Picture this: you aren’t sitting at home bored out of your mind because your country fended off COVID-19 and now you can go to music festivals again. While it seems like a pipe dream for many of us around the world, Australians are living it due to their country’s reported success in keeping infection rates low. Kicking off earlier in the month, Factory Summer is a new traveling festival that will take place over the course of three weeks in Brisbane and Perth simultaneously with a Melbourne outing later in the spring. Unlike America, where most states only allow drive-in shows or socially-distanced gatherings, Factory Summer is the exact live music experience that’s grown to become a distant memory to many of us. Featured on the lineup were performances from W...
Blossoming Australian DJ and producer Lucille Croft has dropped the curtain on her new single “Control,” a blistering bass tune that plunges its listeners into a rabbit hole with its haunting motif of mind control. In something that sounds like it was plucked straight out of a Blade film, “Control” is midtempo mayhem. Croft’s own alluring vocals are at the forefront here, moonlighting as a siren song that beckons listeners into a rip-roaring 100BPM drop brimming with electro gravitas. With its metallic sound design and relentless energy, “Control” marries the sonic verve of an industrial Boys Noize track with the ferocity of a REZZ release to deliver a nasty bass tune from the depths of a dystopian dungeon. However, what renders R...