MUSIC
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0Primitive Motion – House In The Wave
Once I lived with a person who played the piano. It would drift down the hall, and in and out of my dreams. House in the Wave has that same distant yet insistent tug, as though the Brisbane duo is playing in a room that, if you enter, will only be dust motes descending on diminuendos. Sourced via a series of improvised sessions, Sandra Selig ...
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0Laneway Festival (Callan Park)
Feminist punk movement, Riot Grrrl, began its “girls to the front” edict at gigs in the early 90s. At Laneway’s Sydney leg yesterday it seems as quaint as a quarter-of-a-century-old demand should. It’s not about girls; it’s about bad bitches now. Nasty women. Pussy power. About the 1800-Laneway hotline – its signage ubiquitous in its second year of operation – to report unsafe behaviour. About ...
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0Roger Waters (Qudos Bank Arena)
Roger Waters’ Us + Them concert toured North America for six months last year. Its centrepiece is a ruthless takedown of Donald Trump that casts the US president as the “big man, pig man” of Pink Floyd’s 1977 song ‘Pigs (Three Different Ones)’. So hostile are the depictions and brilliantly bitter is Waters’ performance of this song, particularly, you wonder: how did it feel last ...
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0Miss Blanks – Diary Of A Thotaholic
Brisbane rapper Miss Blanks (Sian Vandermuelen) is often compared to Nicki Minaj but Missy Elliot is more on point: fine, filthy and also very funny. At gigs, Vandermuelen’s trademark call for women, trans and non-binary folk to come to the front is an overdue example of how inclusivity in music scenes can be fun not hectoring. Such is her sass and charisma. Vandermuelen is all ...
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0Hypergiant – Father Sky
The metal bros will love this: my gauge for what constitutes great stoner rock is “how big does it make me feel?”. If a band’s got it, I’m super-sized into fuelled, filled-up vastness, even if just for a molten hot moment. Sydney band Hypergiant size me right up with their debut LP of space-slash-stoner metal and its “we gave it all” quality. When an aspect ...
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0Machine Translations – Oh
Machine Translations is singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Greg Walker, and I’ve used up my ration of the word “underrated” on him. Two decades of only occasional albums still add up to a pretty extraordinary back catalogue of nine LPs. Good luck tracking them down, though. Walker wanted Oh to be “lean and mean”, but his stripped-back is far more layered-up than the next guy. Doom ...
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0Raven – The night is dark, the night is silent, the night is bright, the night is loud
Radiating out from his core instrument – a cello – Raven (Peter Hollo) journeys to meridian points wide and deep in this epic 60-minute album. In addition to his long-running “postfolkrocktronica” program on Sydney’s FBi Radio, Hollo is a fixture in Sydney’s neo-classical and jazz scenes guesting with Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance) and pianist Sophie Hutchings. He plays in experimental jazz band Tangents and string quartet FourPlay. ...
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0Full Flower Moon Band – Chinatown
On discovering Chinatown had an accompanying film (called Chinatown) and an EP from 2014 (also called Chinatown and released as five video clips), I went down the Full Flower Moon Band YouTube rabbit hole. The AV package comes care of creator, singer and guitarist, Kate “Babyshakes” Dillon, who’s teamed up with Gabriella Cohen in the band. Dillon told the website Hhhhappy that Chinatown is a future where “how you spend ...
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0Music You Missed: Oct, Nov, Dec – 2017
Last year my 13-year-old nephews went from kids who liked music to full-blown teenage obsessives. Eminem came first and then a landslide of Logic, Travis Scott, Migos, Post Malone, Lil Pump, 21 Savage, Gucci Mane and Playboi Carti. Their taste shrunk in breadth, but deepened in intensity. “The twins are into really mopey hip-hop,” I told a friend. “E-mop?” he said. I was sad they ...
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0HTMLflowers – Chrome Halo
Could music’s last taboo be illness and disability? On this blinding debut LP, 27-year-old Melbourne artist Grant Gronewold lights the topic up and holds the fiery ruins high amid a hybrid of trap, R&B and shuddering bass, bookended by Boards of Canada-esque synthesiser. Gronewold has cystic fibrosis and his life expectancy is 35 – but he’s outlived by 26 years the prognosis he was given growing ...
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