Aussie/Kiwi Guitar Pop- The scenes that just keep giving and giving

Nice. This is the kind of Aussie pop I like.

okay, i knew there was a thread for stuff like this. i can't remember who gave me a long list to check out on ilm but i held on to it and started making a youtube playlist. will check out other stuff mentioned here.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4uJu4UGWv-Rn0YA53IvBEQTcxQ2E0u1n

cheers scott, enjoying this

Really loving Wireheads, Dylan/Fall word blizzards and just enough chords.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO_sorb0EFE

Thanks for that set Scott, really enjoying

Thanks for the recommendation, bendy. That's great, innocent indiepop with some good sprechgesang.

Witching Waves is another good crew that's not on the Scott list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP2DvdqIsts
Really fond of Totally Mild, who is on the list.

Ha, well some searching reveals Witching Waves is UK, so disregard that, though they fit in style.

They sound very post-punk in a sonic youth kind of way. Some nice guitar noise and quite speedy. It does not really astonish me that they are not from the 5th continent. But i wouldn't have guessed england.

Gorgeous tune from the indiepop thread by a band from auckland:
https://therealpolyester.bandcamp.com/album/different-for-a-boy

Tags
carly rae feelings pop new zealand pop disco indie Auckland

https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/04/04/new-zealand-indie-list/amp/

Terrible name but I'm enjoying the music of Tropical Fuck Storm, far different from the Clean-influenced peppy guitar pop of most Aussie bands

Tropical Fuck Storm thread starts here: The Drones - any good

New Stroppies album is out:

https://thestroppies.bandcamp.com/album/whoosh

So much aussie sprechgesang out there! The particular disaffected tone they all use seems to remind me of something older that must be an ur-influence, but I can't quite place it. It's not Mark E Smith

Jonathan Richman maybe?

ugh, jesus, of course it's Pavement isn't it

Cattle & Cane predates Pavement

Yep, I can see that it's all been thoroughly covered here: birth of the flattened cool: the origins of the indie voice?

I think Chuck was on the right path with his NZ Flying Nun reference

Dole-wave bands have frequently sounded rather flying Flying Nun, yeah.

Some of the acts with the most sprech in their sprechgesang also bring to mind Pip Proud (late 60s) and the Cannanes (80s).

Really digging this new Murlocs album:

https://themurlocs.bandcamp.com/

i gotta check that, i had young blindness and loopholes and lost track of what's out there. i mark them more in my psych than pop pile

They’re pretty stylistically diverse in a retro-garage band sort of way. Folk, blues, r&b, etc. are thrown into the blender, but they make it their own.

Probably a good place to note that there's a new Eddy Current Suppression Ring album "All in good time"

rly loving this comp, which i dont think has been mentioned on ilm before?

https://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/va-i-won-t-have-to-think-about-you-compiled-by-bayu-and-moopie-lp/ACOLOUR.007LP.html

For people who liked that Chats single "Smoko" from a couple years ago, they have a full-length out that sounds pretty solid on first listen.

New Mini Skirt LP is catchy garage punk recommended for fans of "Light Up Gold" era Parquet Courts:

https://erstetheketontraeger.bandcamp.com/album/ett-093-mini-skirt-casino-lp

m.t. honey album sounds pretty good

Sure, there’s been Australian punk before now, but it was always under the guise of what was popular in the brother world and never of what was right around them. You would have never known bands like Scientists or The Saints were from Australia because there was no pride and (anti)nationalism to it. Most importantly, there was no accent. [from Mini Skirt bandcamp blurb]

Not sure this person could have been listening very broadly, tbh. There have been zillions of punk and indie bands over the last forty or so years with almost nauseatingly strong Aus accents, lol. Such that I've often wondered about exaggeration.

Surely there's an obvious reason why a voice like Chris Bailey's might not have stuck out as conspicuously Australian. "Orstralia" seems like pretty solid anti-nationalism regardless. And, as they liked to point out, they pre-dated most of their presumed influences anyway.

chris bailey sounds v australian to me

That blurb seems very misguided to me.

