2012 album from the Australian Indie Rock band. Alpine formed in 2009 and have gone from strength-to-strength ever since. Likened to Phoenix, Lykke Li and The xx, they've held the mantle of triple j Unearthed Feature Artist and have found friends online, on air and on paper. Fusing synths with honeyed harmonies, hypnotic rhythms and bright beats, Alpine appeared on the scene with a set of demos that quickly caught the attention of music lovers around the world. 2010 saw the release of their critically lauded debut EP Zurich as well as tours alongside the likes of Cloud Control, Jinja Safari, The Naked and Famous, Catcall, not to mention their own sold out national headline tour to boot. A Is For Alpine is the band's first album and proves why they are one of the most exciting and promising acts in Australia right now.

Progressive Deathcore / Djent

Like the chorus on “Come Down” that makes the downward trajectory sound ornate and beautiful, the debut LP, Depersonalisation, from Sydney-based band Nite Fields, is sparse and cold yet inviting and intimate at the same time. Lead singer and songwriter Danny Venzin is opinionated, passionate, and uncompromising, whether releasing works on his own label Lost Race or maintaining his diligent focus on a unified (though not narrow-minded) Nite Fields aesthetic, regardless of what music is currently in fashion. His band mates Chris Campion, Liza Harvey and Michael Whitney consist of deeply immersed players in a tight-nit local D.I.Y. scene Australian iconoclast Nigel Lee-Yang of cult band HTRK, who’s known for his distinctive musical vision, approached the band about mixing the band’s future material after hearing their self-released “Vacation” single, which was recently re-released by felte. The results are rich with characterful sounds. Deftly crafted and sonically diverse, within the nine tracks you’ll find noisy percussion, jangley guitars, potent bass and hypnotic synthesizers, all polished with Yang’s signature electronic sheen. Poetic and personal, you need only to listen to the record's lyrics and atmosphere to understand where the title Depersonalisation comes from. Recurring themes include disassociation of reality and dissipation of love, with Venzin’s understated and at times unsettling vocal delivery almost as hard to forget as the album’s unique mood.

DZ Deathrays are an Australian dance-punk trio from Brisbane, Queensland.

Three weeks since surprising the world with epic track “Let It Happen” via their website, Tame Impala have today unveiled their first official single “‘Cause I’m A Man.” “Cause I’m A Man” will be released Tuesday April 7 through Interscope.
Along with the 7 minute 34 second epic “Let It Happen,” “‘Cause I’m A Man” is also confirmed to appear on Tame Impala’s hotly anticipated third album which the band have now revealed is titled Currents.
Sketched out in planes, cars, hotels and homes since the completion of Tame Impala’s worldwide critically acclaimed Lonerism in 2012, “Cause I’m A Man” and “Let It Happen” were written, performed, recorded, produced and mixed by Kevin Parker in Fremantle, Western Australia.

Just a day after offering up a free download from their new album, the reunited Dead Can Dance — co-founders Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard — are now putting it all out there, offering a full stream of the eight-track Anastasis, the duo’s first new album in 16 years, seven weeks before its release in a variety of digital and physical formats.

With depth and insight well beyond their years, FOURTEEN NIGHTS AT SEA have stepped out of the shadows of their influences to become one of Australia’s more interesting and spirited underground rock bands. Recorded with acclaimed engineer Neil Thomason (MY DISCO, AUGIE MARCH), Great North reflects the bands profound level of concentration, seamlessly capturing the unforgiving winter illustrated throughout the packaging. The ominous beauty, the unrelenting bitterness and lingering, eerie static.

Since I Left You is the debut studio album by Australian electronic music group The Avalanches, released on 27 November 2000. It was issued on Modular Recordings and produced by The Avalanches' members Robbie Chater and Darren Seltmann (under the pseudonym Bobbydazzler). The album uses sampling extensively, containing an estimated 3,500 samples from various genres of music. The album was created in two separate near-identical studios by Chater and Seltmann, exchanging audio mixes of records they sampled.