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Album Review // MAYDAY PARADE ‘Sunnyland’

Delving deeper than ever before, Mayday Parade explore universal themes of true love, growing up and the fragility of human life on their new album, Sunnyland. For music veterans such as Mayday Parade, who have been around for over than a decade, change is a natural

Album Review // STATE CHAMPS ‘Living Proof’

Powerful hooks and genuine lyricism that elevate State Champs to the status of genre-defining giants. “Let’s cut through the static and be the living proof”, we hear from Albany, New York’s State Champs on their third studio album, Living Proof. Significantly saturated, the pop-punk music scene

Album Review // MODERN MAPS ‘hope you’re happy.’

Southern California trio Modern Maps make a bang with their Rise Records debut, hope you’re happy. Packed with infectious riffs and captivating electronics, there are no shortages of moments on the album that will make you want to rock out and dance along to it. Speaking about

Album Review // DMA’S ‘For Now’

Sydney’s Britpop revivalists triumph on their sophomore effort, For Now. Here is it. DMA’S second album, For Now at long last. It feels like we have been waiting forever since their 2016 release Hills End. The band have proven their dominance in the live music scene in

Album Review // ISLAND ‘Feels Like Air’

Exploring themes of life, death, love and faith, ISLAND dazzle with the evocative harmony that is their debut full-length, Feels Like Air. When ISLAND released their debut single Stargazer in 2015, I honestly thought they would never top that. But here they are, three years and two

Album Review // CLUB KURU ‘Giving In’

Pure chillaxing psychedelic pop bliss. This is the only way I can describe the debut album by British psych-rock outfit, Club Kuru. Giving In is an album with a lot of depth to it, after repeated listening you will have a favourite track each time

Album Review // FRANZ FERDINAND ‘Always Ascending’

Franz Ferdinand return with fifth studio album, Always Ascending. Franz Ferdinand have returned and it’s been a while. But don’t worry it was them, not us.  With a few line-up changes the now five piece are bursting at the seams with a pristine perspective and distinctive

Album Review // MORRISSEY ‘Low In High School’

Oh how the mighty has fallen.  Once flourishing as his lyrical descriptions depicting a sense of alienation, Morrissey fails to recognise that coming of age includes the reality of acting grown up. What makes a young man seem interesting, exotic even, seems to only portray denial

EP Review // CHAPEL ‘Sunday Brunch’

Indie pop duo Chapel have released their Sunday Brunch EP and we can confirm that it is as delightful as the best meal of the week it’s named after. With this seven-song EP,  Carter Hardin & Kortney Grinwis aka Chapel have quite a few intriguing things