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Stay up to date with all the Australian music releases from last week with Rolling Stone AU/NZ’s weekly roundup
Marcus Coblyn
Stay up to date with Australian music releases with Rolling Stone AU/NZ’s weekly roundup.
Check out the best new music from Aussie acts released between December 8th-14th below!
Off their forthcoming album High Voltage Anxiety (due out March 27th), “Retaliate” is a sonically ferocious slice of electro-punk, described by vocalist Heather Riley as a “torch and pitchfork party soundtrack”. A critique of the cost-of-living crisis and wealth disparity, “Retaliate” has relentless energy, fuelled by a passion for the cause and a disdain for those in power who refuse to make it right.
SKEM’s new single “When the Dust Settles” sees the Australian rapper reflect on periods of homelessness and pulling himself out of dark times. Ultimately, the song is a positive one, as he gives thanks to those who have stuck by him, and his fans who have supported his journey so far.
Flesh Cherub (aka Liam McVay) has released the lead single, “Blind”, off their recently announced album, Drowing in the Expanse of Looking Up (due out January 17th). The track is a gloomy torch song of inner crisis, impulses and angels, combining gothic country with downtempo distortion, riffing on the fallacy of the adage ‘time heals all wounds.
“Sidestepping” is the first single off EXEK’s upcoming album Prove the Mountains Move (due out February 27th). Featuring levitating synths, it showcases the post-punk outfit’s sonic growth, providing a taste of what’s to come. The album, as vocalist and chief architect Albert Wolski says, is more “epic” than anything he’s recorded to date, a lush and unabashedly melodic set of surrealist pop that luxuriates in contradiction.
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Across 11 tracks, Boy & Bear’s sixth studio album Tripping Over Time offers a boundless exploration of melodic hooks, storytelling, and luminous pop. It is a celebration of the new-found wisdom of age, according to vocalist/lyricist Dave Hosking. “It’s about how time changes us, we grow up, our priorities shift, our lives move onto new chapters and with this comes new insights but also new challenges. It’s a balancing act of reflecting, or even yearning for our youth whilst also embracing life as it inevitably moves forward,” he explains.
Finn Pearson returns with an upbeat, dust-kicking alt-country sound in “Silver Tray”, diving into the messy, funny, quietly devastating transition from youthful chaos into adult responsibility. Sonically barn-dance; lyrically existential crisis, it’s a standout moment for the band and already a live favourite.
In This Article: australian music, Best Australian Music, Best Australian Music of the Week, Boy & Bear, Cry Club, EXEK, Finn Pearson, Flesh Cherub, SKEM
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