Shower Beers Drop New Single “Pete Wentz Doesn’t Know The Name Of Our Band”
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Hoo Ha - Farmer & The Owl Records/BMG
Has everyone within the last year or two heard of Amyl & The Sniffers, or can the older of us remember The Saints, well the first is a band that may not exist if it wasn’t for Bad Dreems, or would Bad Dreams exist if it wasn’t for bands like The Saints, either way, this fourth album by a band that is worthy of being one of the most vital bands in Australia and of course the world will create a bit of a Hoo Ha I’d imagine.
A story within a story is the premise to this album it seems. The story of a town called Adelaide which sits within the not so long historically (speaking in modern terms) country of Australia, although it has so much more to give than the m modern day history allows we think. Characters within the songs are there to pick and pull apart the lives and mindsets of modern day Aussies, they are used to speak up against the whitewashing of history that apparently dogs the country, it also gives them a forum to discuss misogyny, religion and so many other subjects that need talking about in an open forum that is this musically genius album.
‘Waterfalls’ throws us straight into the lions den, a character who has a bullet proof ego that stands taller than us all, he is so wonderful, so beautiful, like a waterfall, this is all made so brilliantly believable by a vocal that uses the confidence of a person who believes this is all so true, with guitars and back line that back this up perfectly. ‘Jack’ is the next song that hits you like a piece of new history, it takes everything you know about Australia and tips it on its head, a country that has grown up without colonisation, a place that writes its history how it should have been, or should still be. What are never allowed to do is forget why this band exists, a need to shout about the injustices of a country that wants to wipe the real history from its books, a band that is never shy to use music in a way to surround the story in a way that just works perfectly.
Capitalism and racism is covered in ‘Southern Heat’, the grind of a life in the rat race and a drug fuelled night before the start to a week that should never be rears it self in ‘Black Monday’, and ‘Godless’ for me has a great juxtaposition with the country tune that backs it up, country being the staple of god fearing men in the big world.
I would love to go into the finer details of this once in a lifetime album, but then that would be like writing a spoiler for your favourite movie or book.
Go get the album and saviour every single moment of its non conforming and angst at the wrongs that dog not just one country but most of the world. Musical genius that stands above no-one and yet soars at a height.