Every week a plethora of big name acts, Australian musicians and little-known musos drop brand spankin’ new tracks on the internet. We’ve trawled through the internet to find some of our favourites and plucked them from the masses. Grab your headphones and enjoy.
Caribou – ‘Can’t Do Without You’
‘Can’t Do Without You’ is a slow-burning four-minute anthem so large it feels as heavy as a track four-times its duration. It pulls you straight back into Caribou’s graviton of dense, sprawling production, starting off sparse before multiplying in size to eventually take the form of the kind of mind-numbing, cathartic dancefloor cut you crave when the sun has risen and the house party has dwindled down to its final survivors. Taken from new album Our Love. (DM)
Jen Cloher – ‘Sad Dark Eyes’
Local legend Jen Cloher has just released her take on ‘Sad Dark Eyes’, the 1967 classic single from Aussie rockers The Loved Ones. Forget ‘Like A Version’ this is probably one of the best covers you’ll hear this year.
Featuring Jen Sholakis (East Brunswick All Girls Choir) on drums, Bones Sloane (Courtney Barnetts) on bass, and Courtney Barnett herself on guitar, ‘Sad Dark Eyes’ is an impressive follow on from Cloher’s incredible 2013 record In Blood Memory. (LD)
#1 Dads – ‘Return To’
This is the solo side project moniker of Tom Iansek, who you might know from Melbourne’s adored duo Big Scary. ‘Return To’ is the first release from Iansek’s sophomore record About Face, which is set for release August 8, and before you hit play we suggest you have 000 on speed-dial, ’cause this one is a heart-stopper.
The track introduces itself with high bone-chilling keys that are slowly greeted with bellowing bass tones as featured guest Tom Snowdon (of Melbourne dark dream-pop outfit Lowlakes) flexes his ethereal vocal chords, seamlessly partnering with Iansek’s misty-melodic piano progressions to create a melancholic masterpiece. (JH)
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Sia – ‘Eye Of The Needle’
If you had any doubt after ‘Chandelier’ that Sia had fully catapulted herself into the mainstream stylistically speaking or were still holding out hope for something slightly more unique, then the second single from the forthcoming 1000 Forms Of Fear, ‘Eye Of The Needle’, should once and for all bury that sentiment.
After writing for various pop starlets for the past few years the Adelaide born singer-songwriter is here to show them how it’s done. The pop power ballad proves that none of her contemporaries can emote over the course of four minutes at the same capacity as Sia. (CT)
The Ting Tings – ‘Wrong Club’
Just when we were about to ask, ‘what the hell ever happened to The Ting Tings!?’, the UK duo that first made it big with the severely catchy ‘Shut Up And Let Me Go’ and ‘That’s Not My Name’ make a return from out of ‘Nowheresville’.
With a deep back beat and a cutting funky guitar lick, ‘Wrong Club’ makes it sound as if Katie White and Jules De Martino have been listening to a lot of disco lately – or to put it mildly, have had Daft Punk’s ‘Get Lucky’ on repeat. Will the 70s dance sound do wonders for the Tings Tings the way it did for two particular French robots? Time – and discerning ears deciding if its simply derivative – will decide. (AN)
White Hex – ‘Sisters’
‘Sisters’ is the third single from Melbourne duo White Hex’s sophomore LP. The upcoming record, titled Gold Nights, features the almost startlingly poppy single ‘Paradise‘ which was doing the rounds online earlier this year.
‘Sisters’ is more ‘traditional’ White Hex in many respects, steely cold guitars and rhythmic synth lines it sounds ‘Sisters’ sounds like a nod to their 2012 post punk record Heat but with a fresh, and possibly more accessible sound. (LD)
Yeo – ‘Kobe’
If there’s a slice of synth-pop that’s gonna get you energised for the weekend then Yeo’s latest offering, ‘Kobe’, is it. A fact that is made even more timely for Melbournians who can catch the multi-talented maverick at the Northcote Social Club tonight. It’ll be the first stop on an Australian tour to support the single’s release.
You can also expect cuts from last year’s stellar Sell Out, which made it into Tone Deaf’s Top Albums Of 2013 You Might’ve Missed. Accompanying the release of ‘Kobe’ is the single’s music video, which you can check out here. (CT)
Glass Animals – ‘Pools’ (Jackson & His Computer Band remix)
One of the UK’s most hyped indie acts of 2014, Glass Animals have today released their debut LP ZABA (out through Caroline Records), our current Feature Album. To celebrate they’ve dropped a Jackson & His Computer remix of their track ‘Pools’.
Though in April of this year, the band dropped their second EP entitled Gooey to which our Tone Deaf Reviewer commented “despite the lack of new content, the Oxford four-piece continue to show promise on this EP”, ZABA has showed us that these guys do have what it takes to produce a killer full length. (LD)
New Navy – ‘Heaven’
After a brief hiatus spent re-inventing their sound, rearranging their line-up and exploring their indie pop roots, New Navy are back with their dreamy new single ‘Heaven’. Picture a tropical take on Whitest Boy Alive armed with all the indie pop hooks and chill beats of New Navy and you’ve got ‘Heaven’.
Written at a lakeside cottage on the South Coast of NSW and recorded in Melbourne at Haxx Studios, ‘Heaven’ is the first single off their upcoming EP (date of release TBA). (LD)
