Melbourne band Planet Love Sound have released a stunning new video for their single ’My Shadow’, filmed both in Melbourne and Berlin. Just like the song itself the video is a little disturbing and chilling, but also very beautiful, polished, and mesmerising. Check it out below, or, if using your eyes as well as your ears isn’t really your thing you can also stream and download it through the Soundcloud player.
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The Griswolds ‘Mississippi’
The reliably excellent Rare Finds have announced their first band of 2012, and it’s none other than Sydney’s The Griswolds. The band not may be from Brisbane like most of Rare Finds’ signings, but they play just as infectious pop music as the likes of YesYou and The Belligerents, which is a very very good thing. Check out their euphoric single ‘Mississippi’.
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Elephant Eyes ‘I Want To Know’
Elephant Eyes are a fairly new Melbourne band who have just released their debut single, ‘I Want To Know’, which has already received a bit of love from radio stations PBS, Triple R, and SYN. It’s no surprise either: this is a delicately and superbly crafted track, built around the interplay between alternating lead vocalists Kate McMahon and Stu Hazelman (also of The Hazelman Brothers). It’s slow paced but in a very endearing, deliberate way, and it stands out head and shoulders above a lot of generic Australian music at the moment.
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The National ‘Twenty Miles To NH Part 2′
This track hit the interwebs a couple of weeks ago but I completely missed it, which means, hey, you might just have missed it as well. In which case I am happy to present to you a new studio recording from the greatest band in the world, The National, performing a cover of a Philistines Jr. track, ‘Twenty Miles To NH Part 2′. And holy shit what a cover it is.
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The Belligerents ‘Steal Money’
Earlier in the year I posted about The Belligerents’ debut EP ‘Less Arty, More Party’, noting that it was not only wonderfully titled but also a really fun, energetic, and upbeat record. Well the Brisbane band have just released their next single following said EP, a collaboration with dance outfit Mitzi entitled ‘Steal Money’. Lend it your ears.
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April 28, 2012

