Floored By Unity Of Women's Golf

This has been out for some time - last year I think - but seeing as Sydney's Unity Floors has only just come to my attention in the past month, I think it's safe to talk about it anew. Besides, it's very likely that anyone outside of Sydney will have heard their excellent 7" Women's Golf, which is a goddamned shame, because it is one of the best slices of slacker pop to come from Australia for a few years - and there has been some excellent rock releases delving in this territory from this fine land recently. It's nostalgic, it's rambling, it's archaic, it doesn't care. But best of all, it's full of more hooks than the world's biggest shower curtain (six posts in one day is frying my vernacular...).


What I'm sayin is, this is a must have. Grab it here - you will NOT regret it (it's $3! Chump change!).



PS Got to see these guys kick it out when out on my Sydney fact-finding mission back in April, and they were just as good as they are on this record, if not better. There really are some quality acts going round in Sydneytown - hopefully Sonic Masala can lure a few up over the border for a show or two...

Making It In Barcelona

I stumbled across this band when scouring Bandcamp last month, and have been suitably blown away. Sure there will be some apparent My Disco comparisons, but on their self-titled EP Sydney band Making really own their territory here. Its hard to find much out about a band called Making, but suffice to say the music talks for them. Muscular yet spare, repetitive yet adventurous, these six tracks really resonate. This kind of fever-pitched tension doesn't come around every day, especially when it is sustained across an entire record. Again, the My Disco allusions will come across here, but so what? My Disco are one of the most innovative rock bands on the planet. There is plenty of room on that plateau for some other upstarts to bring their angry nihilistic minimalism to the fray.


Grab the EP here.

Making - AB
Making - Boy


NB - Since stalling and screwing about in getting this post done, Making have released a new single, 'Barcelona'. It still follows in the same vein as the EP, but is somewhat warmer in texture. A great track. Can't wait to see what coalesces out of this excellent beginning.

Making - Barcelona