Dev Hynes on Synesthesia
For those who’ve tracked the career path of Devonte Hynes, you’ll see that now is really his time. His second album as Blood Orange ’Cupid Deluxe’ received the acclaim its predecessor deserved. He’s… Read More
Tag Archive: Marcus Thaine
Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Australia, Part 3
Marcus Thaine and Carol Bowditch headed to Carriageworks in Sydney for the final two days of MBFWA: Emma Mulholland takes the mundane things in life, catapults them through her pop-art-powered mind-collider and creates… Read More
Things that annoy us more than they should
The other day, a couple of our contributors were having a conversation about the little things that absolutely shouldn’t be annoying but are. Like how self-service checkouts arbitrarily don’t use pronouns sometimes (“Unexpected… Read More
Our contributors’ favourite albums of 2013
We’ve already brought you all of somethingyousaid.com’s collective End of Year lists, but we’ve had a few requests to post all of our contributors’ individual favourite albums of 2013. So here are the… Read More
Review: Major Napier, Please Stay
Somethingyousaid.com’s Marcus Thaine submerges himself in the latest release from Major Napier: When it came to deciding my favourite album of the year, I thought of the relentless experimentation of Kirin J Callinan,… Read More
Review: Sky Ferreira, Night Time, My Time
Somethingyousaid.com’s Marcus Thane listens to Sky Ferreira’s newest release and discovers that ‘Night Time’ isn’t Sky’s Time: To say that Sky Ferreira is one of the most interesting people in music today would… Read More
Charli XCX is immediately gratifying
When Charli Aitchison cries in an exasperated sigh, “Give me the poison, I love the poison, hooked on the poison,” she’s doing exactly what the toxic Britney did pre-balding/making horrific will.i.am dance atrocities… Read More
Ariel is ready to make noise again
Marcus Thaine has a chat with Ariel about Dampvamp, art and her new band, Firesaint: Sydney’s Lauren Ariel Sexton-Shaw, otherwise known by the mononym Ariel, exudes a kind of creative magnetism that is hard… Read More
Spirit Valley induce emotional & moral panic
Sydney’s Spirit Valley exist within some strange, twisted limbo of the Australian music scene. To anyone who’s encountered them, they are undeniably, earth-shatteringly fantastic. Broadly speaking however, no one seems to have really… Read More
Scissor Lock’s Churn is enigmatic
In exciting news for people who like the name Marcus, Marcus Thaine checks out the EP from Marcus Whale, aka Scissor Lock: It took me a while to realise what the cover of… Read More
Our team’s full album lists of 2012
Somethingyousaid.com has already brought you it’s extensive 2012 album poll, which saw Tame Impala narrowly overcome Cat Power for the crown of Album of the Year, but we’ve had countless requests to publish… Read More
Happy New Year from Something You Said
What a great year it’s been. We launched this site in August and it has gone from strength to strength since then, due to a lot of hard work from our team the… Read More