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2013 ASP SURFERS Cast your eyes over these talented faces
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The 2012 Hawaiian winter goes mental
Andrew “Shorty” Buckley’s multimedia portfolio
LONG RANGE Cyclone season for Australia is here – see how it’s stacking-up
78 100 112 THE NORTHERN WAY The best place to surf in Norway
Cover Joel Parkinson. Emotional burst seconds after claiming the 2012 ASP World Title. This showdown is one of the closest battles ever fought in competitive surfing. Photo: Matt Dunbar
POSCA ART Check out what Posca artist Louis Gervais can do for you
FUTURE MEN Jackson Carey
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Priceless opposite sex tips from Gold Coast flame, Tahnee Pinches
Redcoats review by Jake ‘Yaki’ Newell and this year’s 20 best tracks
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thank you I’m not going to beat around the bush. We’re proud of this issue. And so we should be... it’s full of special things which make surfing so damn flavoursome. We’ve had a long year and although the economy is slow our business is growing. More writers, photogs and video guys are joining the team. Beer is arriving at our front door. We reluctantly sign for it. And we have you to thank – dear reader. We love you. And we love bringing you 18seconds. If it weren’t for you, we’d have nuttin’. In fact, if you were sitting here right now, we’d hand you a cold one, whatever your age. How irresponsible! Please, make sure you enjoy this favourite time of the year. Hunt waves, hang with your buds, laugh and be safe. I just got off the phone to Huey – he says pack the car and hit the road already. Thanks for a big year. See you in 2013.
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2013 ASP TOP 34 // After a historical end to surfing in 2012, the world tour in 2013 looks set to continue the hype. Here are the talented men… there are four new faces in the mix… Nat Young, Sebastien Zietz, Glen Hall and Filipe Toledo //
05 Adriano de Souza
06 Taj Burrow
12 Jordy Smith
13 C.J. Hobgood
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01 Joel Parkinson
02 Kelly Slater (USA)
03 Mick Fanning (AUS)
04 John John Florence (HAW)
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08 Josh Kerr
09 Julian Wilson
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14 Adrian Buchan
15 Michel Bourez
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22 Kai Otton
23 Sebastien Zietz
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19 Kieren Perrow (AUS)
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2013 ASP TOP 17
05 Courtney Conlogue 06 Malia Manuel (USA)
11 Sage Erickson (USA)
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12 Bianca Buitentag 13 Pauline Ado (ZAF)
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08 Laura Enever
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The 2012 Hawaiian winter marks 30-years of the Triple Crown: surfing’s greatest battle royal in the world’s greatest waves. This year surfing put on a dramatic show with the most energised world title showdown in a long time. Kelly Slater verses Joel Parkinson. Unless you’ve been trapped under a rock with no internet, you’ll know captain Joel Parko came out victorious. After years of close calls and four demoralising second places, his post win party t-shirt says it all. “I finally fucking won”.
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All the legendary photographers are surrounding Kelly as he’s watching Joel’s heat waiting to see if he goes through to the quarters. All discretely snapping photos of him as he focuses on the lineup. One of the photogs walks around a little closer to him, points his camera in his face and presses the shutter. Kelly just snaps. “Nut STOP,” he yells. Everyone is silent. Kelly backs away from all the photographers. He looks around and storms out the back of the competitors’ area. Silence. It is crazy. With the realisation Joel is going through Kelly returns. Stephen Bell (Quiksilver Europe team manager) leans over and says, “you’re going to have to surf it just like any other heat.” Big words when so much is at stake.
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Fellow coolie kid, Josh Kerr suffers a critical wipeout during his round four heat against Gabriel Medina. Despite the pounding, he wins the heat which buys him some time before the finals. He bolts to the hospital and is diagnosed with nerve damage in his neck. “My left side went numb when I fell,” says Josh. In true gladiator style, Kerr returns, paddles out in his semi against Kelly, finds some deep tunnels, cops yet another flogging (this time falling from the sky on a set wave - see below) and outplays Kelly... for the second time in one day. Josh’s victory gave his mate Joel, possibly the greatest moment in his professional career.
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Kelly and girlfriend Kalani Miller walk around the back alley to the beach. They wait ‘till the last two- minutes before Kelly has to check in to get his jersey for the heat, so he isn’t confronted by the crowds. A key part of maintaining a positive state of mind for athletes is to avoid confrontation before they paddle out. Kelly is the master of manipulation. He understands the influence an athlete’s state of mind has on their performance. But this day, the ball isn’t in his court.
