Welcome to the 2SER New Music Report – featuring all the new music on your 2SER airwaves this week across your Breakfast, The Daily and Drive programs!

ALBUMS:

Dj Haram – Besides Myself (OS)
Elec’tro Collective – Elec’tro (OS)
Jess Ribeiro – Mixtape (AU)
Mold! – III (OS)
Rio Kosta – Unicorn (OS)
Sarah Levins – Eye Spy EP (L)

SINGLES:

Alice Ruby – Cellophane (AU)
Beryl – Soft Floor (L)
Mocky – Infinite Vibrations (OS)
Mondo Freaks – Won’t you decide (AU)
Soulwax – All Systems are Lying (OS)
The Maggie Pills – Goths of Disgrace (AU)

Steaming in from the Paddington End this week is Eora/Sydney musician Sarah Levins, with her second EP – Eye Spy. Recorded with regular collaborator Jerome Blaze, it’s a lovely five-tracker of considered and personal songwriting and rich, melodically textured instrumentation, it’s a beautifully hypnotic collection that, as Sarah herself writes, is based on cyclical themes:

“Eye Spy is about noticing the connections between the big and the small, that there is always more than meets the eye. It’s about seeing the ways that life tends to move in a circle and plays on a loop – seasons, time, the people in your life.”

Sarah will be launching this on July 31st at the Vanguard (Newtown) along with special guests Yasmina Sadiki. You can also hear more about this thanks to an excellent interview earlier this week on The Monday Daily with Eva G.

Further afield, we recieved an email (at submitmusic@2ser.com) from Kongchak Records, a label shining the spotlight on new and emerging music out of Cambodia, with the details of the debut self-titled album from Elec’tro Collective. Elec’tro Collective are a stylistically diverse, cross-generational group of musicians from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, fusing modern styles such as hip hop, electronica and jazz with traditional khmer folk and Molaam styles. The album itself evolved from a performance at the end of 2023 at the IFC (French Institute of Cambodia) which was then post-produced into the final version that is out today. It’s already been a favourite across many 2SER music shows and worth diving into in full.

Mondo Freaks are a mega-collective of musicians from the jazz, soul and disco scene and one of the newer disco groups to emerge from the Naarm Jazz and RnB scene, featuring close to a dozen members, including Sydney expat Jade Mcrae, Liam Pogson (of the Bamboos) and Aaron Mendoza (keys). They have just put out their second single, a slick boogie jam called “Hard to Decide (featuring keyboardist Mendoza on vocals). It’s high quality modern disco with stylistic links to Alexander O’Neill and Leroy Burgess (and in fact several members of Mondo Freaks were part of Burgess’ Australian touring band in 2019. Hopefully much more to come as this one is a sizzler and sits among some of the best of the current generation of Australian disco and soul. Out now on Every Star Records

As always, we try to always post listening links to sites that let you support artists directly (through purchasing music and merch) rather than multinational streaming sites. We do keep a playlist on one such site

… but hold that while convenient, is not a sustainable model for fairly compensating artists.