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AC/DC BRING IT on
The Jungle
Giants
Speakerzoid
There's a "rubbery
dynamic variety"
to these beloved
indie pop cats, so
says STACK reviewer Doug Wallen
(check out his full write-up on page
96); Speakerzoid lifts the young
Brisbanties up above the label of
"catchy", and into an echelon of smart
self-awareness (while still remaining
magnificently hummable).
New Releases
Wilco
Star Wars
Roger Waters
Amused To Death
Veruca Salt
Ghost Notes
STREAMING ON
ars & Years
mmunion
e ambient and funk-
elled debut from
glish electronica act
ars &Years will have
u moving.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT ON JB HI-FI NOW
Praised as "swaggeringly
self-assured" with a "muscular
edge" by our man Jeff Jenkins
(read the full review on page
96), The Rubens sophomore
effort Hoops is a wonderfully
confident return for the
four-piece alt-rock act from
NSW. From the gorgeous
piano-driven Hold Me Back to
the rollicking Hallelujah (not a
cover, mind you), the boys are
back and on track.
The Rubens
Hoops
Aussie Hip Hop: JB's
Hand-Crafted Mix
Get this perfectly
curated mix of our
wide brown land's
best hip hop into your
ears: featuring Urthboy,
Thundamentals,
Hermitude, Hilltop
Hoods, Seth Sentry,
360, Illy, One Day and
a cavalcade of others, this is
exactly where you should start
to get your head around the
country's brightest.
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MUSIC
The five fellows which
comprise Dead Letter
Circus have brought another
welcome smack in the face in
the form of third
album Aesthesis.
The title refers
to our capacity
for feeling and
sensation,
and is more than apt for this
collection of deeply emotive,
heavy rock belters. Start with
single While You Wait, and
move on to other standouts X,
Show Me and In Plain Sight.
Dead Letter
Circus
Aesthesis Foals have
been giving our
eardrums riotous
caresses since
2008; the English
lads have now
burst out of the gates with the
eponymous lead single from their
fourth album What Went Down,
and the remainder of tracks on
the release promise to floor
you. Recorded in France with
acclaimed producer James Ford
(Florence + The Machine, Arctic
Monkeys), this astonishingly well-
crafted LP is quickly asserting
itself as one of the best releases
of the year.
Foals
What Went Down
American heavy metal
darlings Disturbed announced
a hiatus in 2011, but at the
beginning of last year began
sneakily writing material
for this, their sixth studio
album. It was recorded at
the appropriately-named
The Hideout
Recording
Studio in LA,
and boasts
some of
their slickest
material to date – and look
out for the Simon & Garfunkel
cover nestled in amongst the
originals.
Disturbed
Immortalized
F or years, iconoclastic Aussie
rockers AC/DC were enormously
concerned about streaming; the
listener experience, they argued, could be
harmfully fragmented and/or damaged by
encountering the band's albums split up
and presented as individual songs. But the
guys have recently changed tack and
decided to release their spectacular
catalogue to the streaming world – and
we've got the whole lot! You can row your
boat merrily down the JB Hi-Fi NOW
streams of their most recent album, 2014's
Rock or Bust, as well as the previous 16 (!)
absolute stone-cold classics in their
repertoire, such as High Voltage (1975),
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (1976),
T.N.T. (1975), Highway to Hell (1979), Fly
on the Wall (1985) and Stiff Upper Lip
(2000). Since the mid-1970s, Angus
Young and his brother Malcolm have
survived a stormy band history, including
the death of original singer/wildman Bon
Scott, all the while bashing out their
simplistic, yet highly addictive, brand of
bluesy rock. It's time to rediscover their
radical riffs, and you can do it as easy as
pie on JB Hi-Fi NOW.
Swaggeringly
self-assured
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