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THE HARVEST: Albums Vol. 1
Here’s how this segment works: I’ll listen to as many albums as possible throughout the week, break down buzz worthy choices and then stamp them with either; Unripe (intriguing), Ripening (gratifying) or Ripe (choice
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MAJOR LAZER – Free the Universe
Diplo’s Caribbean bass collective, Major Lazer, has returned with their long awaited follow up to ‘Guns Don’t Kill People, Lazers Do’ with another instalment that features every thing from Reggae to Dancehall to Dirty Dutch in
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JAMES BLAKE – Overgrown
Chilling piano, James Blake‘s spine tingling voice, and soft and building electronic elements feature throughout this wondrous piece of work that is Overgrown. Beginning the album is ‘Overgrown‘, which takes no time at all to throw you
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BLACKCHORDS – A Thin Line
Back in the mid-naughties, the track ‘Broken Bones‘ put Melbourne band Blackchords into the limelight, after becoming a finalist in the International Songwriting Competition, and had its music video take out awards at St Kilda
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Brightly – Beginnings & Endings
I’ve been following Brightly for a while now, not in a creepy way, but because these guys make really enjoyable music. The Melbourne three piece have a definite electronic basis, with folk and indie pop
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MERCHANDISE – Totale Nite EP
Mysterious backgrounds often create an unnecessary amount of intrigue that propels the content’s perceived depth beyond its honest value. Sometimes however, it’s more than justified. This was the case for the now disbanded WU
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Tyler The Creator – Wolf (Album Stream)
Following a series of tweets claiming “RIP JOHNJOHN”, Tyler The Creator, member of hip hop group OFWGKTA, made a twitter account from the point of view of a piece of bread (toast), saying “@fucktyler
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DICK DIVER – Calendar Days
When I went to “writing school”, they told us to put the most important information at the start of a piece, so if you read no further and take nothing else from this, just
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VANCE JOY – God Loves You When You’re Dancing
Vance Joy is without a doubt a rising star. And cliched as that is there’s definite truth to it. His debut EP God Loves You When You’re Dancing is further evidence of this shining light and
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Peace – In Love
New British indie/rockers Peace have streamed through NM’ their much anticipated debut album In Love. Claiming comparisons to Foals, Vampire Weekend and The Maccabees over the past year, expectations have been set high for
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PATRICK JAMES – All About To Change
It’s not very often that I turn my speakers up to full volume (mostly for fear of breaking them) – but the debut EP from Patrick James deserves this kind of treatment. It deserves twirling
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GOLD FIELDS – Black Sun
I have noticed that a lot of cool bands are coming out of Ballarat. Why is that? Someday, I’ll ask a Ballarat band why. Is it something in the water? Today I bring you
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AINSLIE WILLS – You Go Your Way, I’ll Go Mine
Ainslie Wills’ debut album, You Go Your Way, I’ll Go Mine, transforms the gems scattered through her two earlier EPs into 12 tracks of solid original tunes. Her first self-titled EP, released back in
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RHYE – Woman
I could hear after just one listen that Woman had appeal beyond the sub-genres of sophisti-pop and Sade’s smooth soul RnB, but I couldn’t place my finger on it. So I listened to the
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SHLOHMO – Laid out EP
On the back of Bad Vibes, Los Angeles producer ‘Shlohmo’ (Henry Laufer) set out to explore dirty, psyched, mild hip hop beats across five tracks, in a collective he’s called Laid Out. A slow drumbeat
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YOUTH LAGOON – Wondrous Bughouse
I had pre-arranged six month prior that I would play Youth Lagoon’s ‘Montana‘ in the van upon driving into the Glacier National Park in Montana last year. It is a testament to remoteness and
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HUNGRY KIDS OF HUNGARY – You’re A Shadow
I remember around three years ago, I fell in love with a song called ‘Scattered Diamonds’ by the band Hungry Kids of Hungary. 15-year-old naïve me decided it would be fun to send a message
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THIS MESS – Debut EP
Tace McNamara and Jim Wilson are the key ingredients to This Mess, an up-and-coming chill-wave / electronica ensemble from Wollongong. Since their inception in January 2012, This Mess have featured alongside a plethora of
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DOLDRUMS – Lesser Evil
As I meandered around at Melbourne’s inaugural White Night event at 5:00am, I had a melody looping in my brain that was both exhilarated from the night’s excitement and depleted from sleep deprivation. The melody
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Walrii – Weaver EP
Texture: The characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of its parts. Also known as the most delicate and authenticate piece for any electronic
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