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EP REVIEW: Forever On High – Brand New Low
Released 30 August Independent Brisbane-based four-piece Forever on High are a fresh face in the Australian pop punk scene. Forming in 2023, they’ve come about at the tip of this new resurgence that the genre is currently celebrating and in their early beginnings thus far, Justin, Kevin, Will and Josh are here to ultimately keep…
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EP REVIEW: Sunbleached – I Crawled Into the Hole
Released 30 August Independent Things just keep getting bigger and better for Sunbleached. The independent Brisbane quartet had a dreamy start to the year when they opened proceedings at the Brisbane New Bloom Festival ahead of bands such as Movements, Touché Amoré and Citizen. Now, five months later, they are playing a string of east…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Stand Atlantic – WAS HERE
Released 23 August Hopeless Records Since their inception and through each new album released, Stand Atlantic have consistently grown musically and pushed boundaries further than anyone else in their realm of alternative/pop. If you came here expecting a certain type of music to come from Stand Atlantic, you’re in for a bad time. For their…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Yours Truly – TOXIC
Released: 16 August UNFD Sydney trio Yours Truly are a dazzle of inspiration in 2024. Even with an album title like Toxic, this lot are anything but and they need no introduction here. We’ve been a loyal follower of Mikaila Delgado and Teddie Winder-Haron since the Afterglow days and their growth in the industry has…
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FESTIVAL REVIEW: Pizza Planet – Stay Gold, Melbourne
Saturday 27 July Local pop punk pioneers Cordiform launched new mini-festival, Pizza Planet over the weekend and we were there to witness its christening into the scene. With the genre currently transitioning through a boom of nostalgia and next-generation greats on a world scale, in Australia, these bands tend to get shunned and forgotten about…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Windwaker – HYPERVIOLENCE
Released: 12 July, 2024 Fearless Records/Cooking Vinyl Australia For the past year, Windwaker have taken us on a rollercoaster of emotions and tantalising releases and it has all led to this moment – their sophomore record HYPERVIOLENCE. Earlier this year when the four piece dropped their Enter the Wall EP (which was later revealed…
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ALBUM REVIEW: The Story So Far – I Want To Disappear
Released: 21 June Pure Noise Records US alternative/pop punk outfit The Story So Far return to the forefront of the genre in 2024 with their fifth studio album. I Want To Disappear marks the band’s gain from strength to strength since they crashed into our world over a decade ago with their debut LP,…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Gypsy Road – Letters To A Friend, From Interstate
Released: 24 May Independent When you think of Midwest emo, the last thing that comes to mind is a band from Australia, right? Earlier this year, I caught US acts Hot Mulligan and Freethrow and let me tell you, I surprised myself that night. The Midwest emo/pop punk genre is something that’s only become…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Bring Me The Horizon – POST HUMAN: NeX GEn
Released: 24 May Sony Music Bring Me The Horizon‘s second instalment in the POST HUMAN series pushes the limits in their interpretation of the metal-core world. ‘NeX GEn‘ incorporates 16 tracks of pure imagination and shows how far BMTH can push boundaries. The previous album in the POST HUMAN project, was a narration of a post-covid…
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ALBUM REVIEW: One Step Closer – All You Embrace
Released 17 May Cooking Vinyl Australia/Run For Cover Records One Step Closer have been in my rearview mirror since their three-track EP, Songs For the Willow appeared on my Spotify daily mix playlists last year. Since then, I’ve been waiting to hear even more from these guys. The band (comprised of vocalist Ryan Savitski,…
