It may sound a bit underwhelming on paper what this Melbourne group does on their newest EP, which is a classic brand of new wave-ish post punk seemingly drawing much inspiration from some of the usual suspects such as early Siouxsie, Pylon, XTC, Delta 5 and Gang of Four, but this shit certainly gets elevated by their raw ability at crafting equally catchy, elaborate and carefully balanced tunes of their own, which most obviously will evoke comparisons to fairly recent acts of the Sweeping Promises, The Missed, Marcel Wave and Display Homes kind but i’d also say there’s some of the creative chaos and big-screen drama of early Protomartyr in there, most notbly in …In Ruins, while the melodic closing track A Fireplace evokes the melancholia of that very same group’s later material.
