Thursday 3rd June / presented by Kailyn Crabbe
Beloved Melbourne-based band Julia Jacklin to cover the
Björk hit Rising Single Club s month full-moon releases
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The reimagining sees Jacklin and RVG add their own spin to the track, originally released as part of the 1995 record
Tank Girl, while simultaneously staying true to it s empowering message.
RTRFM s Kailyn Crabbe sat down with RVG frontwoman
Romy Vager to chat about the collaboration process as well as what is in the future for the band, starting off by asking how the cover came about.
Events: TRUCKLOAD OF SKY: The Lost Songs of David McComb — Triple R 102 7FM, Melbourne Independent Radio
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The crowning glory is Swift’s version of I Contain Multitudes, from Dylan’s new album Rough and Rowdy Ways. “It’s a love song, and a prayer,” she said of the song. “And it’s about his life, but it’s also about what art and music and literature can mean to humanity. And to me that’s an extraordinary thing to meditate on, particularly when our social interactions are so limited.” All of the above could be said of Blonde on the Tracks itself.
– Andrew Stafford
The Avalanches – We Will Always Love You
We Will Always Love You is a miraculous-sounding record, infatuated with the universe and the infinite nature of energy, light and – especially – sounds that echo in the void for eons. Sample-based music is inherently tactile; artists like the Avalanches pick up and tool around with old vinyl that’s traded hands before. And on this record, they’ve leaned into that tactility and the sensoriality of music, turning images into sound and back again (Star Song
The 30 best albums to come out of Melbourne in 2020, part one Blake Scott (image by Mia Mala McDonald) and Sweet Whirl (image by Annie Llewellyn)
Words by Tom Parker
We spotlight the first 15 albums of the two-part feature, ranked in no particular order.
Well that’s a wrap – 2020 is finished, finito, done, dun, gone, seeya, bye, catchya, fuck off… Where am I going with this?
We’re all relieved to say goodbye to the worst year of our lives, and while the grief of 2020 is behind us, there have been many musical nuggets that have helped pull us through.
If it wasn’t for the below albums, I’m not sure we would’ve coped, and so it’s to these artists that we all, Melburnian or not, give our utmost gratitude.