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| A Low High (2009 new release) buy the CD MP3 album iTunes amazon mp3 exclusive signed CD Black Satin |
Martin Kennedy & Steve Kilbey Present (2009 new release) buy the CD MP3 album iTunes amazon mp3 exclusive signed CD Maybe Soon |
| A return to the lush atmospheric & instrumental moods of their earlier work. Guests include Graham Lee (The Triffids) & some evocative ambient sounds from Australian rock legend Ed Kuepper (The Saints). the new soundtrack for your imagination - plumjoe.com laid-back and luscious - Sunday herald Sun |
The writer of magical hit Under The Milky Way joins forces with Martin Kennedy from All India Radio for an album of instantly enchanting songs. a magic carpet of soporific washes and rhythms, echoing strings and sighing choral beds. - The Age 4.5/5 a series of songs that bury you in lavish dreamscapes - Reverb mag |
All India Radio album launch
Reviews
With barely perceptible shades of triphop sound experimentation, moody folk, and brightly shining feminine atmosphere, Fall can easily be classified as one of 2008's most beautiful albums. - properlychilled.com
"Sometimes I just wait, biting my fingernails, anticipating the storm growing in the menacing clouds in the distance. They billow, one on top of another, rolling, leap frogging into town. And I wait for them to shower the hard, cracked ground, water the tomatoes in my garden, and drench my own hopeful head. I felt the same impatience pressing on me as I waited for The Fall by All India Radio to come in the mail. When it finally showed up in that brown paper package (tied up in string), I felt the same way I do when the clouds have covered the blue sky, and I wait, praying the storm won't disappoint, as I feel the first thirst quenching drop smack my arm.
And The Fall didn't disappoint. I listened to it straight through as I leaned back, swallowed in my husband's "big-manly-man recliner" with my eyes closed, smiling at the ceiling. I could almost feel the music swirl around me like raindrops in a slow motion storm.
The Fall is hauntingly beautiful. The lyrics capture you like a burst of lightening in the distance. The strings, bass, and piano pull you in until you're so drenched you don't care. The band, continuously evolving from their solo beginnings in 1999 to a new level of mystic dream-pop, has added singer and co-writer Leona Prue to the slowed hip-hop beats and atmospheric post-rock edges. Her soothing voice mesmerizes and unifies the album with captivating lyrics and melodies.
The CD is all around entrancing, but each track has a unique flavor. "Fall" leads with its upbeat, driving melody. "Morning Drops" enchants with strings and piano, morphing. And the lyrics to "Chameleon" bring an evocative flare to the album.
If you enjoy Indie bands, combining but not enslaved to commercial venues, All India Radio has mastered their unique sound, recorded and packaged for your convenience, in the simple but amazing album, The Fall. Listen now to some of the tracks if you're not convinced. But be careful, the music will capture you like a menacing but beautiful storm."- blogcritics.org Written by Janica Unruh
Here's one to seek out. All India Radio are a Mebourne outfit that have been around for ages quietly making some of the most interesting and assured music in this city....The End Or Near could be Melbournes Unfinished Sympathy or Sour Times, it's that good - Melbourne Magazine
All India Radio has taken dream-pop to the next level with some mind-numbingly gorgeous songs. This is also the band's first album with its new singer Leona Prue, whose voice pulls the listener into a trance-like state from almost the first note she utters - xlr8.com
In a word - beautiful. Thats the adjective for the latest AIR release. Notably, the female vocals blend effortlessly the now well-established trademark sublime sound of the ensemble. You'll feel it, you'll believe it - Life really is easy. Neat-o - Getamungstit
By recruiting torch singer Leona Prue as the focal point on their new album, they have shifted the dynamic. On songs such as Persist, Fall and Let Me Remain, the effect is quite stunning. The stunning pedal steel guitar from guest Graham Lee from the Triffids (who also played on classic KLF albums Chill Out and The White Room) on the final song Axphixciate gives the album an Australian feel and demonstrates the band's intoxicating qualities. - The Age EG
A bittersweet piece of unexpected chorus-driven power, it's like a bold colour that emerges from the pastel shades to take you completely by surprise. And this still leaves room for the warm atmospherics of Morning Drops I and II and the dark and moody (if lyrically routine) Chameleon. Fall is a balanced, mature effort - Beat
The 2003 Australian Album of the Year may well have been recorded by an act virtually nobody has heard of. Melbourne-based All India Radio's self-titled third album is a breathtaking triumph; one of the most exquisite, ethereal, instrumental records ever made in Australia. - The Brag Magazine
One of the most elegant and simple instrumental rock albums I've ever heard..a heavenly cloud of radiance that is simply not of the material world. - Brainwashed.com
All India Radio's self titled third album is an object of rare porcelain beauty. ..a dreamier, less beat-orientated massive attack with distinctive shadings of ennio morricone and brian eno - Magnet, USA
otherwordly guitar and absolutely breathtaking beats ...in this collection of cinematic, striking pieces. It's the kind of music that could make you see beauty in tragedy, like light refracting through breaking glass or the sun appearing behind a collapsing forest. - Rave Magazine
It's been three years since their last, self-titled, release, but Martin Kennedy and co have another sublimely relaxing album of windswept landscapey music. You can see the clouds from up here. - 5 STARS The Monkey Puzzle
Morricone-style stark, lanky guitar lines set upon aural textures reminiscent at times of electro-minimalists the Boards of Canada...this is tasty music that sets your imagination loose - it's musically provocative yet effortless in its blending of sounds and melodies - FOUR STARS ABC RADIO online
Everything sounds so perfect, so luscious, so warm....a palpable feeling of timeless beauty - Inpress Magazine
Melbourne instrumental outfit All India Radio allow a sense of stillness in accelerated times. A celestial cinescape. - The Sunday Age
All India Radio
Conceived in 2000 as an experimental music outlet for Martin Kennedy, All India Radio has steadily evolved by combining genres such as ambient, lo-fi, world music, post-rock and electronic without being a slave to any one.
Often described as cinematic, All India Radio play gentle downtempo pop songs that utilise piano, strings and samples and sits somewhere between Portishead, Massive Attack & Brian Eno. The band has been nominated for an Australian Music Industry ARIA Award, signed to legendary Chicago label Minty Fresh, toured the USA and worked with Australian music legends The Church's Steve Kilbey (who wrote the magical 'Under The Milky way' rediscovered by the world in the hit movie 'Donnie Darko') and Graham Lee (The Triffids, KLF). They are also heavily involved in soundtrack work writing for US TV series One Tree Hill, Michael Moore's hit film Sicko, Bondi Rescue, Canal Road and SBS TVs Passion