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Sydney Film Festival: Mustang
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The film is called Mustang for a reason; when you try to domesticate a wild horse it is only a matter of time before the horse is going to buck and break free. -
Queen of the Desert
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Queen of the Desert instead recalls Herzog's groundbreaking work in which he pits person against place; in this case famed British explorer Gertrude Bell and the expansive desert of the Middle East. -
Sydney Film Festival: Land of Mine
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Set in the 1940s, the Danish production Land of Mine is a film based on true events which brings forward the heartbreaking aftermath of World War II in Europe. -
Flume: Skin
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In its best moments, Skin brings the dynamism and arresting flurries of sound and ideas that are expected of Flume. -
Black Cab: "Uniforms" Single Launch
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With the launch of their new single “Uniforms”, Melbourne based band Black cab brought their hypnotic, melancholy synth sounds to create surreal dreamlike soundscapes. -
Yumi Zouma: Yoncalla
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When playing, Yumi Zouma never miss a beat, but when listening to them, your heart might. -
The Nice Guys
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The Nice Guys is immediately engaging and intriguing, with a string of murders and disappearances in 1977 Los Angeles slowly coalescing into a heavily loaded murder mystery -
Tinpan Orange at The Vanguard
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Stripped right back to just a guitar and vocals, the three musicians - Emily, her brother Jesse and Alex Burkoy - displayed just how well the three of them connect on stage. It was raw and intimate. -
Eagulls: Ullages
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Eagulls throwback sound succeeds better than other bands who mine the same era because they are adept at creating tension and texture with competing and complementary sounds. -
Sasa Sestic: The Coffee Man
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The amount of passion and knowledge that spilled out of the man’s brain was like an endless stream. If only it could be bottled up and taken home. -
Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool
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A Moon Shaped Pool is a gift given without pretence, without spin and without artist commentary. These eleven songs state and explain themselves like a self-sustaining microcosm. -
Anohni: Hopelessness
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Despite the album's title, its sound and ANOHNI's performance still look toward the future. She is not resigned, but passionate, frequently lifting her one-of-a-kind voice toward the soulful heights that longtime listeners will know and relish. -
Florence Foster Jenkins
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Florence Foster Jenkins embodied music, and the euphoric feeling she possessed when singing outweighed any form of logic. -
Julianna Barwick: Will
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Will is a sun-dappled inner journey from beginning to end. It’s more than just wandering background music, though – it’s meditative in the best possible way. -
Mayfair Kytes at The Vanguard
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Staying true to the gentle, introspective mood of their recordings, the live show didn't fall into the trap of excess noise for the sake of it - it was a delightful extension on a great album. -
The First Monday in May
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The film is as perfectly composed and constructed as the fashions at its centre, using an exact and very cinematic visual style and a striking soundtrack that feels just as forward-thinking as the most avant-garde Alexander McQueen piece. -
Blonde Poison
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The audience at once both pities and inwardly condemns this woman, seeing through the arrogant façade that is a manifestation of self-hatred and extreme guilt. -
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: Nonagon Infinity
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...epic creativity and flights into psychedelia and funkiness move through the tracks. The album is all about big guitar sounds rattled off at one hundred miles an hour. -
Mia Madre
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Regret and emotional weakness flavour Mia Madre, the latest film from Italian director Nanni Moretti. -
Marguerite
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As Marguerite graces the stage, poised in her peacock feathered headdress, she begins the first few bars of Mozart’s “The Queen of the Night Aria,” the voice that is released is none other then a glass shattering pitch and at best a cringe-worthy performance.