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This guy. This guy is brilliant. Sheer fucking brilliance. Let me explain. He picked up a camera aged 11 and was travelling by 15. At the impressionable age of 16, he bagged his first cover for Tracks magazine. Brilliant. Photography was a vehicle he used to traverse the globe. And into places which gave him opportunities to surf amazing waves, which was his main priority. That’s crafty. And brilliant. Shorty would go to Hawaii and hang out with Mikala Jones for two-to-three months at a time. And Reunion Island. And Indo for months on end. He surfed flawless Desert Point in 1990 with four guys out. And he was paid to do all this. That’s savvy. And brilliant. He’s always looked outside of surf photography as a job. There were, and still are, the usual suspects like Rip Curl, Billabong, Quiksilver etc, but he’s also worked in television and studios. He’s had a varied working life and that’s the way he likes it. His skill set is broad which admittedly puts him in a great position now at 38-years. Just brilliant.
Did we mention Shorty films and shoots photos? Prob’ not. A man doing two things at once? Brilliant aye. “I shot stills first, although I have always been interested in many different mediums,” says Shorty. “I started filming with my stepdad’s betacam back when I was about 15, so although I pushed the button on a stills camera first, I have always filmed with motion cameras too.” These days he shoots on a bunch of different equipment. Phantom, Red, Canon DSLR, Super 8. Anything really. Known for inspiring slow motion picture, he doesn’t always fire off hundreds of frames per second, although he totally digs it. “It depends on the project,” says Shorty. “I mean, the last shoot I did with a Red Epic I shot 5K widescreen at normal speed (25fps) to tell the story. I will be using a Phantom and Red this season in Hawaii for a project I’m working on, and when I get back I’ll hopefully have the new Canon 1DC waiting for me. “I will shoot with any camera really, they’re all good.” In the following pages, just look how well he blurs the line between photog and cinematographer. There is no line! Like I said… Sheer. Fucking. Brilliance. And all the audio files accompanying his imagery and video. Shorty recorded them the other day on the beach at Pipe just before Parko won his maiden world title. Have a listen.
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The Australian cyclone season is underway. See how it’s stacking-up surf wise for the east coast of Australia. Greetings weather junkies. We noted in the last dispatch that the Pacific Basin had moved from a likely El Nino back into a more neutral phase and that this had turned the likely summer outlook from dire back to a more normal one. Let’s drill down into the current situation and confirm or deny that prediction as we move out of the spring silly season into a hopefully more surf abundant summer. The good news is that the Pacific Basin has now definitely rejected the El Nino type pattern that was threatening back in late winter/early spring. The Southern Oscillation Index has climbed back into modestly positive territory and tradewinds are mostly around average for the Pacific Ocean. Currently the focus of warm water is slowly shifting back towards the western Pacific (our side) which is much better news for summer. The latest
SST maps are showing the warmest waters of the Pacific drifting into the eastern edge of the South Pacific Convergence Zone. This zone encompasses an area from the Solomon Islands/New Guinea out towards Fiji/Tonga. During neutral years when warm water is focused in the SPCZ, as opposed to the Coral Sea, tropical low pressure activity tends to focus in the South Pacific, giving smaller, but better quality surf. We tend to have fewer cyclones in the Coral Sea and more in the South Pacific. The ideal set-up is a strong slow moving high in New Zealand longitudes with tropical low pressure in the South Pacific tightening the pressure gradient along a very broad and long fetch between New Caledonia and extending out into the wide open eastern swell window.
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In fact current charts show a likely looking set-up for this exact scenario, probably by the time you’re reading this [Ed note: Steve’s prediction was spot on with the first Tropical Cyclone of the season forming on December 12 – Cyclone Evan]. Models are prodding a monsoonal flow through the Solomons and out across into Fijian longitudes providing the impetus for a tropical low pressure to form well to the NE of Fiji. With the system expected to anchor on top of a broad tradewind fetch caused by a strong high near New Zealand we could well be into a long lived phase of fun surf from the east by the time this goes to press. That’s a best case scenario to wish for in the Xmas stocking: a semi-permanent area of low pressure in the SPCZ meandering between Vanautu and New Caledonia interacting with slow moving high pressure setting up shop near New Zealand. Sure cyclones provide bigger surf but for maintaining the maximum frequency on the south east Queensland / northern New South Wales’ wave conveyor belts, a beefed up tradewind fetch scenario like the one just described can’t be beat.
