Author results: Josh Gardiner
Beat Pyramid, These New Puritans
This record is a jigsaw. A Rubick's cube. As soon as you enter this musical labyrinth you're lost in the shadows. Caught up in a running stream of repeating refrains and echoing hooks as the record circles in on itself like a snake eating its own tail (Dear, infinity symbol).
But really, who wants to keep tabs on the real world when such an escape is on offer.
Promises Promises
This new record from one of New Zealand's most riotous acts has a definite whiff of maturation about it. Once upon a time, you see, these Dunedin boys (that's deep, deep south people - think Nom*D and Flying Nun Records) would fling brawling one and half-minute noise bombs in a relatively scattershot fashion.
Atticus Finch
The lovable crew behind the boutique wine store Black Hearts & Sparrows Wine Purveyors on Punt Road, Windsor, have been doing the wine game proud for years, sating the most demanding of palates.
Now, at the vanguard of Lygon Street’s increasingly gentrified lower stretch, they’re not only upgrading a spanking new shop, they’ve also revamped its neighbouring, former goth-rock den into the top notch bar, Atticus Finch.
Good Bad Not Evil
Atlanta, Georgia might be famous to most as the southern fried incubator of hip hop innovators Outkast, but that’s all about to change.
The newest and dirtiest stars to come out swinging from this talent lodestone, Black Lips, have certainly been skulking around the underground for ages. But with this, their fifth effort, the caterwauling cacophonists have finally delivered the slingshot full of scuzzy garage rock to get the wider music scene’s mouths gaping.
The Live Artex
The irrepressible convention stranglers Damn Arms have long been rubbing shoulders with the highest echelon of post-punk-new-wave glitterati like Test Icicles (RIP), Klaxons and Forward Russia. And so they should. Ever since the Melbourne foursome rose from the ashes of the defunct act Snap! Crakk! their dedication to an upwards slanting musical trajectory has been relentless.
Joe's Shoe Store
We all know how starved Northcote has been of a decent bar proper, the Darebinshire crew have long craved a good stool to call home, that ain't of the pub variety.
Thank the high heavens then for these adept new cobblers. With a name that draws to mind Hoxton, London's similarly hip Dream Bags, Jaguar Shoes, thisclass lodestone (located next to the iconic Pizza Mein Leibe) has charm and talent to boot.
Joe's Shoe Store
We all know how starved Northcote has been of a decent bar proper, the Darebinshire crew have long craved a good stool to call home, that ain't of the pub variety.
Thank the high heavens then for these adept new cobblers. With a name that draws to mind Hoxton, London's similarly hip Dream Bags, Jaguar Shoes, thisclass lodestone (located next to the iconic Pizza Mein Leibe) has charm and talent to boot.
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