Brisbane’s Inovo dive headfirst into an intense new alt-prog track in ‘Swim Alone’; an immersive release that meshes grooves with moody textures, and transports the listener to an ambient, hazy realm.
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Northern Rivers’ artvist*, JESA returns with a daring new release in the psychedelic and gritty single, ‘Under-Deeper’, which is out now.
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Sydney genre-blending, mainstream-defying heavy act, Reliqa have truly harnessed their very own sonic identity in the heavy music landscape with their new, third EP, ‘I Don’t Know What I Am’, which is out now.
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Brisbane/Meanjin’s ZZADE leaps from her former life as lead singer and bassist of alt punk group The Blockades, and delivers her first single, ‘Hollywood Ending’, moving towards a more mature sound that combines signature fuzzy bass lines with high tempo industrial drum sounds and dynamic synths.
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Wollongong’s Pirra burst at the seams with grooves, good vibes and rugged sheen in their latest track, ‘Out Of My Hands’, which sees the act team up with Australian singer/songwriter, Tim Wheatley.
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Brisbane’s Alternative Punk outfit, Monsters Up North have been relentlessly performing and releasing material since 2019, and their latest offering, ‘I Want You (To Know)’ is another blistering track from the four-piece.
Taking the DIY approach to another level, ‘I Want You (To Know)’ is bratty, with plenty of grit, fuzzy bass, and basement rattling drums, blended with full garage-rock guitars, and frontman Lachy Kerr’s charismatic and commanding vocal delivery. There’s sly nods to Arctic Monkeys, but also blend in older bands like The Saints and Ratcat for the Aussie alt/punk gut punch.
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Melbourne musical mastermind Lalchand has shared a soaring new single "The View From Here" which features Garrett Russell of Silent Planet and Liam Guinane of Reside. The single is the title track from forthcoming feature-filled EP, to be released Friday October 8.
‘The View From Here’ is both hefty and melodic, blending alternative emo rock, with prog-bordering-on-djent rhythmic tones. As much at home slotting along the likes of The Butterfly Effect/Dead Letter Circus as it would with more structurally intense acts like Tesseract, there’s plenty of epically high moments in the choruses, as well as the riff-heavy post-chorus sections that bring to mind earlier Karnivool material.
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A new collaboration that is fit for your earholes right now comes from the melding of visionary producer What So Not (Chris Emerson), and acclaimed act, DMA’s.
This team-up resulted in the the striking thunderous single, ‘The Change’.
‘The Change’ is dark, slightly unsettling at first, then building with warbling bass, slightly down-paced jungle beats, and the distinct alt-sounds courtesy of the ARIA-nominated DMA’s.
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