So, the signs are now looking far more positive for a fun summer with good prospects for a late season cyclonic surge as warming in the SPCZ interacts with active phases of the Madden Julian Oscillation. At the moment, the MJO is weak and inconclusive. Watch this space for updates as the summer progresses. Keep the small wave quiver well tuned for the run through Xmas and the January school holiday madness. Savvy operators might get on the phone to shapers and make sure they have step-ups and mini-guns on hand for cyclone swells through the late summer and autumn. Stay loose in the juice weather junkies.
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When I was in my early 20s (33 now) I journeyed to Norway from Australia. Twice. It’s an epic mission, 27 hours each way. First time was summer. The sun glows all day and into the night, only dipping below the horizon for an hour or two before rising again. I was accustomed to daylight saving, but this was something you couldn’t train for… 22 hours of daylight. Summer is time for Norwegians to catch up on lost time outdoor. And party twenty-four-seven.
I made it to Stavanger: the gateway to the key surfing area in Norway. There’s a couple of high quality reef breaks, k’s of beachies and a point or two. In the middle of summer it’s scraps, but surfing past midnight is oh so fun! We did score one day of fun beachies, compliments of an out-of-season low: within eight hours it transformed from two-foot onshore to four foot fanned by a stiff offshore. There were options everywhere. In the middle of summer I was comfortable in a 3/2 millimetre steamer. We surfed Bore beachies – a stretch of reef/sand combination setups. Since then discoveries have been made to the north of Stavanger. Where strong northwest swells rifle down from the Atlantic Ocean and unload into all the coastal crevices. Recently photographer Chris Burkard made the trip to Norway in search of icy cylinders. He was accompanied by a bunch of men ready for anything: Keith Malloy, Alek Parker, Sam Hammer, Peter Mendia, Pat Millin, and Dane Gudauskas. They endured weeks of foul weather: sleet, hail, snow and wind, but amongst the turmoil they scored in Lofoten. A small clump of mountainous islands in the direct path of the relentless North Atlantic swell train. Lofoten was discovered by a coupla Norwegian surfers (Thor Frantzen and Hans Egil Krane) who clued on in the late ‘60s. Funnily enough, these guys were exposed to surfing whilst visiting Australia. The scenery is breathtaking: vertical cliffs line each end of the bay. In between, a number of dreamy waves square off in synchrony. Lofoten has had tonnes of media exposure over the years. And although the waves are world class, crowds have never been an issue. And probably never will.
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You know the saying: you can take a boy away from the coast but you can’t take the coast away from the boy. Or something like that. I was keen to search. Hunting for waves in Norway is totally different to anywhere I’d ever been. Firstly, there’s few looking for surf. The rugged coastline is broken by huge fjords: deep grooves cut into the land flooded by the sea following the end of the Ice Age. These bodies of water can stretch hundreds of k’s inland. There are no bridges in these parts. You’re forced to drive inland to get to the other side. Drive up and down Australia’s alpine roads 100 times in a day. That’s what I liken it to… you can only go so far when you’re on a tight schedule.
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“ As we arrived this peak broke lonely under the Norwegian mountains. Water temperatures [fiveto-ten degrees Celsius] gave us a limited amount of time to get in and out. I sat shooting thinking about how many days of the year this wave breaks all alone with no one to see it.� Chris Burkard
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few days the blizzards at night left us no A choice but to snowmobile to check spots. This is what dawn patrol looks like in Norway.
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In the arctic timing the paddle out is key. One duck-dive in water this cold [five-to-ten degrees Celsius] is enough to freeze the entire body through.
Keith Malloy warms up post surf in what Norwegians referred to as a ‘stump’. To everyone else it was the wooden Jacuzzi which brought life back into frozen limbs.
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Lines marched into the bay on the left and barreled as they ran across rocks on the inside. The sandbars in the middle of the beach created hollow reforms, and a variety of fun waves appeared and disappeared where the sand met the rocks. At any tide or swell, something was working.
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Northern Lights are a natural light display in the sky caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms. As if scoring waves wasn’t enough the lights put on a spectacular show for us too.
