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| The best Australian bands you've never heard of | The best Australian bands you've never heard of |
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| The Australian music scene looks pretty healthy from our perspective over on the other side of the world. As you'll be aware if you've been following our recent Adelaide festival coverage, there's no shortage of quality acts playing to Australian audiences – but who are the bands we'll be talking about in the coming months and years? We know about Austalia's high-profile musical exports such as Nick Cave, Tame Impala and DZ Deathrays – but which other acts should discerning listeners in the northern hemisphere be supporting? | The Australian music scene looks pretty healthy from our perspective over on the other side of the world. As you'll be aware if you've been following our recent Adelaide festival coverage, there's no shortage of quality acts playing to Australian audiences – but who are the bands we'll be talking about in the coming months and years? We know about Austalia's high-profile musical exports such as Nick Cave, Tame Impala and DZ Deathrays – but which other acts should discerning listeners in the northern hemisphere be supporting? |
| Over the past week @GuardianMusic Twitter followers have been posting recommendations. Below are five of our favourites – and you can see all the suggestions by searching the #ExcellentAustralianBands hashtag – but who else should we be listening to? Let us know in the thread below. | Over the past week @GuardianMusic Twitter followers have been posting recommendations. Below are five of our favourites – and you can see all the suggestions by searching the #ExcellentAustralianBands hashtag – but who else should we be listening to? Let us know in the thread below. |
| 1. Valentiine | 1. Valentiine |
| As recommended by @mrjamieg. Melbourne-based garage-rock trio Valentiine "reincarnate the heavy 90s into something beautiful", says their website. "Dirty pop hooks drowned in the honesty of screaming vocals with seething cheerleader harmonies over the top. Making the Breeders or Veruca Salt proud." | As recommended by @mrjamieg. Melbourne-based garage-rock trio Valentiine "reincarnate the heavy 90s into something beautiful", says their website. "Dirty pop hooks drowned in the honesty of screaming vocals with seething cheerleader harmonies over the top. Making the Breeders or Veruca Salt proud." |
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| 2. Lower Plenty | 2. Lower Plenty |
| Recommended by @CornishBoyInOz. Also from Melbourne (and named after a Melbourne suburb), Lower Plenty make "beautifully melancholy, suburban-country music that's made (and often performed) while sitting around the kitchen table." | Recommended by @CornishBoyInOz. Also from Melbourne (and named after a Melbourne suburb), Lower Plenty make "beautifully melancholy, suburban-country music that's made (and often performed) while sitting around the kitchen table." |
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| 3. Kucka | 3. Kucka |
| Recommended by @Kosta_Lucas. Off-kilter experimental electronica from one Laura Jane Lowther's solo bedroom project turned ambitious, post-dubstep live act. | Recommended by @Kosta_Lucas. Off-kilter experimental electronica from one Laura Jane Lowther's solo bedroom project turned ambitious, post-dubstep live act. |
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| 4. Palms | 4. Palms |
| Recommended by @leetranlam. Noisy and melodic Sydney-based duo who've recently supported DZ Deathrays. Check out their Facebook here. | Recommended by @leetranlam. Noisy and melodic Sydney-based duo who've recently supported DZ Deathrays. Check out their Facebook here. |
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| 5. Collarbones | 5. Collarbones |
| Recommended by @Mgalz. Another duo – this one's comprised of Sydney's Marcus Whale and Adelaide's Travis Cook, and together they make some rather fine electronica-inflected R&B. | Recommended by @Mgalz. Another duo – this one's comprised of Sydney's Marcus Whale and Adelaide's Travis Cook, and together they make some rather fine electronica-inflected R&B. |
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