REVIEWS

Middle age moments? Yeah, and what of it?

JESSIE WARE That! Feels Good (Clash/EMI) IT WAS PRETTY COMPREHENSIVELY answered last time of asking, in 2020, but in case it wasn’t clear...

Sleaford Mods, UK Grim. Album review by Bernard Zuel.

Everything frontman Luke Steele exudes is a sum of its parts, each quality or stagecraft trick never outdoing one another.

IT'S GOOD TO KNOW THESE EARS CAN STILL HEAR A #TUNE when stumbling upon one. The Last Dinner Party's most excellent debut single 'Nothing Matters' popped up randomly on my streaming platform of choice and, upon doing a little research doesn't seem like these ears are exactly taste making after all - their trajectory is already well on its way! I call this exercise of releasing this kind of debut single "to pull a Wet Leg" - that doesn't mean it shares anything more with Wet Leg than an...

... if Jesus was to show up at this gay bar – “robes hitched up to his knees/to make it easy to spin” – he’d not have to explain himself.

Bernard Zuel reviews the massive Florence + The Machine show at Qudos Bank Arena in Sydney.

To an audience which seems to cover at least half the never-the-twain musical and age-demographic tribes of Sydney....

Laurel is part Danaerys Targaryen (the look) and part Florence Welch (the voice), yet somehow 100% her own creation.

Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker and Phoebe Bridgers each have a track record of work that can undercut tendentiousness

Having seen Genesis three times before, the addition of the orchestra was indeed mighty delicious for the ears

Waxx Lyrical pressed an exclusive vinyl record of Yard Act for Australia. They played Laneway and charmed everyone at Catalog Music.