"Death Masks is a one man thing. I just put out a tape, you can listen to it in full and buy it over at my bandcamp. I come from an awful town near Liverpool." - Death masks Stumbling through soundcloud I came across Death Masks tunes and instantly became relaxed yet nostalgic. This
Scott and Charlene's Wedding - Footscray Station Shambling, esoteric, Velvets-inspired indie rock with a sense of poetry, brilliantly named in honour of a classic Aussie TV memory: the marriage of Kylie Minogue's character to Jason Donovan's character on Neighbours. This sounds like that fictional suburb constantly idealised in rock music where everything's poignant & wistful & reeks of lost innocence, etc. It ambles along, shedding waves of noise, and it sounds totally cool. That's not surprising, given the pedigree of the band's members: frontman Craig Dermody, formerly of Spider Vomit, is backed up by [...]
Here is the first of Mad Mackerel's best of 2009 lists.We could pretend we're way too cool for lists, that we don't really enjoy them, that they are too subjective, a necessary evil, a waste of time.But that's all bollocks as far as we're concerned.We love making lists and nothing lends itself so well to them as music does, after all its how popular music has been judged for the past sixty years
A little while back, our pal Georgia at Microphone Memory Emotion asked me how we find the "crazy stuff" we post about on Rose Quartz. I guess it'd be tough blogging from Brooklyn, where everyone's no more than 30 seconds away from tweeting about the next massive thing, but here in Sydney it's a lot easier to find and post about a heap of cool shit that isn't already saturating the Hype Machine (totally selfish, I know!). Anyway, here are my top ten albums by Australian bands this year. Shout outs go to Love of Diagrams, Brain Children, [...]
What an excellent month for music October was.Here are some of the best songs we posted in the last 31 days (in case you missed them), and as a bonus a few we didn't manage to squeeze in, but wish we had. All are well worth your time and ears, and if you like what you hear, please do go and buy the EPs or albums.Roll on November!Previously posted (check the labels on the left hand side of the
Hard on the heels of the wonderful Sherlock's Daughter comes another top-notch discovery from Australia. Here at the Mackerel, we love songs that open with lyrics that immediately make you sit up and strain your ears to hear more and Government Room by St Helens from their debut album Heavy Profession certainly does just that. In fact it is just one of a number of tracks that achieves the feat on
Australia's St Helens and their album Heavy Profession is this weeks rotation highlight. Jarred Quarrell is a modern friggin' Lou Reed. Really. The music behind him lulls you along... [go to the website to read the rest of the article, download mp3s and more]
MUSIC NEWS - After much anticipation, Wolf & Cub's album, Science And Sorcery is now available digitally via iTunes. The Dot Dash release (record home to artists such as Lee Memorial and St Helens) was produced by Chris Colonna ( Bumblebeez ) and sonically, Science and Sorcery transitions between deep rock grooves and mesmerizing, psychedelic explosions to dueling tribal beats and laser-guided rhythms. Wolf & Cub have [...]
Some bands just try way too hard. That certainly seems to be the case with Australian band St Helens and their debut album Heavy Profession.This album is the sound of a band unsure of its direction, even its own identity. The songs are stuck in a limbo of half-rock, half-art music, and never really ever commit to being one of the other. The result is songs like "Heavy Profession" and "The Only
• Blur, 'Midlife: A Beginner's Guide to Blur' • Dodos, 'Tie to Die' (MP3) • St Helens, 'Heavy Profession' (MP3) • Yacht, 'See Mystery Lights' (MP3) NPR is streaming Lightning Dust's Infinite Light (MP3)...
With such a backlog of music due to limited blog time the past couple weeks, we're just going to offer a brief comment or two with the music as I do feel somewhat guilty that much of this has been sitting here so long. I've a couple artists/releases to spotlight and will do them up as separate posts over the weekend. I do want to thank all the bands, artists and labels that have sent music our way for being so patient while I've been so busy. • • • • Swedish Indie/Psychedelic Rockers [...]
Dot Dash is pleased to announce the US digital release of St Helens' debut album, Heavy Profession on July 28th. Jarrod Quarrell's (The New Season, Lost Animal) world weary but ultimately victorious... **Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.
The U.S. digital release of St Helens' debut album, Heavy Profession on July 28th. The full tracklisting and details are below. Tracklisting: 1. Don't Laugh 2. Heavy Profession 3. How To Choose Your Guru Pt 2 4. St Luke 5. Coffin Scratch 6. Pharaohs Tomb 7. The Only Ghost In The Room 8. Get Up 9. One In Seventeen 10. Positivity 11. Summer [...]
I've been flooded with new music from some of our (and maybe, your) favourite locals. Photo: Pamela Amores Firstly, legendary Sydney group Decoder Ring are just about to release their fourth LP, They Bind The Stars, And The Wild Team . Over five years, They Bind ... sees the end of the journey initiating from scoring the soundtrack to the film, Somersault . Exploring a new sound, expect to hear more from Decoder Ring in the following weeks but [...]
NEW ARTIST PROFILE by NIKHIL GUPTA New music from Australia: Melbourne's newest indie sensation, St Helens , released its first album, Heavy Profession , in Australia back in April but audiences in the US won't get fully exposed to this one until later this summer. At once catchy, devastating, and quietly relentless, this is exciting new music that's near-impossible to turn away from. We think audiences everywhere will find the wait worth while! [...]
St. Helen's - 'Don't Laugh' ( mp3 ) I've been hearing Don't Laugh a lot on the radio lately and although I wasn't such a fan at first, I must say that I've begun to find myself singing along. The song is off Melbourne band St Helens' just released debut album called Heavy Profession. The album interweaves haunting yet melodic vocals with great guitar work to come off with a rather eerie, slow paced, alternative sounding finished product. If it sounds like your kind of thing, you should check it out! [...]
DOWNLOAD: St. Helens - How to Choose Your Guru Pt. 2 (MP3) Jarrod Quarrell, leader of the regrettably short-lived Melbourne band The New Season, has resurfaced with his new project St. Helens. Jarrod's new batch of songs combine his world-weary cynicism with sparsely-produced blues-based guitar and vocal interplay that bring to mind past work by Jeffrey Lee Pierce/The Gun Club and The Bad Seeds. Triple R Radio described the new disc as a " beguiling and beautiful musical journey through the quotidian, broken and [...]
St Helens have finished recording their new album "Heavy Profession" and the first MP3 sample of these wonderful new recordings, How To Choose Your Guru Part 2, can be downloaded below. The record is due out sometimes this summer. Download: St. Helens - How To Choose Your Guru Part 2 Share This:
St Helens - How To Choose Your Guru Pt 2 I've posted about this track before but what we're talking here is a properly recorded version of How To Choose Your Guru Pt 2 instead of lo-fi demo action. We're also talking MOAR COWBELL. It's off their debut album, which in the future will be given a name and then sold, according to experts, on a compact disc. Look out for that. The polish hasn't made this jam any less robotically cool and I am hanging the fuck out for this album to drop [...]
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