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DMA'S
Hills End
There were a few
furrowed brows
when it was reported
I OHYOU signed
DMA's on the
strength of just one
song, but over the last couple of
years the Sydney group have built
themselves an enviable arsenal of
indie-pop-rock tracks, and this month
offer them up in the form of their
excellent debut Hills End.
New Releases
Fat White Family
Songs For Our Mothers
Elton John
Wonderful Crazy Night
STREAMING ON
The 1975
I Like It When You Sleep,
For You Are So Beautiful
Yet So Unaware Of It
Savages
Adore Life
IN THE SPOTLIGHT ON JB HI-FI NOW
verything
ou hear
n Jack
arratt's
ebut album
hase is
layed by
the young man alone, and his
collection of genre-skipping
tracks will convince you that
the ever-expanding love for
the British artist/producer
is definitely warranted. It
features recent singles
Weathered and Breathe Life.
Jack Garratt
Phase
Bowie
Retrospective
Encompassing
all the stand-outs
from Bowie's
illustrious career,
meander through
Changes,The Jean
Genie, Magic Dance, Life
On Mars?, Golden Years,
Lazarus, Dancing In The
Street, Modern Love, Velvet
Goldmine,When The Wind
Blows, Hallo Spaceboy and
many, many more.
If you've
never heard
the half-
drawled
beauty of
Lucinda
Williams'
voice, now's the time to
get on board. The veteran
country singer is in a league
of her own when it comes
to distinctive pipes, and
her new album The Ghosts
Of Highway 20 showcases
that talent along with her
inimitable songwriting skills.
Lucinda Williams
The Ghosts Of
Highway 20
The multiple-ARIA-decorated
hip hop trio have taken their
'restrung' project to another
level, combining tracks from
their previous two albums
(which both topped the ARIA
charts) and re-recording
them with full orchestral
accompaniment from the
Adelaide
Symphony
Orchestra.
Hilltop Hoods
Drinking From The Sun,
Walking Under Stars
Restrung
Wolfmother
frontman
Andrew
Stockdale
hasn't
lost any of
the wide,
confident stride which
permeated the Australian
rock group's previous three
releases. Victorious hits the
ground running with the
eponymous single coming
into the tracklist early on, and
you're consequently treated to
a grimy swipe of fuzzed guitar
and thumping drums for the
rest of this gem.
Wolfmother
Victorious
D avid Bowie's death on
January 10 of this year
has been a spur in our
sides towards re-experiencing all
of the man's incredible back
catalogue: the folk-infused
prog-rock of Space Oddity (1969),
the hard glam-rock of The Man
Who Sold The World (1979), the
psychedelic pop of Hunky Dory
(1971), the beautiful conceptual
masterpiece Ziggy Stardust
(1972), the very glam-trash
Diamond Dogs (1974), the
Krautrock-inflected "Heroes"
(1977), the distinctive disco pop
of Let's Dance (1983), the artistic
revival of Black Tie White Noise
(1993), and the critically
acclaimed The Next Day (2013).
These seminal albums and more
are the perfect soundtrack to
reflect on one of the peerless
iconoclasts of our time.
GOODBYE BOWIE
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