STACK #251 September 2025

FEATURE MUSIC

THIS MONTH?

AUSSIE RELEASES HAYLEY JENSEN Country Soul MGM Hayley Jensen came fourth PARCELS Loved UNIVERSAL

TOM ODELL A Wonderful Life INERTIA

English singer-songwriter Tom Odell has had just one Top 40 album in Australia – 2016’s Wrong Crowd – though he’s had

Parcels call themselves a “sort of blend between electropop and disco-soul”. They started in Byron Bay in 2014,

in the second season of Australian Idol in 2004. And then she appeared on The Voice in 2014. The title

six Top 10 albums in a row in the UK. His seventh album poses some big questions, including Can Old Lovers Ever Just Be Friends? Odell says, “To live, and to write honestly about it, is such a profoundly important part of my life now.” TWENTY ONE PILOTS Breach INERTIA America’s Twenty One Pilots studio album, follows a run of big albums in Australia – 2018’s chart-topping Trench , 2021’s Scaled and Icy , which hit number three, and last year’s Clancy , which also hit number one. The release follows a series of cryptic clues. Joseph says they are entering a “gap of nothingness”. LOLA YOUNG I’m Only F-cking Myself UNIVERSAL started as a band; they’re now a duo – singer Tyler Joseph and drummer Josh Dun. Breach , their eighth

P rior to joining The Rolling Stones in 1975, guitarist, singer, songwriter Ronnie Wood had recorded with The Jeff Beck Group (playing bass guitar), Rod Stewart and the Faces, while releasing seven studio albums of his own and somehow finding time to collaborate with George Clinton, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and countless other music legends on their releases as a session guitarist and songwriter. Also included on this newly released album are tracks recorded in the mid 1960s with his first band The Birds and briefly The Creation. Ronnie is celebrating his 60 years-and-counting recording career with his first solo compilation released on this double vinyl and CD set. The album also includes four brand-new recordings, his first new solo material since 2010. Wood’s great talent as a guitarist enabled him to make already great songs sound even better. His lead guitar solo on Bob Dylan’s in-concert performance of Seven Days and his slide guitar on Rod Stewart’s Gasoline Alley are among many highlights on this outstanding release. RONNIE WOOD Fearless: The Anthology 1965-2025 UNIVERSAL BIL Y’S PICK

of her fourth album sums up what she’s all about: Country Soul . Twice nominated for ‘Best Female Artist’ at the Golden Guitar Awards, she’s a country singer with a soulful voice. She worked on most of the album with the super-talented Melbourne production team MSquared (Michael Paynter and Michael Delorenzis) and she also did a beautiful ballad, You Decide , written by Matt Fell. Jensen is a great country star. As she sings, “You’ll know that I’ll be where the gravel roads lead, where the wine it flows and the music’s loud.”

before moving to Berlin. Their third album, Loved , follows 2021’s Day/Night , which was a Top 40 hit in Australia, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Portugal. Explaining their ’70s-inspired sound and the new album, the band says: “It’s very internal for all of us, so personal and so deep, which is sometimes quite uncomfortable… all of us having that individual journey, then trying to make a space so we can funnel everybody’s experiences into the same world and express it as a celebration.” Parcels deliver.

OCEAN ALLEY Love Balloon ROCKET

THE WOLFE BROTHERS Australian Made ROCKET

Ocean Alley’s breakthrough smash, Confidence , came in at number 66 on Triple J’s Hottest 100 of Australian Songs. But they’re certainly

The Wolfe Brothers – Tom and Nick Wolfe – broke big when they were runners-up in Australia’s Got Talent in 2012. After

no one hit wonders. Their fifth album, Love Balloon , flies high. Keyboard player Lach Galbraith explains that it’s a love album, but “not just the cinematic kind where you’re falling head over heels. The full spectrum: joy, hurt, discomfort and disappointment. Let’s call it the river of love – whether it’s with a partner, a friend, or family; you’ll never know when it’ll get deep, go shallow or suddenly change course. It’s such a force that you have to just surrender to its current.” As they sing, “Just enjoy the view.”

four Top 10 albums in a row, they deliver their seventh studio album, Australian Made . The title track is a celebration of cars, multiculturalism, pride, and patriotism. “She’ll be right, good as gold,” Nick Wolfe sings. “Easy as, or full of fight/ In this world ain’t nothing like Australian made.” On another album highlight, How Many One More Times , they are joined by another duo, Zac & George. The Wolfe Brothers have had four nominations for ‘Best Country Album’ at the ARIA Awards; Australian Made should be their fifth.

The 24-year-old English singer has delivered one of the album titles of the year with her third album: I’m Only F-cking

Myself . The title comes from the single Not Like That Anymore . Announcing the record on her Instagram, Young said it was “my ode to self-sabotage, my chance to claw myself back from the edge of defeat.”

Coming in OCTOBER CUT COPY Moments (Oct 3) THE SOUTHERN RIVER BAND Easier Said Than Done (Oct 17) PAUL DEMPSEY Shotgun Karaoke Vol II (Oct 24)

Radio legend Billy Pinnell presents Billy Pinnell’s Musical Moments on YouTube.

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