#FeatureFriday 06-03-26

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It’s the #FeatureFriday and #BandcampFriday crossover you all deserve. Treat yourself. Find something to love over the weekend.

This week, artists featured: Mega Infinity, ThorHighHeels and Earth Tongue

Sometimes you just randomly find music that comes out of nowhere and lifts your spirits, exactly when you need it. This is what happened to me over the last few days with “Harmonic Convergence” by the band Mega Infinity. Their sound mixes Punk Rock, Power Pop and Ska, with just a hint of Metal here and there.

This is music, that conjures up images of small shows in the basements of bars, complete with the smell of too many, but happy people in a small venue. Some of my favorite shows were played by bands with very similar sounds, but nostalgia is not the dominant feeling I get from this album. It sounds fresh, current and very much like a product of this time.

Bass and drums lay a solid, yet dynamic foundation, a stage that the guitar uses either to build intricate lead pieces on or simply to tear the house down, if appropriate. And over everything, the lovely vocals by Michi DiGiulio soar. Synths are used in a supportive role to fill out the soundscape, with more prominence given to the guest musicians on saxophone, trombone and trumpet. It’s simply an infectious sound that goes straight into my legs and wants to make me move. Overall, this is a fantastic album, full of energy but also with contemplative moments. The songs feel anthemic and inviting, as well as personal and relatable.

This is one album of which I fully believe that everyone will find something they enjoy. As for me, I love the whole damn thing!

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I have a fondness of YouTuber ThorHighHeels’s work. I love her gaming-centric videos to begin with but I also adore the original music used in them. They’re quirky and whimsical yet also effortlessly cool at the same time. And it fits her style of toobin’ perfectly. And as a result of this output she has since gathered quite the output of EP’s and albums on her Bandcamp. But it’s this one, ‘Coconuts’ that I particularly have a soft spot for as to me it feels like her most accomplished and cohesive work so far. Cohesive while still fully embracing the eclecticness and general quirky playfulness of her previous output.

From the moment I first heard the album’s opener, ‘Hello ˆ_ˆ’, a stunning Shoegaze-drenched guitar overlaid on an aggressive breakbeat I was floored. It was a barrage of ethereal beauty and junglistic chaos that encapsulates My Bloody Valentines’ mission statement better than any of its army of slavish cones ever could. It’s Dreamy, vibey and atmospheric but also… what even the fuck? And that’s the whole album in a nutshell really. It encaspulates genres like House, Jungle, Trap, Triphop, Trance, Happy Hardcore, Dub and Breakcore… fuck I probably even forgot half of them. But honestly it doesn’t matter, it’s what you do with it that counts right? And THH sure as hell makes them all count. One time you’ll be assaulted by an aggressive overdriven 808 Trap bass only for a minute later having your earholes caressed by the most soothing relaxing sound this side of New Age Ambient slop. Or fuck it, why not have both at the same time?

I also love the Rap element that’s sparsely present on the album, especially as it’s a playful spin on the stereotypical machismo of the genre as exemplified in the track ‘Amethyst Choker’ with its banger line “Rhinestone Crocs, Amethyst Choker”. Just straight fire and also a little bit silly. I love it.

And it’s that silliness that is the glue that holds this eclecticness together. Overall I’d dare describe ‘Coconuts’ as artistic, sometimes borderline experimental even. But it’s so silly and filled with memeability all the same. It’s this perfect balance that’s being achieved here that keeps it all standing. And the best thing is that despite its whimsical disposition not one track really feels like a joke track in the end. They all feel done in earnest despite them all possessing that slight wink of the eye. Thor seems to recognize the inherent silliness present here all but also… c’mon, you know this shit kinda dope… unironically. And it’s this philosophy that defines her work so well both musically as her video-work on her YouTube channel.

And like the best things in life usually tend to do, this isn’t supposed to work. Yet… it does. And again, it’s that earnestness that does the legwork here cause this is clearly the product of a person who loves music no matter which shape or form it’s presented in and sees music-creation as a creative playground. And at the end of the day that’s just what it boils down to isn’t it? Creativity, just pure and unbridled creativity let loose and caught onto a medium, the exact type of thing they themselves laud and rave about when it happens in game form on their YouTube channel. It just all comes around don’t it?

So… all in all, all I can say about this record is… damn son, just take a look at this.

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Stadium sized swagger. Fists up. Brutal and intent. This is a take down. A one sided fight and it isn’t pulling any punches. Mudhoney grunge guitars and Black Sanbath blue notes slap slappng with a pentatonic whiplash smile. It’s hungry and giggling.

New Zealand’s Earth Tongue deliver a smart and memorable album with Great Haunting. Almost like a prog rock doom metal with a 90s sensibility.

It just crashes around your head like eating too many sweets, drinking vodka redbulls and mixing your ADHD meds with absinthe.

It’s like you’ve been picked up by The Groovy Ghoulies and you’ve set off to catch Rob Zombie to beat him senseless with a prop zombie arm.

I don’t know. It’s just fucking cool.

Swooning and trippy. An acid trip into a rainbow coloured hell. It’s groovy down there and you’ll never want to leave. Take a soak in the psychedelic swamp. Let the neon maggots eat out your eyes.

You’ll never be this cool.

But you can get close.

Buy this album ya nerd.

Untidy Music

 

Updated: March 6, 2026 — 5:52 am

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