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Following a short solo job under both his have name as well as the moniker Tin Tin, Stephen Duffy come up with the Lilac Time period, which exchanged in his former synth pop excursions for pastoral, folky English pop strongly recalling Skylarking-era XTC. Joined up with by Mickey Harris, Nick …

The Go-Betweens were possibly the quintessential cult music group from the ’80s: they originated from an exotic locale (Brisbane, Australia), moved to a significant recording center (within their case, London) within a sustained bid to produce a career out of music, released album after album of music seemingly tailor-made for …

The Jazz Butcher was the automobile of prolific singer/songwriter Pat Seafood, an archetypal Uk eccentric whose sharp observational wit and melodic gifts navigated the group through over ten years of constant lineup shifts, stylistic mutations, and also some name changes, which found the music group performing variously — and apparently …

A brisk Australian chamber pop group with echoes of Frenchman Serge Gainsbourg in addition to Leonard Cohen and post-punk, the Apartments were formed in Brisbane through the later ’70s simply by singer and guitarist Peter Milton Walsh, guitarist Michael O’Connell, bassist Peter Whitby, and drummer Peter Martin. Immediately after the …

Acquiring their name from the primary figure in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book Tender May be the Night time, indie rock and roll quartet Dick Diver shaped in Melbourne, Australia in 2008. Sketching inspiration through the emotionally wealthy pop of fellow countrymen the Go-Betweens, aswell as the brainy acoustic guitar wrangling …