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:

Guedra Guedra – Mutant (OS)
Jobber – Jobber to the stars (OS)
Open Mike Eagle – Neighbourhood Gods Unlimited (OS)
Snakeheads – Belconnen Highs (L)
The Beths – Straight Line Was a Lie (NZ)
Water from your eyes – It’s a beautiful place (OS)
Way Dynamic – Massive Shoe (AU)

SINGLES:

Blain Culleen – Crack the Sky (L)
Ella Ion – Blue Black Crows (AU)
Gut Health – Beat to Beat (AU)
Maryam Rahmani – Encanto (AU)
Mia Lovelock – Taken (L)
Wilson Blackley – Wired (AU)
WVCHWY – totemic relations (AU)

It’s newest of new for you and your crew. Beginning far afield, Mutant, the second record from producer, DJ and archivist Guedra Guedra has just released on Smugglers Way. The project of Cassablanca’s Abdellah M. Hassak, Mutant is an exploration of the boundaries between bass music, techno and the polyrhythms of the African Diaspora, textured with audio samples and field recordings gathered by Hassak in his journey throughout the continent. Interesting fact: Guedra Guedra refers to a Moroccan traditional dance from Saharan communities, and also a type of cooking pot that can be adapted into a drum by leather over the top of it. It’s a whirlwind of organic synthesis and composite sounds that most definitely does not belong in a museum.

Much loves songsmiths The Beths make a welcome return this week with Straight Line was a Lie, the much anticipated follow-up to their acclaimed “Expert in a dying Field”.  Newly signed to major label ANTI, the Auckland-based indie-rock group lead by led by longtime musical partners Elizabeth Stokes and Jonathan Pearce come through with a brilliant slice of bittersweet and poetic indie rock.

Deservedly, their star has risen ever higher in recent years: world tours and festival slots, but the depth of their music is undimmed as well. Lyrically the album covers topics including: roundabout and unexpected life progress (“Straight Line Was A Lie”), mental and physical health challenges (“Metal,” “No Joy”) as well as fraught family situations.

Finally, let’s talk about the debut studio record from Snakeheads. Snakeheads are an Eora/Sydney group founded by longtime friends James Roden and Pete Lusty.

The pair met in high school in the 1980s (the title is a play on Belconnen High in Canberra) and continued to play together informally across the decades around various other projects and work: Roden performing in multiple bands including City Lights and Morticians, while Lusty was a crucial industry figure, having co-founded Ivy League Records and being instrumental in the careers of numerous Australian artists.

Belconnen Highs is both their debut and, sadly, final record: a posthumous release in tribute to Pete Lusty who passed away in 2020 whilst recording. Despite this tragedy, James pressed on with a closeknit set of musicians including Jay Whalley of Frenzal Rhomb, Kit Warhust ( of Rocket Science) on drums, and James’ brother Harry Roden. Recorded at Hercules Studio with producer Wayne Connolly, over forty demo’s were whittled down to seventeen. And it’s a high-powered testament to in-the-moment musical friendship and a shared love of vintage punk and hardcore.

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