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Cat Woods is a Melbourne based writer. Her beat is music, arts, food, fashion, fitness and travel. She's equally happy to listen to Sanskrit chants as Aphex Twin's epic synth assaults.

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Melbourne’s Sydney Miller Melds Crafty Samples and Synthpop on Debut EP The Inside

Her dancefloor-friendly pop leanings suggested a steady diet of Britney, Ariana and Selena, but her curiously composed samples and...

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Jamie McDell Recalls A Life of Wonder and Risk on Her Fourth Album

So it is with the thirteen lovingly crafted tracks on Jamie McDell's self-titled fourth album, pearls of wisdom and wonder formed by an...

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SASAMI - Squeeze _ Photo Credit Andrew Thomas Huang

Sasami Weaves a Cathartic Tapestry of History, Anger, Art and Fantasy on Squeeze

The writhing, bloody-mouthed woman-monster illustrating Sasami Ashworth's sophomore album Squeeze is fearsome but familial. As the musical, lyrical and sensory terrain of her latest album divulges, the Californian singer-songwriter has been digging into her past, her mother's family history, and...

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BROODS Take Experimental Approach to Processing Heartbreak on Space Island LP

Georgia and Caleb Nott of Kiwi brother/sister duo BROODS have crafted their most conceptual, atmospheric album to date with Space Island. Their fourth album is chock-full of heartbreak-on-the-dancefloor beats, bass and confessional lyrics, with the compositions dipping into artsy, experimental...

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Sydney’s Coconut Cream Deliver Fresh, Romantic Indie Pop On Their Sophomore EP

They've just released their sophomore EP What Kind Of Music Do You Like To Listen To?, a six-song showcase of their gorgeous, jangly, shoegaze vibe, with ancestral roots in...

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Aarti Jadu Auto-Tunes Sound of the Sacred on Debut LP L'Ecole De La Caz

Jadu’s explorations have manifested as...

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Bitumen Dance Through a Dark, Industrial Soundscape On Sophomore LP Cleareye Shining

On sophomore album Cleareye Shining, the four-piece sounds like the lovechild...

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Cate Le Bon Wrestles with Unstable Futures on Sixth Album, Pompeii

Hawkline Cate Le Bon has a knack for poetically weaving dualities: history and imagined futures; progress and destruction; the personal and the collective; the orderly and being “tethered to a mess,” as she sings on “Moderation” from her latest LP Pompeii. From a bedroom in Cardiff...

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Grace Cummings Strikes a Dramatic Chord on Sophomore LP Storm Queen

As an actor who has performed in, and...

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PREMIERECJ Temple Reveals Her Truest Self on Debut LP Smoke

While some artists and influencers post sexy, glossily filtered selfies or try to nut out the right hashtags to draw a mass following, Temple did something else. Since January 2020 she's regaled TikTok...

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Gabriella Cohen Manifests Globe-Trotting, Genre-Hopping Genius on Third LP Blue No More

From the seaside lullaby of "Water" to the Americana and...

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Fanny Lumsden Lives Her Country Life On The Road With A Family of Thrillseekers, A Guitar and a Fistful of Awards

The crushing experience of cancelled tours was ameliorated by sweeping up an array of industry awards, including ARIA Country Album of the Year for her third album Fallow...

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