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Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse bottles the thrilling, high drama of a Wet Kiss live show. It’s also, somehow, an amazing glam rock record made in 2025.
Like a warm hug from a friend who’s lived a million lives, most of them sad.
A curious collection of bric-a-brac, tenderness, love, grief, and meaning, Daily Toll’s debut album sits comfortably in all of its contradictions.
In muddy, gloomy waters, a pristine flower blooms.
Like the soundtrack of a kindled romance, born out of two people meeting in a bar, both drunk and dancing in the corner, only to never see each other again the day after.
Life is an intertwining of dreams, emotions, feelings and behaviours. How do you chop up the pie?
1. Groove 2. Grit
Feeling both spacious and intensely intimate, acoustic sounds drenched in lush reverb take the fore on Lifetime, with a particular focus on live drum breaks; chopped and reversed to perfection.
From baile funk to drill, dancehall to gqom, VARVIE WORLD is tapped into the city it was created in and deeply inspired by the scenes Sydney connects to around the globe.
It’s not easy to summarise their sound, and maybe that’s the point.
An almost Gen Z form of folk-tronica – hyper-folk maybe – threading auto-tuned vocals, stretched-out guitar and synths with goofy jersey club samples and poetic lyricism.
"This sounds like what friendship feels like.”