Falling Down the Stairs by Blank Realm Blank Realm take a right turn off the druggy, DIY psych thing they've been perfecting for a while now on this new jam, taken from a 7" coming out soon on ace Brisbane label Negative Guest List . Falling Down The Stairs explores similar territory to the Twerps' recent debut: that real classic '80s jangle-pop sound with acoustic guitars and synths and a singalong chorus. It's perfectly executed, too - rough around the edges, with the slightly sinister refrain of "Who's falling down the stairs [...]
I plan to start publishing The Top 50 Albums of 2010 feature shortly, in 5-part increments as usual. The site has been somewhat shaky lately though on account of transferring to a dedicated server, and I apologize for that. But the move should prove very beneficial. Since traffic is at its peak whenever the Top [...]
I plan to start publishing The Top 50 Albums of 2010 feature shortly, in 5-part increments as usual. The site has been somewhat shaky lately though on account of transferring to a dedicated server, and I apologize for that. But the move should prove very beneficial. Since traffic is at its peak whenever the Top [...]
I have heard several people complain about this phenomenon of "lo-fi" artists. Why hide songwriting under layers of incoherence, they usually ask, if the songwriting is allegedly good? Being one of the more popular lo-fi examples, Ariel Pink is one of the first examples they use. I then usually ask if them if they have [...]
20jazzfunkgreats has been navigating the bug-ridden hills of the Mojave Desert over the last couple of weeks, armed with decomposed weaponry and loose evolutionary morals. It is a mesmerising experience, not least because of the retrofuturistic visuals and hallucinatory glitches that unfold in front of our predatory avatar, Juan Vasquez. We scan the landscape from [...]
MP3: Blank Realm - Full Moon Door Luvvin the hungover glow of this Blank Realm classic: their Deja What record, originally issued in a stupidly limited run (52 copies whaaaaaat?) has just been remastered by ECSR's Mikey Young so you can actually fucking buy it and revel in the headache buzz and wild west swagger. It's kind of insane how good this sounds, really, the burn of the undulating bass and organ and the clanking percussion and the super subtle layering of guitars and vocals that slowly creep in and quickly die [...]
Predictions of who will make it big are always liable to provide a journalist with more egg on face than Humpty Dumpty's renologist. The history of music is littered with band's who were destined for greatness and disappeared without leaving so much as a smudge on the window of the music world. It's even harder for bloggers like the Devil because, by our very nature, we deal in the obscure and the uncommercial. However I'm going to stick my neck out and predict that during the next twelve months at least one of the bands featured over the next two [...]
Blank Realm - Come Summer Blank Realm - Keep It Opening all brood and then skipping straight to sweaty Brisbane bright noise, Blank Realm refract an all new light from suburban balconies and remote country houses. It'd be disorienting if it wasn't so heavily textured and coloured, imbued with this condensation like varnish in the odd heavy air. Elsewhere, it's very much their signature sludge, formed out the back with all the bins full of old veges in concrete stares and chunked, yellowed foam. [ Blank [...]
rose quartz
Obscure Sound
20JazzFunkGreats
The Devil Has The Best Tuna
Summer Camp – Always
The National - The Rains Of Castamere [Game of Thrones Soundtrack]
Afrojack Goes Big For His ‘Jacked’ Summer Tour
Friday Remixes
Princeton – Grand Rapids (RAC Remix)
