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EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: The Saxons - 'The Saxons'

26/3/2018

 
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The Saxons hail from Launceston, Tasmania, and are proud of their Tassie roots.

Since first coming to attention in 2014 by winning the Tasmanian College Rock Challenge, the band, d
etermined to make their mark at home and abroad, have been fortunate enough to have played alongside British India, The Smith Street Band, Luca Brasi, The Vanns, Ceres, The Bennies, Slowly Slowly, The Hotelier, Kingswood, The Getaway Plan and Mental As Anything. No strangers to the festival scene, The Saxons have also appeared on the main stage at Falls Festival and played at Party In The Paddock and 'Til The Wheels Fall Off.

Keen to follow up their 2015 debut EP 'Be Rad Not Sad', the band spent most of 2017 in the studio working on this record, their first LP.

The Saxons are Nick Bennet, Bradley Martin, Tom Youd and Josh McDonald-Davies.

​Release: February 27th 2018, Independent

EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Soccer Mommy - 'Clean'

19/3/2018

 
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Following a series of DIY Bandcamp recordings and last year’s Collection, Clean is Nashville-based Sophie Allison’s journey out of her bedroom and into the studio with a full band. “I’d never made a full album before, just EPs and random tracks thrown together. I wanted it to be a lot more cohesive than the rest of the stuff that came before,” explains Allison. “I wanted to make something that was a full piece of my life, that addressed similar themes and held together as a whole.” The result is Clean, an album that presents Soccer Mommy as a singular artist, wise beyond her years, with an emotional authenticity of her own.

Clean is an emotional album, heavy on growth, isolation, and change, but balanced by a lightness of touch, and with hooks to spare. The signature warmth of Allison’s voice coupled with her growth as a lyricist crystallises themes of identity, jealousy, and the desire to be someone else. Clean - the cohesive record Allison dreamt of making - is a true step forward, a strong and mature album from an artist just coming into her power.

Release: March 2nd, 2018, Fat Possum via Inertia
Words: Inertia

EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Sumner - 'All That I Am'

12/3/2018

 
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There’s something very special about the enigmatic electronic duo Sumner, consisting of Jack McLaine and Chloe Wilson.  The underground newcomers have already played alongside Vera Blue, The Smith Street Band, Montaigne, graced the Falls Festival stage as well as playing Party In The Paddock…but in 2018, it’s about to get a whole lot bigger. Sumner’s debut EP, All That I Am, is a release that explores illness, diagnosis, personal struggle and catharsis, all within Sumner’s own very cool little world.
  
This collection of songs is perfectly unique and completely self-assured, and not only is that very rare for such a young project – it’s precisely what makes them special.  All That I Am is effortlessly cool and refreshing, with open vulnerability within the lyrics that overflow atop consistant beds of glowing, pulsating, dexterous production.  Jack and Chloe share a little more about the process and the team behind it all, “The EP was entirely self-produced and recorded.  We worked with some mates for particular parts such as Shanice Osita Chuku on additional vocals in 45 Roses and Pictures, and Billy Bennett (Save The Clock Tower) on additional guitar for Lover.  We also worked with Ross Irwin (The Cat Empire, The Bamboos) for the horn parts on 45 Roses.  The EP was mixed by Kevin ‘KD’ Davis (Rihanna, TLC, Destiny’s Child, Tupac) and mastered by Grammy Award winner William Bowden (Gotye, Hermitude).”
 
Music is the constant thread shared between Jack and Chloe, as they reflect on the theme of the EP and what it was that brought them together, “We used music as a catharsis, with the EP following a story from illness to a cleaner, healthier mind with a change of perspective through the process… We met living in the small town of Launceston and finding each other’s music through mutual friends.  We decided to link up to play a one off gig as ‘Sumner’ and we haven’t stopped making music since.”

Release: Independent, February 16th, 2018
Words: On The Map PR

EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Totally Mild - 'Her'

5/3/2018

 
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Melbourne’s Totally Mild write songs that are lush and luxurious, polished to sparkle. Her, the band’s highly-anticipated sophomore album, is full of narrative heart, but with a Stepford sheen. Teasing out a thematic tension between the loving and the lacklustre, the domestic and the deluxe, vocalist/guitarist and songwriter Elizabeth Mitchell’s voice is crystal clear. It weaves through her band’s lyrical, immaculately considered arrangements with a dexterity that speaks volumes of the band’s capacity to let melodies grow, breathe, and take shape.  

Mitchell says of the album’s title that many of the songs meditate on the female experience: of love, of domesticity, of surveillance, of bliss, and of anxiety. The portrait of Mitchell’s mother that hangs in the corner of the album’s cover signals the overarching sense of the feminine that hovers over Her. Mitchell notes that while the second-person address on the record often functions to address a lover or a friend, sometimes the ‘you’ she addresses is an aspirational self: they’re subtle, reflexive bids for self-empowerment.

On Her, Totally Mild are in dialogue with their debut, the critically acclaimed Down Time. Down Time'very much mused on what it meant to be a young person who found solace in ill-advised parties and people, while Her is a wiser record. Although Her has its moments of melancholy, it’s a reflective, meditative sadness that replaces Down Time’s lethargy. On Her, Totally Mild move through light and shade with smoky, silky finesse. 

Release: Chapter Music, February 23rd, 2018
​Words: Chapter/Inertia


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