anything worthwhile, but while the drought is over in a physical sense,…
Jenny Death (The Powers that B pt. 2) – Death Grips (Third Worlds/Harvest)
It’s hard to separate Jenny Death from the hype it’s been receiving for the last year. 2014 saw the release of Niggas on the Moon, ostensibly the first half of…
The Popularist Manifesto (Party for Your Right to Fight)
So you want to change the world. In the words of Joe Strummer, “You gotta give it all you got, or forget it,” and he’d know: their protest song, ‘Rock…
Dream Rimmy – Dream Rimmy EP (Independent)
The term “up and coming” has been prone to overuse in the Perth music scene, but this is a well-founded depiction of Dream Rimmy in terms of the musical quality…
Matilda Bay Musings: March
‘What ‘Cha Gonna Do For Me’ by Chaka Khan (1981) Ned Doheny was a white session musician from the ‘70s who came from money and played in the band, Average…