STACK #137 Mar 2016

NEWS MUSIC

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Y ou can have your theories about what happens to musicians who start out on big budget reality television – that's completely up to you my dear. Just don't expect to apply them to Matt Corby. That's all I'm saying. (Actually I'm saying a lot more in our feature interview on page 10, and I don't think I mentioned television once.) Meanwhile, learn how to say Santigold's name correctly in the below interview; read feature chats with Gareth Liddiard of The Drones and Johnny Took of DMA's; and our reviews section contains write- ups for Hilltops, Iggy Pop, Underworld, The Murlocs, Emmy the Great, Violent Femmes, Big Daddy Wilson and a pantsload more. Zo ë Radas (Music Editor)

DMA'S

On My Speakers

Low from WACO by Violent Soho It's the last song on the album out March 18 (look out for our interview with singer Luke Boerdam in the April issue), and it is more contemplative than usual; full of pathos and the prettiest little layered, picked riffs over deepvocals.

Genghis Khan from iii by Miike Snow That syncopated piano/bass beat is too good to go past, even if the lyrics do rhyme 'Genghis Khan' with 'get it on' (as Our Michael points out in his review on page 8), which is admittedly weird. Who cares? Miike Snow make ace pop.

SANTIGOLD T he cover of Santi White’s new album 99c is the real deal. Smooshed beside the musician’s scorpion-like ponytail are a paint set, a plastic horse figurine, a white platform sneaker, a Frisbee, several different kinds of melodion and brightly-coloured classroom percussion instruments, and a hundred other gewgaws. “I’d seen [Japanese photographer Hal’s] work and we flew him to New York for the shoot,” the sunnily- spoken White tells STACK . “He’d never been to the States before. It was a really special collaboration. You literally climb in a plastic bag and he shrink-wraps you, sucks all the air out. Then he counts to ten and snaps the pictures and he INTERVIEW allegory for White’s new collection of tracks, which revolve around the theme of consumerism and material obsession. Outside The War is a haunting, spectral thing, and Run The Races is a beautiful, glissing, deeply stirring track. These themes were something she was thinking about while writing and recording – because at that stage, she was immediately lets the air out." The artwork is a wonderful

MICHAEL JACKSON

MUSIC

T he MJ album which houses his best song ( Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough , dolls) has been reissued! The tracks appear exactly as MJ intended, but you can get the record bundled with auteur director Spike Lee's acclaimed new documentary about Jackson on Blu-ray or DVD. Keep on with the force.

99c by Santigold is out now

through Warner. Read the full interview with Santigold online at stack.net.au.

Off The Wall (Deluxe Reissue) by Michael Jackson is out now through Sony.

his melodies so much. They’re so monotone, very straight. So I would always make up my own harmonies to The Smiths songs. Right now, if you asked me how the song goes, I would probably sing my harmonies,” she laughs. That afore-mentioned track with ILOVEMAKKONEN (pronounced Mc-COH-nen; and while we’re at it, Santi rhymes with “monty”, not “panty”, as White herself puts it) is a belter. There’s a very atonal, conversational feel through the young man’s parts, which White adores: “That’s his style. He’s such an original thing. It’s so unusual, and I think that’s the appeal of it. It’s very raw – charming.”

pregnant. (Her son Radek is now 18 months old.) “It was really hard to sing ‘cause I think I was literally nine and a half months pregnant! But he came out loving music. I’ve never seen a more musical baby,” she beams. Some of the most stand-out powerful things on 99c are White’s harmonies, which flow through Run The Races and Who Be Lovin Me (a collaborative track with LA hip hop artist ILOVEMAKKONEN). “I love harmonies, and I definitely don’t plan them, I just start recording,” she enthuses. “As a really young kid I would always find myself singing the harmonies rather than the lead. The Smiths – I love Morrissey and I love

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