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Here’s some homegrown talent for your listening pleasure.
Getting over Splendour? Getting over people talking about Splendour? Yeah, us too. Oh well, here we have five acts that will hopefully make Splendour seem like a distant, distant memory (until the “take me back” pics start to flood your feed). Check ’em out below and follow our recently renamed Local Produce Spotify playlist where you can find all these tunes and more:
TIMI TEMPLE
We’ve been long-time admirers of DIY rocker Timi Temple and his swelling catalogue of psych jams. His latest tune ‘Tomorrow Is Yesterday’ is another fuzzy journey into his world, complete with sizzling vocal hooks, at trademark TT solo, and a spaced-out breakdown (AKA everything we love about his music). For videos of him wailing on guitar follow him Insta (here), and you can catch him supporting Bootleg Rascal over August and September (info here). Hell, he even got Leo to star in his latest clip!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Lzgc1gDuc
LISA CARUSO
One of the best parts about stumbling across Lisa Caruso recently was discovering she has an EP and a couple of singles out already that are equally as alluring as her new single ‘Borrow My Body’. Channelling the eerie guitars, sombre chords, and downtempo plucking of The Bad Seeds, before her voice steals the limelight, ‘Borrow My Body’ is both haunting and graceful at the same time. Check out the clip below and head here to follow her on Facebook.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EooOWk4cu0o
BOYDOS
Sydney crooner Eddie Boyd AKA Boydos has returned with ‘It’s Alright, Look At Me I’m Young’ following his ode to mortality ‘I Get Nervous’, delivering more of the same introspective songwriting that lead us like moths to his indie-rock flame. There’s hints of Neil Young, Jeff Buckley, and Bob Dylan in this one, with Boyd lyrically adding to his How To Navigate Young Manhood playbook in ways that feel both wise and inherently naive – he’s not afraid to look at himself in the mirror and learn from it. He’ll be hitting Melbourne, Katoomba, and Thirroul with his band over August in support of the single too – info and dates here.
JACK MILLAR
Whether he’s shredding away with prog/psych outfit Narla or serenading us with his solo project, Jack Millar is always an intoxicating listen. His latest offering ‘Surely’ is a hypnotising ballad complete with soaring vocal melodies and a shoegazey bridge that will make your head spin. It follows on from last year’s ‘Nocturnal Love’, and is hopefully another part of a much larger body of recordings (though who knows with this enigmatic fella?). Follow him on Facebook here to stay in the loop about upcoming shows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCnGUCYA3kk
BRIGHTNESS
Newcastle artist Alex Knight AKA Brightness has just dropped one of our favourite tunes of the year so far. Following on from his 2018 EP Teething, ‘Dallas’ analyses his relationship with religion in a way that feels soothing and queasy simultaneously. The clip encapsulates the 90’s vibes of the song nicely, as we witness an injured Knight, reckoning with himself as tevangelist programming lights up a grubby wood-panelled house. Check it out below and be sure to get yourself to Low 302, August 17th to catch him performing with Charlie Gradon – info here.
