Apathy - Hear
HEAR is the enema your iTunes needs. Bringing you the most thought-provoking and up-to-date music reviews this side of Lester Bangs, HEAR sifts through the ever growing mountain of press releases and promos to only feature albums, EPs, LPs and mixes that we want to, not that we have to. Also, we try and make things make sense in 200 words or less so that you can just listen to the music.
Brian Jonestown Massacre, 'Who Killed Sgt. Pepper?'
"I'm not for sale. I'm fucking Love, do you understand what I'm saying? Like, the Beatles were for sale. I give it away." - Anton Newcombe, DiG!
Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? is not an Anton Newcombe ego jibe at the Beatles' classic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and nor is it an ode.
Wind Waker, 'Wind Waker'
The Zelda references have been flowing thick and fast since the genesis of young super-talented and ultra-motivated Perth young ones Wind Waker. Indeed, there's still something to be said for this band's dedication to their conceptual motifs. The cover of their album features an implement that controls the wind.
Beach House, 'Teen Dream'
Come January 23, 2010 the world will change. Just a little bit. Not too much. But those who know why will cherish the day. Australia will see the physical release of an album that is currently streets ahead in the reckoning (mine, at least) for best indie release of 2010. Teen Dream by Beach House.
The Almighty Defenders
Supergroups are funny - in theory they should be brains-free all out awesome machine. Taking the best bits of other bands should automatically make one big badder-than-ass combo. However sometimes it just sounds like some sort-of warped science zombie beast dying slowly.
Almighty Defenders are the fun kind of supergroup like too unholy halves coming together Black Lips + The King Khan & BBQ Show = finger lickin' good times.
Nowhere Forever, Love of Diagrams
Love of Diagrams' third album gives more away of the band personally than we've heard before at the same time as burying their new, intimate sleights in virtuosic geyser-blasts of instrumental anaesthetics. This most beloved of Melbourne groups speak memories of cornerstone rock-reflective feelings - euphoric meltdown, blurred recognition, bottled emotions bursting as melody and time-warping, repetitive rhythms - of being literally 'Nowhere Forever'; caught in a mirrored room of tremolo and scourging self-knowing effacement; close as possible to wall-of-sound heaven.
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