the AU review turned five years old earlier this month, and to celebrate, throughout the month of August we’re asking many of our music industry friends to help us look back on the last five years of music! Today we talk with Channel [V] presenter Billy Russell about his five favourite albums of the last five years…
My Five Favourite Albums of the last Five Years!
5. Eddy Current Suppression Ring – Primary Colours
I found this album during the period when uni was wrapping up forever. It was a time, at least according to how I’ve romanticised it, when we lived nothing but beaches and pubs and beers and sleeping in cars and mooching off Mum and Dad. This album became the soundtrack to all of it. We continue to play it at house parties today and I can’t help but smile thinking that, even five years on, songs like Which Way To Go still resonate like they first did.
4. Japandroids – Celebration Rock
If the Facebook photos are anything to go by, I got very shirtless at Sydney’s Laneway Festival this year. It was, of course, during Japandroids’ set in what is probably the only time I’ve ever felt that compulsion to completely give myself (and my clothes) over to rock n roll. In my defence, I couldn’t help it; this album just rules that much.
3. Adalita – Adalita
The first time I played this album, I cried on the train. Like, really bawled. I think it was Perfection that tipped me over the edge (coupled, perhaps, with a lack of sleep or the emotional blow of a surprise elimiation on Masterchef the previous night). So bare, so bloody moving. I’ve been revisiting it recently in anticipation for Adalita’s second release, and man, does it hold up. A modern classic by an Aussie icon.
2. Dick Diver – Calendar Days
I haven’t loved a band in so long the way I love Dick Diver. It hasn’t even been a year since Calendar Days was released, but songs like Water Damage and Amber already feel like old friends. I can’t imagine 2013 without this record keeping me company.
1. Girls – Father, Son, Holy Ghost
This was what I was listening to the first time I fell in love… and, naturally, the first time I got my heart broken. If it wasn’t such a perfect album, I would have smashed it against a wall long ago. But it totally is. The organ, the gospel, Christopher Owens just doing his thing all over it. I think I’ll be on my death bed and still getting those pangs in my stomach when I hear the opening to Vomit.
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The AU Review are also celebrating their fifth birthday by throwing a bunch of parties around Australia. This kicks off TOMORROW NIGHT in Sydney! All the details you need for all events are here: https://www.theaureview.com/party
