Author results: Mark Gomes
Joker
Bedroom to club production in the UK continues to evolve apace, stepping the future with refinement and fast results. Minted tracks pass about widely and are DJed long before they're pressed - if ever - making for ingenuity and competitiveness on behalf of young producers, and quick mince of stifling money issues.
Beaches
A paean to freedom and knowing its truth, Beaches' debut is a powerful, sex-driven record smacking of Stooges greatness. Edgeless and heavy, freely oscillating through song forms, and everything done with never-ending feel; Beaches are classic musicians' musicians - light on nothing stupid and heavy on the rest.
Vivian Girls
In addition to sharing the name of one of Melbourne's finest bygone groups, Brooklyn's Vivian Girls sound Australian in other Chapter Music / best indie senses. The trio's head-first, shambling delivery couches a classic handling of melody reminiscent of QLD greats, Small World Experience, and there's a joy of fuzz and bubblegum sentiment reminiscent of Adelaide's Hit the Jackpot and Lindsey Low Hand.
St Helens
WHAT
ST HELENS
WHERE
CLUB 77, 77 WILLIAM ST, KINGS CROSS
WHEN
THUR OCT 2, 8PM
HOW MUCH
$10
St Helens have songs that'll tear you up in both the misty-eyed and torn-to-shreds senses. Led by tough romantic, Jarrod Quarell - of Melbourne's best, now-defunct junk anthem outfit, New Season - this group numbers Ian Wadley and Spider Vomit's Hannah Brooks in its ranks, but most importantly plays a blinding set of Royal Trux-infused, balls-to-the-wall rock.
Event: Bands
Stimulus: A
Squarepusher, Just A Souvenir
Conceived as a dream concert performed by five ultra-talented, trans-dimensional musicians, this new issue from veteran UK sound-setter, Squarepusher, is full-on epiphanic, funky fresh shit. Resurrecting the direction of his classic 1998 album, MUSIC IS ROTTED ONE NOTE, JUST A SOUVENIR sees Tom Jenkinson back in live-playing territory - transcending notions of him as a bygone drill'n'bass artist via prodigious performances more aligned with Lightning Bolt or Aprodite's Child than the 'braindance' sound of old scene compadre, Aphex Twin.
Like Pearly Clouds, The Sun Blindness
While many new 'psych' proclaimed acts go a path of diet dread and mind-split affectation - little further than the recent, forced drug sound of Brian Jonestown Massacre or first-listen covers of 'Sister Ray' with delay pedals - locals The Sun Blindness are tripping some truly illuminating, positive territory.
Cloth Ear Music
Online mail order service Cloth Ear Music is a boon for fans of lo-fi psychedelia, drone experimentation and handmade recordings. Operated anonymously from Sydney with orders taken via email only, the site is a mainline for local and overseas releases of the most ethereal, under-the-radar kind; limited edition LPs, 7s, CDRs and tapes of Noise-fallout otherwise unavailable in Australia.
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