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Dirty Three, Amyl and the Sniffers and Emily Wurramara: the best Australian albums of 2024
Revelatory comebacks, career highlights, old-school riffs and a brave and radical debut. Your guide to Australia’s best music of 2024
On Flight b741, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard channel old-school sounds – the dense, livewire aesthetic of classic ‘70s groups like Steve Miller Band and the Doobie Brothers – to create another troubled, deeply empathic exploration of the climate crisis and societal collapse. Like the title of the LP’s first single, Bootleg Firecracker, songs fizz and climax in kaleidoscopic cascades, and co-producer Jonathan Gilmore (the 1975, Carly Rae Jepsen) keeps the windows rolled all the way down for full wind-in-hair exhilaration on anthems such as Highlands and Dramamine. Venezuelan-Australian artist Cherry Chola’s debut record – a collaboration with Mexican DJ Chico Sonido – opens with a flip of Daddy Yankee’s Gasolina and only grows more deranged, namechecking everything from Hello Kitty to Nintendo over whiffs of hardstyle and dembow beats that ripple like shockwaves.
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