Metal for Melbourne and Other Stories
Moorabbin, Coburg, Preston, Pascoe Vale, Frankston: these are the battlegrounds that merge together to give Australia a new album by The Beautiful Few.
Battlegrounds where driving pop, storytelling, rock, country, ambient and a dash of metal are fused together to create a wildly eclectic ride beautifully produced by Augie March guitarist Adam Donovan at Augie March headquarters in Preston, Melbourne.
If you’re looking for a hold on all of this try: Crow, Tactics, Orange Juice, The Tindersticks, The Moles, The La’s and giants like Burt Bacharach and Neil Young. You might want to see a Max Earnst painting while listening to “Leanora”, read a sentence of Proust while having “The Steeples of Martinville” on n the background, even go back to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young or chuckle about Van Halen whilst listening to the magnificent title track.
Not unlike a Ripsnorter ’76 or 1981 The Summer – you’ll find your favourites, but as Mondo Rock’s Ross Wilson told us “It’s a cool, cool world” C’mon break in!