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KING'S JUSTICE
King's Justice, the Perth indie pop four-piece, formed in 2011 originally as a duo after lead vocalist Jack Young and drummer Matt Ryder first played a show together following the collapse of Jack’s high school band. After adding two further members they recorded their debut EP 'To Your Arms I’d Run' which was released back in March; a well-crafted four-track work, encompassing elements of indie-pop, jazz and even a touch of neo-folk. 'Darling' is their latest smoothly gilded single, with Young's vocal stirringly at the helm.
THE KINGDOM
The Kingdom is the rather grandiose name adopted by Sydney-based 16-year-old writer/producer JMJM, and 'Everything You Fight For' is his first entreé. Utilising club beats and dual boy-girl vocals with art school classmate, Odette, it’s a fairly impressive first start. Already being called a "sensation", keep the nsme on your radar.
FOREIGN/NATIONAL
Melbourne five-piece garage rockers Foreign/National come decked with sunshiney pop hooks and shimmery guitar chords, and there's plenty to be had on their just released debut EP. First coming to attention late last year with the snappy single 'Paris', comparisons to Tame Impala have ensued. The five-track release opens with ‘Hostage Taker’, perhaps the most reminiscent of Kevin Parker et al, but they still manage to sound fresh and innovative, and a hot prospect to travel afield with a universal sound.
HAMJAM
'Love' is the first single from their debut four-track EP out on October 10 by Perth duo Hamjam. Plenty of off-kilter crunchy guitars, fuzzy hiss and an amalgam of psych, garage and punk.
GORDI
New Australian songstress, 21-year-old singer-songwriter Gordi brings a Carole King-like nostalgia to her songwriting craft, found partly in the emotional spectrum that her tracks span – from wistful aching to spirited celebration, her lyrical journeys take us places in our memories and imaginations. The latest single from this Sydney based artist, 'Nothing’s As It Seems', is ripe on hooky melody and distinctive musical texture - an upbeat and playfully earnest track tamed by a hushed, wintery contour.
JACK CARTY
Four years since his debut EP, New South Wales' Jack Carty releases his latest full-length album, 'Esk'. Two full length albums - 2011’s 'One Thousand Origami Birds' and 2012’s 'Break Your Own Heart', and a collaborative EP with Sydney-based Casual Psychotic titled 'The Predictable Crisis Of Modern Life', showed a darker and more experimental side to Carty’s writing away from his indie-folk roots. The first single from the album was ‘The Joneses’, which was released back in June, was co-written with friend Josh Pyke.
DAVEY LANE
Guitarist with You Am I, Melbourne-based Davey Lane has just rrcenti released the single, 'Komarov', taken from his debut album, 'Atonally Young' which came out on October 3. Following his debut EP 'The Good Borne Of Bad Tymes' which received rave reviews, and featured the single 'You’re The Cops, I’m The Crime', both which served to highlight Davey’s psych-electro sound, stepping away from the guitar driven retro-rock of his previous band The Pictures. 'Komarov' is a brash slice of heavy psych/glam-pop with a blistering solo highlighting Davey’s guitar work, it’s a step up again from the previous EP’s work. Komarov is based on the true story of the doomed spaceflight of Vladimir Komarov in 1967.
COBWEBBS
Cobwebbs is the Brisbane four-piece full of psych drones who have just released new album 'World Wide Webbs'. The unhinged garage
outfit have released the eight-track offering via freshly spun label Sonic Masala Records, and follows 2013's 'Feel Reel'. This new album takes the psychedelic tones as its predecessor, but has been laced with abrasive distortion. Their rough-edge sound had them recently pegged as a "sub-tropical Iceage".
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