Just got a really rad tip on this Australian band, from my favorite tipster, you know who you are, thank you, and keep them coming. Straight Arrows actually just a few days ago released their deut LP, It’s Happening, via Rice Is Nice Records out of Sydney . You can pick up your copy of this excellent disc at the Rice Is Nice Shop. Both tracks I have off these guys are pretty much all my favorite things: fun, fast, sweaty punk with overarching 50s pop melodies, and tons of fuzz. Reminds me a lot of early Black Lips, but with a shade more control over what they’re playing — they’ve got a really rad way of practically perfecting the sub-2:30-minute-song with their infectuous-bordering-on-obnoxious (and oh how I love that) vocals and their small touches of surf mixed with that 60s garage sound. Fitting that it was recorded on 1950′s equipment in some little studio. Get on this. So if we buy enough records, maybe someone will pay for them to come entertain us in England.
mp3 | Straight Arrows - It Begins
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