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EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Wax Chattels - 'Clot'

28/9/2020

 
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The inspiration - or, rather, frustration - for Wax Chattels' cathartic sophomore album, Clot, came from the doomy, gloomy corners of Auckland’s underbelly, and the theme of confrontation is central. The band's capacity for self-awareness is what makes Wax Chattels one of New Zealand’s most treasured independent exports.


After a knock-out entrée with 2018’s self-titled LP, the anticipation surrounding Clot has been immense. Much like Wax Chattels, the writing process for Clot took the best part of a year. While some songs were written on the road, the bulk of the album was workshopped throughout 2019 across bedrooms and storage containers. Wax Chattels maintained the use of only the barest of ingredients — bass guitar, keyboard, and a two-piece drum kit — but the group spent more time experimenting with and finding new sounds. They wanted to maintain the same live element as in their debut, but, this time, heavier — for which they enlisted the help of mixing engineer, and fellow noise-maker, Ben Greenberg (Uniform, Destruction Unit, The Men). A marked step-up, this new record keeps the visceral energy of the debut, only this time they dig deeper into cathartic noise.

It is universally agreed that Wax Chattels are a must-see live act; their hypnotically sinister debut captured this perfectly. Released in 2018 and supported by relentless touring, the album’s success at home and abroad led to the well-deserved nomination of Best Alternative Artist at the 2018 New Zealand Music Awards, as well as the band’s inclusion in the coveted shortlist of finalists for the Taite Music Prize and Auckland Live Best Independent Debut Award.

Release: September 25, 2020, Captured Tracks/Flying Nun
Words: Deathproof PR

EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: A. Swayze & The Ghosts - 'Paid Salvation'

21/9/2020

 
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A. Swayze & The Ghosts have released their wildly anticipated debut album Paid Salvation - a refreshingly real breath of fresh air, one that restores your faith in the incendiary, uplifting and subversive power of punk rock. 

On the blistering record - recorded in Northcote with producer Dean Tuza (These New South Whales, Stella Donnelly) - Andrew Swayze pulls no punches, using the group’s urgent and tightly wound music as a backdrop against which he can purge himself of the myriad frustrations he has with the world around him. Taking aim at social media (Connect to Consume), ecocide (Beaches), tall poppy syndrome (Rich), mob-rule and herd mentality (Marigold), it seems little escapes his ire, even God and the Bible get a good lashing. It’s safe to say we’re not in standard garage punk territory. 

On first listen, it would be easy to take the album on face value, enjoying it purely for its many musical pleasures: energetic guitar interplay, pummeling rhythms, basslines that groove and an infectious shout-along melodic sensibility that runs throughout. But that’s the real power of Paid Salvation. While it’s a hell of a lot of fun, it’s also deadly serious. 

“It really shits me off when bands have this pedestal and they have the ability to influence so much around them and they waste it by singing about stupid shit. If you’re given this audience, I think you have to have something to say. And I definitely intend on abusing that right.”  Swayze says

“I want people to go, ‘I love that song it makes me dance but I also appreciate the honesty'. I want the melodies and the instrumentals to be accessible for people from all sorts of backgrounds, but I also want everyone to fucking listen to what I’m saying as well. And I especially want young men to hear songs like ‘Suddenly’ and ‘It’s Not Alright’ and think about what they’re saying rather than just listening to them and going, ‘Yeah I’m all jacked up on this rock song!’" he laughs. With AS&TG, the music is the sugar that makes the medicine easier to swallow. 

Release: September 18th, 2020, Ivy League Records
​Words: Mushroom Music Group

NLMAs Voting Is Open!

15/9/2020

 
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EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Lomelda - 'Hannah'

14/9/2020

 
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Hannah is the full length follow up to Lomelda's critically acclaimed Thx (2017) and 2019 EP M for Empathy. 

Lomelda began in Silsbee, Texas, in 2008, when Read found a few friends to play her songs with her. The project continues to follow this model, songwriting and friendship at the core, studying the distance between "you" and "me" with each release.

The project's first label release came in September 2017 via Double Double Whammy - Thx was received to wide critical acclaim. New album Hannah is Lomelda's most thorough and enthralling work to date - recorded and produced by Hannah Read (Lomelda) and brother Tommy Read in their Silsbee, Texas hometown studio. It features the introspective mood and dynamic range the band is known for with a new gentleness and balance.

Release: September 4, 2020, Double Double Whammy
Words: Redeye International

EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Girl Friday - 'Androgynous Mary'

7/9/2020

 
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Burning deep in Girl Friday's music is an unquenchable will to survive. The LA-based band don't blunt the impact of the themes they work through in their ferocious, knotty rock songs, but they don't let the more harrowing aspects of being alive and young in the 21st century daunt them, either. Taking full advantage of the dystopian shades of post-punk and noise rock palettes on their arresting debut LP, Androgynous Mary, Girl Friday nevertheless suffuse their music with abundant optimism. The world is a hellscape, but the four of them are in it together. 
 
The seeds of the band were first planted when guitarist Vera Ellen walked into a friend's house at UCLA and saw Libby Hsieh playing bass on the couch. Drawn by her unique playing style, Ellen introduced herself, and the two musicians immediately bonded. After a year of playing together, they decided to form a full band. Drummer Virginia Pettis and guitarist Sierra Scott caught wind of the project from friends of friends, and quickly jumped on board. The fledgling group's chemistry was undeniable; writing and playing together felt generative and thrilling. 
 
With bold, dramatic guitar lines and tightly wound vocal harmonies, Girl Friday negotiate the stress and alienation that comes with being sidelined from normative society on Androgynous Mary. Taking cues from longtime boundary-pushers Sonic Youth, Girl Friday depart from traditional song structures, favoring the rush of jarring turns over the safety of well-defined pop taxonomy. Looking to queer provocateurs like Placebo, they cherish the frisson of incongruous musical elements soldered together: "really dark, heavy things mashed up with quite beautiful things, whether that be a distorted guitar line and a sentimental vocal or vice versa," as Ellen puts it. 
 
That duality dovetails with the thematic friction running through the album, the alternating despair and hope that intertwine in the fight to stay alive as any kind of unfairly disenfranchised person in the US. Written during a year of personal struggle for all four band members, Androgynous Mary reflects the solace they took in each other - as a band, but also as a microcommunity and a chosen family. "It feels so rejuvenating to be there for each other and protect each other," says Hsieh. Ellen adds, "We've definitely been through a lot together, but we've come through it by sticking together and loving each other regardless." 
 
Alone, we suffer under the weight of everything designed to keep us down. Together, we stand a fighting chance. Girl Friday place their hope squarely on that chance - on what we can do when we show up for each other, where we can go when we've got each other's backs.  
 
Release: 21 August, 2020, Hardly Art/Sub Pop
​Words: Sub Pop

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