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Marcus Whale: Inland Sea
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Combining hard hitting beats with swelling, sonorous textures, Inland Sea is a thrilling collision of aggression and sensuality. -
Ngaiire: Blastoma
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Blastoma is a brave album, with Ngaiire's gorgeous voice navigating a terrain of sharp, rocky beats and reaching a stunning emotional apex. -
Tribes
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Tribes is a well thought out and constructed play and promises to delight and entertain while reassuring you that your family is in fact, normal after all. -
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.