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#100. Transgender
by Crystal Castles
Nothing can live up to promise...
If there's one group that continues to play to their strengths, it's Crystal Castles. 'Transgender' is all kinds of dark and unsettling, but it still makes you want to throw on a pair of those ridiculous MC Hammer-ish raver pants and get your dance on. They know what works for them and I hope they never change. They're just too good. (Matt Bond)
There are thirty nine words in this song, but six of them are some of my favourite Crystal Castles lyrics; “nothing can live up to promise”. Crystal Castles album III defied this lyric and is everything one would come to expect from them. In Transgender, Alice Glass sings every word in a way only Alice Glass can; spooky, dark, brooding and a little bit ominous, with Ethan Kath’s layered and somewhat broken sounding synths and beats keeping the mood nice and eerie, this is Crystal Castles at their intimidating best. (Jo Michelmore)
#99. She's A Riot
by The Jungle Giants (AUS)
When you're with me you won't ever be so lonely.
Brisbane-based indie rockers, The Jungle Giants have a knack for writing catchy tunes that get stuck in your head and refuse to budge. Have you listened to 'She's A Riot'? No? Give it a go and you'll be bopping along to it in your head for days and weeks to come. (Matt Bond)
This is the opening track from The Jungle Giants EP of the same name and She Look Like A Riot is perfect indie pop. Starting with a simple guitar riff and a hand clap, there’s no way this could go wrong. The hand clapping continues throughout and everyone knows just how much I love a handclap (that would be very, very, very much) so of course I love this track! Not only that, even though its inspiration was an ex-girlfriend of vocalist Sam Hales, it’s happy and bouncy and incredibly catchy. Just to make me like it a little more, they’re from my hometown, which makes me only slightly biased. (Jo Michelmore)
This is the opening track from The Jungle Giants EP of the same name and She Look Like A Riot is perfect indie pop. Starting with a simple guitar riff and a hand clap, there’s no way this could go wrong. The hand clapping continues throughout and everyone knows just how much I love a handclap (that would be very, very, very much) so of course I love this track! Not only that, even though its inspiration was an ex-girlfriend of vocalist Sam Hales, it’s happy and bouncy and incredibly catchy. Just to make me like it a little more, they’re from my hometown, which makes me only slightly biased. (Jo Michelmore)
It passes the dance test. I like it. It’s upbeat. There are fun guitars. Yes, that’s a technical term. (Katie Langley)
#98. Low High
by Ella Hooper (AUS)
Who knows, who knows,
The emptiness I find.
There is nothing more that I would love then for Killing Heidi to get back together and deliver unto me some sweet, sweet post-grunge pop that made me fall in love with them at the end of the 90s. You know what though? An Ella Hooper solo album is well overdue and the new direction she's taken with her sound, as heard on 'Low High,' has completely won me over. If this is the new Ella Hooper, bring on a whole album of songs as good as this! The dreads are long gone (they have been for quite a while) and indie hipster is in. She seems made for the role of indie chanteuse, wacky and loveable dance moves and all. Bringing in Graveyard Train for some call and response is just icing on the red velvet cupcake that is 'Low High.' Jo... can you make some red velvet cupcakes please? (Matt Bond)
It’s hard to imagine this is the same cute alt-girl who sang all those awesome pop/rock songs with Killing Heidi twelve years ago now. A completely different all grown up Ella Hooper, Low High was just the first fabulous taste of what’s to come on her solo debut In Tongues. I loved this song from the very first listen and still like to throw it on repeat every now and then. It’s a much more reserved Ella than we’re used to, but it shows her ability as an artist to know light and dark, low and high (yep, I just said that). As well as that, the clip is absolutely stunning, one of my faves for the year. (Jo Michelmore)
It’s hard to imagine this is the same cute alt-girl who sang all those awesome pop/rock songs with Killing Heidi twelve years ago now. A completely different all grown up Ella Hooper, Low High was just the first fabulous taste of what’s to come on her solo debut In Tongues. I loved this song from the very first listen and still like to throw it on repeat every now and then. It’s a much more reserved Ella than we’re used to, but it shows her ability as an artist to know light and dark, low and high (yep, I just said that). As well as that, the clip is absolutely stunning, one of my faves for the year. (Jo Michelmore)
