Wireheads

One of the great records I came to late last year was Wireheads' underrated creeper The Late Great Wireheads. The band followed on with a tape for Brisbane label Tenth Court, who also stand to release the band's sophomore album, Big Issues, next month. Traveling to the US to record with Dub Narcotic / Beat Happening guru Calvin Johnson, the record isn't so much a shift from their last as an extension of it. Still shaggy and barely holding its erratic gyrations in tact, but with just a touch of focused energy that puts a bit of pop thrust on their post-punk assault. There's a touch less of Tom Spall's violin to saw at your brain pan but thankfully they left plenty of raggy harmonica, blender churned guitar and Dom Trimboli's urgent vocal lamentations to sate ya. The energy spins the dial from the frantic energy of "Punk Song" and "Charlie Darwin" to the loping, squalled "Good Grief." As fates have it, its likely that people stateside will sleep on this yet again but here's hoping that a few good souls have the right sense to get one of these in their hands now. Its not often you get to feel the live wire crackle before others get wise. Here's your best chance.

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