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Bandcamp / Buy Tori Zeitsch’s music aches with loss. The threadbare folk the Melbourne-based singer and songwriter makes as Maple Glider is skeletal in the most literal sense—absent of flesh, only intermittently lively, spare by necessity rather than choice. Her debut album, To Enjoy Is the Only Thing, conveys the hollow ache of being alone, the way loss wastes away at one’s very being. Early on in the record, she sings, plaintively: “I’ve served coffee in five d...

Global Beat Australia: Maple Glider, King Stingray, and Martha Marlow MORE KCRW’s Global Beat is a new series highlighting emerging artists from around the world. We’re kicking the series off with our friends in Australia by partnering with The Australian Music Alliance and the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (Amrap), a uniquely Australian organization designed to support Australian music on public radio. KCRW DJ Raul Campos hosts along with Amrap Manager Andrew Khedoor...

After the universally enthusiastic reception of her first two singles, Maple Glider announces her debut LP To Enjoy is the Only Thing out June 25 via Pieater / Partisan Records, pre-order HERE. To accompany the album announcement, the third single Swimming is now out now, listen + watch HERE. Zietsch says “this was meant to be a love song, but by the time I finished it, it kind of premeditated a break-up.” It’s set on the south coast of both France and the UK - strangely romantic location...

Cale Sexton with his new release Sustain. City of Melbourne, Sustain is a composition of computer-controlled bells and electronics, featuring the Federation Bells of Melbourne. One of Melbourne’s most exquisite art installations, The Bells have been used to produce music by various international composers over the years. On Sustain, Sexton expands his hardware-led approach to integrate with the computer-controlled Bells sequencing interface, producing a remarkably congruent synthesis of mu...

Danika Smith performs a raw, timeless style of folk music with undertones of jazz and soul. She is known for her tender topics, honey stick melodies and charismatic satire. But somethings shifting. Its 2020, where women in music are being recognized and supported, so she feels its time to get experimental. Folk is heaven, no doubt, but curiosity, desire and the inner groove has unavoidably begun Danika Smiths metamorphosis. Since her first critically acclaimed single Suit of Armour, Danika has ...