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New Music

Watch: Nun – Uri Geller

Uri Geller is an English man famous for being friends with Michael Jackson. He is also a magician and the subject of a song on Nun’s first LP, which releases April 18 through Aarght. The vinyl version will release with the help of Avant. I’ve been listening to this album a fair bit lately and ‘Uri Geller’ crept up slowly. Despite the clip above and the fact that the song is named after Uri Geller, it’s probably the brightest of the bunch.

That said, it’s incorrect to describe Nun as dark, because they’re not really. It’s not sad or despairing or severe music. It’s certainly not evil either. I think Nun would be perfect music for a very serious party. For more on where Nun is coming from, check out this interview we did with singer Jenny Branagan back in 2012.

A full opinion piece re: this album is forthcoming, but in the meantime you should watch this clip several times and enjoy.

The group is launching the record April 19 in Melbourne at the John Curtin Hotel with Repairs, Soma Coma, Flat Fix and Freejack. A Sydney launch is happening April 26 with Four Door, Housewives and Orion in support.

 

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New Music

Watch: East Link – Spring Street

This is a pretty sweet clip for the new East Link song ‘Spring Street’, directed by Johann Rashid (Autonomy & Deliberation). The Melbourne group, which features a bunch of guys from other Melbourne groups (Total Control, Repairs, Lakes and more), so far have a tape released via Creep Dreams, but there’s a 7 inch forthcoming on Aarght! as well as an LP.

I didn’t like ‘Spring Street’ the first time I listened, but the clip is entrancing enough to merit a re-watch, and with the second viewing I came around to the song. There’s a lot of sneering and reprobate guitar music in Australia at the moment, some of it not good. But with East Link, during ‘Spring Street’ at least, Al Montfort’s vocals remind me of Brett Sprague pep-talking his shithead younger brothers.

This band, with its references to Ansett, Spring Street (the home of Victorian bureaucracy) and the Melbourne M3, remind me of Perth’s Mining Boom, in particular their track ‘Telecom’. Dead, dying or indelibly changed icons of Australian civic progress.

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