Roughly seven years after forming, the Sydney-based band is finally ready to drop their self-produced, self-recorded debut album, SongBook, in March. The collection is an escapist, idealistic, time-traveling journey that frolics in Beatles-flavored strawberry fields, trudges through heavy stoner sludge, and plays with the sort of effortless, heady sounds of artists like Tame Impala and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard who have made Australia this century’s hotbed for psych-rock. The band refers to their long-awaited debut as a trip down memory lane. Some songs were written nearly half a decade ago, after all—a lifetime in teenage years.
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Music by Bergman: Shiny Joe Ryan
A mane of curly locks, a hilarious sense of humour, a lilting Irish brogue, Shiny Joe Ryan is a bit of an enigma.
His musical offerings are as unique as he is – a mix of genres encompassing country, pop and rock, all mangled and mashed into something new, strange and tender. The result, after incubating inside the eccentric mass of hair and ideas that is the noggin of Joe, is The Cosmic Microwave Background.
Now, The POND multi-instrumentalist’s new album, Shiny’s Democracy, will be his first in seven years when it arrives on July 23rd. He presents the whimsical new single ‘Ketamine’ alongside the droll visual accompaniment.
Music by Bergman: GUM
Fremantle sweetheart, plus member of Tame Impala and Pond, GUM is Jay Watson’s aka for solo purposes. His debut release Delorean Highway is a coherent representation of GUM‘s limitless musical abilities, in which he’s shown mastering a diverse range of noise vessels.
Jay already has five solo albums and a further eight with Pond under his belt as well as 12 years association with Tame Impala. Despite the constant demands of those bands, Jay admits he finds it important to keep returning to GUM.
Divus Julius presents…Pond
The Perth quartet’s psychedelic pop, who share blood type with Tame Impala, makes its way through an undergrowth of swampy instrumentations with melodic clearings. But, like any band with a lysergic disposition worthy of this name, they don’t have only one stylistic reality. That’s why there is an urban dimension of Pond as well –many songs are about Perth, their hometown–, their head is well set in the present – the inclusion of keyboards and chroming in their productions is far removed from the sixties and very much 21st century, and they have a very healthy curiosity for music that incites them to delve into other genres such as blue-eyed soul or pure and simple pop, without the prefix psych. They’ve return with their new album, Tasmania.
Hit of the week: ALASKALASKA ‘Moon’
On “Moon,” the new song from London’s ALASKALASKA, Lucinda Duarte-Holman sings about her identity and how it changes at certain times of the month thanks to good old human biology.
“Moon” is also the latest single from ALASKALASKA’s forthcoming debut album, The Dots. The album is due for release on May 3 via Marathon (also home to Courtney Barnett and POND in the band’s native U.K.).
Ville à Dômat #243: ‘Moments of Bliss’
Divus Julius Bonasera, un dilluns més, arriba carregat de noves i bones cançons i del possible retorn del seu inseparable mestre Bergman. Estrenarem el esperats retorns de Foals i Vampire Weekend; la nova cançó de Florence + The Machine; el més nou de Pond, The Drums o Blaenavon i a nous artistes com Feet, Sans Parents, Flamingods o The Ninth Wave. A més tota la info sobre les noves confirmacions del Sónar Festival
Dilluns 19h 100.5FM Ràdio Ciutat Vella.
Ville à Dômat: Moments of Bliss
Ville à Dômat #203: ‘This Is Awesome’
This is awesome! Every monday at 7PM listen Ville à Dômat at 100.5FM. Ràdio Ciutat Vella.
Divus Julius Bonasera presenta el més nou de Kyle Craft, Ezra Furman, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Alice Glass, Pond o Belle and Sebastian. Repassarem el nostre disc de la setmana: The War On Drugs i com sempre punxarem a artistes mai escoltats abans a cap ràdio com boy pablo, Tokio Myers, Snail Mail, Gus Dapperton, Shopping o tune-yards.
Ville à Dômat: This is awesome
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