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New Music

Listen: Young Romantix – Pendulum

Young Romantix features Shaun South, who runs Nihilistic Orbs, plays in Chrome Dome, and probably does a bunch of other stuff I’m not aware of too (sleeping hopefully chief among them). His Young Romantix project dates back as far as the mid ’00s I believe, as I’m pretty certain I saw them play at one of the old Chooch-a-Bahn nights in Sydney. Anyway, here South is joined by one Miles Brown, and this track will appear on a forthcoming Ice Age Productions compilation, which is the label behind that Wolf 359 track we posted last week.

‘Pendulum’ is an uptempo and harassed synth-pop/punk tune that will please anyone who wished Chrome Dome would scale the “goth” back a bit. For fans of The Normal and other groups like that. If you’re young and/or have a bad memory – Total Control’s ‘Paranoid Video’ is also an apt reference point. I really like this track. Want more.

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New Music

Listen: Wolf 359 – Fragments

These guys are based in Melbourne and, according to their Facebook page, there’s a lot of people involved in the group but I believe it’s mainly the vehicle of Peter James. They’ve got a new record forthcoming on Ice Age Productions, which is also home to that last Cloakroom Assembly LP by Scattered Order member Michael Tee. Fittingly, there’s a strong early ’80s weirdo synth vibe to Wolf 359: Locally, I’m thinking Laughing Hands (we do love to reference them) and early, more grizzly Scattered Order, but the track we’ve selected below is more intergalactic drift than inner-city destitution.

Little bit of trivia/important info: Wolf 359 is actually a red dwarf star just outside our Solar System (but still, you know, several light years away). With that in mind, listen to this track and imagine that you’re there.

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