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Local Melbourne music review: 'Braindrops' from Tropical Fuck Storm

October 2, 2019 Antithesis Journal

"The Happiest Guy Around" from Tropical Fuck Storm’s latest album. Source: Joyful Noise Recordings.

Hal Parker Langley continues our series of local music reviews with a response to Tropical Fuck Storm’s Braindrops ahead of the band’s national tour this month.

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In Music review, Opinion Tags Braindrops, Tropical Fuck Storm, The Drones, Melbourne music review, local music reviews, local music

Pinch perfect: a review of Pinch Points’ debut LP

August 19, 2019 Antithesis Journal
Pinch Points’ LP cover, sourced from    Bandcamp

Pinch Points’ LP cover, sourced from Bandcamp

‘Pinch Points have synthesised the last decade of Melbourne music trends into something approaching a thesis’, writes Hal Parker Langley in review of the band’s’ debut LP, Moving Parts.

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In Music review Tags Pinch Points, Melbourne music, local music reviews, Moving Parts, post-punk, music review, album review

Finding your flow: five ambient albums to boost your creativity

August 6, 2019 Antithesis Journal
Image by    Mondschwinge    from    Pixabay

Image by Mondschwinge from Pixabay

Tom Stephenson writes that “in this modern world of endless distraction, tapping into a flow state is becoming increasingly difficult”. Tom shares fives albums that could help reach that desirable flow state.

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In Music review Tags music reviews, boost creativity, Brian Eno, Tim Hecker, John Luther Adams, Bing & Ruth, Steve Reich, ambient music, music for airports, flow
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🖼 Fatata te Miti (By the Sea), by Paul Gauguin Devotion meets design: the monastery of La Tourette was Le Corbusier’s final and most important building, designed to house a community of silent monks. This Modernist concrete structure serves as a place of worship, residence and learning. (Photo from Hotels We Love) Dieter Roth. Bunny-dropping-bunny (Karnickelköttelkarnickel), 1968. Courtesy of MoMA.

A rather unorthodox ‘chocolate’ bunny made from straw and rabbit droppings - maybe not one to gift this Easter. Patti Smith, ‘Devotion’ Tai in thought by Connor Amor-Bendall. Read more at https://bit.ly/2TU6gt1 The Family Source was a spiritual commune established by Father Yod (born Jim Baker), the owner of one of America’s very first health food restaurants. Its 150 members, including Baker’s fourteen wives, lived together in a Hollywood Hills mansion, where they were influenced by the teachings of guru Yogi Bhajan and the astrological age of Aquarius. (Photo from Isis Aquarian Archives) Henri Matisse. View of Notre Dame, Paris, quai Saint-Michel, spring 1914. Courtesy of MoMA.