Reviews / Album

Even when the lyrics get sad the music stays catchy as hell – a recipe for bittersweet gold.

While there’s a couple of moments of shameless cheese (the sung ‘instrumental’ in Queen’s I Want To Break Free, for example), even this is divine.

Highlight of the EP: Ella, for its heartfelt delivery and the profound sense of a powerful family bond behind it.

Writing their White Water EP in a grubby old Melbourne flat above a pawn shop, TST have created something that is at once messy and intricately structured.

Technically progressive and with plenty of heart, Volition is a band firing on all cylinders.

Brisbane’s Per Purpose still somehow manage to weave a heady melodicism through the fractured Own Accord on Circle The Stains.

Other bits tend toward the ‘summery instrumental’ default, but he’s apparently having fun.

White Denim have seemingly found whole new levels of expression by playing comfortably within their limits, proving that, just like my Italian cooking, things are almost always best kept simple.

Not perfect, but a great statement.