australia

Here's a brand new one from Melbourne, Australia psych-pop duo Fabulous Diamonds, taken from their forthcoming LP Commercial Music, due later this summer. Jarrod + Nisa (who was also involved in the excellent new Bushwalking record) call the new album "high-brow, young adult contemporary pop music," and while it's certainly less abrasive than their thrilling self-titled 2010 LP, we su

New track from Sydney, Australia "avant-party" trio Holy Balm, taken from their forthcoming LP It's You, which has found an ideal home here in the States in L.A. weirdo emporium Not Not Fun. "Take It" finds the ESG-influenced crew exploring a dystopic, danceable world inhabited by vintage drum machines and wobbly synthesizers, as Emma Ramsay's elegantly wasted vocals lull us i

We've already been up on the jangly, melancholic, perfectly autumnal lead single "Dreamin" and the equally laid-back/seasonally appropriate, female-fronted "This Guy," but now you can listen to the self-titled debut full-length from Australia's Twerps -- available now on Chapter Music in Australia + Underwater Peoples here in the States -- in its entirety, below: __________ mp

Here's a big, dramatic/wistful dance-pop anthem from Sydney's Catcall. "Satellites" will appear on Catcall's debut LP The Warmest Place, which drops just in time for this to become a massive Australian summer night jam (sometime in early 2012 on Ivy League)...