Our top ten tunes of the week – June 26
These are the songs that have been getting us going over the past seven days:
1. Jim Bob – Jo’s Got Papercuts
The former Carter USM legend is back with a highly-anticipated new album, Pop Up Jim Bob, later this year. Here is the latest slice from it, an apt reflection of our times. You can pre-order Jim’s upcoming album here.
2. Memphis LK – Green Light
This is the Melbourne/Narrm-based artist’s first offering of 2020, complete with a homemade video created inside her apartment during isolation.
3. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Cameo
Sideways To New Italy, the band’s new album, is out now. Here’s their new single, which has been lifted from it.
4. Clea – Sugar
Of the song, the Brisbane artist says, “It saddens me deeply that it takes for the country to burn and our chests to fill with smoke to truly start to take seriously the issue of climate change and the great stress humans place on this incredible earth. The world is in great pain and the systems in place have failed us, true change is crucial otherwise we can literally kiss it all goodbye.”
5. Pierce Brothers – Kanko
After an extended hiatus, this is the first of many singles coming out every 6 to 8 weeks from now on until their upcoming album lands in November.
6. Washington – Dark Parts
This is the first single from Washington’s forthcoming third album, Batflowers, due out August 28th.
7. Gordi – Extraordinary Life
Gordi has announced a run of virtual in-stores across Australia, and details of an album launch in July as part of the Sydney Opera House’s 2020 digital season, From Our House to Yours.
8. Kelly Lee Owens – Throwing Lines
This song arrives ahead of the forthcoming album, Inner Song, out August 28th via Smalltown Supersound.
9. Hollow Graves – Tequila Sunrise
This is the first single to be released from the band’s upcoming EP, out this summer. This song touches on alcoholism and attempting to keep relationships from falling apart.
10. Marina Matiss – More Than Heaven
Two months in the making, Marina’s new single was created in collaboration with Arthur Pingrey, producer of Sting and Sia.
