Australian Guitar

SWEET ’N’ SOUR

When he’s not churning out toffee-sweet jams with his sister Julia, Sydney-native folklord Angus Stone has a fondness for quirky, one-of-a-kind solo projects.

First, there was Lady Of The Sunshine, his only release under the moniker (2009’s Smoking Gun) defined by its luminescent electric-acoustic juts and crisp, reverb-slicked vocal hooks. Then, in 2012, Stone went by his real name for Broken Brights: a thumping collection of slick and smoky pseudo-country anthems inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan and The Eagles. And most recently, there was Dope Lemon, with which Stone stepped into the role of a funky, haze-drenched master of the psychedelic.

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