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The Kills have compiled an extraordinary career spanning b-sides and rarities album titled, appropriately, Little Bastards. The songs date back from the bands first 7-inch singles in 2002 through to 2009. All of the material has been newly remastere

Recorded in Saskatoon, Canada - Kacy & Clayton's hometown - and Nashville, TN, Plastic Bouquet - the first joint album by Christchurch-born New Zealander Marlon Williams and the Canadian duo - heralds the beginning of an exciting collaboration. Dusty

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At Christmas 2018 Illuminine locked himself up in his little music studio as he felt a strong urge to process everything that happened in the world and give it a place. Accompanied by one guitar, a tape machine and a handful of effect pedal he wrote, reco

Following Brutalism (2017) and Joy as an Act of Resistance (2018), two releases that garnered global critical acclaim, IDLES return with their highly anticipated third album – Ultra Mono. Sonically constructed to capture the feeling of a hip-hop reco

Alpha Hopper creates a frenetic stew of guitar-driven rock with elements from punk, hardcore, noise rock, and no-wave. A bartender, a personal trainer, a graphic designer, and an immigration attorney walk into a practice space... ALPHA HOPPER will

Amplification moves air and gestures to the celestial. A splitter van parks in a service station. The afterglow of the stage. The weight of a bass cab up a steep flight of metal stairs. Hey Colossus are no strangers to the dualities of life as a loud

Reissue of the second album from Swedish rock band, HAYSTACK! 1. Life 2. Burn-Out 3. She Calms Down 4. This is the Day 5. Slave Me 6. I Feel Fine 7. An Object I Can´t Control 8. Get It Out 9. Alright 10. What´s In It For Me? 11. Born Beyond Belief 12

"With vast critical acclaim and a strongly loyal fanbase, »Advice« is the long-awaited fourth album, which has all the potential to bring UK noise rock quartet Hawk Eyes to a wider audience. The band’s aim was to create an album where every track has its own identity, yet it works as a whole. As with every previous album, the band has been able to expand their sound once again and surprise listeners with unique twists and turns. Since their formation in late 2004, Hawk Eyes have played to audiences all over the world, including Japan, SXSW in Texas and pretty much the entire continent of Europe. They have shared stages with some of the biggest names in rock including a European tour with System Of A Down, opening slots for the Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden, Metallica and Slash and many prestigious festivals including Download (UK), Sonisphere (Italy) and Hellfest (France). Tracklist: 1. Royal Trouble, 2. Follow Me, 3. Never Lead Me, 4. New Greek Fire, 5. Perfect Again, 6. Advice, 7. Smokes (feat. Richard O'Brien), 8. Hand In My Heart Cage, 9. State Of Opposition, 10. Win On Win, 11. Keep 'em Cold

HACHIKU When a close friend took an in-advance listen to Hachiku’s debut album, I’ll Probably Be Asleep, she had one question for bandleader Anika Ostendorf: “‘why are you so angry?’” It’s not the first reaction that most people would have to the Melbourne-based outfit, whose dream-pop jams —all dewy guitars, rickety drum-machines, and layered ambience, topped off with Ostendorf’s oft-breathyvoice—would seem to contain no sharp edges.But, following Hachiku’s self-titled 2017 debut EP, Ostendorf found herself dealing with darker themes; which reflected the 25-year-old growing up, changing, and feeling mounting frustrations.A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Woman was inspired by a 2AM Gertrude Street nightclub encounter with a climate change denier, and deals with greater ideas of being a young woman in the world, and in the world of music (“it’s about that feeling of trying to express your opinion and not being heard”). Shark Attackis a study of loss and grieving, followingthe death of Ostendorf’s family dog. Songs like the title track, Dreams Of Galapagos, and You’ll Probably Think This Song Is About Youare about yearning: for other experiences andother feelings, to be either on foreign shores or back home, but never exactly where you are.Being restless, unsure of yourselfand your place in the world, are classic 20-something themes.And they’re brought into sharp clarity, made tangibleand undeniable,on Bridging Visa B. It’s a song about Ostendorf being left in limbo while herapplication for Australian residence to be with her partneris being processed. And, in turn, feeling as if the validity of your romantic relationship —not to mention your fate—is in the hands of bureaucratic authorities.The song opens with the question that Ostendorf —whether interviewing with government authorities or tending bar at the Northcote Social Club—loathes the most: “Where are you from?” She was born in Livonia, Michigan, found her early-childhood years bouncing between America, England, and Germany, before her family settled in sleepy Dansweiler, outside Cologne in Western Germany. She formed her first band, Tutti Frutti, at seven, writing the songs herself. By 14 she was playing in both a pop-punk cover-band and in her mother’s comboof IT workers from the Ford factory, who’d rewrite famous pop songs to be about their workplace.Ostendorfleft for London to study biology, and then, fatefully, spent a year on exchange in Melbourne, with an eye on the city’s famed music scene. Whilst studying, she interned at Milk! Records —the local label made world-famous by Courtney Barnett—from which she took DIY ideals, a strong sense of musical community, and a record deal.After returning to London to finish a degreeshe was no longer that interested in finishing—both out of her ownstubbornnessand at the behest of Milk! boss Jen Cloher—Ostendorfreturned to Melbourne.Back in town, she assembled a crack local combo (Georgia Smith, Jessie L. Warren, Simon Reynolds), released thefirst Hachiku EP, and played countless shows around town; becoming a staple of the music scene she once looked at, longingly, from afar.Hachiku played with Barnett, Cloher, Stella Donnelly, AldousHarding;supported The Breeders and José González on national tours; and opened for Cloher and Snail Mail on European tours.I’ll Probably Be Asleepbetrays much of that background, that sense of travel and wandering. It was recorded, Ostendorf says, incountless locations, here and there: from houses in Australia and Germany to backyard sheds, rehearsal rooms, and the Milk! warehouse. “It’s like a big puzzle, piecing together these randomly-recorded sounds,” Ostendorf says; offering that she thinksof herself “more as a producer than a songwriter”.Yet, Ostendorf’ssongs are full of memorable melodies, are smartly written and sweetly sung. I’ll Probably Be Asleepis an album of dreamy atmospheres and relatable sentiments, a grand first-upLP for one of Melbourne’s most promise young bands. And, if you listen closely, it’s, in its own way,an angry record.

The British trio Gotts Street Park releases the new EP Volume Two (digital already on 27.11.) and presents collaborations with Zilo, Grand Pax, Rosie Lowe and Pip Millet. The sound is a bit lighter and more optimistic than the previous one without