Welcome to the new music review where we connect you with some of the best new music from around the world. Read on, click through to our Spotify playlist and enjoy it all on 2SER!

Fulton Street – Problems & Pain (Feature Album)
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Jonathan Something – Outlandish Poetica
Emma Davis – Demons
Spider Bags – Someday Everything Will Be Fine
Lola Kirke – Heart Head West
The Beths – Future Hates Me
Tomberlin – At Weddings
Golden Drag – Pink Sky
Bear Grass – Left

Actors turned musicians can be a real hit or miss sometimes, but with New York’s Lola Kirke you can count her in the former. Growing up listening to Gram Parsons, that influence runs deep on her debut album ‘Heart Head West’ which offers a generous dose of country twang throughout. There’s warm and soulful centre in each of these tracks and Kirke’s beautifully crackly and deep voice spins tales that feel both intimate and grand. 

There’s always been a high energy, hardcore grit throughout alt-rockers Spider Bags’ catalogue, but for their latest and fifth album ‘Someday Everything Will Be Fine’ there’s a slightly slower pace that unfurls, a looseness and considered yet disguised effortlessness. It’s still a tightly guitar driven and fuzzed out sound, but one with a new energy and fresh textures partly owed to the introduction of Moog synths.

And we’ve also got ‘Outlandish Poetica’, the debut album from Jonathan Something aka Jon Searles. A cheery and bright indie pop affair with rock-informed melodies. From songs about a nightmare ambush by a star basketball player, or a man on his death bed experiencing an abstract sense of what’s real, it’s Jon’s ability to vividly describe these narratives with such ease that will get you back on repeat listens.

Plus the return of Kiwi sweetheart Tiny Ruins, Moses Sumney, Melbourne post-punks Dark Fair, Tim Cohen and Jerry Paper.

Until next week,
Steph