It’s the morning of January 21st when I sit down to interview Claud. Just another day for us Australians. For the U.S.-based artist however, that means it’s still the afternoon of the 20th, Biden’s inauguration day. It’s a day heavy with significance, and an auspicious one to be interviewing the 21-year-old, an artist who seems tailor made for this new hopeful-present, a gently radical young voice who’s debut album Super Monster (out today on Saddest Factory Records) cuts across age and gender barriers to deliver ear-wormy bedroom-pop about love and coming-of-age with a distinctly 2021 approach.
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Hipland Blog
Valid Point talks online collabs and dual singles 'Bury Me' and 'Time Flies'
Posted on January 29 2021
Brothers Thad and Jonah McClelland are no strangers to innovation. In fact, they've built their whole career on it, experimenting and jamming together new genres and new methods of production with their band Valid Point, in the pursuit of making great music. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the band's new release, the dual singles 'Bury Me' and 'Time Flies', a pairing of differing yet complementary hip-hop tracks that perfectly summarise Valid Point's approach to making music.
What's in a name? Hey Danger talks origins, perfectionism, and new single 'Stop and Go'
Posted on January 23 2021
There are lots of methods for coming up with band names. You can use a self-deprecating quip (Led Zeppelin). Make fun of an old teacher (Lynyrd Skynyrd). Take inspiration from a Buddhist ideal (Nirvana). Or, like Jarvis Hill of Brisbane-based indie-rock outfit Hey Danger, you can let your subconscious do the work with the help of a little free association.
Brandon Alexander is already feeling nostalgic
Posted on January 22 2021
Nostalgia. We all know the feeling. That wistful yearning for times past, that kind of heart-sick pull that makes us feel happy and sad all at once, happy because it lives on in our memories, sad because the moment is lost forever, irrecoverable. It might sound painful, but that's exactly the kind of feeling Atlanta-based musician Brandon Alexander wants you to have, tapping into our collective reveverence for the past with his brand of ethereal, 80's inspired dream pop.
Wise Words from Claud, Cuff Your Jeans
Posted on January 13 2021
Claud is firmly on my list of ones to watch in 2021. I've been a big fan of since "Wish You Were Gay" (Which, by the way is up to almost 4.5 MILLION streams on Youtube, i just checked, watched the vid and now i'm sad... Anyway.) it's been pleasing to see a nice steady rise in popularity.
Alt-pop artist Lenny The Heart likes your girlfriend and he isn't afraid to say it
Posted on January 08 2021
Keys in the bowl folks: it's partner swapping time! It isn't often you get an artist brave enough to admit to their coveting of a friend's girlfriend, but that's exactly what Colorado-based artist Lenny The Heart has done with his latest offering, 'Ilygf' (I Like Your Girlfriend), a darkly infectious piece of confessional alt-pop that picks up where Ariana Grande's 'Break Up With Your Girlfriend' left off.
Folk-pop goddess Miss Elm shakes off 2020 with the 'Love Inside'
Posted on January 08 2021
Look, I can do a lot in 20 minutes. Fry an egg. Take a shower. Have a nap. What I can't do however, is write a song, especially one as catchy and genre-defying as 'Love Inside', the latest release from Brisbane-based folk-pop goddess Miss Elm, written via a burst of inspiration in the midst of last year’s impending apocalypse.
Poison Oak get impatient with latest single 'Waiting'
Posted on December 18 2020
It seems like we’ve been waiting a lot in 2020. Waiting for borders to reopen. Waiting for a vaccine. Waiting for it all to be over. With so much patience required of us this year, it only makes sense that some of us would want to take to the recording studio and sing about it, which is exactly what Townsville-based band Poison Oak have done with their latest single ‘Waiting’, a piece of thumping, punk-rock goodness, that’s perfect for blowing off a little late-2020 steam.