This week's recommendation
ALBUM TITLE: Hurry Up and Wait ARTIST: Dune Rats RELEASED: January 2020 GENRE: Punk-pop BIO: The Dunies hail from Brisbane, began as a duo and became a trio. This is their 3rd album.
WHAT TO EXPECT: A nippy, 28min 47 sec of fun pop-punk. If you dig it, you'll dig it on the first listen. Instant gratification box ticked.
WHAT WE LIKE: It is energising to sing-along to lyrics
that are not heavy with the strains of climate change, geopolitics, and relationship blues. Instead you sing-along with a smile about bad habits, having no plans for the day, screwing things up, being late and then being later, big nights, ignoring your voicemails and partying. At times we should all think less and live more, and that is as spiritual as the album gets. However on The Skids the life scenarios of fate, karma and “it couldn't happen to me" are sung with smirks and a wink. Oh, the album artwork is just as much WTF with letters made of holey cheese and a rat on a hamster wheel looking at more cheese, yum. The good times, let’s get loose vibe is captured in the minimalist engineering and production style. The lads are totally comfortable being themselves smashing out the vocals, guitar, bass, and drums. Musically they are tight and polished. The final track's title says it's all: Mountains Rocks Come and Go But Aussie Pub Rock Lives On (Forever). Yeah the boys.
STANDOUT TRACKS: No Plans, Crazy, Bad Habits PERFECT FOR: Another big night. Festival mosh pits. Reminding us to “party, and bullshit”.
LISTEN IN IF YOU LIKE: Skeggs, Offspring, Blink-182, Hockey Dad.
Recommended by Dan McGill.
BYRON BAZAAR
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