SCK CHX - Monday Rock, Garage, Punk | 05/04/2018 |
SCK CHX are a Sydney 3 piece whose music looks to find a shared space between thrashy punk and introspective meditative dream pop.
Monday recounts an early psychological consultation and receiving a tangible diagnosis for depression and anxiety. It's charging garage punk pace provides a dirty lofi soundtrack to the track's lyrical confession, and ironically suggests a sense of relief and empowerment can come with such an emotional event.
SCK CHX - Feel The Same Rock, Punk, Garage | 09/03/2018 |
Sydney dream-punk 3 piece whose music looks to take listeners on a journey through emotional states from deep thought to anarchic aggression
Feel The Same’ is a song of contrast, with bright dream-pop verses that draw you in with their warm harmonies, bouncy beats and sharp chords - and a punk chorus that rips you out of your seat and sends you flying through a blender of sound and emotion.
King Colour - Shimmer Rock, Psychedelic, Pop | 15/02/2018 |
King Colour are a psych-pop four piece from Sydney whose sound falls somewhere on the sonic spectrum between Tame Impala and Mac Demarco.
‘Shimmer’ is a lucid psych-groover of a track with a lyrical sincerity and a ceaseless hypnotic beat to back it up.
Sck Chx - Spinning Around Rock, Punk, Garage | 23/11/2017 |
SCK CHX are a Sydney three-piece who use their shared experiences to create their own brand of dreamy music which draws from early punk, psychedelic music and new wave.
Sydney mates SCK CHX’s latest release ‘Spinning Around’ is a bull through a china shop track that celebrates the feeling of losing control, being weird and being totally okay with that
Jermango Dreaming - Modern Day Living Rock, Psychedelic, Garage, Funk | 14/11/2017 |
Jermango Dreaming is the psych-pop project of Sydney-based artist Jermaine Sakr. While the tone is laid-back and lulling, each track holds a strong groove, influenced by 70s/80s funk and electric-dreams.
Modern Day Living is a sultry lofi dreamer that stems from a nostalgic place - the transition from teenage-hood into the adult-world and the complicated emotional of this personal change. It touches on themes of love, lust, friendship and adventure, while reminding listeners of the complexity of departing adolescence.
King Colour - Lost My Cool Rock, Psychedelic, Soul, Pop | 24/10/2017 |
King Colour’s silky blend of psychedelic soul and indie rock has become a seminal force in Sydney’s indie music scene with spontaneous, improvisational live sets and an accessible studio repertoire.
'Lost My Cool' is a reflective, humble opening to the ‘Mood Lighting’ EP due out early 2018, with slinky guitars and huge spacey jams that place it somewhere on the sonic spectrum between Mac Demarco and Tame Impala.
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Jermango Dreaming - I Want You Rock, Garage, Psychedelic, RnB | 14/02/2017 |
Jermango Dreaming is the solo project of Sydney artist Jermaine Sakr. Initially exploring slacker psychedelic rock, Jermango expanded to add funk and electric dreams a big part of the music.
'I Want You' came about through doubt, anxiety and paranoia with his relationship. Even when things don’t seem right, and anxiety gets the best of us. Its about putting that aside and wanting to be with your other half despite the horrible feelings one creates themselves.
Dives - Fresh Air (Ft. AJ the Aged One) Rock, Garage, Psychedelic, Pop | 03/06/2016 |
Caught in a head space somewhere between the garage and the ocean, Dives creates contemplative, shoeg-gazy psych that slips away from the constant murmur of Sydney and finds zen.
'Fresh Air' is a reflective, dream-pop anthem that explores the isolation and guilt an individual can experience with anxiety and depression. The verses are brooding, dark and confused, and erupts into a harmonious, humbling chorus line "I often wonder why you stand by me... why you still love me".
Other tracks by Dives: Feel Free
SCK CHX - Don't Wanna Go Home Rock, Punk, Garage, Psychedelic | 01/06/2016 |
SCK CHX's sound is a cocktail of crunchy guitar riffs, bouncy beats and misty melodies drawing from 60's new wave punk/surf like Joy Division and the Velvet Underground.
New single 'Don't Wanna Go Home' is a cruisy punk track that deals with the concept of moving out and on with life.