Another debut 12" of country-fried art rock from some of Europe's finest (and friendliest) freak-punx
Second album from this Minneapolis trio -- a strikingly-hyper-punk-rock-conundrum
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
Includes printed inner sleeves
as Meg begins to take on partial responsibility for the partnership's collapse: ''Oh but now you are just a placeholder/ Blinded by desire/ Oh now you're just a placeholder for someone wasting time
STRANDED: Australian Independent Music, 1976–1992 (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Clinton Walker BOOK edm Another debut 12" of country-fried1st 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