#Melbourne music

[apleasantharmony]

Kirrilee and the colour BLUE

[evansabahnurd]

Baby Gravy in Melbourne July 2024 part 3 💙

[kirrileemusic]

GIG OUTFIT HELP MEEE 😅

[mywifeleftme]

308: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever // Hope Downs

Hope Downs Rolling Fevers Coastal Blackout 2018, Sub Pop (Bandcamp)

Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, one of those borderline-insufferable indie rock names like Clap Your Hands Say Yeah or Two-Door Cinema Club that seems to confirm every negative stereotype about the genre in a single phrase, rolled into my life in the spring of 2018 and went into near constant rotation for a solid year before slipping almost entirely out of memory until I pulled this record off the shelf today. A Melbourne five-piece with three guitarists who all sing (and all sing kinda the same way), Rolling Fever Coastal Blackouts were owners of the most propulsive jangle of the late part of the decade, the kind of band who put wheels on your feet if you’re walking and wings on your wheels if you’re biking or driving. Absolute summer montagecore lads, and as I sink back into the grooves of their debut LP Hope Downs I’m won over all over again. Nearly any of these songs, with their mileage-eating consistency of four-through-the-floor pace and thousand-yard-stare affect that make three minutes sound like five or seven, could satisfyingly open or close the record or a show. 35 of said minutes is just the perfect amount to leave you balanced on a knife’s edge as to whether to play the whole thing over again if the record’s done and your errand isn’t. There’s an easy mastery of dynamics, the sense of just when to step in with a harmony to kick things up a notch—I’ve seldom heard a better set of these tricks than this record’s “Exclusive Grave.” Jangle pop’s a well-worn genre, so there are plenty of easy names to drop here (Aussie and otherwise), but I don’t think it’s needed—Rolling Coastal Fever Blackouts are a refinement rather than a revolution, but they’re a refinement of a sound that to me’s as necessary to the continuation of life as the song of those ancient monks who can’t stop chanting or the world’ll end. Probably only the spirit-freeing “Talking Straight” transcends Hope Downs’ confines to stand on its own as an enduring anthem, but within its environs, there’s a long ribbon of pleasure that can easily become a figure-eight if you let it.

308/365

[cavedwellermusic]

Pizza Death - Reign of the Anticrust (2023)

Matt Lynch takes a look at Reign of the Anticrust, the new album from Melbourne, Australia's pizza thrash champions Pizza Death, released July 10th on Disdain Records and CoreTex. Originally written for 4ZZZ.

Pizza Death has the toppings of various Melbourne bands and are now two years into a delicious campaign to champion pizza thrash; a campaign in which the gimmick of the band feeds into how good the music is and how good the music is in turn feeds how good the gimmick is. Reign of the Anticrust stuffs 20 tracks of headbanging, fist pumping thrash much like their previous record Slice of Death. On this sophomore release however, the run time is pushed out to a comparatively marathon 27 minutes and this extension allows for all the flavours to be appropriately cooked in and it all melts seamlessly together.

[oliviam112]

this song makes me sob. the whole album actually has me in such a chokehold. tell me why i didn’t take the time to listen to slowly slowly sooner…

[butwaybetterthistime]

staying positive, calm, here's a freestyle :) it's chill / like winter

[tearsinthepulsar]

Desire Path - Avenue (2024)

A 'desire path' is an unplanned small trail created as a consequence of mechanical erosion caused by human or animal traffic.

An 'avenue' is a thoroughfare running at right angles to the streets in a city laid out on a grid pattern.

Desire Path are a band from Melbourne who I love very much.

[davidmahlercomics]

A single and EP cover for Melbourne musician Slim Lee

[watermonkeystuff]

Tickets can be bought here.

[apleasantharmony]

IF YOU LIKE PEACH PRC // CHAPPELL ROAN // RENEE RAPP // BILLIE EILISH // GIRL IN RED // MEN I TRUST

LISTEN TO BLUSHER AND KIRRILEE

[evansabahnurd]

Baby Gravy in Melbourne July 2024 💖

[kirrileemusic]

Walked into Grill’d and found it 😍😍 So grateful to Beat Magazine!!

[cavedwellermusic]

Küntsquad - Küntsquad (2023)

Aggresively rowdy crust punk from Down Under

With their first tour ‘Vomitorium Compendium’ having just kicked off on the back of their first album release, Küntsquad are sure to hit the ground running. The four-piece crustpunk-deathpunk band offer a modern twist on a genre we just don’t hear enough of these days. With some powerfully assertive lead vocals layered with punk style backing vocals, add in some blast beats, distorted bass, smooth riffs and a sneaky Star Trek reference, it’s a win all round for old school fans!

[ritualcollision]

i saw a uni's production of the guy who didn't like musicals last night and it was phenomenal!!!

we got a pic with (almost) the entire cast and got to talk with them after the show and they were all so cool!!

a got a few individual pics with some cast members before i got too anxious to ask for more lol

here's me with their charlotte, hidgens, and alice

a little bummed i didnt get individual pics with their paul, emma, bill, ted, sam, and mr davidson (but emma, bill, ted, and mr davidson are in the group shot so)

this is the closest i got to a pic with paul lmao

there was a few script/choreography/etc changes but it all worked so well. they had a larger ensemble than starkid did, and so had ensemble cops lean in from the wings to harmonise during tied up my heart, emma handing hidgens the gun when paul asks for drinks, hidgens knocking emma out with a cane, "sing the beginning of moana" was changed to "sing the ymca" (which they do terribly and hidgens is like "how do you fuck up the ymca?") i tweeted about that one and actually got a response for the hidgens!

so it was different every night and the cast didn't even know! which i think is brilliant

i really hope it was filmed, because i need to experience this again!!!

[jgthirlwell]

I have been most fortunate to be able to use some of the incredible synth collection at MESS (Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio). Look for some of the sounds on the next Xordox album.