Thanks for the Mini Skirt tip, very fun! Reminds me a bit of Compulsion, a long forgotten 90s band.

New Murlocs album is out!

https://themurlocs.bandcamp.com/album/bittersweet-demons-3

Some songs are a bit samey, but I really like a large handful of jangly Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever tracks. Just saw them in W DC last night w/ their acoustic guitarist, 2 electric guitarists, bass and drums approach)

I've really gotten into The Stroppies lately, which features Stephanie from Dick Diver. I like all of their stuff, but this year's album is particularly good:

https://thestroppies.bandcamp.com/album/levity

Seconding that new Stroppies record (many have noted being into them in this thread, but yeah, I have listened to it a bunch).

Ah, my bad, didn't scroll back far enough for the Stroppies mentions.

Also a random fact I have noticed lately is that Mikey Young (Eddy Current/Total Control) seemingly masters an insane amount of good records that cross my path these days. No idea how he does it but his name is on an insane amount of records.

They were new to me this year too! Was just going through this thread for the first time and that was a nice coincidence (my girlfriend listens to a ton of Australian punk and so that is how I found them).

The Chats have fully embraced 1982 and it's pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBeu6wEZDqw

Quite digging the danceable new psych-pop single from Dunedin band Soaked Oats: https://open.spotify.com/track/7ePzucJTuQWcQ41uzFjVcT?si=J_01WZy7SRS93dpV4W2ePQ

Posted previously in the NZ music thread, but still loving the new Fazerdaze song: https://open.spotify.com/track/2qkAa6IrUy5WWizVE1rpeh?si=9u0qWliWSou70CfEOntp4g

https://juliajacklin.bandcamp.com/album/pre-pleasure

Third Julia Jacklin LP is... quite good, I'm thinking, as someone who hadn't really been keeping up with the preview tracks. I've had reservations about her appropriating a, er, "Americana voice" or whatever, but working with a Montreal posse has seemingly brought her closer than ever to, say, the Mitski part of the spectrum. Kinda. Sorta.

Who am I going to review/interview/cover this book for? Hearing good things about detail, accuracy and lavish photographic spreads... https://t.co/dyS8wohYrr

— Kiran Dass (@SteelyDass) July 15, 2022

Going to be a great book. Weird that a Kiwi hasn't already written something like this but great that it's happening now before all that history gets lost.

Fazerdaze announced a new EP today:
https://www.flyingnun.co.nz/products/fazerdaze-break?mc_cid=e5ce2139fb&mc_eid=c024cda97c

I don't usually pass along so much self-promo, but what the hell, this sounds right:

The books offers a comprehensive history of the first seven years of Flying Nun when the label was based in Christchurch. The story of the label is told by the records themselves. Over 140 releases are covered, from The Clean's "Tally Ho!" single to The Verlaines' Bird-Dog LP.

— Matthew Goody (@m_c_goody) July 8, 2022

ok, ok!

Some details:
- 438 full colour pages
- 500+ images, including tons of never-before published photos.
- Entries on every @flyingnun record released from 1981 to mid-1988.
- Available in early November, 2022
- Details on how to order will follow soon.
- eBook will be available too

— Matthew Goody (@m_c_goody) July 8, 2022

Definitely buying that book. I can't seem to find a complete Flying Nun discography online unless someone can vouch for stuff on Discogs sorted by year.

I guess you could cross-check with the catalogue on the FN website but it'd be a nightmare:
https://www.flyingnun.co.nz/collections/flying-nun-catalog

And of course you're missing out on all the important related stuff on other local labels (Xpressway, Propeller etc.)

Flowertruck - 'Pretending'

I've had Flowertruck in my head since this was on Rage on the weekend. Apparently from Sydney with a not insignificant discography already. I now see their bio cites Orange Juice and Talking Heads as influences, almost as if they were algorithmically constructed to get me on the bandwagon. YMMV, etc. (My first hunch was that they might actually be New Zealanders but I suspect the goofiness merely brought to mind this awesome Bressa Creeting Cake video lol.)