As we hurtle past the halfway point of the year we’re bringing you a bumper edition of our Discovery Playlist this week, with fourteen tracks added on Spotify and Apple Music – including five we premiered across the last fortnight. This week our Track of the Week is “Home In This World”, the brand new single from Naarm-based artist Rowena Wise.
“Home In This World” is the third single to be released from Wise’s forthcoming sophomore album Bad Things Feel Good* – out August 7th via Beloved Records/Remote Control Records. The album opener, “Home In This World” is this gorgeous, tender and gentle ode to solitude and feeling small amidst the expanse of the universe. It’s quite different from the other tracks that have already been released from the album, but really helps to highlight the broader emotional landscape of the record.
Accompanying the single and ahead of the album launch, Wise has announced a run of headline shows across Australia in October and November with her band. For more information and tickets head HERE.
Keeping things quietly devastating we also have “Judith’s House”, the latest release from fellow Naarm singer-songwriter Hannah Potter. Born out of a turbulent period in Potter’s life, “Judith’s House” was written following a walk in some woods outside Utrecht near the aforementioned Judith’s house. Sparse and haunting, Potter’s vocals really shine here and only strengthen the single’s emotional core. Stripped back to minimal instrumentation, it’s really quite beautiful and striking.
“Control” is the new single from Cardiff-based cinematic electro-pop artist Freyja Elsy, the latest to be released from her forthcoming EP, to stop the world turning. Stripped back, fragmented and fractured, “Control” offers up a moodier, more claustrophobic and tenser sound from Elsy compared to previous single “In My Veins”. The one constant between the two, however, is Elsy’s emotive and evocative lead vocal.
If you’re nursing a broken heart from a breakup, then Meanjin/Brisbane’s Evie Williams has a song that will strongly resonate. “July” is a dense, cathartic indie-folk reckoning with heartbreak, written while she was processing a split and confronting the negative coping mechanisms that fill the space when love falls apart. It’s honest about the messier truths of moving on, but it never leaves you there: for all its ache, “July” carries you through to an ending full of quiet, hard-earned hope.
Queensland garage-rock four-piece Girl and Girl have never been shy about circling death in their music, but on “It’s Dead” frontman Kai James finally drops the metaphor and just comes out and says it. This is a visceral blast of post-punk-fried guitar rock. The track is enough as it is, but it’s taken to the next level with Alexandros Kalas‘s accompanying video. Lovers of blood and gore will feast: here, more is more, and the band commit to the carnage with obvious glee. Fittingly, it was tracked with producer Jasper at his “meat fridge studio” in Ocean Grove, and it lands just as the band prepare to unleash it live across the East Coast throughout July and August. Head HERE for all the ticketing deets.
Also added to the playlist this week is “My Room” from Geelong’s Beans. The track is the second taste from their new album Less Louder (Out September 11th). The album was written and recorded around the same time as its predecessor, 2024’s Boots N Cats, and is that album’s more laid-back counterpoint – it’s very much as case of ‘does what it says on the tin’. “My Room” in particular has this lovely blissed-out psychedelic feel to proceedings. It’s very much good vibes, positivity and finding joy in the simple things. There’s a lovely jangle to things too, that we love here at the AU.
Joining them on the playlist is the iconic Dinosaur Jr. with “Several Got Away”, the lead single from their new album There Near (out August 28th) – their sixth studio album in the twenty years since their triumphant return/rebirth. Then things take a more jazz/r&b adjacent turn with “Sitback” from Eora-based artist, producer and trumpeter LOCKE and the cinematic grooves of “Re-education” from Truth & Soul Records co-founder and Rockstar Games soundtrack producer J. Dynamite.
Finally, we also have tracks from Stefanie Passione, Grander Things, Teenage Bees, Nathan Coutts, and Leila, all of which we had premieres for over the last two weeks.
Catch all the new music updated every Friday on Apple Music:
and on Spotify:
Here’s the complete list of new additions this week:
Rowena Wise “Home In This World”
Hannah Potter “Judith’s House”
Freyja Elsy “Control”
Evie Williams “July
Girl and Girl “It’s Dead”
Beans “My Room”
Dinosaur Jr. “Several Got Away”
Locke “Sitback”
J. Dynamite “Re-education”
Stefanie Passione “If you want it” [Exclusive Video Premiere]
Grander Things “No Time” [Exclusive Single Premiere]
Teenage Bees “Slam Hunk” [Exclusive Video Premiere]
Nathan Coutts “Movie Star” [Exclusive Single Premiere]
Leila “Heart and Soul” [Exclusive Single Premiere]
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