There’s some good news for you this week because Knightlife has returned with a synth-laden new single, “Without Love“, to follow up 2011’s rather excellent and much praised “I Want You EP”.

For the uninitiated, Mike Gamwell, better known as Knightlife, is one of our most prolific artists, a keen amateur fencing champ and a collector of taxidermied tropical birds. He cut his teeth as a remixer claiming an impressive collection of scalps early on including Midnight Juggernauts, Bag Raiders and The Swiss. A series of four EP’s was to follow, all of which drew critical praise among the blogging elite and in the case of 2011’s ‘Serve You Right’ taste-making Australian radio station triple j:

“Australia’s disco swordsman, has jumped back on the horse (zing) and is back doing what he does best… making disco gems from the future!”

In 2012, Knightlife returns crafting songs that cater to the chaos of the club and the laziness of the lounge room, producing music that’s intelligent but never takes itself too seriously and drawing on influences from ELO to Giorgio Moroder and The Human League.

‘Without Love’ is the first sample of Knightlife’s debut LP (due 2013) featuring vocals from his equally mysterious, serial collaborator known simply as ‘AP’. Synthier and more eclectic than you may remember him, this is classic Knightlife with a fresh lemony twist.

Check out the stream of ‘Without Love’ now on our Soundcloud

For those that have given Ben Browning’s new Lover Motion EP and spin and have given it the metaphorical ‘thumbs up’,  or even if you haven’t but you’re curious about it, or you haven’t heard it and aren’t curious about it but you like good music, you now have the opportunity to see Ben Browning strut out his new jams live with a full band. On easter weekend he is playing shows in Sydney and Melbourne with a bunch of Cutters brethren and very special live guests Geoffrey O’Connor and Erik Omen. Lineups and details below. Tickets are already selling quickly so dont miss out! See you there!

SYDNEY - APRIL 7th - GOODGOD - BUY TIX
BEN BROWNING (live)
ERIK OMEN (live)
BOBBY BOOMERANG / G.L.O.V.E.S / TUNNEL SIGNS / FRANCIS CHANG

MELBOURNE - APRIL 8th - THE TOFF - BUY TIX
BEN BROWNING (live)
GEOFFREY O’CONNER (live)
CUT COPY DJs / KNIGHTLIFE / DJ SHAGS / FRANCIS CHANG

This week sees the release of Cut Copy bassist Ben Browning’s much anticipated solo EP titled Lover Motion. With this release, he reveals his own talent for penning perfect crystalline pop that salutes both the past and the future, with 5 tracks laden with classic melody and ethereal synthesizer tones.

Having started his career as frontman of seminal melbourne band The Ca$inos, he has spent a lot of time playing in bands, positioned slightly away from the main microphone. So it’s fitting to see him return to the spotlight with some excellent jams (and not to mention some stylish new threads). We’ve been listening to it non-stop for a while now, so now it’s your turn! It’s up on our soundcloud, for you to have a listen or cut to the chase and just…

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