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The best way to judge a person: don’t look at how many tattoos they have. In Louis’ case his upper body is covered in ink all the way to his jawline. Because if you do, we’re sure you wouldn’t stop for this guy even if he asked for directions in broad daylight to the nearest Woolies – an innocent, harmless supermarket. But fuck, if you get to know him, like 18seconds recently, you’d stop, offer him a ride, go via the bar, grab a beer, drop past the beach, go for a surf, then onto the supermarket where he wanted to go in the first place. ‘cause the guy’s a legend. Louis Gervais is a 26-year-old posca artist who lives on the D’bah hill in Coolangatta, Australia. He paints boards for a living and has carved out a niche market drawing wild designs for pro surfers like Mick Fanning, Owen Wright, Jack Freestone, Tyler Wright, Asher Pacey to name a few. He uses a mixture of tattoo style shading and textured illustrations, with unique creativity oozing from his inked pores. His philosophy: surf during the day, draw at night… this dude has business and pleasure sussed. Ladies and gents, this is what Louis does.
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I am originally a renderer from the Sunshine Coast (Queensland). My boss used to have us up and out of bed by 4 a.m. We’d eat these monster meals for breakfast then work all day without a break. I was a fucking machine. Definitely the fittest I’ve ever been. But I couldn’t stick it out. Didn’t want to. My mum was a hippy when I was growing up and she let me draw on the bedroom walls from when I was about five. She says I would draw up as high as I could reach… I’m forever grateful for that. The idea for Posca art came from watching all the Lost surf videos. I started painting all my own boards. My mates saw the shit and were like, hook me up. So I started drawing on their boards. A couple of them shaped boards and owned surf shops… in return for my art, they would rustle up paying customers.
the process of ordering Surfers bring a picture of what they want or brief me to create something in their mind. I pencil it in first, then Posca it in, then put an acrylic clear over the top so it doesn’t rub off. It takes about six hours per board. You need to wait for stuff to dry to do the next layer.
inlays The inlays are high-resolution photos of popular pieces printed on cloth, placed under the fibreless when they’re getting glassed. Originally surfers had to bring their boards to Coolie to get Posca’d. These days you just need an inlay which you can order through my site from anywhere in the world and you’re in business.
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business is growing There used to be artwork around then it died off – now it’s back. There are a bunch of different cultures coming into surfing, music and tattoo art. People are expressing their individuality through artwork on their boards. These days artwork is mixing into surfing and the companies are acknowledging things. I’ve just done a couple of designs which West are using on a line of men’s boardies and girl’s bikinis.
influences Salvador Dalí (skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work). Abstract art. Neo traditional tattoo style art. I like to scope the ‘net for ideas too.
ink When I was young my mate passed away and we both had drawings I’d sketched up which we were going to get done as tattoos when we were old enough. I went and got his one in memory. And I got my one and it kept going from there. Then one of my friends become a tattoo artist. I just kept drawing pictures and get getting them tattooed. I’ll get more. Sometimes I swap surfboards for them– he likes to surf. It works out good. I’ve always got heaps of boards lying around.
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/ It’s not actually that bad [living 15-minutes drive inland] I guess it makes me different from everyone else – not living close to the beach and having to drive in every day. But some people who live closer to the beach’ll check it and WON’T go out, but when you’ve made the effort to head in then, you just go out anyway. Guess it make you keener /
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ackson’s mates call him a Terry Hillbilly, though when we meet he ain’t wearing overalls or denim slacks. Instead he dons an O’Neill cap and a toothy grin. The joke is that Jack lives in Terry Hills, a 15-minute drive to his local break of Narrabeen, Sydney, 15-minutes further than any of his mates. Y’can image them tittering away, can’t ya? “How’re the waves out your way, Jack?” Titter titter titter. But Jack don’t mind. “It’s not actually that bad,” he says. “I guess it makes me different from everyone else – not living close to the beach and having to drive in every day. But some people who live closer to the beach’ll check it and won’t go out, but when you’ve made the effort to head in then you just go out anyway. Guess it make you keener.” He started surfing at 8 riding shories on his Pa’s 6’6’’. Now, a spindly 16-yearold, Jack surfs with a confidence and bravado beyond his years. There was a time when surfers were categorised as either carvers or punters. A time when power surfing was often sacrificed for airtime. That was before a new generation of surfers emerged, a surfer who harnessed power through turns for time in the air – the Julian Wilsons and Jordy Smiths. Jack Carey is of this ilk: granted he’s shy a couple of centimetres and kilograms, but the foundations of a well-rounded surfing
repertoire are there. He draws deep on the bottom turn, hits the lip with gusto and’ll stomp down a punt. Ain’t too much to critique, though the kid’ll do it for you. “I’ve never been good in barrels, don’t get barrelled very often.” This is something he hopes to amend during a trip to Hawaii in January with his folks. The Carey clan are a tight unit, drawing upon a shared love for the ocean. Jack’s brother, Lachie is a mad surfer too but has also shown promise behind a camera, threading together a couple of clips for his bro. So who’s inspiring the kid at the mo’? “John-John Florence has just been absolutely ripping in all aspects of his surfing,” says Jack. “His hacks and barrels are unreal, and even his airs are huge. Like, in the Kustom Air Strike he just went mental.” At last year’s Volcom VQS event (against mate and fellow Future Man, Jordan Lawler) Jack bagged both best wave and first place cheques. Jack is another Narrabeen surfer to keep an eye on.
