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After six years, the Swedish singer-songwriter returns with another soothing album of sweet indie-folk murmurs. Spare electronic beats bring a new pulse to his sound, but the voice remains the same.

Embed DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Rock critic Ken Tucker has listened to new albums by two Australian bands, The Murlocs and King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. The bands share some of the same musicians, and Ken says that between them, the sheer variety of the genres of music they explore is staggering. Heres his review of "Bittersweet Demons" by The Murlocs and "Butterfly 3000" by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard. (SOUNDBITE OF THE MURLOCS "BITTERSWEET DEMONS" THE MURLOCS: (Sing...

Vivid Festival Postponed Until September Sydney’s Vivid Festival has been postponed for 2021. The New South Wales government has delayed the iconic event back to September. In a statement the Vivid organisers have said, “We know everyone wants to see Sydney shining brightly so, in the interest of public health and safety, we are moving Vivid Sydney to a later date. “It will take a little time to work through all the details – thank you for your patience while we recharge and power up fo...

2021 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival. On Thursday (July 8), the music festival took to Instagram announce that the two musicians, along with King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, had decided to drop out of the festival. The festival also did announce who will be replacing them in the lineup. Click inside to read more… “BONNAROOVIANS! ��✨ Unfortunately Lana Del Rey, Janelle Monáe and King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will no longer be able to join us on The Farm this fall,” the organiza...

EXEK Continuing the carpet trend this fortnight are veteran post-punks EXEK, who are back with their first new music in two years – an LP of tracks that date way back to the somewhat normal times of 2015. If Carpet Burn are a worn-in bushy burgundy carpet in a timeless sharehouse lounge, then EXEK are perhaps the slightly less hectic carpet in one of the bedrooms. Their post-punk sound is dreamy, ethereal and somewhat ambient – but no less edgy. ‘The Theme From Judge Judy’ blinks itself...

Australian Albums: Olivia Rodrigo Spends Fifth Week At No 1 It’s a fifth week atop both charts for teenager Olivia Rodrigo with her track “Good 4 U” and it’s parent album “SOUR”, which is newly Gold (●) in sales. “SOUR” is now the longest running No.1 album in Australia for this decade, with the last album to spend five (or more) consecutive weeks at the top here being the last Post Malone album “Hollywood’s Bleeding” (6 weeks from 16th of Sept., 2019), while for both fe...

Australian music exec Justin Cosby, co-founder of Inertia, has died at the age of 50.

The new collaborative LP from Nick Cave and Warren Ellis has topped the latest UK Record Store Chart.

The new digital festival comes as part of the state government’s Victoria Together initiative. The Victorian government has just announced The Long Weekender, a new festival bringing your favourite music festival sets of the past to your homes this long weekend. Hosted by the beloved Myf Warhurst, The Long Weekender will present curated sets from […]

Album number 18 was recorded in the band’s homes during the pandemic, and trades psych-rock blitzes for a finely-woven sprawl of synth programming and MIDI sequences