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.
Sharon Van Etten – ‘I Don’t Want To Let You Down’
We’ve barely begun wiping our eyes dry after spinning the 33-year olds critically acclaimed record Are We There for the millionth time, and now the jaw-dropping, gloomy folk rocker has delivered a brand new tune.
‘I Don’t Want To Let You Down’ takes off exactly where Van Etten finished with the track trudging around in the familiar downtrodden ground as her 2014 LP release, the musician making use of wavering guitars as her sullen, smokey vocals to deliver another morose, encompassing tune. (JH)
St. Vincent – ‘Bad Believer’
Last year St Vincent released one of the most acclaimed records of 2014 with her self-titled fifth LP.
Announced on her Facebook, St Vincent (aka Annie Clark) will be treating fans to a new re-packaged ‘deluxe’ version of St Vincent on February 9th, and ‘Bad Believer’ is the first taste from the release.
The deluxe version will also feature three other new songs and the beautifully demented Darkside remix of ‘Digital Witness’. We’ll be seeing the guitar hero touch down in Australia this February exclusively for Laneway.
Toro Y Moi – ‘Empty Nesters’
Chazwick Bradley Bundick otherwise known as Toro y Moi has been a busy lad. Just last year he dropped his more dance-focused record Michael under the moniker Les Sins which feature the infectious ‘Why‘ and wasting zero time, the 28-year old has hit 2015 running, releasing a brand-spanking new single, ‘Empty Nesters’.
The fresh tune sees Moi depart from his more cloudy chillwave genre that he popularised earlier in his career and arrive at the world of groovin’ funk and dreamy psychedelica that pair together in a seamless fashion.
‘Empty Nesters’ is the first beat to fall from Toro y Moi’s forthcoming record What For? which is out April 7 of this year. (JH)
Dusk (Abbie Cornish) – ‘Way Back Home’
The rumours are most definitely true, Aussie actor Abbie Cornish has officially stepped into the world of music and has released her first tune, and would you believe – it’s no where near as bad as you would think, in fact, it’s kinda cool.
Performing under her rap moniker Dusk, her first beat is named ‘Way Back Home’ a track wholly inspired by the worlds of RnB and soul that falls from her forthcoming debut EP Key Of The Sun, which was produced by Hilltop Hood, Suffa. (JH)
Yoste – ‘Eternity’
Yoste is the ambient electronic project from 20 year old Brisbane producer Kurt Sines.
Despite only being born in late December, during downtime between debut shows with Tora and New Navy as part of his other band (If I Had Antlers) the 20 year old’s latest project already has a “number of tracks completed and mastered” the first of which is ‘Eternity’.
The song’s intention is “to create a feeling of space, via the union of delicate synth lines and subby bass chords, connected by the ethereal chill-wave beat. The vocals range from lower register to falsetto to echo the sentiment of the lyrics and the overall soundscape.”
Laura Marling – ‘False Hope’
As the underrated folk singer unveiled on the title track to her fifth studio album, Short Movie, her first self-produced effort bears the fruits of basing herself in the States. ‘False Hope’ continues in the same vein with an electric current coursing through the three-minutes as Marling sings in a swaggering Americana tone. Perhaps the most surprising element of the album’s second single though, is that it’s her most accessible track since ‘Ghosts’ gave her notoriety around seven years ago. (CT)
San Fermin – ‘Jackrabbit‘
This Brooklyn-based baroque pop outfit released a solid debut in 2013. Nothing on the record though, quite lived up to the single ‘Sonsick’, however the two tracks that have surfaced from their forthcoming sophomore release both outweigh anything from their debut. Early single ‘Parasites’ and the title track, ‘Jackrabbit’ are both far sleeker and broader in scope. The latter is an upbeat and anthemic three minutes of jazz-pop, check out the track below. (CT)
Marika Hackman – ‘Ophelia‘
We Slept At Last is the highly anticipated debut from this singer-songwriter, who first toured Australia back in 2013 as a support on Laura Marling’s Heavenly Sounds tour. Besides the obvious singer-songwriter roots Hackman sounds just as confident as Marling, but differentiates herself here with electronic touches (think Villagers’ {Awayland}). ‘Ophelia’ is a gorgeous piece of contemplation, give it a spin below. (CT)
