Welcome to the new music review where we connect you with some of the best new music spinning on Breakfast, The Daily and Drive programs.

ALBUMS:

Beach House – Once Twice Melody (Feature Album)
Coconut Cream – What Kind Of Music Do You Like To Listen To EP
Kerbisde Collection – Round the Corner
Methyl Ethyl – Are you haunted
Modern Studies – We are here
Racerage – Black Medusa EP
The Simps – Siblings
William Crighton – Water And Dust

SINGLES:

Bones and Jones + Folk Bitch Trio – If I was a man
Elsy Wameyo – River Nile
Kitsch Kitchen – Motionless
Kurt Vile – Like exploding stones
Rosie and the Quest – Tempation
Sam Redmore – Party(feat. Lumi HD) (Buscrates Funked Up Mix)
Snapped Ankles – Barbecue in Brazil
The Laurels – Borrowed Time

The fourth album from Wiradjuri (Central NSW Riverina) based artist William Crighton just landed. Entitled Water and Dust, it is a powerful album filled with emotive and politically conscious songwriting, earthy folk arrangements, and Crighton’s distinctive and powerful voice. You may have heard the lead single Keep Chasing the Sunshine spinning on 2SER over summer, and the full album delivers a refined take on Australiana. Keep an ear out for standout tracks such as Stand and The Wheel.

Going even more local (atleast for our Sydney readers), Eora four-piece Coconut Cream drop their latest EP, What Kind of Music do you like to Listen to?, a shimmering and melancholic indie rock 6-tracker with catchy yet heartfelt songs, dealing with painful memories and the catharsis of confronting them.

In a similar vein, the washed out sounds of Los Angeles’ The Simps deliver a memorable debut LP, Siblings. Taking elements of psych-rock and garage and delivering them at a heady tempo. There is something beautifully low-fi, sunny and disintegrated throughout, featuring ample amounts of uplifting melodic guitar and plenty of bright reverb.

Fans of Low, Talk Talk and Kate Bush are in for a treat with the new Modern Studies album, We are Here, now spinning regularly. This is the 5th full album from the Scottish group, and the follow up to 2020’s The Weight of the Sun. Dramatic chamber-pop  and rich orchestral backing drive this moving album through both melancholic and uplifting songs, with exquisite musicianship and complex songwriting.

Perth’s Methyl Ethyl have also given us their latest, Are you Haunted? It poses an interesting question that may require further consideration. What is certain though is that this is a pulsating and vibrant new wave/dance record, filled with catchy synthesised hooks, curious production directions, and self-reflective songwriting. It’s out now and on our rotation.

Also coming in this week are some of the latest from Melbourne’s noise-pop exponents Racerage, high quality jazz-funk out of Brisbane from Kerbside Collection. Also, Adelaide’s Elsy Wamayo is back with a new track, River Nile, alongside the debut single from Australian beatmaker Kitsch Kitchen. Going further afield, we’re also really feeling the new one from Kurt Vile, Like Exploding Stones.

You can catch all of these and more playing now on 2SER.