"Bartees is celebrating the past, moving towards the future, and fully appreciating the present."
"I want to make things that are flawless, that perfectly encapsulate what I’m thinking and feeling. It’s an unachievable goal that keeps you constantly chasing it.”
A raw and poetic collection of songs that shares Maddy’s journey returning to her home on Bruny Island for the last few years, highlighting the irony, dark humour and the slight sense of fear that comes with ending up exactly where you started.
"...this brightness and optimism is tempered by a profound and layered sense of loss."
"This is a record that explores ideas of movement, displacement, and relationships between people and environment."
Meanjin/Brisbane-based band First Beige have shared their long-awaited and highly-anticipated debut album Doplar. The record marks a triumphant moment for a band who have continually won...
Emerging towards the end of 2016, Obongjayar has been called many things – a soul singer, future afrobeat, nu-jazz –...
"We were coming out of a period that felt quite suffocating and restrictive. We just kind of regrouped and re-energised and did it ourselves."
“The world feels strange and in turn making pop music feels even stranger. A healthy dose of levity had to be employed in order to find meaning in the process.”
“It was a shit time to be a band, but it was great to have a vessel to channel all our anxieties and pent-up energy into. I think the album has all that fucked-up 2020/2021 energy in it.”