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Summer’s here and so is the time to blend with the opposite sex. Here are some hot tips from Gold Coast flame, Tahnee Pinches.
do 1. Show ladies your abdominal muscles. This is one of those things where you either have it or you don’t. If you’ve got it, you’re giving us something to look at. If ya don’t … hit the beers and show us your personality. 2. Invest in a puppy. Take your little pal down to the beach while you surf. Tie him to a poll with a leggie under shade. Make sure you leave water to keep him hydrated. Guaranteed, when you come in you’ll have at least one, maybe two, girls surrounding your adorable little friend. If you can’t get the convo started now, bury your face in shame. 3. There’s nothing like salty, surfed-out locks fresh from the sea. Don’t substitute with product to get the “surfie” look. Get one for reals. 4. Have the confidence to start a normal conversation… chuck in a sense of humour and your (pretty much) gonna have a access all pass. 5. Put your ego away and let us girls have a wave. If you have the inside and see a lady struggling on the shoulder... let her on! She will appreciate the kind act and put you four-feet ahead of all the other ego centric wave show offs out there. Most likely she will paddle back out and thank you for the wave. Start the convo now. 6. Slip slop slap. Summer tans are sexy, but know there’s a difference between golden summer brown and tomato chutney red.
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don’t 1. Solicit girls’ attention from your creepy automobile. Men shouting comments about our boobs and arses, and encouraging us to come and join you... in ya dreams dickknob. 2. Grow a forest on your chest. Have more hair on your head than on your chest. Come on guys, no girl wants to be checking out your magic carpet when she could be checking out the gloriously toned pecks which lay beneath the hair. Man up, get a wax or at least a trim. 3. Stare in silent wonder at her butt. The attention may seem flattering but it’s creepy. Following on from this… commenting on a girl’s arse or tits as a way of introduction? It just comes across plain creepy, even if you’re delivering a compliment. Who does this? Girls like to be recognised for more things than their bust size and how tight there arse looks. 4. Use pickup lines… just don’t. As cracker funny as they may be, they make you look like a guy who doesn’t have the marbles to start a normal conversation. 5. Gloat. So you just caught the best barrel of your life but girls don’t need to hear about it a-hundred-and-fifty times in the space of five minutes. Once is enough. Twice at the most. Think of it as the equivalent of a girl talking about her new heels or new diet she’s on. 6. Wear three-quarter length boardshorts. Do NOT ever go to the beach in boardshorts longer than an inch or two below the knee.
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reviews by jake 'Yaki' newell
01 Death Of Ecstacy
02 Mr Young
03 House Of Luna
04 Evergreen
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Redcoats is the eponymous debut album from one of the most promising young bands Australia’s vast and varied terrain has produced in years. It is a rock and roll album, plain and simple – the thing is though, there is nothing plain, nor simple about it. Opening with the darkness of the album’s throbbing, thumping and soaring lead single, Raven, the critical mind is immediately bombarded with praising clichés and what has to be gushing hyperbole – but it isn’t. It’s not cliché if it fits like never before: it’s not hyperbole if it’s actually closer to an understatement. Redcoats is epic, bombastic, psychedelic, swirling, muscular and majestic. It’s unique enough to be immediately familiar. This is how a rock and roll album used to sound and definitely still should. Redcoats, the band, is a powerfully built, slow moving, four-limbed beast that’s, extraordinarily, (‘extraordinarily’ because I envisage a
nightmarishly desolate desert jam session – a la Joshua Tree) native to our southern cultural capital. Last year the Melbourne band’s self-titled EP spawned two massive singles, Kaytrucker and Dreamshaker. The latter of which riffed and wailed its way to number seventysix (#76) in the National Youth Broadcaster’s coveted “Hottest 100” annual ‘best of the year’ countdown. These Melbournians have had a big 2012. They scored a slot on the always impressive Pyramid Rock festival line-up, they stomped their carbon footprint far and wide by hitting the road supporting the like of Grinspoon and Karnivool, and they even found a couple of months to complete their own album-launch tour. If you already have this album or caught their recent run of headline shows, then none of this is news to you. If this is the first time you’ve heard of Redcoats, from Yaki to you… “Merry Christmas”.
