We've seen Papa vs Pretty live in Melbourne and have been following them f rom their early beginnings and are really excited for their debut album launch and tour, and how it came together for them on this effort. They are finally getting the recognition their work and music deserve. Check out the new tracks from United in Isolation , this week's Feature Album on triple j . Love this artwork!!!! As we announced before they are going to be doing an Australia [...]
Weekly Playlist 56 features Cage The Elephant, The Strokes, The View, Broken Bells, Bang Bang Boss Kelly and Papa Vs Pretty. Cage The Elephant - Shake Me Down The View - Grace A very catchy single off their new album Bread and Circuses . The Strokes - Taken For A Fool Yet another brilliant song to come from The Strokes' new album Angles . Broken Bells - [...]
Video from Papa Vs Pretty's 'Heavy Harm' EP out on Peace & Riot. Animated and directed by Guy Verge Wallace Papa Vs. Pretty Papa vs Pretty - Heavy Harm Free MP3 here Arrested Me Arrested You
Papa vs Pretty - 'Heavy Harm' ( mp3 ) When I was first introduced to Papa vs Pretty they were significantly more weird and electronic. 'Heavy Harm' retains an offbeat feeling and roughness to it, but it sounds surprisingly a lot like The Okkervil Rivers, down to Thomas Rawle's imperfect, Will Sheff-aping yelp. It's a pretty sweet tune that shows their song-writing has matured to leans less on weirdness and more on, you know, melody. No doubt this move to more folk-rock territory was helped by Paul Dempsey who produced the EP from which this [...]
The Format's Sam Means and Nate Ruess still continuing to make music individually fun. - At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be) Sam Means - Yeah Yeah Covers of songs we love that pay tribute to the original rather than extracting its guts with a polished spoon and eating them raw Little My - New Slang (The Shins cover) Bubbly Spanish songs so cute you want to stick a pen in your eye [...]
The musical lifespan of a band is not until the idea of dog years. A year in the life of your average joe is seven in band years. So as far as band years go, Papa vs Pretty is older than the majority of musical band hopping whores who bandy the term 'side project' around frivolously. Thank god there are not musically transmitted diseases. Papa vs Pretty in collaboration with friend and filmmaker Ben Wilson have gone about making an 8 part series called "From the Bunker" [...]
Every little now and then a new band emerges with sounds of something fresh and promising. Slipping into that radar is a very young band and one of Sydney's own, Papa Vs Pretty . Catching on quickly is their described 'soaring, beat-afflicted post-gaze new-wave', but anything goes, really. Their music is a vast mixture of band's influences from Talking Heads, Radiohead, Beck, Joy Division to Grizzly Bear, blending sombre sounds of haunting synths, pulsating guitar build ups and the guileless vocals of frontman Thomas Rawle. Having reformed last year with their current line up, the [...]
Preceiding Sunday's laneway there were threats of a scorching weekend in Sydney of temperatures in the high 30s and approaching early 40s, so sure, everyone got a bit paranoid after seeing the footage of the horrific fires running through Victoria. But arriving at the gates of the Laneway festival near Circular Quay the heat that was expected was not evident which was comforting to those of us who knew we would get cramped in narrow laneways and in The Basement. Alas! As I shuffled my way up to get my tickets scanned I was stopped for numerous minutes after a [...]
I know I've gone on about this competition, quite a bit, but if you're looking for a sample of rising talent in Sydney, you won't find much better. The grand final will be held over two nights, at The Hopetoun Hotel , with 4 bands playing per night. Here's a quick overview of who made it to the final 8: Night 1 - Monday 3rd Nov Jordy Lane Jordy Lane's music has two very distinct sides. There's the warm, soft and downright gorgeous side, seen on tracks [...]
Ok hey there baby and the other 2 people who check this every 2 or 3 weeks. Here's the deal. I bought God Of War. I played God Of War in the time that I would ordinarily be sitting on my ass bored out of my brain. Hence, God Of War stopped me from... well.. writing on my shitty website. As for the other guys, well, they only write when I commission them. Such is life. We are all content keeping our thoughts to ourselves. It's actually a bit painful to write [...]
Let me just start b y saying that these kids will do big things. Maybe when they finish school, of course, considering they are doing their HSC as we speak. Oh, and also that Tom Rawle is an absolute freak. It speaks volumes to his talent when he somehow is the lead guitar, vocalist, synth and programmer and somehow still has room to go nuts on the stage. He writes all their material, and, from what i can gather, is the main reason this band has such a mature sound going on. The only thing [...]
To be honest, the underage music scene in Sydney is quite pathetic. You see the occasional punk and emo gigs, or perhaps a big international act will play an all ages show, but as far as regular bands go, the ones I'm seeing each and every week, the kids get nothing. On one hand, this is great for us adults, but when you consider that their impressionable young minds are being lost to the likes of Panic At The Disco, it's cause for concern. That's why this upcoming gig is so good. I couldn't think of a better [...]
For the second straight month in a row (for me), the Sandwich Clubbers have put on the best night out in Sydney. Candy's was packed last night as Marching Room launched their new EP to a very enthusiastic crowd. As I discussed with Hutch, they are a really tight band and they had some pretty great songs that got the crowd moving, but I wasn't super impressed in the end. On before them was Tokyo Blonde and all I remember about them was the lead singer annoying the hell out of me by not [...]
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