HYPE

Arcade Made are an unsigned band from Australia, you can find their tracks for free download on their Triple J Unearthed page. They remind me of early Bloc Party, spliced with Tokyo Police Club, and a hint of Foals. This is obviously a great combo, and having such strong material at such an early age can only mean good things, so check them out.

Dinosaur Bones - Arcade Made
Ruins Ruined - Arcade Made

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Shinichi Osawa's new album, SO2, is pretty good. It gets a bit too dancefloor techno at times, but there are some really compelling tracks on it. Definitely give it a listen. Here's a track you're sure to hear soon enough.

Love Will Guide You - Shinichi Osawa

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Elite Gymnastics have a new song, a track from their incredibly tardy EP, Neu! '92. That's fine and all, but it better not suck. Anyway download Montana, it's a love song in the same vein as their previous work.

Montana - Elite Gymnastics

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Magic Bullets sound a lot like The Smiths, in fact, if you squint your ears you could be forgiven for mistaking They Wrote A Song About You as a long lost b-side that everyone somehow missed.


They Wrote A Song About You - Magic Bullets

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Here's another track from Cloud Nothings. Fucking love these dudes.

Can't Stay Awake - Cloud Nothings

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Swanton Bombs have this cool Rock vibe that I haven't really been taken by as of late. There's something about these guys though that I really like. Check them out.


Waistland - Swanton Bombs

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Games sounds like Teen Daze, they sound like Washed Out, they sound like awesome.

Everything Is Working - Games

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Finally here's an incredibly low quality rip of Giselle Roselli's They Stay Down Deep, it's fucking amazing. I still can't work out if this is just a sample or a really short song. I guess we will know soon enough.

They Stay Down Deep - Giselle Roselli

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HYPE

Tokyo Police Club's second album, Champ, surprisingly does not suck. One of the few 2010 sophomores that not only didn't disappoint, but really caught me by surprise. Check out Bambi, that riff is ridonkulous. To think I wasn't even going to bother with this album makes me glad I second guessed myself.

Bambi - Tokyo Police Club

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Babara, We Are Scientists' third album, on the other hand; did suck. Big time. Check out Jack & Ginger, it's not as infuriating as the rest of the album.


Jack & Ginger - We Are Scientists

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Thunderheist are breaking up, I'd hardly call myself a true fan, but from what I've heard of theirs, this is a pretty sad announcement. This is their swan song.


Drive In - Thunderheist

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Everything Everything have a new song out, called Schoolin'. It's got the same sort of sound as the rest of their work, in fact, i'm beginning to suspect they are one-trick-ponies. Prove me wrong in August, Everything Everything.


Schoolin' - Everything Everything

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Elite Gymnastics is awesome. It's "Post-Chillwave", and if you never got on the Chillwave bandwagon to begin with then too fucking bad, progress waits for no man.

Is This On Me? - Elite Gymnastics

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Matt & Kim cooked up this infectious song a while ago but I'm late in discovering this one. It's called Daylight, and the keyboard at the start is rad.

Daylight - Matt & Kim

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Underworld were responsible for that massive club hit Born Slippy .NUXX (.NUXX was the version with vocals you iTunes tagging savages; make the correction now) way back when. You may remember it from the closing scene of Trainspotting, or maybe not, but if you youtube it or something you'll have one of those "Ohhhh, this song!" moments. This is their new song and it's really catchy, reminds me a lot of the Skins Theme by Segal, which is a great thing.

Scribble - Underworld

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Tame Impala show that even something as insulting as Midnight Juggernauts' sophomore, The Crystal Axis, is not without its silver lining.


Vital Signs - Tame Impala

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