Best new tracks Down Under #6

With the vibrant indie music scene in Australia and New Zealand constantly outshining much of the output from their British and American cousins, Little Indie picks our weekly bunch of some of the best new tracks on offer.

YOSTE - EMPTY

Brisbane singer/songwriter and producer Yoste (pronounced like 'lost') shares the new single from his forthcoming EP, 'Try To Be Okay', released February 15 on Akira Records. Atmospheric and melancholic, the follow up to the 20 million streamed 'Chihiro,' flows through a mid-tempo beat of echoing melodic layers. 'Empty', he says, is "about recognising that I will never fully understand most of myself or what's around me, but there's peace in not knowing. Again, I wanted to counterbalance those quite heavy ruminations with positive instrumentation, something people could dance to and not necessarily think about."
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CONCRETE SURFERS - MY LIFE ON REPEAT

The Brisbane surf-rock four-piece - twin brothers Jovi and Jamie Brook, and friends Trent Courtenay and Sean Foster - drop the title track of their upcoming second EP, out March 22. Layered, riff-filled gem of tireless percussion and grungy vocals, "'My Life On Repeat' took the longest to write on the EP and It’s basically about being stuck in a routine; not necessarily a good or bad one but just a type of life limbo with no real direction on how to move forward."
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PLEASURE COMA - WAITING

Released February 14, the lead track from the Sydney crew's new EP 'Naked'. Reverb-soaked, fuzzy indie-punk with punchy vocal hooks. "This track was originally written about being in a doctors waiting room, hence the name. It was gonna be some sub-par metaphor on about being told to hold off on realising my full potential and what not. I re-wrote the whole song a couple of times."
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BULLSHIRT - FUCK YOUR VALENTINE

Sydney garage-punk two-piece, Brandon Carnegie and Savanna Young, don't mince words on their unapologetic Valentine ode follow-up to their 2018 AA-single 'Wot Cunt'/'Cursed Forever'. A scorching one-and-a-half minute explosion of brutal punk.
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HOBSONS BAY COAST GUARD - JUNKIE

Following 2018's 'Dolphin Racer', 'Surf 1' and 'Wannabe', Melbourne's slacker-surf-psych outfit drop this new single from their forthcoming debut album. “'Junkie' is for me one of those black sheep songs in an album that show the band have more up their sleeve," says vocalist Erik Scerba. "I always thought comparing someone needing someone to love them and being a junkie was such a perfect lyric idea that i was sure it was made before. I guess it's one of those things that just works."
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MACHINE AGE - DUST

“Our latest track 'Dust' is an upbeat ode to the bleak new world we live in,” says Adrian Mauro, one half of the experimental electro-alt rock Brisbane duo (with drummer Dylan Stewart). First taste of debut album 'Point of Departure' set for release later in the year, the track's thunderous electronic beats meld whirling synth and rising vocal hooks. Catch live on April 20 at Brisbane's Bearded Lady.
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