Elena Tonra is of two minds about almost everything. She created Ex:Re in 2018 to examine the overthinking that gnaws at her constantly, along with traveling she used as to escape her own mind. There was never any thought of…
Album | The Cat’s Miaow – When You Smiled And Turned Away
For a band whose first cassette was released in 1992, the 34-year gestation period for The Cat’s Miaow’s debut album, When You Smiled And Turned Away, seems a bit extreme. Yet things aren’t quite that simple. Melbourne’s Bart Cummings and…
Album | Penelope Isles – 3
Balance is overrated. Nothing is ever quite what it seems. 3, the third long player from Penelope Isles revels in moments where stability may not quite be within reach. Dreams are deferred, stains don’t always come out in the wash.…
Album | Jake Xerxes Fussell – The Old Beloved Path
A self-professed “folk music dork” in high school, Jake Xerxes Fussell doesn’t find satisfaction in creating songs. Instead, he digs through the dark corners, rediscovering of folk songs, mining regional variations, trying to realign and recontextualise tunes for the twenty-first…
Album | Laurelyn Dossett – How Many Moons
How many moments make up a life? Laurelyn Dossett has spent over thirty years writing songs for others, songs performed by the likes of Levon Helm and the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She’s written music for plays, toured with the North…
Album | Lambchop – Punching the Clown
Kurt Wagner wants to disappear. Yet his music is so idiosyncratic that it can’t help but stand out. In a career filled with indelible moments Punching the Clown may be the most unique thing he’s ever recorded. An album with…