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Sandy Dish ‘The Whore That Broke The Camel’s Back’
Among Melbourne’s rich and exhilarating underground music community, one band has been establishing themselves with a reputation for spewin’ the most debauched, raucous, and savagely hilarious punk attacks across Victoria state. Since 2017, high-energy quintet Sandy Dish has been unleashing a steady string of independent releases fizzing with raw, urgent garage hatchets to rock pretentiousness, patriarchal puss,…
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EXWHITE / The Gobs ‘Split’
In a dangerous and frankly irresponsible hazardous fusion, German punk label Turbo Discos has recklessly welded two of the most amphetamine blitzed garage miscreants currently leading the charge in the scuzzy hardcore explosion. From Halle, the “Kings of Saxony” EXWHITE wield turbo RnR with Raw Power levels of urgent ferocity and an electrifying guitar attack so hard you’ll hurt yourself, and…
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Biped ‘Folding Up / Contracting + Cumulative / Expanding’
The ancient Chinese manuscript I Ching has long been a source of spiritual and scholarly debate. Detailing the mystical forces and their binary yet harmonious ‘intermingle’ with each other contrary to the Western notions of combative, opposition such as light and dark or Heaven and Hell, the propulsive duality that lies under the moisture from rain or…
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Neocons ‘EP’
Nuclear missiles poised. Hamzat suits on. The pitiless gaze of a Raytheon shareholder overlooks a world engulfed in global conflict as he oversees ever greater profit margins the lucrative war business rewards him. With hyper-stylised punk-zine, collage assemblage of WWIII evocations around anime cut-ous, Los Angeles synthpunk outfit Neocons‘ cover for debut EP could be dismissed as a…
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The Smile ‘A Light for Attracting Attention’
In Ted Hughes’ 1970 Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow literary work, the titular protagonist soars through our fraught universe seeking answers to the knotted moral contradictions which torment him, and the author. Hughes’ adoption of the ‘trickster’ archetype to inform Crow’s provocative musings on futility and meaning hover behind The Smile‘s…
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Tombeau ‘Holy Biology’
A generic, university biology textbook isn’t most artists’ choice for thematic guidance, but the briefest exposure to Wollongong synthpunk Tombeau‘s rubbery lo-fi makes clear that topics of agamic lifeforms and aggregate fruits provide the perfect subject matter for his wiry minimalism and nervous, leftfield pop. Originally recorded in 2019, Scab Baby singer and guitarist Tom Jones jumped from…
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