I think one thing that Deadloch has done really really well, in my opinion is mixing in overall popular music and australian stuff.
Like, yeah the Choir is singing Divinyls classic 'I Touch Myself' in the first ep, but I know that in the US that song is a one hit wonder, outside of some of the Kylie songs mentioned in episode I don't things like Pash and Boys in Town crossover internationally, and I love that.
Something Australians are historically really self consious about is our national identiy, especially in our art, becaucse we want to be true but that requires the moritfing idea of acknowledging what Australians are like and what would the Brits think?. this is called Cultural Cringe, and is also experianced by a lot of places in the work, especially in the Anglosphere if you arent a white Yank or Pom.
Not for nothing, this Cultural Cringe has been fought back against since the term was coined and in the early wave of international streamer co-productions you get some great, earnest Australian stuff; Cleverman and Firebite being the most prominant imo. both of those shows ALSO do great stuff with music- I will NEVER be over Rob Collins singing 'Black Boy' in the pub. Those two shows run into the issue of A) not being well marketed, and B) having an even bigger level of Cultural Uncanny Valley to scale. It's telling that of the two Vampire show's staring Australian men on AMC, the one with a white australian lead gets more praise 🙃
But yeah, its just really nice to see Australian characters listening to and talking about Australian music in the show with an arts festival setting. More of Australians talking about Australian things pls
