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May, 2022
Present indicative: Daniel Johns’ ‘FutureNever’
The former Silverchair frontman’s second solo album lacks cohesion, but affords him space to excavate his past
May, 2022
Ghost notes: Simon Tedeschi’s ‘Fugitive’
A virtuoso memoir of music and trauma, and his experiences as a child prodigy, from the acclaimed Australian pianist
May, 2022
ANAM Set and music in lockdown
The project that commissioned 67 Australian composers to write for each of Australian National Academy of Music’s musicians in lockdown
March, 2022
‘Watershed: The Death of Dr Duncan’ at Adelaide Festival
An oratorio commemorating 50 years since the infamous murder of a gay academic in Adelaide
March, 2022
Once upon a time in Helsinki: Richard Dawson & Circle’s ‘Henki’
The Geordie singer-songwriter joins forces with Finnish experimental rock band Circle and invents “flora-themed hypno-folk-metal”
December, 2021
New kid on the block: The Kid Laroi
How Australia has overlooked its biggest global music star, an Indigenous hip-hop prodigy
September, 2021
Mellow drama: Lorde’s ‘Solar Power’
The New Zealand pop star’s latest album is styled as self-aware but the result shows the trappings of self-indulgence
August, 2021
Tip of the pops: ‘This Is Pop’ and ‘Song Exploder’
Two Netflix documentary series only manage to skim the surface of pop music history