One A Day

18/12/2017

Carner has made an art of rendering the personal publicly palatable, and the painful inherently listenable.

If I’m having a confessional rap moment, Loyle Carner has inched his way into my consciousness at just the right time. Carner has long been a fixture with his kind of deep, uninflected rhymes breathing more life into the already lush soundscapes of Tom Misch. His might be my favourite pronunciatio...

18/12/2017

‘Raingurl’ is a subsonic spell. It is a fever dream from which we truly believe we may never wake up. One day we will forget it ever existed, but for now it is absolutely everything.

Pray for us.

‘Raingurl’ is a song that envelops you. You hear it once and it seeps right into your membrane, along with Yaeji’s voice, and refuses to leave. I’m not sure whether ‘Raingurl’ is a mood, or a virus, or both. Either way, it’s insidious; a swirling evocation of what it means to be inward...

17/08/2017

Gang of Youths excellent new record is out today. It's hard to play favourites, but here's one.

We often take the arrival of new music for granted. There is an unspoken understanding that a person (or perhaps, a group of them) spent some time in another city, deep within a forest, sequestered to a coast where it is warm or a farm where it is freezing, and staring out at the moon one unadultera...

08/08/2017

Solid proof that our culture revival should be pluralistic. We’ve already exhumed Savage Garden and Tina Arena. It’s time to lose the irony and stubbornly embrace our heavy-hitting pop past.

National pride is having a moment here in Australia. You can see it taking form in the unlikeliest of places; from the halls of Parliament, where minority parties campaigning on a platform of ‘Australian values’ are grabbing more seats, to Internet meme culture, in the form of a thriving Betoota Adv...

31/05/2017

One of the heirs to Elliot Smith has arrived in full glory.

There is a benefit to being so hungover – or so unwell – that you physically can’t do anything. It allows you to spend more time lying face down, listening to music without distraction. As last weekend’s hangover has blended into a virus that has flattened me this week, I’ve been lucky enough to cou...

25/05/2017

When it comes to banging new hip-hop, we trust the experts.

Late last year, I got an Uber with my grandparents from the Whitney to a Williamsburg bar. Putting the internal inconsistencies plaguing that sentence to one side, what was most interesting about the ride was the driver/car combo. I didn’t ask Trevor how old he was when his Audi A6 pulled up but I’m...

23/05/2017

Horrified to hear about what is happening in Manchester, as we were with Bataclan in Paris. We go to concerts every week and we live for large-scale events like festivals and arena concerts. Music brings the world together. Targeting fans is the lowest you can go. Our thoughts are with those affected - J+D.

10/05/2017

Move over 'Gasolina'. Meet the new Latin jam sweeping the globe.

It doesn’t really matter who Luis Fonsi is. He might well have an impressive, rags-to-riches backstory. This might be the release that took him from provincial hero to continental superstar. Maybe he used to do salsa music before a reggaeton reinvention. Whatever the case, and despite his billing to...

08/05/2017

He's played in Tame Impala and Pond, but you've never heard Cameron Avery quite like this. Stunning.

There’s nothing like a classic love song to whallop you in the guts. Cameron Avery’s first single from his recently released debut, ‘C’est Toi’ is like the 85% dark chocolate you get when you’re feeling extra indulgent at the supermarket; so rich it’s almost too much to eat in one sitting. I can’t r...

05/05/2017

The return of one of our favourites is well overdue.

Real art takes time. It’s something that’s become more apparent as we’ve gotten older and found ourselves connected to people that create for a living. I’m not sure what we used to think about songs, especially in the mp3 snatch-and-grab age that gave birth to this publication, but perhaps they were...

02/05/2017

We went to New Orleans and fell in love.

I watched Doreen play for five days straight and I still don’t know her surname. In fact, any information you find on of Louisiana’s most celebrated performers only refers to her as Doreen’s Jazz, which I like because it sort of sounds like she is the entire genre of music. See the woman in action f...

31/03/2017

Get around the exclusive new cut from Polish Club's excellent debut, out today.

There’s this guy you work with. He’s in a band. Somebody else tells you about it, because they hear that you’re a ‘music guy’ – air quotes their own – and that you might find this piece of information interesting. You pay no attention at first, at every office you’ve ever sat in there’s been a guy i...

27/02/2017

Early contender for breakup album of the year.

Breakup records are a paradox. For the artist, it’s typically a mixture of excruciating pain and dawn-eyed relief, while for the listener, it can make for either a dreary or transcendental experience. Some of my favourite albums ever are breakup records, including

30/01/2017

John Mayer continues to showcase his guitar tone gifted by the Gods.

I feel like I’m old enough now that I’ve been through an entire spin and wash cycle with John Mayer and come out the other end just being able to appreciate the guy for being quite excellent at his job. It takes a moment of reflection to step back and remember that this is the guy who’s been with us...

11/01/2017

The fire rages on for Run The Jewels on this incendiary new record.

I don’t know that I’ve ever been later to a party in my life. Sometime around the awful cultural lull that is Christmas to New Year’s Eve, I was desperate for new material. I’d heard of Run The Jewels, but they seemed like the kind of group that was fell exclusively within the domain of Brother J; r...

30/12/2016

In the 8 years since we started One A Day, we have always forced ourselves to choose our single favourite song of the past 12 months. It's a hard ask, especially this year.

So we decided to take the long road to get there, via George Michael, Childish Gambino, Kaytranada, DJ Khaled, Gang of Youths, METHYL ETHEL, BUOY, Violent Soho, Whitney, Radiohead and many more.

Presenting, The One Song of 2016.

An annual conversation between two brothers who can’t help but geek out over music.

28/12/2016

Ooft. One of our favourite labels, LuckyMe is back with their advent calendar for another year. This goes hard.

