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Andrew Mcmillen

Andrew McMillen
Andrew McMillenMusic Writer

Andrew McMillen is an award-winning journalist and author based in Brisbane. Since January 2018, he has worked as national music writer at The Australian. Previously, his feature writing has been published in The New York Times, Rolling Stone and GQ. He won the feature writing category at the Queensland Clarion Awards in 2017 for a story published in The Weekend Australian Magazine, and won the freelance journalism category at the Queensland Clarion Awards from 2015–2017. In 2014, UQP published his book Talking Smack: Honest Conversations About Drugs, a collection of stories that featured 14 prominent Australian musicians.

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Singles (Future Islands)

Singles (Future Islands)

FOUR albums and eight years into its career, this Baltimore pop trio has hit its stride with Singles.

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Lost in the Dream (The War on Drugs)

ABOUT 3½ minutes into the first track, Under the Pressure, is when it first becomes apparent that Lost in the Dream may be a masterpiece.

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Carpetbombing (Harmony)

Carpetbombing (Harmony)

“I KNOW I smell like petrol; smell like I’ve been sleeping rough / Like I’ve got on everything I own, no matter what the heat.”

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Any Old Love (Halfway)

Any Old Love (Halfway)

EIGHT players make up Halfway, a rock band from Brisbane that uses banjo, pedal steel guitar, piano and mandolin.

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Warpaint (Warpaint)

Warpaint (Warpaint)

THE music made by the four members of Los Angeles indie rock act Warpaint rarely contains hard edges.

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Free Your Mind (Cut Copy)

Free Your Mind (Cut Copy)

ALTHOUGH it’s doubtful the task of enticing listeners to spend 50 minutes with an album is getting easier,  Cut Copy’s outcome here is admirable.

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