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FEATURE MUSIC THIS MONTH?

RICHARD CLAPTON Goodbye Tiger WARNER BILLY’S PICK

IN HEARTS WAKE Incarnation UNFD

TRAVIS L.A. Times BMG

“Is there something wrong with me?” Fran Healy asks at the start of Gaslight , the first single from Travis’s tenth studio album, “’cause I feel you’re

After four Top 5 albums in a row, Byron Bay’s

In 1977, on the eve of the release of his fourth studio album Goodbye Tiger , Richard Clapton was riding the crest of a critical wave, having been voted the nation’s number one singer/song writer/artist. What was interesting about these and many of his songs was that despite a lot of them first seeing the light of day in Europe and the US, thematically they referred to his visions and observations of urban Australia. Deep Water (“sittin’ out on the Palm Beach Road, I’m so drunk and the car won’t go”) and Down in the Lucky Country are so typically Australian. His respect for the songwriting of Jackson Browne, Randy Newman, and Lowell George shines through on Hiding from the Light, I Can Talk to You, Out on the Edge Again and the album’s title track. Clapton’s choice of the cream of the era’s studio musicians enabled him to create some of the most celebrated work of his career. Guitarists Kirk Lorange and Gunther Gorman, bass guitarist Michael Hegerty, drummer Greg Sheehan, viola player Cleis Pearce, backing singer Diane McLennan, keyboard player Tony Ansell, and saxophonist Tony Buchanan enabled Clapton to create his most celebrated work while establishing his reputation as one of our most important songwriters.

metalcore masters are shooting for their first chart-topper with their sixth studio set, Incarnation , their first album in four years. The band is maintaining the rage, railing against environmental destruction and social injustice. MEGAN MORONEY Am I Okay? SONY

ignoring me.” It’s time to get reacquainted with these great Scots, whose new album captures the high times and dark side of LA, where Healy has a studio. Twenty-five years after The Man Who , Travis still reign. VARIOUS ARTISTS Twisters: The Album ATLANTIC Twisters is a remake/update of the 1996 film Twister . The original had a cool soundtrack featuring Van Halen, Tori Amos, Lisa Loeb, and Stevie Nicks & Lindsey Buckingham. The new movie is an all-country affair. You’ll be blown away by the star-studded line-up, including Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Charley Crockett, and Megan Moroney.

Her first album was called Lucky . But breakout American country star Megan Moroney shows her success was no fluke

on her second outing. A rumoured relationship with Morgan Wallen had her in the headlines, but it’s the quality of her songwriting that will see her in the charts.

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

AUSSIE RELEASES

THE BUOYS Lustre SONY After three cracking EPs, Sydney band The Buoys finally unleash their debut album, the aptly titled Lustre . Led by singer Zoe Catterall, the band rips through a sterling set of songs, including Settle Petal, Guard My Heart, Subject A and their collab with Alex Lahey, Check Mate . “I don’t really care if you find it annoying or lame or uncool,” Catterall sings. “I’m just gonna dance in the front row, scream every word.” Nineties alt-rock is alive and well with bands such as The Buoys shining bright.

CHRISTINE ANU Waku – Minaral A Minalay ABC Nearly 30 years after her debut album, Christine Anu releases her eighth studio set, her first original album in 20 years. It’s a deeply personal journey, with Anu having ventured to Cairns, New Zealand, the Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands to make the album. The moving title track documents a journey Anu and daughter Zipporah took from Saibai Island to Mutee Head, re-creating the same trip that Anu’s grandfather undertook in 1947 when ten families migrated to the mainland.

ELIZA & THE DELUSIONALS Make It Feel Like the Garden COOKING VINYL “Run through the trees, find myself in the garden,” Eliza Klatt sings in the title track of Eliza & The Delusionals’ second album, “Give me somewhere to be, give me someone to be.” The Gold Coast band’s garden is blooming on the follow-up to 2022’s acclaimed Now and Then , which was nominated for ‘Album of the Year’ at the J Awards. Produced by Holy Holy’s Oscar Dawson, Eliza & The Delusionals – Klatt, Kurt Scuse and Ruby Lee – have delivered a sparkling collection of indie rock.

RADICAL SON Bilambiyal (The Learning) WANTOK Radical Son, aka David Leha, is a proud Kamilaroi and Tongan man. His voice is soulful and strong. His stories, powerful and moving. “There is so much depth in our culture and country,” he notes. “Country provides us a way of living and sustenance both physically and mentally. It provides the story and the way. It is there for us. Right in front of us.” This is his first album since 2014’s Cause ’N Affect . The strength of the songs here shows that Radical Son is ready to become a star.

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