STACK #158 Dec 2017

REVIEWS MUSIC

SKETCHY GIGS This month our artist-in-residence Cookie sawThe Growlers at The Zoo, and Confidence Man at the Triffid (both in Brissie). Admire Cookie's other live music illustrations on her instagram, @sketchygigs .

COMING UP

Here are a few bundles of joy you can expect from the music stork next month.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Wrong Creatures The seventh studio album from the San Fran rock group is nearly upon us, and from what we've heard of it, it's an absolutely stunning, haunting thing underpinned with an almost

First Aid Kit Ruins In the nine years since Swedish sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg uploaded a Fleet Foxes

cover to YouTube, the duo have ascended into folk circles so gilded that Emmylou Harris herself once cried during one of their performances. First Aid Kit release their fourth album on January 19 through Sony – the follow-up to 2014's Stay Gold , which debuted at #9 on the ARIA chart.

sub-sonic heartbreak. They've confirmed Australian tour dates for March next year, and we highly recommend you prepare by getting your mitts on Wrong Creatures on January 12 via PIAS. Porches The House

Calexico The Thread That Keeps Us Hailing from the second-best American city which isn't pronounced the way it looks (Tucson; number one is Arkansas), indie-rock Tex-Mexers Calexico are releasing their ninth album The Thread That Keeps Us on January 26 , via Spunk.

Aaron Maine is Porches, and his third album The House promises to be a sort of synth-pop Big Thief affair. It includes an impressive list of guests, including two of our faves: (Sandy) Alex G and Dev Hynes (whom you may know as Blood Orange). It's out on January 19 via Domino.

Kimbra Primal Heart She's got two Grammys, four ARIAs, six New Zealand Music Awards and a whole lot of hearts sitting on her shelf; acclaimed Kiwi singer-songwriter (and the OG Lorde) Kimbra is releasing her third full-length Primal Heart on January 19 , via Warner. ZKR

Tonight Alive Underworld After their recent and most excellent rendition of the best Silverchair song of all time ( Without You on UNFD's Silverchair tribute album Spawn (Again) – see page 24), Jenna McDougall and co. are releasing their fourth album on January 12 via UNFD.

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