might not be the right threadhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hv7YuIzhOs
― Bee OK, Thursday, 12 April 2012 06:22 (eleven years ago) link
Love the newer Novella stuff. Pretty good live too. Although 'Don't Believe Ayn Rand' has a chorus that I can't help but mishear as 'cheese, sausage roll' (it's 'she's lost control).
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Sunday, 15 April 2012 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
that toy track is pretty good but gosh they are an awkward looking bunch. straight out of my junior high school talent show. be better without the intro.
― keythhtyek, Sunday, 15 April 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
heard a new Allo Darlin' track on the radio yesterday. Sounded pretty good. Anyone heard the album?
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Pitchfork gushed over it. Usually their acceptable definition of indiepop is something turgid like summer hymns so that review is a surprise.
― keythhtyek, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
i disliked the opening single (though liked the b-side) and slumberland/fortuna pop have yet again conspired to ensure i can't get it off emusic so i don't think i'll be hearing it in a hurry
― real 69 for my sham friends (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
i love them. i am sure i will love the album when i hear it.
― keythhtyek, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link
going to go see them live in a week or so!
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 18 April 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
listening now, more substantial production, still utterly charming, smart and terrific. my one tax refund splurge.
― keythhtyek, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
ah i just worked out that school song 'never thought i'd see the day' rips the melody from 'let your freak flag fly' by the hummingbirds
― real 69 for my sham friends (electricsound), Thursday, 19 April 2012 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
ringo deathstarr pledge drive
62% of their goal in under 2 days. these guys have some pretty serious fans.
― beer in heaven (electricsound), Friday, 20 April 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I wonder why...
― emil.y, Friday, 20 April 2012 02:08 (eleven years ago) link
i pledged, but only for the demo package. the 'make us cover a song of your choice' option went in like 15 minutes
― beer in heaven (electricsound), Friday, 20 April 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
i would have made them do i kill everything i fuck fwiw
― beer in heaven (electricsound), Friday, 20 April 2012 02:12 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, good choice. Though I doubt the ilxor's cover of that could ever be bettered.
I'd have made them cover 'I'm a Terrible Vacuous Imbecile Who Uses My Body to Sell My Mediocre Records'. I'd have to write it first, obviously.
― emil.y, Friday, 20 April 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link
of this story i am thankfully unaware. dandy warhols related?
― beer in heaven (electricsound), Friday, 20 April 2012 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
ok now i know. seems.... pointless.
― beer in heaven (electricsound), Friday, 20 April 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
Weird Dreams "Choreography" album is a total joy, tasty indiepop goodness
― beer in heaven (electricsound), Friday, 20 April 2012 06:40 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder if elizabeth darlin' has been listening to the hummingbirds a lot for this latest record
― the sunno)))boys (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
have i already raved about rex or regina on this thread? their ep is utterly gorgeous
― the sunno)))boys (electricsound), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
is this thread title a lfo reference?
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
Sennen are about to realese their third album, produced by David M. Allen (Cure, Depeche Mode, Chameleons):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfFQzEJqcZY
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
dope.http://youtu.be/cEQHHk0Zh7U
― UnderControl, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 05:48 (eleven years ago) link
i'm really that Sennen song, i liked their last album but this sounds nothing like that. interested in hearing this album now.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
Cool song til the vocals come in
― poxen, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
Oberhofer "HEART" is pretty good, debut album this month.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW7MwhUHQzg
― Bee OK, Saturday, 28 April 2012 06:00 (eleven years ago) link
This is very relevant to my interestshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AKxaiCGge0
Straight From the Harp - Dancing Slow
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 April 2012 06:43 (eleven years ago) link
good song.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 05:25 (eleven years ago) link
loving the Now, Now album so much
― suburban buttshaven cannibal (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 06:21 (eleven years ago) link
woo some stuff i produced is coming out on two of my fave tweeish indie labels ^_^
― suburban buttshaven cannibal (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
Congratulations. I actually went and looked up Summer Cats on Slumberland's page to see if that was what you were doing, but they are listed as past artists and I can't think of any other tweeish Melbourne bands.
