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The mixtape: Courtney Barnett, World's End Press, Paul Kelly and more | Musique Non Stop

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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

The mixtape: Courtney Barnett, World's End Press, Paul Kelly and more

Lyrical wit from Melbourne’s Courtney Barnett, World’s End Press plays depressive disco and Paul Kelly reincarnates as leader of a soul troupe


Melbourne quartet World’s End Press take after such fine nu-disco acts as LCD Soundsystem, the Juan Maclean and !!! – but evade the cheesiness that can befall bands of that genre thanks to a thin slick of Brit-style bleakness. Head to Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria on 8 February to see the group in action, part of a series of musical Sunday afternoons held at the gallery throughout the rest of summer (Husky and Alpine are still to come). To Send Our Love, taken off the band’s 2013 self-titled debut album, has a spacey-sounding synth that conjures miles of star fields, through which frontman John Parkinson’s vocals let fly.


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