Bananagun
Out Of Reach

And so, after a 6-year break between solo albums, and splitting his time between the day jobs of Le Villejuif Underground and C.I.A Debutante, Roche returns with "Drink Up, Rainforest Sinatra" his first full-length garage-crooner since 2015, and a full-blown collaboration with Guillaume Rottier (Rendez-vous, Qúetzal Snåkes) recorded with a motley crew cast of characters from the bouches-du-rhone and Zak Olsen (Frowning Clouds, Orb) it is a return to loose-lacklustre-boozy-technicolour form following the EPs, "Smoke The Boat" and "Piano, Woman and Bicycle".If you asked for the damned ghosts of Chilton, Fowley, Ayers to appear drenched in Australian drawl with a saturated pastis-flavoured French touch, then you've ordered the right cocktail. As a forgotten blog once said of his tomfoolery, "it's sloppy beyond belief. Like some sort of mix between a depressing Leonard Cohen country jam and a dirty house party 'band' playing their first and last EVER show. Drunkey, bluesy and punky."

Non-stop rocker Alien Nosejob, aka Jake Robertson, returns to earth with his second full-length record of 2020, finally bringing the high-octane hardcore punk side of the band to an LP.Hot on the heels of January’s "Suddenly Everything Is Twice As Loud" LP, Nosejob carries on their winning streak and wordy album titles with "Once Again The Present Becomes The Past", which instead follows in the footsteps of the November’s "HC45" 7"; merging early 80’s hardcore and late 70’s NWOBHM."Once Again The Present Becomes The Past" started life as a concept record about Australia’s first and largest air raid, the 1942 Bombing Of Darwin. However, while grappling with this heavy subject-matter, something from Norm Macdonald’s book, of all places, stuck with Jake: "The Present Became Past Again". History is forever repeating itself. It continues to happen. It will happen again.As the record took shape, it was fleshed out with the help of his new reel-to-reel recorder, turning crust and hardcore influences into the dark and cold array of songs documented within.

Rubadub: ...Bristol’s Bad Tracking land on FuckPunk with their most cantankerous record yet

boomkat: ...Properly overdue reissue of Hydroplane's long out of print 1997 debut album, a beguiling concoction of lo-fi pop, shoegaze, early electronic blips and billowing ambience. So good!Back in 1997, Aussie jangle pop outfit The Cat's Miaow formed Hydroplane after their drummer headed to London. They filled the gap by using samples and tape loops, and developed a startling new sound that gave a new resonance to Kerrie Bolton's cool, deadpan vocals and the band's hybrid experimentation. The self-titled album works because it refuses to stay in the same spot for too long, lurching from bit-crushed breaks and dry guitar plucks on opening track 'Wurlitzer Jukebox' to mucky noise and regurgitated piano guts on 'Piano Movement with Percussion', before settling into a dream pop groove on the beatless 'Song for the Meek'.The album's best moments though are when they ignore songs altogether, like on the sci-fi tinted analog synth jam 'I Hear a New World', or 'House Warming', a ghostly spoken word track accompanied by a wavering electronic drone. The band recorded this material in their Brunswick flat using a bare-bones setup including a Jupiter 4 synth, sampler and tape equipment, and the album was released at the time only in the US on CD. Now it's available again, it feels like high time to rediscover a band that nestle comfortably between Slowdive, Stereolab and Hood.