Image by: WILK

Welcome to the new music review where we connect you with some of the best new music from Sydney, Australia, and around the world.

Here’s what we’re spinning on Breakfast, The Daily and Drive programs. Read on, click through to our Spotify playlist and enjoy it all on 2SER!

ALBUMS:

Purple Mountains – Purple Mountains (FEATURE ALBUM)
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Ada Lea – What We Say In Private
Drab Majesty – Modern Mirror
Godtet – II
Happiness – Live
Kit Sebastian – Mantra Moderne
Kyle Craft – Showboat Honey
Lachlan Denton & Studio Magic – A Brother
Lucie Thorne – Kitty & Frank

SINGLES:

30/70 – Tempted
Chelsea Wolfe – American Darkness
HTRK – You Know How to Make Me Happy
(Sandy) Alex G – Hope
Whitney – Valleys My Love

This week, Melbourne based singer-songwriter Lucie Thorne gives us an advanced listen to her upcoming album ‘Kitty & Frank’. Having previously leaned into folkier soundscapes, Thorne moves in a slightly more dreamy, art-pop direction on these songs that based around the life of 1860s Australian frontier woman Kitty Walsh, and her bandit/bushranger lover Frank Gardiner. ‘Kitty & Frank’ is officially out Friday, July 26th, and you can catch the album launch on Thursday, October 17 at Camelot Lounge.

There’s also Kyle Craft who brings us groove-ladened rock combined with a vintage 70s feel, and a generous shades of glam. Now with a full backing band, there’s growth in not only collaboration but confidence, from an artist acutely aware of his influences, yet creating a sound entirely his own.

And French/Turkish duo Kit Sebastian releases their debut record in ‘Mantra Moderne’, a lively, borderless blend of Euro-pop, Anatolian psych-rock, Brazilian tropicalia and more. Clever songwriting that translates to a strange, spellbinding world, and sits somewhere between Broadcast, Khruangbin, and Vanishing Twin.