Just Released - 2013 [Ep.41]

“Your virgin bush, I love to roam,

 Your suburban sprawl – my, how it’s grown …”

                  “Australia” [The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band 1975]

Maybe it’s not on your calendar but it’s certainly on ours. November is ‘Aus-Music Month’ and in this edition of JR we’ve set our focus on music from right across this green and gold (but mostly brown) land.

In those last few moments of innocence before The Beatles changed everything, Australian music was down at the beach. Fifty years ago this month, Little Pattie released “He’s My Blond Haired, Stompie Wompie, Real Gone Surfer Boy” and The Atlantics released “The Crusher” as the follow-up to their #1 hit, “Bombora”. In 2013, and away from the beach, the sound (and influence) of Australian music has changed considerably.

Melbourne singer/songwriter Gossling has been attracting attention for a couple of years and has just released her debut album, ‘Harvest Of Gold’.  Also from Melbourne we have the ever-changing but always-funky music collective, The Bamboos and the latest from Electro-Pop quartet, Cut Copy.

From Sydney, Sarah Blasko has a new single from her current album ‘I Awake’ (featuring the 52-piece Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra) and from Adelaide, we have the debut single from Indie Rock trio, Beautiful Fools.

As well, there’s the latest from Perth Rock music mainstays Eskimo Joe, some fresh Electro-Pop from The Lazy Calm’s debut and the new solo release for Panics’ frontman, Jae Laffer.

And from Brisbane, a new single from emerging Pop/Rock band, The Trouble With Templeton.

Meanwhile, the JR Radar picked up on an eccentric London duo who make music with audio samples from vintage films developed for education, propaganda and all points between them. The dryly-monikered Public Service Broadcasting make their intentions clear in their album title: ‘Inform-Educate-Entertain’. But banish all thoughts of those films you had to endure watching at school. Public Service Broadcasting is a lot more fun.

  

      

The Bamboos: “Avenger” (from the album, ‘Fever In The Road’)

Jae Laffer: “Don’t Make Me Wait” (from the album, ‘When The Iron Glows Red’)

Eskimo Joe: “Sad Song” (from the album, ‘Wastelands’)

The Trouble With Templeton: “Glue” (from the album, ‘Rookie’)

The Lazy Calm: “Paper Dreams” (new single)

Gossling: “Harvest Of Gold”/”That Feeling” (from the album, ‘Harvest Of Gold’)

Public Service Broadcasting: “Inform, Educate, Entertain”/”Theme From PSB” (from the album, ‘Inform Educate Entertain’)

Beautiful Fools: “Small Town” (from the debut EP, ‘Beautiful Fools’)

Sarah Blasko: “Fool” (from the album, ‘I Awake’)

Cut Copy: “We Are Explorers” (from the album, ‘Free Your Mind’)

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