The crew at No Dice Paradise captured the futuresoul sounds of Guerre as they floated across the rooftops of Glebe and beyond. Here’s the awesome video… ‘spect. Guerre’s debut EP is out on Sydney’s Yes Please in June.
Guerre – River Hymnal from No Dice Paradise on Vimeo.
[Cue addictive EP. Begin gushing.] Tim Fitz is a solo music man from Sydney with a thing for the ephemeral pop song. Conjuring up a likeness to fellow city dweller Jono Boulet with his all-consuming percussive milieu, Fitz has more awareness of the space around him I feel.
Floating vocal melodies, delicate piano touch and a sense for the unusual fill these songs with delight, all in the right quantities too. L’esprit de Escalier is one of my picks, with dissonant flamenco chords and a balmy summers night haze – it’s a winner.
Name your price for his Infinite EP here (don’t put $0 then you’ll be cheating a great local talent!)
L’esprit de Escalier – Tim Fitz
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Sydney’s Mere Women have a hautin new song, these three sure make me nervous. Listen to their ominous burner Indians and tell me you wouldn’t do whatever it took to escape their haunting wrath!
Indians – Mere Women
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Melbourne’s Magic Silver White (aka Jojo Petrina and band) hold the love of the pretty pop ditty close to their hearts, combine that with their sense of otherworldliness and you get the latest offering from their debut record Over Under. Cornel Wilczek’s solo moniker Qua you may well be familiar with and it’s his guitar that agitates MSW’s sound to become something quite hypnotising.
MSW’s debut long player will be with us just in time for mid winter, July. In the meanwhile grab the song over at their Bandcamp.
Over Under – Magic Silver White
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Jack Ladder (Sydney’s Tim Rogers) has returned promising a cataclysmic followup to his 2008 record Love Is Gone. Slowly turning into this mysterious 80s incarnation of a teddy boy, Ladder’s music is becoming far more unsettling. He’s transformed that innate pastoral bluesman into something much more haunting and powerful.
Cold Feet sees Ladder take on his inner Ian Curtis, mixing it with Kirin J. Callinan’s undulating guitar drones and PVT drummer Laurence Pike’s 70s snare punches. It’s super evocative and the dark video clip has the right idea, apart from the horrendous acting from the gaunt model (Roger’s gf?).
Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders “COLD FEET” from Jack Ladder on Vimeo.
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Sydney’s Whyte Fang brings everything I love about the European brood front and centre. A self-proclaimed lovechild of The Knife/Depeche Mode, this local bedroom artist has a certain air of “Je ne sais quoi” . I love not knowing who this mysterious girl behind the music is. Unveil yourself! Maybe gift us with some more tribal-bruised pop songs first… Did I mention she used her iPhone to record the vocals and laptop to produce those Fever Ray-like beats?
Thy New Sound - Whyte Fang
That Sydney bunch Bon Chat Bon Rat, have a new single w/ remixes. Two of which come from blogger de jour Jarred Beeler (Life Aquatic) (here known as Marseilles) plus Sydney/Adelaide beatsmiths Collarbones with their own take on Blackbird.
The four track release is available for free over at Bon Chat Bon Rat’s Bandcamp.
Blackbird - Bon Chat Bon Rat (Marseilles remix)
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Blackbird - Bon Chat Bon Rat (Collarbones remix)
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Tim “Faux Pas” Shiels has another rad remix on offer. It’s half tropical half cosmic banger reworking of Melbourne troupe Hammocks and Honey’s song Toolz. It’s been hanging on the net for a while though, any excuse to post about Faux Pas is always taken by Only An Earthling.
What have you guys been up to over the past couple of months, we’ve seen a lot your side projects taking off like 48/4. How’s that been while working on the new Seekae record?
It’s been a busy last few months, we’ve each been working on solo stuff (Alex is Stuttah, George is Jensen Brewster and John is Peon) whilst doing the record but we’ve managed to make it work somehow. Certain ideas we’ve come up with individually ended up being used in ‘+DOME’ and anything that didnt quite make the cut eventually made its way into other projects.
The Sound Of Trees Falling On People was one of those records that a lot of people felt a big connection to, how do you guys manage to evoke so much feeling in your music like you do?
Spending as much time as we do with computers you can teach them how to croon the bras off ladies, but really alot of it is luck. Often people make tracks that noone connects to but they feel is full of soul and emotion, we were just lucky to get a good response.
What we’ve heard of +Dome so far, sounds like you guys have been taking in some hip hop and dubstep influences. There’s some darkness and grit creeping into your music. Is this true? Or am I a looney?
+DOME definitely steps into darker territory both aesthetically and chordally, but we feel it still maintains that original Seekae sound that TSOTFOP did. To be honest we listened to just as much Hip-Hop and Dubstep as we did for the previous album, but this time we tried to really focus on using the production techniques those genres encompass.
Gnor is the lastest offering from +Dome tell us about this song, what’s it all about?
George plays in a clarinet quartet with the rest of his family, so one night we decided to sample them and cut up the recording alongside Alex’s drums. Once we got a nice little loop going, we brought in some elements from older tracks we’d been working on for a while and everything slotted together nicely!
Thanks dudes!
Can’t wait for this record! The guys will be on tour through March launching the album.
FRIDAY 15th April – Woodland, Brisbane [tickets here]
SATURDAY 16th April – Manning Bar, Sydney [tickets here]
MONDAY 25th April – The Toff, Melbourne [tickets here] (Anzac day eve)
The Middle East have let rip another cut from their debut long player (now with title) I Want That You Are Always Happy out on Spunk! I shouldn’t say let rip but their first offering the oddly titled Jesus Came To My Birthday Party was what I considered a weak show from a band who promised so much with their debut EP Blood. The paper thin vocals and generic pop choruses had none of the rich arrangements of their initial work so it got me worried about their debut.
Black Death 1349 is a Fleet Foxey like hymnal with the vocals a hell of a lot more forward, less of the falsetto dreaminess of Recordings Of The Middle East, it’s a grim song about plague makes you wonder how dark the rest of the record will be?
Black Death 1349 - The Middle East
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