Welcome to the 2SER New Music Report – featuring all the new music on your 2SER airwaves this week across your Breakfast, The Daily and Drive programs!

ALBUMS:

Daily Toll – A Profound Non-Event (L)
Dorio – Super Love 3 (OS)
Feather Wilson – Feathering the weather (AU)
Julien Mier – Gradually (L)
L’Eclair – Cloud Drifter (OS)
Lady Lyon – Cub (L)
R.em.edy – High Again EP (AU)
Tjaka – Elevate EP (AU)

SINGLES:

1tbsp – Dolly Destructiva feat Cherry Chola (L)
Brenda – Take a hint (AU)
Cass McCombs – Peace (OS)
Frankie Cosmos – Pressed Flower (OS)
Jamaica Moana – Livin Out West (L)
Jerrah Patston – Bagpipers in the Carpark (L)
Parades – Desire (L)

As always, we’re blessed with an incredible array of new music this week from both home and abroad. However, just because, this week let’s focus on some of the more downtempo and cerebral sounds being gently unleashed into the world. Let’s begin with Gradually, the fourth studio record from Utrecht-born, now Eora/Sydney-based electronic music producer, Julien Mier. Out on Barcelona-based label Lapsus records, Gradually is a beautifully composed collection of mostly downtempo electronic that styled as an exploration of memory, identity, and change, told in three parts exploring Mier’s French Heritage, Dutch upbringing and adult relocation to Sydney:

“The album draws on my trilingual upbringing and the cultural shifts I’ve experienced, from childhood in Europe to life in Australia now. Each track traces a step in that evolution.”

Mier is a producer of longstanding skill and pedigree (also releasing under various alias’ including as Santpoort), and there’s much throughout this record in terms of genres and sounds, from ambient and acoustic pieces to club-adjacent jungle and bass music. Mier will also be launching the album next Thursday (June 26) at The Petersham Bowling Club along with special guests Sofia Carey and Land Systems.

Cloud Drifer is the fifth studio record by Geneva’s cosmic tracellers L’Eclair. Released on the Innovative Leisure label, it’s their first full LP since 2021 and one in which they morphs through a range of styles, from 70s style rock-fusion, electronic disco to downtempo trip hop and new age jams. In comparison to earlier releases, Cloud Drifter dabbles with more clear-cut pop and club-functional arrangements, but the retrofuturist jazz-funk and electro-acoustic undertones are as strong as ever, and will appeal to longstanding fans as well as new. An interesting fun-fact that emerged during the week on 2SER is that Stefan Lilov, who founded L’Eclair along with brother Yavor, is also currently a recording member of W.I.T.C.H, and was responsible for some of the insane hooks and riffs heard on Sogolo. It’s true and that interview can be found here. Go 2SER, go the blues.

Someone else who is known to play in a project or two is Hudson Whitlock. On top of work with all of Surprise Chef, Karate Boogaloo and The Pro-Teens, the Naarm-based drummer, dj and producer has been working on a side project under the alias Brenda. Take a Hint is a stunner of crystal clear deep-soul with trademark direct-to-tape  instrumentationan. This is also an early cut  from an in-the-works album, the very appropriately titled Bath Time, a record that is already sounding and looking like a great soundtrack to light a candle, crank the hot tap and pour in some suds to. Out now on College of Knowledge.

Also keep an ear out for the imminent release of Cub, the debut record from local psych-country powerhouse Lady Lyon, which will be hitting the 2SER airwaves from next week. We’ve been priviliged to hear an advance copy of this, and it’s a gem from Hayley Lyon and the Evening Records crew.

As always, we try to always post listening links to sites that let you support artists directly (through purchasing music and merch) rather than multinational streaming sites.