'Low Life' by Rum Jungle

 

 

From the album 'Marginalla' released 5 June, 2026.

As I was saying.

This is my pick from that album, frankly a good, very typical Australian Indie song.

"Rum Jungle is an Australian indie/alt-rock four-piece from Newcastle, New South Wales. They built their following on the local Newcastle scene before breaking through nationally." <via Wikipedia>

"Their sound blends surf rock, alt-pop, and psychedelic guitars, with influences ranging from Phoenix and The Strokes to the Beach Boys. Marginalia follows their debut album Recency Bias, released in early 2025." <via ABC News Australia's 'Unearthed'>.

'Coal Dust' by Rum Jungle

 

From the album 'Marginalla' released 5 June, 2026.

And it works!

Getting extremely pissed off with the near impossibility of searching for new releases on Spotify by genre, and above all, country (or anywhere else), I got Claude AI to build a 'New Music Discovery' app, running as a local script only on my PC.

The search criteria, for now, is Indie, Indie Rock, Alt Rock and Surf Rock only in Australia and New Zealand. And anyway the best Indie comes out those places, so why not.

But really, why only those countries? Technically it's much easier to severely limit the AI search terms, mainly to avoid finding the same new 'world' releases that everyone finds.

Coal Dust currently has the most plays on Spotify, although my favourite off this album is 'Lowlife'.

So in the spirit of feeling grateful that yes, some things AI really do work, 'Lowlife' has it's very own post.

Nearly forgot: see band details in the next post - ha!