Another popular 2011 choice, another Aussie band!
This time we don't get fast fun post-punk, we get droning, ugly, confrontational post-punk in the post-Velvets vein, carrying the torch passed from Iggy Pop to The Fall to Liars. Droning guitars churning, belligerently riffless; droning, entoning vocals; squalls of organs cutting neon slashes over the top. Only the opening Girl in my Head has a nice Art Brut energy to it, but everything else just seems to lack for ideas, substituting disinterest for interest. Conceptually, this was heady, heavy stuff the first few times through, but by now, as Art Brut themselves said when they slammed the door on this scene and kicked it off a cliff, I can't stand the sound of the velvet underground 2.5/5
You might like this if: you like the swagger of aggressively ugly, droning post-punk and don't mind if it doesn't break any particularly new ground
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