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Holy Holy – ‘Hello My Beautiful World’ review: indie rock duo reposition themselves with existentialist electro-pop
Timothy Carroll and Oscar Dawson’s pandemic album offers cosmic contemplation and expansive soundscapes for future festivals

B Wise wants fans to see “every side” of him on new album ‘jamie’
The rapper talks to NME about setting “bravado” aside for his personal yet adventurous sophomore album, South-West Sydney’s musical rise and more

Youngn Lipz: “I’m very proud of where I’m from and will always represent”
The sky’s the limit for Australia’s new R&B star Youngn Lipz, who flies the flag for South-West Sydney on his debut album ‘Area Baby’

Hiatus Kaiyote – ‘Mood Valiant’ review: their most focused album with more classic songs than epic jams
The Melbourne future soul band rein in their most maximalist impulses to deliver their most resonant record yet

Tkay Maidza: “This whole journey has just been about finding myself and owning my power”
Adelaide’s pride and joy, chameleonic artist, ambitious visual auteur, eclectic outsider – Tkay Maidza is all these things and more

Nerve: “It’s the season for people to be tall poppies at the thing that they love”
On ‘Tall Poppy Season’, the Brisbane rap multi-hyphenate adds R&B to his toolbox and opens up about “real shit”

Big Scary – ‘Daisy’ review: Melbourne indie-pop duo return with their grooviest album yet
Tom Iansek and Jo Syme set aside the guitars and recast themselves as an eccentric disco outfit on their fourth album

Jesswar: “I can walk into any space anywhere and be proud of who I am”
The Fijian-Australian rap phenom tells NME about the road to her searing debut EP, ‘Tropixx’

Genesis Owusu – ‘Smiling With No Teeth’ review: a transcendent conceptual opus
The Canberran artist defies the conventions of Australian hip-hop, personalising jazz-funk, punk and folk on his debut

Odette: “I’m just a bundle of nerves experiencing things, trying not to be a bad person”
On new album ‘Herald’, the Sydney pop-soul auteur candidly chronicles her coming of age and struggles with mental illness

Tasman Keith: “I’m always evolving – I don’t know if I ever wanna ‘find’ my sound and get stuck there”
The Bowraville rapper’s just dropped his debut mixtape – and his sights are firmly set on global superstardom

BLESSED: Under-the-radar veteran of Aussie hip-hop embraces his “true self”
The early Kid LAROI collaborator formerly known as Miracle returns with a new moniker and genre-busting ‘debut’ album