Bedwettin' Bad Boys "Bite My Tongue"

Crawlspace have unveiled the first track from upcoming Bedwettin' Bad Boys LP 'Ready For Boredom'.  "Bite My Tongue" plays outside the margins of melody heavy power pop and time-honoured indie sounds.  This teaser is unbelievably infectious and sets hopes very high that 'Ready For Boredom' is going to get 2013 started off right.  

Copies in Australia from R.I.P Society
Copies in America from Easter Bilby Distro

It's also worth noting Raw Prawn have their highly anticipated first single out on the same day, you can find copies in the links above.

Woollen Kits LP

Woollen Kits' debut album is out imminently on RIP Society Records. The three piece from Melbourne have played out their infectious ramshackle pop numbers alongside bands like Kitchen's Floor, UV Race and Bed Wettin' Bad Boys over the last year, and are about to embark on a US Tour. These days, whatever RIP Society get excited about, I get excited about and Woollen Kits is no exception. Since 2009 Woollen Kits have put out a 7" and EP showcasing their pyscho-pop via garage rock songs featuring gritty guitars and a low voice that would rival Calvin Johnson. If track "Out Of Whack" is anything to go by the threesome have polished things up and delivered fully realized pop songs, I'm very pleased to say this is my first record purchase of 2012.

"Out of Whack" - taken from the new album


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Checkout the 7" and EP on Bandcamp
Find copies at RIP Society

Royal Headache 'Royal Headache'

There's an influx of bands around right now fitting the 'pop' 'punk' 'garage' description and while you may think you've heard it all before Royal Headache does something so right with this much loved genre. For their debut release this foursome from Sydney Australia took on Mikey Young of Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Straight Arrows' Owen Penglis for production duties. The twelve songs on 'Royal Headache' are a whirlwind of addictive guitar riffs, rabid rhythms and Shogun's unparalleled voice, making this record hard to stop listening to. Delivered with a heady rush you'd expect from the Wipers, Royal Headache race with the infectiousness of 70's Power Poppers The Nerves alongside frenetic garage rock. Opener "Never Again" sets the tone with a joyously intense energy level that increases through the following four short and fast songs, a personal highlight on Side A is "Pyschotic Episode". Things are taken down a notch with instrumental "Two Kinds", letting things cool off until closer "Pity" brings the album neatly round full circle with one last fiery number. Out on RIP Society in Australia and Eighteen Records in Europe - yet another must have album from down under.

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Royal Headache-Psychotic Episode by Gilded Gutter

Kitchen's Floor 'Loneliness Is a Dirty Mattress'

Because you'd hate to miss out on a great underground Australian record, Kitchen's Floor is the latest installment of the Gilded Gutter blog.

'Loneliness is a Dirty Mattress' is the first full length after a debut EP, from the three piece based in Brisbane on R.I.P Society. Right off the back of the success of his previous band Look!Pond Matthew Kennedy fronts Kitchen's Floor, with Julia Norris (Gutters) on drums and Glen Schenau (Carl Marx) on base. Choleric boy/girl vocals and repetitive musical arrangements recorded with a tin-y quality - in a The Fall meets Black Time meets Naked on the Vague way.

This was one of those records where you know, it was bought having never heard it or of the band. Now, it has been played nonstop in my house since it arrived at my door courtesy of Volcanic Tongue. It's a noisy record and your neighbors probably won't like you blasting it in your room - but you know you've got a good'en when some bangs on your wall to turn it off right?!!