The Unearthed High Report Card: Week 4!
Holy moley, it’s hard to believe that there’s less than TWO WEEKS left to upload your tracks for Unearthed High 2018!
The heat hasn’t let up and High School Super User Isabella Moore is back at it once again. This time she takes us on a journey around the country, dipping through Tasmania to catch some Kooks-esque sunbeams from The Tinderboxes and a tropical banger from Nathan Jorge. Newcastle rockhounds, haunting folk ballads outta Maitland and a highschooler living in Melbourne who just might be the next Flume.
It's episode four of the Unearthed High Report with Isabella Moore!
[BONUS: Meet some of our favourite Unearthed High entries from regional Australia]
The Tinderboxes – Let Go
School: Hobart College, TAS
Sounds Like: The Kooks, San Cisco
Izzy Says: Well isn't this one just a sunny road trip with the windows down! I CAN FEEEEEL the sand in my skin and I ain't complaining!!!
Grace Aberhart
School: Hunter School of the Performing Arts, NSW
Sounds Like: Ruby Fields, Tired Lion
Izzy Says: You've come back with an absolute belter, Grace! And I'm so into your sound. This is a massive power pop/rock anthem and it's got a lotttttttta energy!
Oopsie Daisy – Horror Comedy
School: Unley High, SA
Sounds Like: The Cure, King Gizz
Izzy Says: Love how this one begins and the journey it kinda takes you on! Bitta post-punk sounds in there but those sunny Cure-esque guitars take it somewhere else!
TŪRNR - Sweet {ft. Lia}
School: St Bede's College, VIC
Sounds Like: Flume, Lido
Izzy Says: Love this collab and how Lia's vocal fit so seamlessly over this massive beat! Dig the funky direction that the second verse goes into as well. THIS IS HUGE HUGE HUGE!
Smoking Tigers – 24 October
School: Ferny Grove State School, QLD
Sounds Like: Hockey Dad, Royal Blood
Izzy Says: This energetic belter is relentless! Huge Tired Lion feelies with those guitars and bv's but then your vocals take it somewhere else, into this kinda Interpol world? Big fan.
Conor McCamley - Silence
School: All Saints College, St Mary’s Maitland, NSW
Sounds Like: Stella Donnelly, Gretta Ray
Izzy Says: Wow this one is really stark and intimate, I'm a bit blown away to be honest. Some heartbreaking stories in this one that really are brought out by that minimalistic production.
Nathan Jorge - Alright
School: Elizabeth College, TAS
Sounds Like: Cosmo’s Midnight, Duke Dumont
Izzy Says: I was hearing a bit of Jamie xx at the start and then it turned into this tropical house moment. Really nice work here!
