Super Sonic Chat

Australia, we need to talk. Why does it feel like our best new music has to fight tooth and nail just to get noticed at home?

This season, we’re flipping the script and putting the spotlight where it belongs—on the phenomenal new sounds coming from our own backyard.

Enter *Pratt’s & Pain*, the latest album from Sydney’s Royal Otis. It’s sun-drenched, offbeat, and absolutely irresistible—a record that proves these guys are here to make your serotonin spike and your sense of cool plummet.

In this episode, we dive deep into the Royal Otis universe—where garage pop meets disco weirdness, heartbreak dances with humor, and every track feels like a late-night drive with the windows down. We’ll unpack their sonic wizardry, debate the album’s best sad-banger, and figure out why the hell Australia hasn’t crowned them as indie royalty yet.

Find out about Adrian's 'crunch v jangle spectrograph' and Leon's sonic selection of the week.

It’s time to back our own. Tune in, turn it up, and let’s make sure the world doesn’t steal this one from us.

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Alarming statistics and concerning headlines.

Australian music once proudly punched above its weight class. However in the current streaming dominated era it is not cutting through as it once did.

In this episode, we lay out the stats and set the scene for Season 6 of Super Sonic Chat.

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Why does an artist use a gimmick as part of their act?

How do you know when something is a gimmick, or when it is just an interesting part of the show?

When does a gimmick cheapen the artistry and when does it enhance it?

What does a gimmick look or sound or feel like?

Who are these artists that use gimmicks.

All these questions and more, plus a little treat at the end of the episode.

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How do you choose a song to sum up your life? How do you choose a song to be remembered by? Where do you even start?

In this episode, each of us chooses three songs each that could be played at our funeral.

It is a kind of audio will. Recorded for posterity for anyone who happens to be organising either man's funeral and wondering what songs to choose.

What songs would you choose? Jump on the socials and tell us.

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You know the song, but maybe not the band. You can sing along, but you don't know anything else they've done.

This episode, Leon and Adrian choose a one hit wonder each, listen to the whole album and dive into the story behind each band.

Find out why The Buggles, who wrote Video Killed the Radio Star only made two albums.

Prepare yourself for the fascinating story behind Chumbawamba, the band that made the earworm, Tubthumping.

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It's the best question you can ask someone:

"What have you been listening to lately?"

We dive into 5 artists that have recently captured our attention.

Take a listen and hopefully you might discover your next new favourite artist.

This chat veers across genres: jazz, indie, punk, experimental, art-pop, soul, as well as across decades and continents.

Drop us a line and tell us what you've been listening to lately.

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In your lifetime, there are some albums that you simply must listen to.

We had heard the music of the following two artists, but we had never before listened to these albums in full:

Young Gifted and Black by Aretha Franklin

and

Rumours by Fleetwood Mac

Sometimes this kind of musical experience will simply be an education in music history, at other times it will be like discovering a parcel of pure joy. Sometimes it is a bit in between.

Which of these did we experience when listening to Franklin and Fleetwood?

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It is staggering how many songs on streaming services do not have even one listen.

Yep. No one has ever listened to them, even the person uploading them apparently!

Ade and Leon visit Forgotify.com, a site that serves up tracks on Spotify that have never been listened to.

The challenge was to listen to the first ten songs that were presented and report back.

What do you imagine the tracks were like?

Basement singer songwriters?

Bedroom EDM?

Bizarre metal?

The truth will surprise you.

Enjoy fascinating chat on the state of streaming services, technology and the music industry in general.

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There is nothing quite like seeing live music. Right around the same time Leon and Adrian saw two shows in different Australian cities that may have been almost the polar opposite.

One was in the Sydney Opera House, the other was in a Brisbane pub venue. One was a stand alone band, the other was 4 bands touring under the name, "Cellophane Honeymoon". One experience was of a tightly controlled musical curation, the other was a menagerie of noisy guitar.

*please note that due to the name of a band discussed, there are several expletive words used

Join the Super Sonic crew on a voyage of musical discovery and then share your own experiences on the socials:

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Some of the greatest bands never actually existed.

Sometimes bands exist to service something fictional, be it in a film, book or tv show.

This episode features what we think are the greatest fictitious bands to ever exist. Four from Adrian, four from Leon with a special bonus....

... As a special treat, the final two bands come from the following challenge:

**Invent a fictitious band each and present them for your listening pleasure**

Can you think of any bands we missed that should have been on the list? Crucial Taunt or The Jolly Green Giants? Maybe the Be Sharps?

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