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Homegrown POpular streams featured mix
a long time between drinks
Hermitude
Dark Night
Sweet Light
After carrying
of the AMP
(Australian Music
Prize) in 2013
for their smash
Hyperparadise, Hermitude are back with
the massively anticipated follow-up, Dark
Night, Sweet Light. The internationally
recognised duo (Elgusto and Luke Dubs)
are ready to stride on to the international
stage with five albums behind them.
They're at the forefront of Australian
electronic music.
New Releases
Hiatus Kaiyote
Choose Your Weapon
Hot Chip
Why Make Sense?
Pitch Perfect 2
OST
STREAMING ON
Reece Mastin
Rebel and the Reason
Have you checked out this
X-Factor winner's new EP?
HIs debut album went double
platinum: this EP is a rockier ride!
IN THE SPOTLIGHT ON JB HI-FI NOW
The new album from last
month's STACK cover-stars
is a real departure from their
nu-folk roots and one that's
been wholly embraced by fans.
Album three for The Mumfords
was realised in New York at the
studio of Aaron Dessner from
The National (check song titles
like Tompkins Square Park ,
and Ditmas) but recorded in
London, and is a much more
collaborative effort with all
the band members pitching
in with songwriting efforts.
Another number one album for
Mumford and Sons, listen to it
on JB HI- FI NOW.
Mumford and Sons
Wilder Mind
Hair Metal Heroes
For those who missed it or just don't remember,
the'70s and '80s were about HAIR. Long hair, big
hair, and bouffy, coiffured, gelled, sprayed and
dyed hair. Or in short – very silly hair. Much of
this hair was found atop the heads of bands: Def
Leppard, Aerosmith, Skid Row, LA Guns, Dokken.
Warrant, and the ever-entertaining and always
loved David
Lee Roth (both in
Van Halen and solo).
JB HI-FI Now's Hair
Metal Heroes mix
brings you the hair
metal: get the leopard
print out, and get on it!
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MUSIC
STACK gave Faith No More
the album of the month gong
last month, and it was well-
deserved. Sol Invictus is just
pure, unadulterated Faith No
More: no half measures, no
half-baked experiments, no let
up, just great music you need to
hear NOW.
Faith No More
Sol Invictus
is Byron Bay
r-piece are fast
ing the heavy
sic scene by
rm. With a top
album riding
the charts and massive critical
acclaim fuelling the fire, the band
have been booked for the UK's
premiere heavy music festival
event, Download, this month.
The band have just completed a
national tour and will be hitting
Europe in October. Skydancer was
recorded during the same sessions
as 2014's smash Earthwalker. In
Heart's Wake are that rare beast:
they make you think, and they rage.
Discover them on JB HI-FI NOW.
In Hearts Wake
Skydancer
On her way here
for Splendour
in the Grass,
Florence and her
splendid Machin
deliver the most
spellbinding album of their career;
the one she'll be remembered
for, and the one to convert the
cynics. How BIg, How Blue, How
Beautiful is produced by Markus
Dravs (Björk, Arcade Fire) and it
sounds unhinged in all the right
places and powerful in all the
best ways. Forget all you know,
and hear this!
Florence +
the Machine
How Big, How Blue,
How Beautiful
F or some reason, we're being
sonically assaulted on all sides by
bands who are breaking long
silences. The mighty Faith No More returned
to stages in 2009, but hadn't hit us with a
record until May's well-received Sol Invictus
(see below). Similarly, Britpop icons Blur
– who have also played intermittent festival
gigs – returned in May with their first new
album since 2003, The Magic Whip. It was
also the first album to fully feature co-
founder/guitarist Graham Coxon for about 15
years. Faith No More were here for
Soundwave, and Blur – after notoriously
blowing out The Big Day Out – are here for
Splendour in the Grass. So, new records from
both are welcome, but not that surprising.
What IS very unexpected is a new Refused
album: 1998's The Shape of Punk to Come is
still widely regarded as a classic. When the
band finished that year 'Refused are f–ing
dead' became a catchcry: they vowed they
were done, that they would never return.
After a 2012 performance at Coachella, a
new album has resulted, and Freedom is
out June 26. Lastly, UK electronic icons
Leftfield return with Alternative Light
Source, their first studio album since 1999.
It features Sleaford Mods and TV on the
Radio's Tunde Adebimpe: listen on JB Hi-Fi
NOW from June 5.
"Energised,
passionate an
rocks as hard as any
record they’ve
ever made."
STACK