Kitchen's Floor- Loneliness is a Dirty Mattress

Again, I'm painted such a bleak disturbed picture of Brisbane. While there are other Australian bands that currently have the swagger and drug vibe down to perfection, Kitchen's Floor hold down the teenage kids drinking in the day and fucking with tourists. Just when you think that this record is all apathy, it breaks with some heartfelt and almost Vaselines influenced parts. The song "Back Home", could easily be on a K Records comp from the mid-nineties.

I love the recordings, lo-fi for the hell of it. Dirty, messy and all over the place. I am reluctant to use the word, but at times this record even has a "jangly feel". This three-piece knows exactly what they are doing, playing good music poorly and making it sound perfect. I think that there is much much more to this record than meets the eye. It's deliberate.

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Slug Guts- Howlin' Gang

Slug Guts- Howlin' Gang


Listening to this album, I can only assume that Brisbane is a pretty bleak place. The kind of city where mobs of hooligans slink down the street crossing to avoid hookers and drug dealers that they have beef with. The kind of town where the sun never really shows up, and you are always finding dirty syringes on your stoop. Slug Guts borrows from some common swampy influences, most notably The Cramps, Birthday Party, and Pussy Galore. This isn't a bad thing though. I never could get into The Cramps like some of my friends were capable of, but this album has all the things I would have liked about them if they could have broken with me. Take, "Chrome Crucifix" for instance. The vocals are laced with cocky yet still apathetic swagger, then the song breaks and there is a riff that could as easily be on the legendary "Only Theater of Pain". This is a "throwback" that I can get behind. I only call it a throwback because the wheel is still a circle.

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