I’ve decided to completely throw that plan of not blogging due to the worldy departure of my best friends out the window. I am yet to reach the point of being angry by their abandonment (ie: Adem is still howling like a Nonna at her Grandsons funeral,) but surely it’s not incredibly far off. Anyway, like fuck I’m going to put any writing ideas on hold while they’re off having fun on International waters, especially when there is music to be enjoyed right here at home in Australia.

I actually have this mammoth post planned which covers everything that is special and amazing about Australian music at the moment. It’s not finished though, and I don’t want to rush it, but it should be happening soon. Until then, I’d like to divert your attention to one of the artists which will appear in that post; the completely amazing and totally unsigned Sydney four piece The Jezabels.

I found out about The Jezabels indirectly through Van She. During the She’s most recent Aussie tour, The Jezabels supported them on a select number of dates. Sadly, none of those dates included the Geelong or Melbourne leg of the tour, so, out of interest, I looked them up on TEH INTERNETS to see what I was missing. Quite a lot by the sounds of things!

Three of their tracks are available for fully-legal download in VERY HIGH QUALITY MP3 FORMAT right now over on their MySpace page. All three moments are truly amazing, but it’s “Disco Biscuit Love” which completely won me over. It is essentially a love-song-but-not about a poor girl who has become somewhat attached to a boy who seems to only care about her after ingesting a Green Mitsubishi (not the automobile) OR WHATEVER IT IS THOSE ECSTASY TABLETS ARE PRINTED AS NOWADAYS. I have become almost dependently devoted to the song in question over the last 24 hours and think it’s beautiful, ridiculous, hilarious, and sad all at the same time. A winning combination, non? Especially with my incredibly schizophrenic emotional state today…

Their MySpazz blurb’s great too.

“We don’t have a manifesto as such, but we do have definite intentions in what we do. We want to be pop… but with a sense of certainty that our audiences won’t walk away thinking that we take ourselves too seriously.”

Fucking. Brilliant.

You can also watch a Medium-quality live clip of them performing that very song over on the ever-resourceful YouTube.

I’m not entirely sure if Indie radio such as RRR or Triple J are playing these guys (the completely groundbreaking FBI in Sydney seem to be though,) but they should be. I definitely know they are now the latest band receiving rotational airplay during my Friday night radio show, and are an act which will appear on every single compilation CD I put together for various friends over the next two months.

Someone sign these guys; they are super-fab.

Continuing the Aussie tip; Cut Copy album review on Monday (in short, it’s the album - so far - to beat for me in ways of an ‘Album Of The Year’ type-title,) Muscles double-whammy gig review, and something about that ace new single from The Presets.