Top Five Tracks to Hear This Weekend

Pond want to give you a giant tortoise, Pitchfork have the hots for Jagwar Ma, and Cheyenne Tozzi has the voice of a chain-smoking angel. Here are five new tracks to put on high rotation this weekend.

1. 'GIANT TORTOISE' — POND

Pond just dropped this thrasher at lunchtime today, meaning that if you go here and download it for free you'll be one of the first (thousand) people in the world to get a taste of Hobo Rocket, the follow-up album to last year's wildly successful Beard, Wives, Denim. Crank up your speakers first.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=qFLIU0Km3So

2. 'REACH YOU' — VAN HOORN

When she's not doing Vogue covers or cavorting around Los Angeles with Paris Hilton, the Sutherland Shire's Cheyenne Tozzi sings in a band called Van Hoorn. And Van Hoorn is a pretty good band too, with plenty of dirty vocals and bluesy down-home guitars. They celebrated the launch of their EP last night at Bondi's Canteen.

3. 'THE THROW' — JAGWAR MA

The newest members of the Future Classic family, Jagwar Ma, have their Pitchfork-approved psychedelic dance track 'The Throw' visualised in this buoyant, neon-lit video. You can purchase the song and its 6:54 extended edition here.

4. 'CRANK' — JAYSWAYS

When I was 16 I was still pretending not to like Good Charlotte, and here is this kid from Sydney making some of the best electronic music around right now. It would probably make you angry at him if he wasn't giving it away for free.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LRBCoXw4RDQ

5. 'IN A DREAM' — HIGH HIGHS

Brooklyn-via-Sydney boys High Highs finally released their debut album Open Season last Friday, and celebrated with their first proper Australian show at the Oxford Art Factory last night. Here is the latest single from that record, a folksy and lyrical yet grounded combination of honeyed harmonies and subtly arranged synths.