This week we’ve added 10 new tracks to our Discovery Playlist on Spotify and Apple Music, including two exclusive premieres. Our Track of the Week is “Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)”, the irresistible first single from long-time AU favourite Julia Jacklin, and the opening salvo from her forthcoming fourth album, The Gem.
Arriving with a self-directed video that playfully reimagines the album’s striking cover art, “Get Away From Me” finds Jacklin in buoyant, jangling form: a bright, eighties-indebted nod to the Melbourne sound she fell for after relocating from Sydney back in 2017. It’s a looser, more joyful Jacklin than we’ve heard before, even as that familiar push-pull runs underneath. “I want to love and be loved, but I also want to be free,” she says of the record. “The tension between those two things has been the central question of my life.”
The Gem , the follow-up to 2022’s PRE PLEASURE , lands on 25th September – pre-order HERE. Produced by Jacklin and Robert Muinos, it was recorded entirely in Melbourne, in converted hotel rooms above the Collingwood bar that gives the album its name. UK and Ireland fans get an early look this month, too, on a run of solo in-store performances in Dublin, Brighton, London, Liverpool and Nottingham, ahead of a full North America, UK and Europe headline tour that kicks off in October. Tickets are on sale now.
Keeping with a loose ‘love’ theme, we have “I Love You Too Eagerly”, the second single from Melbourne alt-folk songwriter and artist Stella Dunai. The track is constructed around a live guitar and vocal take with any imperfections and blemishes left intact, giving the track a sense of intimacy and authenticity; and removing any perceived barriers between listener and artist. There’s some lovely, tender lyrical turns alongside some gorgeous guitar work, all which help capture the nuances of new love.
This week Kaurna Land/Adelaide based artist Ella Ion releases her Liminal Archive EP – a collection of her work from the last year, along with new song “My Love”. Recorded on a gifted tape machine, whilst housesitting in the Adelaide Hills, “My Love” is this gorgeous, melancholy tinged, yearning of a song. Stripped back to the core elements of vocals, acoustic guitar, and strings it’s a striking beautiful track. Melbourne fans will be about to catch Ion at a special EP launch show at The Tramway on June 28th. Tickets are available now.
An unexpected team-up that lands beautifully: First Nations collective 3% join forces with Aussie faves The Terrys on “All Gucci”, a genuinely left-field pairing which works brilliantly. The Terrys’ indie-rock gives Nooky and Dallas room to stretch out, trading 3%’s usual bite for a seemingly chilled summer arvo. With feel-good harmonies and a hook that lingers, it draws you in. It sounds like a lazy afternoon but plays like a confession, picking at the gap between the success your feed keeps selling and simply being comfortable in your own skin. It makes you think about your relationship with money and how you value its worth. The video’s a total gas, too, flogging the designer fits-and-Ferraris fantasy before pulling the rug to land on a suburban backyard and a Hills Hoist.
Another AU favourite, The Buoys, kick off 2026 with “Kill You Back”, and it’s a reminder of just how restless and adventurous this lot are, never afraid to mix it up. A self-assured, gut-punching rock song that bottles the high-octane energy of their unmissable live shows, it finds frontwoman Zoe Catterall channelling the gloriously chaotic spirit of Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin and running with a wonderfully zany premise: being murdered and then haunting your murderer. If it sounds weird and unhinged, that’s entirely the point. You can catch them supporting Foo Fighters at their Newcastle show in November, and with plenty more to come from the band in the back-half of the year there’s much to look forward to.
“Spit Take” is the latest single from Naarm six piece Shock Corridor ahead of their debut self-titled album in August. Dark, moody and more than a little existential, “Spit Take” revels almost in the uncertainty of our mortality, with the band describing it having an ‘end of the world feeling to it’. It all makes for a compelling collision of electronic dance music, alt rock and dark-wave, that’s full of fracture and dissonance. But, also melody, beauty and hope. The band will be heading out on an album tour at the end of August. Tickets are on sale now.
Also added to the playlist this week are new tracks from Sydney-born singer-songwriter Azure Ryder (“I Don’t Need You Anymore”) and Ireland-based Italian/Czech artist Danxgerous (“Clairvoyant”). “I Don’t Need You” is the second track to be release from Ryder’s debut album Even Flowers Can Bruise (out September 25th). With a stunning lead vocal, “I Don’t Need You” is full of rich lyricism and emotion. Meanwhile, a haunting and nostalgia-tinged slice of indie pop – “Clairvoyant” is the latest track to be released from Danxgerous’ debut album Old Soul (Out October 16th). Finally, we’ve also added “Tell Me You Love Me” from Harley, and “Fortune” from DUB ZOO, which we premiered earlier in the week.
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Here’s the complete list of new additions this week:
Julia Jacklin “Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)”
Stella Dunai “I Love You Too Eagerly”
Ella Ion “My Love”
3% x The Terrys “All Gucci”
The Buoys “Kill You Back”
Shock Corridor “Spit Take”
Azure Ryder “I Don’t Need You Anymore”
Danxgerous “Clairvoyant”
Harley “Tell Me You Love Me” [Exclusive Single Premiere]
DUB ZOO “Fortune” [Exclusive EP Premiere]
Header image credit: James J. Robinson
