Standley

Avez-vous déjà rêvé de défier la gravité ? Avez-vous déjà aspiré à toucher le ciel ? Anthony Ammirati, la légende française du saut à la perche, l'a fait, brisant des records, inspirant une nation et laissant une marque indélébile sur le monde de l'athlétisme. …

The CMAA Winners compilation returns for another year featuring the very best of Australian country music. The album is a 2CD set of the nominees for the 45th CMAA Awards. Featured artists include The Wolfe Brothers, Catherine Britt, The Wilson Pickers, Travis Collins, Troy Cassar-Daley, Sara Storer and so much more.

I Trawl the Megahertz, Paddy McAloon's first solo album, is as likely to perplex and infuriate as it is likely to stun and spellbind. Grand, heavily orchestrated, predominantly instrumental, and not the type of thing you put on prior to going out or when you're in the mood for cleaning the house, the record is incredibly powerful – almost too powerful – even when held up against everything from Prefab Sprout's past. The most significant song is the opener; 22 minutes in length, it's nearly elegiac in it its mournful tones played out by a swaying string arrangement and a weeping trumpet. Throughout its duration, Yvonne Connors speaks matter-of-factly – yet dramatically enough to be poignant – as she rifles through fragments of her memory, the most disarming of which reads like this: "I said, 'Your daddy loves you very much; he just doesn't want to live with us anymore.'"