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As we hurtle past the halfway point of the year we\u2019re bringing you a bumper edition of our Discovery Playlist this week, with fourteen tracks added on Spotify and Apple Music \u2013 including five we premiered across the last fortnight. This week our Track of the Week is \u201cHome In This World\u201d, the brand new single from Naarm-based artist Rowena Wise<\/b>.<\/p>\n
\u201cHome In This World\u201d is the third single to be released from Wise\u2019s forthcoming sophomore album Bad Things Feel Good*<\/i> \u2013 out August 7th via Beloved Records\/Remote Control Records. The album opener, \u201cHome In This World\u201d is this gorgeous, tender and gentle ode to solitude and feeling small amidst the expanse of the universe. It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>.<\/p>\n Keeping things quietly devastating we also have \u201cJudith\u2019s House\u201d, the latest release from fellow Naarm singer-songwriter Hannah Potter<\/b>. Born out of a turbulent period in Potter\u2019s life, \u201cJudith\u2019s House\u201d was written following a walk in some woods outside Utrecht near the aforementioned Judith\u2019s house. Sparse and haunting, Potter\u2019s vocals really shine here and only strengthen the single\u2019s emotional core. Stripped back to minimal instrumentation, it\u2019s really quite beautiful and striking.<\/p>\n \u201cControl\u201d is the new single from Cardiff-based cinematic electro-pop artist Freyja Elsy<\/b>, the latest to be released from her forthcoming EP, to stop the world turning<\/i>. Stripped back, fragmented and fractured, \u201cControl\u201d offers up a moodier, more claustrophobic and tenser sound from Elsy compared to previous single \u201cIn My Veins\u201d. The one constant between the two, however, is Elsy\u2019s emotive and evocative lead vocal.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re nursing a broken heart from a breakup, then Meanjin\/Brisbane\u2019s Evie Williams<\/strong> has a song that will strongly resonate. \u201cJuly\u201d 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\u2019s honest about the messier truths of moving on, but it never leaves you there: for all its ache, \u201cJuly\u201d carries you through to an ending full of quiet, hard-earned hope.<\/p>\n Queensland garage-rock four-piece Girl and Girl<\/strong> have never been shy about circling death in their music, but on \u201cIt\u2019s Dead\u201d 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.\u00a0 The track is enough as it is, but it\u2019s taken to the next level with Alexandros Kalas<\/strong>\u2018s accompanying video<\/a>. 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<\/strong> at his \u201cmeat fridge studio\u201d 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<\/a> for all the ticketing deets.<\/p>\n Also added to the playlist this week is \u201cMy Room\u201d from Geelong\u2019s Beans<\/b>. The track is the second taste from their new album Less Louder<\/i> (Out September 11th). The album was written and recorded around the same time as its predecessor, 2024\u2019s Boots N Cats<\/i>, and is that album\u2019s more laid-back counterpoint \u2013 it\u2019s very much as case of \u2018does what it says on the tin\u2019. \u201cMy Room\u201d in particular has this lovely blissed-out psychedelic feel to proceedings. It\u2019s very much good vibes, positivity and finding joy in the simple things. There\u2019s a lovely jangle to things too, that we love here at the AU. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Joining them on the playlist is the iconic\u00a0Dinosaur Jr.<\/strong> \u00a0with \u201cSeveral Got Away\u201d, the lead single from their new album\u00a0There Near\u00a0<\/em>(out August 28th) \u2013 their sixth studio album in the twenty years since their triumphant return\/rebirth. Then things take a more jazz\/r&b adjacent turn with \u201cSitback\u201d from Eora-based artist, producer and trumpeter\u00a0LOCKE<\/strong> and the cinematic grooves of \u201cRe-education\u201d from Truth & Soul Records co-founder and Rockstar Games soundtrack producer\u00a0J. Dynamite<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Finally, we also have tracks from Stefanie Passione<\/strong>, Grander Things<\/strong>, Teenage Bees<\/strong>, Nathan Coutts<\/strong>, and Leila<\/strong>, all of which we had premieres for over the last two weeks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Catch all the new music updated every Friday on Apple Music:<\/p>\n