DIRTY MAB RECORDS

Feature album: Royal Chant – Anyways and also Sorry

aw yeah….

Royal Chant nous dévoile le clip de The Daily Exchange

Album of the week: Sickboy – Vanity and velocity / Water never waits (throwback)

Old skool lovin’ xoxo

Album of the week: Good fake – You vultures

Still doing things, even if the end of the world seems near xoxo

Window of ’21

A brief respitelike wakingat dawn as it spreadswe sangwe dancedit came to an endmistakes were madeand we would gladlymake them all againnow we singin our headsinto the voidcarry onas you werejoy is brief, of coursewe know thisbut still it hurts

Hic incipit pestis here it begins these new Roaring 20s which feel like an ending and no one is dancing

The plague is upon us, show us some mercy as I fall to pieces on the train at the latest news that means something only to me

I did not take it as well as I had hoped

I do not take it at all

I blame the plague for being distraught out of sorts late on my rent and overly weepy

The train has…

DIY Indie Film Clips For A Lazy Sunday

Got bored and decided to do a few more film clips for songs from our Minor Crush LP. (View the first five HERE)

I threw together some vignettes of domestic psychodrama for “Epithet”

And then I begged our good friend and long-time RC film clip producer/collaborator Matt Clements for a stash of NYC hyper-lapse footage and…

Familiar, Strange, & Vague

This history feels Familiar, Strange, & Vague “Welcome to the company, m’boy!” they said, grabbing my hand and shaking me limp. It was the beginning of the endless cold in my bones endless cracks in the façade now sleepless & speechless since

“Always aim for the jugular, m’boy!” they said day after day after day until these delusions became routine our daily bread our cup of salted meat

Here I sit and…

Royal Chant – Minor Crush

10 years. That’s how long Royal Chant has been in existence. I’m not 100% certain of the exact date we played our first show as “Royal Chant”, but it was sometime just before Easter in 2009 when we opened up for a band called Benjalu somewhere here in the local(ish) area before heading into Albert studios in Sydney to record our first singles with a proper producer.

It’s hard to tell what has…

Designer Mutts – Virtue Signals

First review xoxo

I’ve been trying. Like, for real this time, and slowly but surely one might say I am truly starting to “get the hang of things.”

I’m talking about finding and listening to new music, of course.

Here are a few that I have stumbled across, mostly by accident, which makes them that much better. My writer friend Nathan Jolly (of whom I am insanely jealous of) wrote an article “on the unexpected joy…

New Music T̶u̶e̶s̶d̶a̶y̶ Wednesday

“New Music Monday” sounded waaaaay better, but that didn’t happen, (nor the night after), so this is the best effort from the B squad coming at you. Since it’s not always about me me me I thought I’d share a few tunes from the unheralded underground that exists outside of Australia’s predictable pay-to-play hype-machine. First up… “Mantras For A Failed Academic” –Sad Hill (Perth, AU) [soundcloud…

Music Journalism is in a weird place these days. For starters, many would be forgiven for immediately responding with, “Music Journalism? Why hello Old Boy, I thought you were dead”, or, more likely: “Music what?!?” It’s OK. It’s been a rough 10-20 years (by some estimations), but feel free to place the “death of music journalism” tombstone wherever you like in your own personal or global…

[apologies to my long-suffering blog. I feel like a neglectful parent. So much to write, and yet…] I guess it doesn’t matter much anyways, as the next post was always going to be this post, which was always going to be about our new record. Over the months there were many things I thought I might write about, but in retrospect I see how much this record consumed my life and yeah, of course…