Frente!, trailblazers in annoyingly punctuated band names, were best known for their beautiful, fragile cover of New Order’s “Bizarre Love Triangle”, and had a lot of chart success in their native Australia and indie success in the US with the album that followed up that single, Marvin The Album. But as much as I loved [...]

Cut Copy, “Need You Now” (2011) find it on Zonoscope Somewhere in the writing of their new album, Cut Copy decided to abandon the immediacy of their last album in favor of slow burners. Since I live my music life on shuffle, that meant that it took a little while longer for this track to [...]

Darren Hanlon, “Scenes From A Separation” (2010) find it on I Will Love You At All I first heard Darren Hanlon around 2001, after a comparison of him to the Lucksmiths led to an immediate purchase of his first album. I fell in love with the song “Hiccups” immediately, but lost track of his career [...]

Sonny, I’ve been listening to The Lucksmiths longer than you’ve been able to drink legally, since before you even knew what “lose your virginity” meant, let alone actually lost it. So don’t you go off writing reviews about how the Lucksmiths can always be counted on to deliver satisfying records. Because I already knew that. [...]