Why Honeybone Have A Lot Of Underlying Anger And Aggression

New Zealander three-piece garage rock band Honeybone jumped from the dramatic landscape of Dunedin in NZ's South to the high fashion street cafes of Melbourne in 2012 with only a debut record under their belt (2010s Soul On Fire) and have "been gigging and writing ever since". They have since recorded a studio LP Talk Back Baby in 2013 and embarked on a promotional tour to their homeland in Feb 2014.

Their follow up EP Spits & Curses is comprised of songs "rotated pretty heavily in our shows in the last year or so. Playing them live helps us get a feel for what works and what doesn't," says Drew Handcock, who is described on their Facebook page as holding the role of "throat shredding and fuzz pedals". The EP features songs about "tumultuous relationships, vengeful lovers [and] death. The songs weren't particularly written to have a shared theme but at least two of those three things tend to run through each song. Sonically they are all pretty different though," explains Handcock. "We're not a particularly politically themed band but a lot of the underlying anger and aggression probably comes from just being fed up with the state of things both here in Australia and back home in NZ, even though the lyrics might not necessarily express that."