STACK #129 Jul 2016

MUSIC

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you’re a fan, I’d be looking forward to his newie, called But for All These Shrinking Hearts. Of course July is Splendour month, so make sure you check out the STACK website for on-ground reports of all the festival highlights: I’ll be heading to Melbourne sideshows. Blur are top of my list, very keen to see how The Magic Whip album translates live, and I’m also seeing Mark Ronson . In one of the strangest and possibly best live pairings of the year, Pond will be playing support. Kevin ‘Tame Impala’ Parker contributed to several tracks on Uptown Funk and also produced Pond’s excellent Man It Feels Like Space Again , so there’s your connection. Lastly, we love to see musicians heading in to JB Hi-Fi while they’re on tour in Australia. Patrizio Buanne (see below) popped into JB Hi-FI Elizabeth Street and gently reminded the staff his albums

H ey there STACK music lovers. It’s been quite a month: I’ve been to Sydney for Vivid Live. I have to say, Vivid truly transforms Sydney; the washes of colour on the Opera House at night are quite magical and there’s a real sense of atmosphere in the air. I managed to catch Daniel Johns airing his new solo album Talk , and while the music is markedly different from anything Silverchair ever recorded, he did pull out a couple of older numbers and tracks from his Disassociatives collaboration with Paul Mac (who was in the audience). Speaking of those on the return trail from some time away, Josh Pyke has a new album out at the end of July and I was lucky enough to see him play three new songs in a private session. If

Tame Impala Currents Leon Bridges Coming Home Paper Kites Twelvefour Holy Holy When the Storms Would Come Josh Pyke

1. Florence+the Machine

How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful

Xxxxxxxxx 2. Jebediah Twenty 3. Mumford and Sons Wilder Mind 4. Jamie xx In Colour 5. Muse Drones 6. British India Nothing Touches Me 7. Hiatus Kaiyote Choose Your Weapon 8. Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit

But for All These Shrinking Hearts Seth Sentry Strange New Past

Refused Freedom Tuka Life, Death, Time, Eternal Chemical Brothers Born in the Echoes Years and Years Communion

might be better in ‘easy listening’ than ‘classical’ (hence the sign!). See you next month (I’m off to see Paul Weller in Barcelona in between times) and keep your head in the music! The JB Listener

9. David Bowie Nothing Has Changed 10. Sam Smith

In the Lonely Hour

Patrizio Buanne (center) at JB Hi-Fi Elizabeth St

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The Platters That Matter

S helley Phillips has been Media Manager at JB Hi-Fi Knox for 11 years. She's seen a lot of bands come and go in her time there, but one band – who are very much still with us – will always be Number One for Shelley. And that band is Muse. "I saw the clip for Sunburn on Rage, " she tells STACK, "and went down to JB Hi--Fi the next day and bought Showbiz. I've been a hardcore fan ever since." She's not kidding when she says 'hardcore'. She's got the entire Muse back catalogue on vinyl (see right), with several records signed by the band. She thinks their new album Drones is a killer. "I thnk it's fantastic: their most consistent since Black Holes and Revelations . Lots of big riffs, it's an album that's easier for them to play

as a three-piece." She's also gone one step further than the album collection: she also owns limited edition pressings of all Muse's seven-inch vinyl singles, including a treasured boxset. Barring a fabled showcase at Melbourne's tiny Evelyn Hotel in the late'90s, she's seen every tour, including an explosive gig at the Hi-Fi Bar. And while she's never met the band, she's happy that way. "I've come close a couple of times, but for me, it's about appreciating them from afar." Although, in the meantime, she does admit that a signed copy of Drones "would be nice".

Shelley Phillips of JB HI-FI Knox with her prized Muse vinyl

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Don’t forget, you can always order hard-to-find vinyl via the JB Hi-Fi website

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