STACK #130 Aug 2016

NEWS

MUSIC

A Quick Look at New Music,

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All Different Kinds, All Different Places.

H i-hi music fans, it's your new captain speaking. The revered Jonathan Alley has left the cockpit; actually he's parachuted right out into documentary filmmaker land, to go on safari adventures across the life and times of The Triffids' late frontman David McComb. Good luck old mate, and thanks for everything. Meanwhile, we're continuing through the clouds; look, there's one shaped like the first The Basics album in six years (pg 92), another resembling the glass brick Faraday Memorial on the cover of The Maccabees' Marks to Prove It (pg 86), and yet another which looks like the turn-ups on Mac DeMarco's dungarees (pg 90). Isn't air travel magical? Barf bags are in your seat pocket; have a lovely day. Zo ë Radas (Music Editor)

On My Speakers...

On An On And The Wave Has Two Sides There's a hidden magic pulse threaded through these pretty and

Drinks Hermits On Holiday Drinks are Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley, and their amazing postpunk debut is basically guitar and organ experiments over Ramones-type drums, plus sick lyrics. Super great.

Oberhofer Chronovision Surf-rock revivalist Brad Oberhofer has gone kind of Suspiria -creepy

Georgia Georgia The precision of the electronic beats versus the ethereal, flawed

voice of Georgia (flawed in a cool way – sometimes she's flat or croaky or overly breathy) evokes FKA Twigs, on this gal's excellent debut.

with the heavy strings and strange piano on this new release, amongst the usual thick drums, lazy ride, mangy voice and crunchy guitars.

emotive tracks from the Minnesotan trio, like a whale's heartbeat (or some such delightful allegory).

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