Free Download → https://luckyme.net/advent Since 2009 we have hosted an annual Advent Calendar- a daily release of rarities, alternate versions, and brand new exclusives that span the sound of the Lu

19/12/2016

If 2016 has been somewhat of an unofficial restart for Spit Syndicate, 2017 had better watch out.

Sometimes, you just need a windows-down summer jam. After the intense, flaming dumpster fire that has been this year in politics and world events, I’ve increasingly found myself gravitating towards songs that evoke a feeling rather than some heavy intellectual response. That is not to say that these...

13/12/2016

He supported Lianne La Havas in Sydney last night. See why we're hooked on Morgan Bain.

Never underestimate the power of the support artist slot. It’s something we’ve mentioned a few times here over the years, as we’ve stumbled onto absolute gems playing to half-empty rooms. With the most to prove and the least time to do it, seeing a musician in this mode is often the most illuminatin...

01/11/2016

Songs like this are the reason we still do this site.

I guess it’s for songs like this that we continue to pen this blog. Joey Purp, part of Chicago’s Save Money crew, spearheaded by the likes of Chance The Rapper and Vic Mensa, has featured here previously for his impeccably conscious ‘Cornerstore’, worryingly the first time I’d heard of the guy. Now,...

01/11/2016

A sizzling Bruno jam you can enjoy without the copyright issues.

There was a time when people questioned whether inviting Bruno Mars to perform at the Super Bowl half time show was a prudent decision. That seems laughable to me now, as it was then, but there was a genuine subset of the entertainment and music industry that truthfully believed that Mars was not we...

01/11/2016

Here's a banger from 1998 that is better than 98% of Taylor Swift songs.

After almost ten years, Bryan Adams has finally made it to One A Day. Two artists that have featured more than Adams over the years include Melanie Chisolm, his co-star on this number and former Spice Girl and Ryan Adams, the alt-country star frequently mistaken for the aforementioned Bryan Adams. I...

29/08/2016

Sometimes, you need a band like The Delta Riggs to remind you that making consistently entertaining rock music is still an entirely acceptable modus operandi.

Many people play in bands. They’re everywhere if you know where to look. But there aren’t a lot who live to play in bands. The Delta Riggs, who have literally been at it for six years and put out about as many records in the meantime, are some of those people. Every time I see them, whether it’s in…

22/08/2016

Straight outta The Middle East, Bree Tranter stuns us with her latest solo work.

This weekend our family moved house. This doesn’t mean a whole lot for me in the grand scheme of things, as I haven’t lived there in years, but what it did entail was me regaining ownership of my prized collection of CDs. There’s nearly 1000 of them that I had to lug up the stairs and put back into…

22/08/2016

The future is non-linear.

Say goodbye to linearity. Whether it’s release dates, albums, tracklistings or even songs themselves, the record industry is slowly falling apart at the seams and ironically, it’s mostly the artists that are responsible for the dismemberment. In this month alone, we’ve seen Frank Ocean split his cre...

10/08/2016

We are 8 years old today

Today we are eight years old. This website is no longer a baby, or even a small child. It has grown into its own independent person; one that can walk, talk and still manage to attract DMCA takedown notices for Britney Spears songs some 5 years after the fact. When I was thinking about what we shoul...

02/08/2016

Proof that nobody does dance better than the Scandinavians.

I don’t get to dance much in Sydney anymore, but when I do, it’s in my kitchen. Having finally wrestled a wireless speaker back from the brink of death, I’ve relished the opportunity to be able to start the day with a proper banger that others enjoy grooving to at night. It’s any man’s guess what I’...

02/05/2016

This is not just art for art’s sake, or protest for protest’s sake, but something much more real, far more close to the bone, and it would have found a way of making it out in any event.

All semester long here at the law school I’m attending, we’ve been beset by angry mobs. Seemingly every time you turn around, there is another group of disaffected youths, claiming something new is wrong with the system – something they’d perhaps never considered until yesterday, when their most rec…

02/05/2016

We feel appropriately buoyed.

Pity any artist, particularly an Aussie local, trying to release music in a week in which Prince has passed over and a Queen has reascended the throne. The nature of collected conversations, bunched tightly across news and personal feeds, means that you’d be forgiven for thinking that we are unoffic…

12/04/2016

Jesus Christ this is amazing.

It is not without shame that I admit that ‘Vincent’ was the first time I had heard of Car Seat Headrest, the moniker of One Guy who has released about 13 albums since I left university. That, by the way, was five years ago, so you get the impression that this One Guy, Will Toledo, now backed up by S…

23/03/2016

RIP one of our favourites of all time.

The co-founder of A Tribe Called Quest and hip-hop pioneer was 45.

16/03/2016

Sit back and revel in the beauty.

One of the greatest gifts about following a wide range of music is that certain artists can come out of nowhere and surprise you. Californian-bred JMSN, who first came to my attention during his star turn on Ta-Ku’s ‘Love Again’ last year has been a considerable solo artist in his own right for a wh…

15/03/2016

Chance The Rapper lends a superior verse to Macklemore x Ryan Lewis as they shoot toward the next level.

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis have a problem. You were never really supposed to know their names. Macklemore, a formerly drug-impacted Seattle local, rose startlingly fast to prominence after linking up with producer Ryan Lewis and bringing the idea of thrift shopping being cool, independently, to the m…

29/02/2016

The dark prince of Australian electronica goes solo.

As the argument over who is allowed to determine what time Sydney-siders go to sleep boils over, we are faced with the very real possibility of the extermination of our subcultures. It’s a point made to great effect by The Preatures’ Isabella Manfredi during the Keep Sydney Open demonstration over t…