Some Australian Vibes Of Summer For Your Dark November

Earlier this year, The Great Emu War Casualties (TGEWC) released their debut album ‘Public Sweetheart No. 1’ to great acclaim (reviewed by me here, and described as being an album filled with wry intelligent humour, carried on a bed of gentle pop and soaring anthems). In the intervening time, member Saskia Clapton was part of Marlophone who recently released their debut album ‘Remembered Adventures in Widescale’ (reviewed by me here). Now, in a rapid fire return, the band is back with an EP, 'Mal du siècle', a French literary and cultural term describing a deep sense of ennui, melancholy, disillusionment, and world-weariness.

Late last year Kate Moth signed to the illustrious Scenic Drive Records label run by the legendary Australian music producer, audio engineer and musician, Wayne Connolly. You may have heard of Australian indie giants Josh Pyke, The Vines, Boy & Bear, Paul Dempsey, Youth Group, Underground Lovers, Died Pretty, Hoodoo Gurus and You Am I. They all received Connolly’s magic touch behind the production desk and his label include some Backseat Mafia regulars including The Nagging Doubts, Ellen Soffe, Victoria, Bec Sykes and Grids and Dots. Listening to Kate Moth, I get a blast of nostalgia for the…

The perfect soundtrack for a Fall road trip.

BOSTON SINGER/SONGWRITER WAXES MELODICALLY POLITICAL

There could not be a more appropriately named band than The Summertimes, nor a more fitting title to their new EP 'Luminous' which we are proud to premiere today. Newly signed to Golden Robot Records, The Summertimes always exude a radiant glow through their power pop songs and the new EP follows on seamlessly from their self-titled debut album. According to the band, opening track (and single) ‘Save You Now’ is about elusive salvation: With the world becoming increasingly difficult to navigate, ‘Save You Now’ asks a deceptively simple question: who’s going to save you?

Emerging onto Jersey’s music scene in the first half of 2026, Hieron are comprised of members of Hammermaid, Dribbler and others and dropped a debut demo EP in August. It opens with a sudden crash …

Sometimes - actually quite often - it gets very dark and cold in the southern headquarters of Backseat Mafia, where the next port of call to the south is Antarctica. But to adopt Newton's Third Law of Motion, there is often an equal and opposite prevailing system that counteracts the chill and more often and not, it's in the form of Japanese/Australian artist エミエミ (emi emi). We have enthusiastically lauded her luminescent presence and sound emanating from Lutruwita/Tasmanian on many an occasion, and as wintry climes desperately cling on into the advent of Spring, she is back to shine a light where all else is dark with her self-titled debut EP.

'Radio Is Dead' is a bold title for a band to hang an EP on in 2026, but then Ups and Downs have never been shy about naming things plainly. Formed in Brisbane in the early eighties, they were part of the same wave that gave us The Crystal Set, Falling Joys and the Hummingbirds – bands who took their cues from The Church and turned them into something jangly, chiming and unmistakably their own. Their 1986 mini-album 'Sleepless', home to the indie hit 'The Living Kind' and a much-loved cover of Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man', is rightly considered a landmark of that era.

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