AUSTRALIAN ONLY Top 5 (kinda)

My top five australian releases besides one that got in the overall list tomorrow (curveball shit but). Pretty Lazy descriptions but what else did you really expect.

5. St Helens - Heavy Profession



Music for grown ups. Charlatans would say 'unfocused'... as it doesn't really follow the convention of playing a certain style of music throughout the album, but not in a purposeful arty faggot way. Seem to like drugs which everyone knows is essential to all good music.

4. Slug Guts - Down On Meat


One song played over and over again... but hay its a really fucking ggooooooodddd song. These dudes wear texas ties and pointy shoes and roll up their sleeves/cigarettes. There music sounds like it should. Shit Tex Perkins would be proud of, Melbourne music played better than anyone from Melbourne (bar maybe the stabs). Music full and hatred and malice and that self loathing shit that is perfected by everyone that utters the statement 'I fucking hate Brisbane' but never actually leave.

3. Useless Children - Sky is Falling


X (LA) are a good band. Punk music is fun. Girl/boy call and response vocals are cool.

2. Songs - Songs


Grown up music. NOW WITH BONUS KRAUTROCK!!!!
The song my number has one of those bass lines that make you jealous of the cunt that beat you too it. (only instead of a cunt in this case its an uber-babe.)

1. Secret Birds - Asleep On the Dragon


My recently departed record store dude (D. Black)follows his Eastern idols (LSD March, Denudes Etc) in the band leader/revolving band members mold that left us with a couple of awesome casettes, a Tour CD-R and this album in this bands short recorded history. .
Mixing Primal Hipster Doom a la Sleep(Zone In, The Minch)with some more chilled psychedelic numbers such as Lame Child (even has earthy female vocals)and Asleep on the dragon (finger pickin folk + shredding Gibson SG). This certainly won't feature in as many album lists as the above but I really love it due mainly to the fact it is trying to cover all bases of psych music without coming off as a great big pile of wank.


* UV RACE ALBUM IS PROBABLY No. 1 BUT FUCKED IF ROCKINGHORSE GETTING MORE THAN 1 COPY FOR ALL OF BRISBANE AND ME HAVING 25 DOLLARS TO SPEND HAVE EVER ALIGNED!!!