Thoroughly recommend The Lucksmiths for some dizzy indie-pop thrills and spills:
The Lucksmiths are a great indie-pop band, and i'd also recommend The Cannanes and Even As We Speak who mine a similar indie-pop vein. Although I've not enjoyed The Cannanes' more recent output, their earlier work is excellent. And Even As We Speak's only full-length, Feral Pop Frenzy, is one of my favorite albums.
Among new Aussie bands, Perth's Fait is getting a fair bit of attention from shoegaze/post-rock fans.
Had always been interested in Oz as a kid (Aborigines / koala bears / TV shows / Aussie Rules football) but never had any real way of checking out its music, which was kinda frustrating on some level, I think. Anyway, happened on some kind of compilation album about four or five years ago and I didn't know any of the artists on it, and it ended up having a few tracks that I really liked (a couple were 'Harness Up' by Died Pretty and 'Drugs' by Ammonia, I think), but then I kind of hit a wall as albums by those bands weren't too easy to find at the time. A couple of years later I found a youtube channel (that has since been kind of wound down) that had a lot of '80s and early '90s stuff from both Aus. and N.Z., and it was through there that I first found out about bands like The Triffids and The Stems. Joining BEA a while after that kind of gave me the extra push I needed to take a chance on albums by all of these “unheard of” bands...
Anyway, still exploring Aussie music these days and still finding stuff I really like – Regurgitator and The Fauves (a band who've released a crazy amount of albums) are the ones I've been giving time to lately. Guess there might be a belief that if these bands were any good then "we'd surely have heard of them", but it's crazy the amount of great music Oz has to offer - we just don't hear about it on the other side of the world because of simple reasons of geography and the fact that there's probably only one or two tickets out of Australia every year for musical acts, or in other words, the US or UK music marketing machines are only equipped / willing to accomodate one or two Aussie acts per year. That's fine – it's not the US or UK's job / remit / whatever to champion Australian music (or the music of anywhere else), but all the same, a lot of great music has been produced that didn't go international...
Discovered another good youtube channel a few weeks back for anyone interested (worth checking out if you're into '90s indie / alternative)...
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