Reviews / Album

Straight outta Geelong, the self-titled debut from The Living Eyes is as basic and infectious as it comes.

Lewis takes the vocal reins for Re-Invent Your Second Wheel, a good little pop song; and while Stealth Of A Stork and Eels Sang riff off old times, Change Becomes Us remains an exciting album – recycling in creative overdrive.

There are arrangements that have been lovingly drawn out in the recording process – nurtured and then given space to develop.

With chemistry like this, we’re excited for the next time we get to hear the Known Associates on a track together. Cool shit.

Its long songs, distorted guitars and freewheeling spirit might shock older fans, but Jen Cloher has never sounded more comfortable and, as a result, more affecting on record.

Punk rock with Easter eggs.

No Joy have shown that they’re a solid head above their contemporaries with this release, which will prove to be essential to the genre’s fans and might just win over the unconverted.

It’s refreshing to hear a band that commits to its influences but twists them into something vibrating with life.