STACK #179 Sept 2019

MUSIC FEATURE VINYL COUNTDOWN TIP-TOP TITLES THE It's that magical time of the year again, when JB tear shreds off the prices for a whole range of rad titles on black wax. Here are our picks for the must-grab LPs of the season. Words Zoë Radas

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Double ARIA-winner Diorama is the fourth album from Newcastle trio Silverchair, in which Captain Daniel Johns steered his band towards a slip-lane adjacent to the band’s post-grunge roots. While previous record Neon Ballroom incorporated orchestral arrangements, this time around Silverchair worked with baroque- pop composer Van Dyke Parks (renowned for his work with Brian Wilson, Ry Cooder and Randy Newman) to paint the lush horns and strings which permeated hits Across The Night, Without You , and The Greatest View . The album spent 50 weeks in the ARIA chart, including one week at #1. The Presets, Beams (2005) The debut from electronic dance duo The Presets hit the Oz music scene over the head with all the dark dynamism we didn’t know we’d been wanting. Including two co-wrotes with Silverchair’s Daniel Johns, Beams is an unrelenting hustle of Kim Moyes and Julian Hamilton’s first forays into a sound which would become utterly their own, and would see the pair rack up seven ARIA Awards across the ensuing years of their career. Kasey Chambers, The Captain (1999) Some of us didn’t even know we liked country music until the cross-over success of The Captain, the debut album from a then-unknown young woman named Kasey Chambers. Now, it’s difficult to imagine an

Soundtrack, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 1 (2019) How do you stay connected to your home planet of Earth and the, family you’ve lost when you’re hooning around the galaxy making out with alien chicks and trying to protect a mysterious orb? You cherish a cassette of your mother’s, which contains all the biggest bangers of her era: the'60s and '70s. "The music... is one of those

Lorde

Lorde, Melodrama (2017)

touchstones that we have to remind us that, yeah, [Peter Quill/Star-Lord] is a real person from planet Earth who's just like you and me – except that he's in this big outer space adventure," director James Gunn said upon the film's release. Silverchair, Diorama (2002)

“I’mWAITING FOR IT, THAT GREEN LIGHT, I WANT IT!” And unto Ella Yelich-O’Connor, it (being, in this case, total adulation) was deservedly given. Green Light , the astonishing first single from Lorde’s 2017 album Melodrama , signalled the New Zealand singer-songwriter’s eruption from her teenage chrysalis while cementing the promise of her acclaimed 2013 debut Pure Heroine . Co-written and -produced with renowned musician Jack Antonoff, Melodrama is a collection of vivid tales from Lorde’s life as a 20-year-old, having experienced her first heartbreak and taste of living away from her family in Auckland. Its unique energy and emotion were quickly slathered in accolades, and the record debuted at #1 in Australia, Canada, the US, and of course her native New Zealand.

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