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reviews by jake 'Yaki' newell
2012’s top 20 according to the Yak 2012 is a year that I’ll remember for it’s variety of releases – they seemed to span the complete genre spectrum – but also for the sheer number of worldclass quality debut offerings. That’s not to say that the old stalwarts didn’t keep on keeping on though, because a number of them certainly did. I could have easily picked another twenty tracks by another twenty artists, but had to draw the line somewhere. These tracks are in alphabetical order so as to avoid representing one over another. Go ahead and press your earholes up against these – enjoy!
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01 Breezeblocks – alt-J
02 Changin’ – Elec
With the help of this quirky and contagious tune, the English folk rockers’ album An Awesome Wave won this year’s prestigious Mercury Music Prize.
This is a super slick and single from a Melbourne on a justified steady rise
05 Elephant – Tame Impala
06 Family – The Ca
A couple of years back they smashed the Aussie (and eventually the global) music scene with their dreamy debut, and this track is the thumping lead single of the sophomore album Lonerism, which looks like reaching even greater heights.
The four-piece indie rock have a firing live show an of the banging tracks in t
09 I’m Into You – Chet Faker
10 Lay It Down – Th
He’s from Melbourne. He has a beard that’d take you two years to grow, and a voice you’ll never have – so just forget about it and enjoy his music.
A sweetly stoned rock tu lads from Menangle, NSW don’t know where it is eit are certainly going to pu
13 No Sleep – DZ Deathrays
14 Raven – Redcoat
We ran them in an early 2012 issue of 18seconds. Since then the noisy Brisbane twosome have bagged an ARIA, and this track hasn’t lost one bit of it’s sting.
Lead single from the albu after themselves (and th in this issue of 18second and album, is a serious c release of the year.
17 Sleepless - Flume
18 Super Rich Kids
A seriously sexy and bafflingly beautiful track from this 21 year old Sydney based beatmaker. The debut album is gorgeous and certainly not the last we’ll hear from him.
No longer satisfied to pen t (he’s written for Brandy, Ju Legend) or threaten to rape a member of baddass rap g he’s now writing seriously beating down-tempo hip-p
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03 Clair De Lune – Flight Facilities
04 Default – Django Django
Blissed-out and bloody beautiful. This is the best they’ve ever sounded. Hell, it’s the best most artists have ever sounded.
Apparently the English quartet’s name has absolutely nothing to do with Django Reinhardt – not that it really matters, this track is so much fun.
07 getaway – dr john
08 Hurricane – Ms Mr
k band from Ireland nd this is just one their arsenal
Who says you can’t release a cracking blues rock album when you’re in your seventies? Bob Dylan is in that age bracket and also released and album this year. Dr John’s one is better.
Gorgeous glitchy, electro-pop out of the coolest place in the world, New York City. This is great. Surprise surprise.
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11 Love Interruption – Jack White
12 My Man – Oh Mercy
une made by four W. Yep, Menangle. I ther, but these guys ut it on the map.
As an integral member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs (The Saboteurs in Australia) and The Dead Weather, it’s incredible Mr White has any music left in him. But he does, in spades. Jack White is nothing short of a musical genius. In fact, it’s possible that Jack White is music.
The recently expanded Melbourne foursome have really hit their pop-rock stride with this track and the awesome album, Deep Heat.
15 Seen No Right – Deep Sea Arcade
16 Sky Burial – Regular John
um they named he feature review ds), this track, contender for
This tune is one of many psychedelic indie-rock crackers from this Sydney band’s debut album Outlands.
A spitting psych-rock rattler from the Griffith based band, and off their brilliant album ‘Strange Flowers’.
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19 The Devil Takes Care Of His Own – Band Of Skulls
20 Villages – Alpine
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tracks from the shadows ustin Bieber and John pe and murder (he was group OFWGKTA), y clever world pop gems.
They’re a trio from Southampton, England and they play a ridiculously cool brand of gritty, RnB influenced, garage blues-rock. This is the first single off their second excellent album, Sweet Sour.
The band is from Melbourne and the album, A Is For Alpine, is one of the sweetest sounding pop records I’ve ever heard. It’s vibrant and shimmering and delicate, all at once. This is one of many great tracks from it.
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