Beyond Planet Earth

$22.99 (AUD)

Calendar Days (Vinyl)

$22.99 (AUD)

Second album for Melbourne quartet, following 2011’s New Start Again. Recorded with Mikey Young, this time at a Phillip Island beach house. Features saxophones, keyboards, pedal steel and piano throughout, as well as drum machine to start the record. Includes a songwriting contribution each from bassist Al Montfort (Total Control, UV Race, Lower Plenty) and drummer Stephanie Hughes (Boomgates) in addition to guitarist-songwriters Rupert Edwards and Al McKay, with shared vocals all over. Includes the singles ‘Alice’ and ‘Water Damage’. Calendar Days is the sound of a band growing up, and opening up. There’s a beguiling, inquisitive eccentricity that runs throughout, combined with a non-flag-wearing but still classic Australian-ness, which makes for something of a modern classic.

Franz Ferdinand

$14.99 (AUD)

Manners

$20.99 (AUD)

Passion Pit are without a doubt, the ‘buzz band’ of 2009. After amazing live shows at this years’ SXSW, they are being TOUTED as THE band to watch this year. Passion Pit, who hail from Boston in the US, are the brainchild of Michael Angelakos. Angelakos’ critical acclaim started after the release of the brilliant ‘Chunk Of Change EP’ which he wrote and recorded as a belated valentine’s gift for his girlfriend.