Category: Music

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

23/12/2019

It's that time of the year! Even the Music Department needs a rest, so we're taking a few weeks off to recuperate from what has been a relentless 2019. Fresh Edge Radio Recommended releases will recommence late January - for the next few weeks we'll be spinning some of our faves from the last 12 months.

Thank you to each and every one of you for your support - you're all amazing. Have an excellent holiday season if you're lucky enough to have some time off, and massive thanks to those of you that work all the way through - we see you and you are hugely appreciated.

EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Eddy Current Suppression Ring - 'All In Good Time'

16/12/2019

“It is impossible to deny
no one sounds like Eddy Current
I was hooked from riff one
and I was lucky enough to do a full tour of Australia with them years ago
good fucking boys
simple as beer and chips
and that satisfying live
but that’s not to say there aren't odd complexities to their definitive sound

You can smell Mikey Young's guitar approach
like Sasquatch rustling the bushes
Every time you think you see the bend ahead
you go into a tunnel or backtrack for a moment
then back to a nice place you can call home

Rob’s bass is pub fuzz groove
It’s shells on the floor and leaning against the wall with one hand while you have a piss
thinking maybe you can take that guy?
only one way to find out
oh wait, he’s smiling…
nice bloke

Danny’s drums are a clinic in reservedness
4 on the floor
This guy’s Charlie Watts in the looking glass
every hit a necessity
solid, not flashy
like the lead street tough in a 70’s flick
he don’t say much, but it counts

and then there is Brendan
be-gloved lead mensch in this quartet
singing with earnest street poet confidence
his message coming in on the weird-wire
hard to describe
best to just listen and see
a pub punk priest

We are very pleased to have these boys back on the streets
It had been far too long”
-JPD

Release: December 13th, 2019, Castle Face Records
Words: John Dwyer

EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Scott & Charlene's Wedding - 'When in Rome, Carpe Diem'

9/12/2019

Formed around Craig Dermody, a songwriter who provides you with speed-dial access to his head and his heart, and rooted in 90’s slacker and Flying Nun sounds, Scott & Charlene’s Wedding have finally returned with their new EP. Three years since the release of their shambling classic, Mid Thirties Single Scene, they present: When in Rome, Carpe Diem.

Six songs full of frank and honest observations about everyday life, ranging from everyday work laughs to coming to terms with the loss of important people in our lives, When in Rome is pure Scott & Charlene’s Wedding - heartfelt and yet tongue-in-cheek, light and dark all at the same.

“Far from being derivative of bands such as Yo La Tengo, Sebadoh and Pavement, the sounds and the lyrics coalesce in a way that makes you think the music found Craig Dermody, rather than him finding the inspiration.” - Soundlab

Release: November 29th, 2019, Bedroom Suck Records/Remote Control
Words: Bedroom Suck Records

EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Sudan Archives - 'Athena'

2/12/2019

Violinist, singer, songwriter, and producer Sudan Archives has released her debut full-length album Athena.

The new record is about duality, and is a testament to Sudan Archives’ dynamism and fluidity as an artist. Since her debut EP, Sudan Archives has been navigating the spaces between genres including R&B, violin playing inspired by Northeast African fiddling, and experimental electronic music. Athena showcases this fusion of styles she makes entirely her own.

Athena follows Sudan Archives’ debut EP Sudan Archives (2017) and the Sink EP (2018), which garnered wide acclaim from NPR Music, The Guardian, Pitchfork and The New York Times, among others. For the album Sudan Archives worked with a cast of musicians including producers Washed Out, Paul White (Danny Brown, Charli XCX), and Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, Sampha, Adele). The result of her opening up to collaboration is her most wide-ranging music to date; as she puts it, the EPs are “like a haiku of what the album is".

Deeply ambitious, sometimes vulnerable, and always beautiful, Athena is a powerful statement from a musician who has always resisted easy categorisation.

Release: November 1st, 2019, Stones Throw/Inertia
Words: Stones Throw

EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Candy - 'Everything In Motion'

25/11/2019

Melbourne’s premium bedroom producer, Candy is excited to share his second album, Everything In Motion.

Everything In Motion finds Candy in a seemingly more positive headspace but as usual, ruminating on life with honest lyrics that cut to the bone and whimsy that flecks through his sunny instrumentation.

Candy has the unique ability to write bright tracks juxtaposed by uneasy topics and Everything In Motion is a testament to that. Familiar traces the struggles with dementia; forgetting who you are, where you are, and the impact on those around you. Feel sees him looking inward, with an underlying feeling of desolation, while Sorry, Sydney is his apology to all the trash he spoke about the city after living there.

Finding inspiration in usual places, the album title was came about after visiting a William Kentridge exhibition at The Gallery of NSW while on tour, Candy explains, “I really enjoy the notion that we're constantly moving and found it to be a good mantra.”

Everything In Motion was recorded in his tin shed in Thornbury, he’s since moved house relieved, “I’m glad I am out of there now cause there was A LOT of spiders and I was sick of sweating bullets.”

Release: Independent, November 15th, 2019
Words: Future Popes

EDGE RADIO RECOMMENDED: Moor Mother - 'Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes'

18/11/2019

Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes is the new full-length by Philadelphia-based artist, poet, and musician, Camae Ayewa, who performs under the name Moor Mother.

A sonic black hole is a place where fluid moves so fast that it traps all sound. To be entangled in its gravity is to feel the pressure of an unjust system - corruption so powerful that it drowns out whatever you throw at it. Analog fluids are resistance - individuals who work to create and preserve community in the face of immense darkness and cosmic pressure.

Begun in 2017 as a sonic counterpart to Ayewa's art show at New York performance space, The Kitchen, Analog Fluids was refined through exhaustive touring. It tracks Ayewa's emergence into an expanded artistic ecosystem, with contributions from a distinctive set of friends and collaborators like Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Zonal), King Britt, Saul Williams, Giant Swan, and Bookworms.

Release: November 8th, 2019, Don Giovanni Records
Words: Don Giovanni/Redeye Distribution

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