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Sydney Morning Herald
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
Home-grown hits: the best new Australian music to hear this month
Wet Kiss, Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse Wet Kiss is one of the country's best live bands right now. One can imagine its enigmatic leader, Brenna O, kicking her way through a limousine's sunroof to make the kind of impact-on-entrance a regular car door precludes. She sparkles like shattered champagne flutes and has a snarl wicked enough to spontaneously combust a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. Brenna O leads a troupe of sunglasses-inside-wearing rascals, including her floppy-eared, plaything-guitarist, Daniel Dog, Al Amour (piano), Ben Addiction (bass), Ju Sugar (lead guitar), Ruby Rabbit (drums) and Agnes Wailin' (vocals). On their sophomore album, Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse (out June 27), the band channels Aladdin Sane -era Bowie on album-opener The Gay Band, and follow that up with gospel-fuzz exultation on Isn't Music Wonderful. And yet, underpinning the theatrics is poignant songwriting, often exploring the precarity, fear, freedom, joy and fight for self-determination of trans life. If you think Pearl Jam ruined guitar music, then pucker up, sweat it out and bask in Brenna O and co's anarchic radiance on the band's August album tour. It's one kiss you'll never forget. Nick Buckley Tyne-James Organ, The Other Side In 2021, Wollongong-via-Sydney songwriter Tyne-James Organ released his energetic and engaging debut record, Necessary Evil. Unfortunately, it landed on shelves just a few weeks before the COVID-19 lockdown would pull the shutters down on the east coast, cutting off any prospect of pushing the album to its full potential. It was a great shame, as the album – chock-full of brilliantly written indie rock tracks reminiscent of Gang of Youths or Sam Fender – deserved its time to shine.
The Age
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
Home-grown hits: the best new Australian music to hear this month
Wet Kiss, Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse Wet Kiss is one of the country's best live bands right now. One can imagine its enigmatic leader, Brenna O, kicking her way through a limousine's sunroof to make the kind of impact-on-entrance a regular car door precludes. She sparkles like shattered champagne flutes and has a snarl wicked enough to spontaneously combust a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. Brenna O leads a troupe of sunglasses-inside-wearing rascals, including her floppy-eared, plaything-guitarist, Daniel Dog, Al Amour (piano), Ben Addiction (bass), Ju Sugar (lead guitar), Ruby Rabbit (drums) and Agnes Wailin' (vocals). On their sophomore album, Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse (out June 27), the band channels Aladdin Sane -era Bowie on album-opener The Gay Band, and follow that up with gospel-fuzz exultation on Isn't Music Wonderful. And yet, underpinning the theatrics is poignant songwriting, often exploring the precarity, fear, freedom, joy and fight for self-determination of trans life. If you think Pearl Jam ruined guitar music, then pucker up, sweat it out and bask in Brenna O and co's anarchic radiance on the band's August album tour. It's one kiss you'll never forget. Nick Buckley Tyne-James Organ, The Other Side In 2021, Wollongong-via-Sydney songwriter Tyne-James Organ released his energetic and engaging debut record, Necessary Evil. Unfortunately, it landed on shelves just a few weeks before the COVID-19 lockdown would pull the shutters down on the east coast, cutting off any prospect of pushing the album to its full potential. It was a great shame, as the album – chock-full of brilliantly written indie rock tracks reminiscent of Gang of Youths or Sam Fender – deserved its time to shine.
