Australian music scene is one of INDIEVOTION’S greatest crushes for more than a decade. Countless hours of pleasure and joy listening to so much remarkable music. In order to make it official we’ve decided to have a new blog feature, last year, appropriately called “Australian Gems” which may sound a whole lot cheesy, but it was inspiration on the spur of the moment.
This new feature presented all throughout 2018 a set of around 50 solo artists and/or bands that highly capture the essence of extraordinary artistic achievement, inventiveness and excellence of the Australian music scene, particularly the one we esteem to call the indie/underground one.
Back in 2016 the musical world got severely hit by that marvelous “sonic hurricane” that was Courtney Barnett’s “Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit”. This so called Courtney Barnett sort of phenomenon worked out like a can opener for the world to know how many brilliant musicians there are in Australia and making fabulous music, in most cases in DIY mode of creativeness.
To say that the Australians music scene did not start with Courtney Barnett is indeed correct, but she made the world look to Australian music like no other artist did before, not even the stunning Steve Kilbey’s The Church have done it, and they probably are the best known ambassadors of Australian music worldwide along with Miss Barnett.
To say that the Australians music scene did not start with Courtney Barnett is indeed correct, but she made the world look to Australian music like no other artist did before, not even the stunning Steve Kilbey’s The Church have done it, and they probably are the best known ambassadors of Australian music worldwide along with Miss Barnett.
Last year has undoubtedly stood out as another fantastic one for music in the land of Oz. So many great acts, so much refreshingly good new sounds, so much to dream about. Our list does not pretend to be definitive, orthodox nor even try to opinion make about the issue in appreciation, but we’re pretty sure that our list is a very good sample of what was decidedly been the best music proposals made in Australia during 2018.
All albums scored between 8/10 and 10/10.