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Sydney Morning Herald
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
The best new Australian music to listen to this month
Teether & Kuya Neil, Yearn IV Naarm's (Melbourne's) underground music scene can feel like a deranged pot-luck dinner – club rats, art punks and rap surrealists seasoning their demented bone broth with unknown spices pinched from ziplock bags. Teether and Kuya Neil come bubbling out of that soup's peak-boil with their debut album, Yearn IV. Neil, one of the country's most visionary producers, sets the vibe on album opener Scratch the Flea Point with a murky Enter Sandman -esque guitar line and added breakbeats; Teether pokes fun at his hometown on Cosplay ('Half of the club cosplay low class/ How you got all that designer on?'); and on Dial Up (featuring Stoneset) he conjures his trademark feverish imagery ('Who filled the city with rats? Breathing the hottest of breath/ Pig on my bag, down my neck, screaming'). Yearn IV locates its energy in Naarm's community, cultures and creativity, pokes fun at its class contradictions and hedonism, and isn't afraid to embody the present moment's existential dread in Neil's swampy but nonetheless electric production. Teether's tongue is on fire, but ultimately Yearn IV' s a bisque to burn the brain. Nick Buckley Montaigne, it's all about the money If you had to guess which local pop artist would manage to work the lyric 'I am renouncing the monetary system' into a gleefully pinballing art-pop track, your mind may have drifted to Montaigne. It's all about the money is the fourth single from Montaigne's upcoming fourth album, and it's a return to their best: piercing and funny, with a delicious sticky melody that will bounce in your head for days. The production, by Montaigne with assistance from talented dance producer Wave Racer, bursts with bright guitars and jaunty electronic effects. The Sydney artist's new album, it's hard to be a fish, will land on June 19, and it marks their first as a fully independent artist after splitting with major label Sony a few years back. They recently joked on April Fool's Day that they had re-signed, which is perhaps an indication of how little love is lost between the two parties.
The Age
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
The best new Australian music to listen to this month
Teether & Kuya Neil, Yearn IV Naarm's (Melbourne's) underground music scene can feel like a deranged pot-luck dinner – club rats, art punks and rap surrealists seasoning their demented bone broth with unknown spices pinched from ziplock bags. Teether and Kuya Neil come bubbling out of that soup's peak-boil with their debut album, Yearn IV. Neil, one of the country's most visionary producers, sets the vibe on album opener Scratch the Flea Point with a murky Enter Sandman -esque guitar line and added breakbeats; Teether pokes fun at his hometown on Cosplay ('Half of the club cosplay low class/ How you got all that designer on?'); and on Dial Up (featuring Stoneset) he conjures his trademark feverish imagery ('Who filled the city with rats? Breathing the hottest of breath/ Pig on my bag, down my neck, screaming'). Yearn IV locates its energy in Naarm's community, cultures and creativity, pokes fun at its class contradictions and hedonism, and isn't afraid to embody the present moment's existential dread in Neil's swampy but nonetheless electric production. Teether's tongue is on fire, but ultimately Yearn IV' s a bisque to burn the brain. Nick Buckley Montaigne, it's all about the money If you had to guess which local pop artist would manage to work the lyric 'I am renouncing the monetary system' into a gleefully pinballing art-pop track, your mind may have drifted to Montaigne. It's all about the money is the fourth single from Montaigne's upcoming fourth album, and it's a return to their best: piercing and funny, with a delicious sticky melody that will bounce in your head for days. The production, by Montaigne with assistance from talented dance producer Wave Racer, bursts with bright guitars and jaunty electronic effects. The Sydney artist's new album, it's hard to be a fish, will land on June 19, and it marks their first as a fully independent artist after splitting with major label Sony a few years back. They recently joked on April Fool's Day that they had re-signed, which is perhaps an indication of how little love is lost between the two parties.
Otago Daily Times
29-04-2025
- Business
- Otago Daily Times
Design + Garden Landscapes: Producing some of the south's most fabulous gardens
Sheer love of their work motivates the Design + Garden Landscapes team to keep creating extraordinary outdoor spaces. Since Wayne and Ella Butson set up the business in Dunedin in 1991, it has won the Landscape of the Year twice for Southern gardens. They have an awesome team, some of whom have been there for over 20 years, including Construction manager Paul Gillies who has been with Design + Garden Landscapes since 1996. Throughout this time, they have gathered a great skill base to carry out award-winning projects, and they have some of the most fun and talented team about. Wayne established his own business to combine his passions of design, plants, and construction. They are members of the national industry organisation Registered Master Landscapers and have been for over 25 years. Design + Garden Landscapes have been involved in the Registered Master Landscapers National Awards programme since 2002. Winning the awards has reinforced the team's commitment to produce ''some of the most awesome gardens throughout Otago and Southland'. ''These gardens proved the great relationship between the client, designer, and the build. When working together, we can create some fabulous gardens.'' From its base at 205 St Andrew St, Design + Garden Landscapes travels to on-site consultations and prepares landscape and planting plans, then carry's out the garden builds, which can include retaining walls, decks, paving, water features, fireplaces, spas, and other creative elements and can finish off with planting. As well as residential projects, it completes commercial, rural, and school developments. The business is the approved Otago installer for Stoneset, a resin-based permeable paving product. Over the years materials and trends have changed the landscape both with design and how people interact with their outdoors. There is now more focus on year-round use of outdoor spaces with outdoor fires and overhead structures, and growing vegetables in raised beds. People want to spend less time working in the garden, so artificial lawns and more hard surfaces are taking over from greenspace, although careful plant selection can allow for minimal work. The Butsons have ensured their business has remained small and family based. ''We make sure fun is had along the way, as the work is physically hard and demanding. ''We are proud of all our team, and everyone enjoys seeing the end result of a happy client and a job well done.'
