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 awake like a computer booting up for the first time in years; Albert Wolski’s vocals crawling through as if filtered through VHS, cassette
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 female singers and debut albums, it’s the first time since the Billie Eilish album “When We all Fall Asleep…” logged eight broken weeks at No.1 (between June 3rd, 2019 and Feb. 3rd, 2020), that an album has spent this long at the top in Australia.
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