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Maple Glider – You’re Still the OneJulia Jacklin, Lucy Dacus, Angie McMahon
Four years since their last album On Top!, Sydney garage quartet Straight Arrows make a welcome return here. And they’ve lost none of their vim or vigour since their charming 2010 debut, It’s Happening: Fast Product marches out of the gate quicker than that album’s favourite Bad Temper. The sound is cleaner, but it’s still catchy, economical and addictive – as the chorus amps up, you just eat it up and spit it out again . Their aim is true.
The latest single from Melbourne rapper/producer duo Teether and Kuya Neil is a sharp left turn, finding Teether rapping over frantic breaks and an irregular, heart-palpitating beat that feels indebted to footwork. There’s an atmospheric seaminess to proceedings here that wasn’t present on the pair’s 2021 mixtape Glyph.
Since his early teens, the Kid Laroi has been turning angst into a spectacle of stratospheric proportions: taking the zonked-out melancholia of his SoundCloud forebears and arming it with a fleet of stadium-ready hooks. This is the first taste of his new album and in true Laroi style, it’s lugubrious and self-effacing, lamenting both lost friendships and childhood trauma – before ballooning outwards at breakneck speed, with thundering drums and a gospel choir straight out of Euphoria.
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