― svend, Wednesday, 2 May 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
it does involve at least one summer cat
― suburban buttshaven cannibal (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 02:33 (eleven years ago) link
Is there any news from SULK? Still really enjoying their two singles and would love to hear more. Their website doesn't seem to hint at much more than touring at this point.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
they finished recording their album a few weeks ago, not sure if it's going to be self-released like the singles or if they're approaching labels..
― suburban buttshaven cannibal (electricsound), Wednesday, 2 May 2012 22:59 (eleven years ago) link
turns out the cats on fire album is vastly better than their earlier stuff. pretty nice.
― the aower of aussy (electricsound), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
i agree. although, i think all of their albums are pretty nice. the lovesliescrushing reissue or first issue of their early recordings or whatever is really gorgeous.
― keythhtyek, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link
wtf @ this sub-lucksmiths drivel that allo darlin are passing off as lyrics
― 12plsrU (electricsound), Friday, 11 May 2012 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
Hmmm...it' s pretty great actually.
― keythhtyek, Friday, 11 May 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
i hate the lyrics on this record. they're genuinely awful.
― 12plsrU (electricsound), Friday, 11 May 2012 01:12 (eleven years ago) link
I tend of swing between cringing and loving Allo Darlin' lyrics. They're more of a guilty pleasure than most stuff I regularly listen to. The first album had its bland out moments but could still frequently make me feel giddy. Haven't given the newie much time.
Anyone here diggin' Joanna Gruesome? Their EP, and new track on a split on Art Is Hard Records are pretty great.
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Friday, 11 May 2012 08:40 (eleven years ago) link
tbf it's really only two songs that piss me off lyrically - "europe" and "tallulah".. they come across like the typical expatriate australian who believes they've 'outgrown' their country and the people in it, while the whole album steals completely from the go betweens, the lucksmiths and the hummingbirds.
― 12plsrU (electricsound), Friday, 11 May 2012 10:20 (eleven years ago) link
it's always australians who write these sort of dreadful lyrics, i can never work out why.
― 12plsrU (electricsound), Friday, 11 May 2012 10:22 (eleven years ago) link
I really like 'Tallulah', I think it's more an age thing rather than an expatriate thing. She's late 20s and feels like her life's path has been determined. I don't think it's particularly disparaging of Australia (in so far as I've noticed anyway).
I like the increasing Go-Btwns influence, that's what makes 'Capricornia' one of the best things they've done whilst being less playful than some of their previous singles.
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Friday, 11 May 2012 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
isn't 'tallulah' about finding a small piece of home anywhere? almost a recognition that even though she's far away, australia is always a part of her and the bit 'and i wonder if you'll wanna go over there with me, when i'm finished over here' seems like pining for home. she hardly seems the type to get worked up over.
the school album is ok but i am starting to think that 'let it slip' was a one off moment of pop perfection, they are capable of cute but not much more.
― keythhtyek, Saturday, 12 May 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EySm81Q6qIU
this isn't really new, but i think i had heard a couple of citizens! songs before and they didn't appeal at all (i'm remembering them being very kitsune-y, which generally has a maximum of two minutes' appeal for me), yet this i'm liking a lot.
― Merdeyeux, Monday, 14 May 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
i'm really enjoying the lissy trullie lp
― mexican sumner (electricsound), Thursday, 17 May 2012 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
kinda like a nu-gemma hayes without the folkiness
― mexican sumner (electricsound), Thursday, 17 May 2012 03:43 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit the new purling hiss track 'lolita' is (a) studio recorded and (b) fucking great
― mexican sumner (electricsound), Thursday, 17 May 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
picked up the new School album, it's definitely better than the non-EP tracks on the debut album but they still haven't bettered those first two releases. though this album makes me think it's still possible, one day..
― mexican sumner (electricsound), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
Caught them live last night, they had a couple of stand-in members including the always-a-pleasure incongruously metal looking drummer. Were very good.
― Cragenham Craig (Craigo Boingo), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link