Every week a plethora of big name acts, Australian musicians and little-known musos drop brand spankin’ new tracks on the internet. We’ve trawled through the internet to find some of our favourites and plucked them from the masses. Grab your headphones and enjoy.
Hopium – ‘Dreamers’
‘Dreamers’ is a towering, cinematic electro-pop ballad charged with bombastic intensity and dripping with angst-ridden emotion. The slow-paced verses are ghostly sparse, building with chilling suspense towards the track’s anthemic chorus – a mammoth chorus goes down alongside Sia’s ‘Chandelier’ as one of this year’s most powerful, and most memorable. (DM)
Lunice – ‘Can’t Wait To’
Lunice, also one half of production duo TNGHT, has taken time to focus on his solo work with his latest offering equally ready for bouncing in the club, cruising windows down or quietly grinding at the back of the bus with your headphones on.A lurking bass line creeps through the shadows as chopped and distorted vocals create the blue-print for your escapade. Mission impossible-esque chimes rain down as the low range vocals tear their way, trying to escape the stretch and strain being placed on them and the result sounds like someone clawing an escape from their mind. (JM)
Glass Animals – ‘Love Lockdown’ (Kanye West Cover)
Oxford R&B indie pop kids Glass Animals have just officially released a cover of everyone’s favourite religious icon Kanye West’s down tempo ‘Love Lockdown’. Taken from Yeezy’s 2008 record 808s & Heartbreak, it’s cover the guys have been brought out quite a few times now, which includes and appearance earlier this year for Triple J’s Like A Version. Dreamy and psychedelic, the band’s ability to melt indie pop and R&B so effortlessly does the original justice (LD)
Courtney Barnett – ‘Pickles From The Jar’
Kicking off with a throwaway false start, ‘Pickles From The Jar’ is basically a bedroom punk re-write of ‘Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off’, as Ms. Barnett’s trademark laconic delivery quizzes the pronunciation of dance (hard ‘a’ like the yanks) and dance (soft ‘a’ like the poms), and the essential differences: “we couldn’t be more contrary if we tried/all chalk and cheese…” as the refrain goes. (AN)
The Dead Heir – ‘Cooked’
Dead Heir’s lead single ‘Cooked’ is the first taste we get from their forthcoming EP, and boy has been prepared to perfection. The track witnesses the outfit explore with a sheen of stoned confidence a heated blend of sixties-styled garage-pop, loaded with chunky rhythms, psych-tinged organs and catchy-as-fuck echoed lyrics that melt into a consuming swirl of distorted sonics that’ll make you feel like you’ve just ingested a fistful of mushies. (JH)
UV Boi – ‘Thank U’
The Brisbane-based producer makes next-wave, digital sounds for the internet generation. Floating through one of UV Boi’s trappy, bass-filled soundscapes is like scrolling through an RSS feed filled with Tumblr-aesthetic graphics and sadwave iconography. The online world has already taken serious notice of UV Boi’s defined and refreshing sound. The 18-year-old has even seen his idols turning into admirers, with the likes of Ryan Hemsworth, Nina Las Vegas and the Sad Boys crew all declaring themselves as stans.(DM)
Harts – ‘Angels Walk Below’
Soulful, fun, and funk filled falsetto melodies, ‘Angels Walk Below’ is everything we’ve come to expect from the incredibly talented solo artist Harts. Like all the tracks on the upcoming album, Harts wrote, performed, recorded, produced and mixed the track himself in his bedroom studio, further cementing Harts as the upcoming rising star that he is. (LD)
Jenny Broke The Window – ‘We Could Have Done This Grant’
Hailing from the South Coast of NSW, Jenny Broke The Window have be impressing audiences nation-wide, having recently played alongside local rock n roll heroes Kingswood, The Delta Riggs, and Tales In Space. They also supported Scottish indie rockers The Fratellis during their Australian tour.Between all their live shows, the guys have managed to get back into the studio to record the dynamic, upbeat indie pop gem ‘We Could Have Done This Grant’ their catchiest single yet. (LD)
