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Mental As Anything – Essential As Anything / Tents Up

By |July 24th, 2009|Categories: Album Reviews|Tags: , , , , , , |

Both mental and essential, Sydney's pop legends Mental as Anything return with a career-encompassing collection and a brand new studio album.

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Kent – Gothenburg – 25 July 2008

By |August 21st, 2008|Categories: Live Reviews|Tags: , , , , |

A great set isn’t achieved by luck and prowess alone. Kent have always kept a keen eye on quality control throughout their career — they have yet to record a bad album, or even average album and new songs such as “Ingenting” (“Nothing”) rank among their best.

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Divine Fits – A Thing Called Divine Fits

By |October 16th, 2012|Categories: Album Reviews|Tags: , , , , , |

Merge, 2012 [rating:8.5/10] The concept of the ‘supergroup’ is relative and often abused. The formation itself is prone to suspicion, akin to selling out your bandmates in favour of some fresh thrills. Often it's the

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Neon Indian – Pills, Chills and Genre Ache (2010)

By |October 14th, 2010|Categories: Interviews|Tags: , , , , , , |

Astute music fans have probably heard of the genre chillwave – a blend of 80s synths, psychedelic pop and liberal amounts of distortion – put upon acts like Memory Tapes, Toro Y Moi and Nite Jewel. The band most closely associated with that word is Neon Indian whose main man Alan Palomo, who also has a solo project VEGA, had a chat to Chris Berkley recently in London about the c-word, the beginnings of Psychic Chasms, the Yacht remix, his collaborations with Australian dance merchants Miami Horror, how he loves to make music that messes with people’s heads and the forthcoming Australian tour for the Texan group.

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