The Green Child

Aussie band The Green Child dropped a new album last month of their particular brand of quirky, synth-laden, psych and jangle-tinged indie-pop, and it's got things moving and grooving over here.  Dig on new tune "The Lawn" below and snag the "Look Familiar" LP here from Upset the Rhythm.

Earth Ball

Here's some weird and noisy music from British Columbia band Earth Ball for your Saturday.  I'm sure you've got stuff to do, but you need to listen to some unstable no-wave first.  Check out "A Need to Cool Down" below, which at times sounds like old Sonic Youth, and pre-order the upcoming "It's Yours" LP here from Upset The Rhythm.

The Green Child

Next month brings us a new warped pop record from The Green Child.  Watch the video for "Fashion Light" below and pre-order the upcoming "Shimmering Beast" LP here on Upset the Rhythm.

Terry

I don't know what's in the water these days in Australia, but they are just consistently knocking it out of the park on the music front lately, garage rock, psychedelia, and now some thrumming, twanging post punk from Melbourne's Terry.  Watch the video for "Bureau" below and get the "I'm Terry" album here or here.

The Green Child

The Green Child is the collaborative project of Mikey Young (Total Control/Eddy Current Suppression Ring) and Raven Mahon (Grass Widow), and is full of analog synthesizer flair and wistful pop melodies.  Listen to the lovely "Her Majesty II" below and snag the self-titled record this Friday from Upset the Rhythm.

The World

Oakland band The World stomp and ooze with 1970's underground and dancey post-punk, stabbing the air with horn blasts under mangled, slurred guitar riffs and steady, confident beats.  You'll be bouncing off the walls.  Listen to "Hot Shopper" below and get the "First World Record" LP from Upset the Rhythm next month.

Bamboo

The UK's Bamboo sound like a collective of world music jumbled all together and then strung out in a hypnotic, synth-laden pattern, ebbing and flowing, an intoxicating swirl of sound that's both exotic and strangely familiar.  The band's new album "The Dragon Flies Away" is awash in different faraway sounds woven together with pop beats and upbeat dance moves, an almost cinematic opus relating tales about the Hannya demon mask from Japanese Noh theater (i had to look it up).  Listen to "Wake Up Your Heart" below and get the record from Upset The Rhythm.

Spray Paint - Cussin

Noisy Austin post-punk act Spray Paint have a new 7" available from Upset the Rhythm.  "Cussin" finds the boys channeling their inner old school Sonic Youth to achieve glorious heights.  It's the kind of jam a bunch of drunken art school brats would churn out in a dilapidated warehouse somewhere.  It kicks ass.  Take a listen below and get it here.

Purple Pilgrims

Recorded in Hong Kong with Gary War at the boards, New Zealand's Purple Pilgrims blend the ethereal, echoed chamber-drone with the far-out and hushed vocals of the some psych-folk anarchists.  The effect is delirium.  Take a listen to "Earthly Heaven / Joon" below and get the duo's split LP (with Gary War) from Upset The Rhythm.