Walking Under Stars - Hilltop Hoods

Picking up exactly where the Hilltop Hoods left off with ‘Drinking from the Sun’, comes their seventh studio album, ‘Walking Under Stars’. From the very first voiceover of the album, the listener sees what Pressure, Suffa, and DJ Debris had been planning since before they started recording ‘Drinking from the Sun’.

Mainline - One Day

Mainline is the introduction to Australian hip-hop collective ‘One Day’. Made up of Solo and Adit from Horrorshow, Nick Lupi and Jimmy Nice from Spit Syndicate, Kai and Raph from Jackie Onassis, and MC Joyride, One Day is one of the only Hip-Hop supergroups in Australia, that’s if you count groups like Gully Platoon as supergroups. If you don’t, then One Day are trendsetters in the hip hop world, a group that announces itself as a group rather than having a single act featuring others. In saying that, not every artist involved in One Day is present on each track of the album, they chop and change quite frequently, all coming together for the title track ‘Mainline’ and opener ‘Many Hands’. 

Startup Cult - Allday

The debut album from Adelaide-based rapper Allday (Tom Gaynor), and the second record released on Illy and Unified’s label ONETWO. ‘Startup Cult’ adds something to the Australian hip-hop scene that has taken it that one step further. What could be described as hipster rap or in Allday’s words “Soft Grunge Love Rap”, Startup Cult provides the listener with a scope into the future of Aussie hip-hop, with an artist that adds a kind of new identity to the genre. Think Kriss Kross’ backwards clothing, Alldays choice of clothing is somewhat obscure, but it works, and matches the beats and smooth lyrics he creates. Often his Facebook and Instagram pages will be photos of a guy with long hair and a bucket hat, and most likely clothes that look more than one size too big. It’s awkward, but god-damn it’s ballin’.