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Psychedelic Porn Crumpets’ Jack McEwan: “It’s the clean tone that really defines what a great guitar sounds like”
For their ambitious fourth album, the Perthian psych-lords in PPC get louder and rowdier than ever before
The six-string origins of DZ Deathrays
As DZ Deathrays gear up to make some budding shredders' dreams come true, we look back on their own L-plater days
Orianthi: "I wanted to really mess with my sounds and try new stuff"
On her first solo album in over six years, Orianthi taps into a wicked world of new inspiration.
Plini: "I’m really happy with everything on this record, which I don’t think has ever happened before"
Ironically, very little of the material on Impulse Voices – the long-awaited second album from scene-leading prog-rocker Plini – came from impulse. Instead a result of long, introspective stretches of time off-tour, the album shows a whole new side of the Sydney-based instrumentalist.
Amahiru’s Saki: “It was so fun to work with Frédéric Leclercq and we both had a lot of ideas, so we decided to make Amahiru its own project”
What happens when you pair an icon of European metal with the undefeated queen of Japanese post-rock? You get Amahiru: one of the most jaw-droppingly badass bands in the world right now.
Architects’ Adam Christianson: “We wanted to start fresh and try some new things”
The metalcore gods must be feeling mighty generous this year, kicking it off with a fresh and fiery new epic from the luminous legends in Architects.
Julien Baker: “Nothing about it is really haphazard – even the stuff that sounds intentionally lo-fi, or minimalist, is actually very calculated”
The new year has only just begun, but if 2021 has up its sleeves an indie-rock album more emphatic or ethereal than Julien Baker’s latest, we’ll eat our damn hats.
You Me At Six’s Max Helyer: “The best way to describe how I write a song is that I look at it as though I’m a painter”
A molotov cocktail of rock and pop set to ignite the scene like never before, the latest effort from You Me At Six is easily their most ambitious, if not their outright best.
Tash Sultana: "I wrote an album that coincided with the realisations I was having within myself"
After being forced to pause their typically ultra-turbulent schedule, Tash Sultana decided – against all plausible odds – that they actually appreciated living at a cruiser, more easygoing pace. And now they have an album of pure sonic euphoria to show for it.
Steven Wilson: “One of the greatest tragedies of the 21st century is that rock music – particularly the guitar – hasn’t really managed to reinvent itself”
For most artists with over 50 albums to their name, the idea of breaking new ground might seem outlandish, if not outright impossible. For prog god Steven Wilson, though? Well, it’s a goddamn piece of cake
