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    GLOWING SOMEWHERE NEW

    Aug 10, 2020 5 minutes
    WORDS BY MATT DORIA.

    It’s a sunny Wednesday morning when Australian Guitar catches up with Johnny Took; the DMA’s guitarist is in naturally high spirits with physical copies of his band’s third album, The Glow, having just landed at his doorstep. Having firmly established themselves as one of Australia’s biggest and brightest rock outfits – taking ‘90s-style Britpop back from the underground to impressively luminous new heights – the new release sees DMA’s take a slight left turn from searing acoustic balladry towards dancehall techno, bubblegum pop and post-punk. But as Took lets us know, The Glow is only a natural progression – or regression, in some ways – for the Sydney three-piece.

    This record obviously represents a massive leap in style for DMA’s. Where did

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