with intricate vocal harmonies
” deftly threading the needle between commercial and uncompromising throughout
their musicianship and songwriting holds true to the Detroit by way of Australia proto-punk aesthetic while keeping one foot planted firmly in the present tense
100% uncut psychedelia and garagey
STRANDED: Australian Independent Music, 1976–1992 (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Clinton Walker BOOK edm with intricate vocal harmonies1st edition. 428 pages, paperback. The definitive book on Australian punk and post punk music, long unavailable, now reissued in a much expanded new edition with 175 photos. STRANDED offers the inside story of the emergence of the Saints, the Birthday Party, the Laughing Clowns, the Go Betweens, Nick Cave, the Moodists, the Scientists, and many more great Australian bands, told by a writer who witnessed it all first hand. Much misunderstood on its