Our penultimate pod of the year sees some new tracks from across China (and Down Under). Want your demos on the pod? Head to drop.io/timeouthk, upload them there, and you might find them alongside the likes of Nick Cave. Presented by Sean Hocking of Metal Postcard Records.

Reign Lee Sleeper Cars
www.reignlee.com
The multi-instrumentalist and local-scene mainstay launches her new EP, Angels in the Dirt, at Grappa’s Cellar on Saturday 27 with the help of a superb lineup of local support acts including 9 Maps, Adrian da Silva, Ryan Hui and Noughts and Exes.
This track sees Lee go down a country-like path. See Interview.

UNiXX Vanish
www.unixx.net
Industrial rockers UNiXX have had a big year, releasing their second album 7 Deadly Sins as well as embarking on a China-wide tour. They’re playing the Asia Live Case at M1 on Wednesday 24. We hear it’s going to be their last gig for a while, so we thought this atmospheric track would be appropriate to include on the podcast. See Preview.

Good Luck Good Bye V
www.douban.com/artist/glgb
Another letter-only song from our favourite new China band GLGB. This Nanjing group are finally providing My Little Airport with some competition in China’s leftfield pop genre.

Liu Kun Three Kingdoms
www.myspace.cn/dikuai
Another artist on the Maybe Mars label whose sound isn’t that dissimilar from the wonderful Low Wormwood. Apparently he believes that he is the descendent of a Roman soldier, who was besieged with his army during a war in Zhelaizhai 2,000 years ago. Find out more about him at his MySpace or at maybemars.org. His debut CD, Hey! Young Man, appeared this year.

Grinderman Palaces of Montezuma
www.grinderman.com
This is Metal Postcard’s nomination for album of the year. The CD has been on constantly since its purchase, and this track may well
be the best love song Nick Cave has ever written, if only for the inclusion of the line, “The custard-coloured dream of Ali McGraw and Steve McQueen”.