Rock Indie

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Home Fires, the long awaited second record from the Melbourne outfit Small Town Romance. 

On their latest release, Home Fires presents a rich and ambitious collection of songs bursting with life and finely attuned insights. With a knack for a story, an uncanny ear for melody and an innate poeticism, Small Town Romance blend folk, country and roots influences to create a sound that is uniquely their own.

This week’s PBS Feature Album is the debut record In The Space You Carry by local multi-instrumentalist Darvid Thor. 

In The Space You Carry is a catharsis from youth, a shedding of skin. Leaning into the cinematic and orchestral spaces within the indie and alternative music idiom, Darvid’s absorbing, photosynthetic, warped, beautiful music reminds us to slow down, take a breath, and take stock of what’s around us.

Forming at one of the first Girls Rock! Melbourne Camps in 2017, The Vovos are known and loved for their punk attitude and DIY ethos. Coming from varied musical backgrounds, Ada, Ruby, Lu, Bethany and Mika didn’t take long to realise their compatibility and found common ground writing their first songs together in Beth’s front room. Their music is a perfect combination of bold, assertive, and bratty: sounding as though it would be equally at home on an indie coming-of-age film as it would be on the main stage of the Big Day Out 1999. 

Way Dynamic’s sophomore LP Duck is the project spearheaded by Dylan Young, Melbourne/Naarm engineer and producer with a long list of outstanding albums he’s associated with. Most recently co-producing Cool Sounds record Like That, as well as playing in their live band.

On Duck, Way Dynamic show off a diverse and interesting 10 tracks of minimalist folk-pop, with
thoughtful instrumentation cementing Young as one of Melbourne’s best songwriters.