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  • Here Is Your Temple: Debut EP

    Here Is Your Temple: Debut EP

    Swedish outfit Here is your Temple’s debut EP is interesting. Opening track - and first single – So High is a metronomic, bass heavy march, underpinning the synths and Emily McWilliams slightly disembodied voice.

  • Fall Out Boy: Save RockAnd Roll

    Fall Out Boy: Save RockAnd Roll

    It’s important not to take the title too seriously. Fall Out Boy know as well as anyone that rock’n’roll is an amorphous and constantly evolving definition just like “pop music”.

  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito

    Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Mosquito

    “SO much feeling went into this record, it was the rope ladder thrown down into the ditch for us to climb up and dust ourselves off. I hope others can climb up it too; we’re excited to share the good vibes.”

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The Drones: I SeeSeaweed

on Friday, 15 March 2013. Posted in Music News Hits 75

The Drones: I SeeSeaweed

Liddiard’s storytelling takes him to further depths of the human experience, again proving him to be Australia’s single boldest songwriter. And reminding us that, yes, words can be more terrifying than the loudest guitar.

Zagar: Space Medusa

on Friday, 08 March 2013. Posted in Music News Hits 107

Zagar: Space Medusa

Electronica’s strongpoint has never really been vocal prowess. Which is just as well, as Budapest five piece Zagar’s efforts on new single ‘Space Medusa’ certainly couldn’t be described as exemplary.

Flume

on Friday, 22 February 2013. Posted in Music News Hits 207

Flume

In an interview with Dazed Digital last year, Australian beatmaker Flume said, "Music essentially boils down to two main elements, rhythm and melody. I feel tones and textures often get overlooked, so I like to take my time finding the right sounds.

New Order: Lost Sirens

on Friday, 22 February 2013. Posted in Music News Hits 102

New Order: Lost Sirens

The post-Republic era of New Order yielded some of the most underrated material of the band’s career, with Get Ready and Waiting For The Siren’s Call proving the band as fine purveyors of guitar-driven dance music, weaving introspection into often stadium-ready anthems.

Tegan and Sara: Heartthrob

on Friday, 08 February 2013. Posted in Music News Hits 134

Tegan and Sara: Heartthrob

Whether they’re from the wrong side of town or just from Canada, heartthrobs have long been the pulse of pop music. They start the fire, the spin us right-round, they inspired Kelly Clarkson to quote Neitzsche.