Different Noises 142

A stunning collection of new releases is dominated by music from Melbourne tracking the importance of music from that city. This collection is notable for its stylistic range, seamlessly bridging the gap between historical post-punk and avant-garde contemporary compositions. It covers a wide area, from raw, archival energy and gritty, guitar-driven storytelling to atmospheric folk-electronica. The selection balances high-intensity moments and driving rhythms against meditative depth and avant-classical precision. By weaving together iconic voices with idiosyncratic experimentalism, the set serves as a sophisticated exploration of music as an evolving dialogue between tradition and subversion.

PLAYLIST

• Harry Howard David McClymont - Mirrors and Smoke - Blistersticks 
• Young Charlatans - Broken Hands - 1978 
• Fancy Weapon - Squid - Squid 
• Hedge Burners - Fall Out Of The Future - Fall Out Of The Future 
• The Jack Rubies - Greedy - Visions In The Bowling Alley 
• The Veldt - Black Girl - Black Girl 
• The Dambuilders - I Hope We’re Not Too Late - Shrine 2026 
• Strawberry Alarm Clock - Blow Your Mind - Blow Your Mind 
• Joan As Police Woman - Flushed Chest (Real Live Evolution Version) - The Ride / Flushed Chest 
• The Taps Of The Holy Trinity - Slow Ghosts - Slow Ghosts 
• Beaker - 50 Men - 50 Men 
• Nina Simone - Four Women (DESIREE Remix) - Four Women (DESIREE Remix) 
• Bonnie Whiting - Violent Passion - Through The Eye(s) 
• Abby Fisher - Continuous Interior , I. Flickering, light - Continuous Interior 
• Galan Trio - The Odessa Trio II - Kinesis Vol 3 
• Strange Fruit - Drips - Drips 
• Black Reverie - When The Reverb Ends - When The Reverb Ends 
• Freddie King - The Danger Zone - Feeling Alright: The Complete 1975 Nancy Jazz Pulsation Concerts 
• Ramblin’ Ricky Tate - July June Bug - The Magnolia Sessions 
• Bosko Baker - The Riddle Song - The Magnolia Sessions 
• The Go-Betweens - Clouds - G Stands For Go-Betweens: The Go-Betweens Anthology - Volume 3 
• Dubmatix - Senseless Killing Dub (ft Freddie McGregor) - Atomic Subsonic  
• Peanus - Matt 67, Ball Face, Sexual Baptist - Peanus EP 
• Moff Skellington - Keff, My Baggy Overture, Salvaged - Dawn Ablutions 
• Asteroid Ekosystem - Catch Breath, Off Axis - Sounds Have Dreams 
• Agent Starling - The Big Top, Procession - Surrealista Enigma Musica 
• The Dream Syndicate - Still Holding On to You (Live at Club Lingerie, Los Angeles, 1983) - Live Through The Past, Darkly 
• Hugo Race Fatalists - I Collide - I Made It All Up For You